Serena:
By the time my last class ended, I had already decided I wasn’t going.
The only problem that I had was how to refuse an Alpha without giving half the estate something new to whisper about. Saying no to Alexander Petrova in private might have been manageable. Saying no after he had announced, in the middle of the concubine hall, that he would be waiting for me tonight, well, that was a different kind of danger.
I walked back toward my room with the notebook tucked beneath my arm, my thoughts moving faster than my feet.
Cassandra’s face kept intruding on every memory of the previous evening: the way she had smiled as if the house belonged to her, the casual confidence in the way she said his name, the way she had stood in the hall and reminded everyone that she had been here fi
