Inside the red curtains, it was easy to forget that there were dozens of men beneath us ready to watch their Alpha Prince bed me.
Lord Aubrey lay idly on the bed, his eyes trained on a far distance once again, as though he had utterly forgotten the reason we were here.
My feet would not lead me back outside in front of all those people who expected so much from me, and my feet would not take me to the bed to join Lord Aubrey, so they remained in one place—allowing the harsh stones on the ground to create new homes in their skin.
“Come here.” The order was direct and immediately shifted my concern from the stones on the ground.
“Do we really have to do this? I… I… never wanted any of this…” I whispered, my eyes burning with unshed tears with every second that went by.
The expression on
