Ignoring the crowd around me is not as easy at it used to be. Once it was so easy to ignore it, to slip away unnoticed, but now there was no running away from it anymore. No matter how much I want to do just that. The only thing that made this bearable and probably the only thing that kept me in place right now was Darcy’s hand. Since the moment we both stepped into the pack house he had not released me for a moment. From the way his fingers were gripping mine tightly and how he was radiating anxious energy through our bond, I knew that he did not want to be here just as much as me. So I guess we both were keeping each other up float in here. Everything was going smoothly. We made small talk, greeted all the alpha families that came. It was all good enough that I managed to really la

