Violet
The way Elijah casually dismissed me as just Cassie’s friend shouldn’t have bothered me so much.
It was what I had asked him to do. Yet it did.
“In five hours? What do you mean?” Cassie’s high pitched wail dragged me out of my thoughts.
Elijah kept walking away unhurriedly while she buzzed around him like a persistent fly.
“Just talk to the alpha, Cass. I have things to do.” Elijah said, weariness creeping into his tone.
Cassie grabbed his wrist and made him stop, turned him to face her and stood on the balls of her heels to make herself look bigger.
She was still not at his eye level.
“You are coming. I am not going there without you.”
“You have run out of reasons to blackmail me, Cass” he said, not in a rude tone. His hand reached the top of her head, and he ruffled her
