ILYANA’S POV
Any minute from now, my heart was going to explode out of my chest. I was nervous, anxious, jumpy—every single thing I could think of all at once. I paced around the room, repeating the plan over and over in my head. Tina would get the alpha king. I’d welcome him, take him to the small dinner table we prepared, make sure he eats, and then fully seduce him and take charge of the room. I was dressed in a flimsy seduction piece, a robe tied tight around me. It was similar to what Lucienne wore the last time I saw her.
Atasha’s words rang in my head, “Men are like children, dumb, stupid. Show them that you can put them to work, and they’ll bow immediately.”
But how true was that? Would the alpha king really fall for this?
All my life, I’d been rejected by all my mates. Maybe i
