*Rapunzel*
I climb down from the carriage, clutching the doll I bought for Susannah, and find Horace and his companions waiting before the castle.
Layla steps onto the ground beside me. "I feel as if we've traveled through time to a medieval kingdom," she says. "Weren't those the days when a returning Alpha prince was met by servants running in from the fields and the like?"
I watch people stream from the portcullis. "I suppose," I reply.
Horace moves to my other side, his expression as grave as ever. He helped me from the carriage, but he hasn't said much. Now he stands silently with his hands clasped behind his back. I feel he's angry with me, but I'm unsure why. When he asked about my monthly courses, I told him the truth. If he had asked, I would have allowed him into my bed.
But
