Izzy’s POV There is a knock at my door. Odd, since I hadn’t expected to be disturbed for another hour and a half. “Sorry to disturb you earlier than Prince Elias told you,” Beta Spiro apologizes when I open the door. “But you are being summoned by Lycan King Vissarion Lycaeus. You must not keep him waiting!” “I’m on the phone right now. Give me just a minute to say goodbye,” I say. I notice Spiro’s eye go immediately to the mate mark on my neck. I ignore him while I say a last few things to Dougy and a kiss farewell. “You might want to cover up your neck,” Spiro suggests. “Why?” I ask, suspicious. “King Vissarion and his son both believe you are here to become Prince Elias’s mate,” he tells me, after making sure that no one is around to overhear him. “He won’t like it

