Tessa
Bianca freezes for half a second, then her expression softens like a mask slipping neatly into place.
“Oh,” she says gently, clasping her hands together. “Tessa… I was hoping I’d see you.”
Hoping to see me? Clearly to ridicule me about merely being a curse breaker and nothing more.
“I wanted to apologise,” she says further, clearly looking sincere. “For the other day… I truly didn’t mean to say all those things to you.” She tilts her head, almost shy. “I should have been more considerate…especially given the sacrifice you’re about to make.” She holds my hand calmly. “For Alpha Renric and the North at large”
Is she really serious? Just yesterday she was mean and rude. Suddenly, she apologises. There is something odd about this.
Whatever she’s playing at, I don’t have the patienc
