ARYA I blinked at the sight of Soren, who stood in front of my room with a blank look on his face. He looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there. I guess his alpha had given him an instruction he couldn't refuse. We both stared at each other in silence for a few seconds, a frigid tension settling between us. "Aren't you going to say anything? You knocked on my door," I said, my voice tinged with impatience. "You have a visitor." The words stiffly left his mouth. I arched a brow at him, surprised. "A visitor?" He nodded, and I frowned. As far as I could tell, I didn't have any friend who would pay me a visit just for the sake of it. So, who the hell was this uninvited visitor? I got my answer shortly after. I stood in the garden with my 'visitor' standing beside me. Dressed in a

