Katala
That night I couldn’t sleep.
I lay down on my bed, staring blindly at the dark shadows in my room while I tried to make some sense out of what happened this morning. After my impromptu encounter with Noctis at the stables I hadn’t been able to see him for the rest of the day. My mother had kept me busy with all the preparations for my upcoming trip to Naccanash. My father had been adamant on staying by my side all the time, making sure to use any opportunity to remind me why Kamir wasn’t a good Alpha for me. When my mother learned about Noctis’s duel against Kamir, she had only blinked slowly, like trying to make sense of something that didn’t make sense at all.
“Let me get this straight,” she said, while taking my measurements in front of a mirror, “Noctis accepted t
