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Her breath hitched.
I tilted my head slightly, watching her reaction with interest. “You weren’t so distant when I was Ayla.”
That did it.
Estel’s eyes flicked up to mine before she could stop herself, wide and startled, emotions flashing across her face too quickly to fully mask confusion, uncertainty, something dangerously close to grief.
“I...” She stopped herself, then bowed her head again, lower this time. “I... the Alpha has asked that no one speak to you except ordered to and that whatever you ask for be done immediately.”
I sighed softly, more tired than amused.
Of course he did.
If he couldn’t control me, then he would control the world around me instead. Walls by proxy. Silence by decree. He didn’t trust me to obey his rules, so he had simply rewritten everyone else
