Seraphina:
The knock came soft.
And I knew that those only came when something wrong was happening.
“Yes?” I snapped.
The maid stepped in cautiously, eyes lowered, hands clasped so tightly her knuckles were white. “L-Lady Seraphina… I thought you should know… something has happened, and I know that you would want to hear it from me.”
I straightened slowly. “Know what? What is it that you are fidgeting about. Just say it directly and get the topic over with.”
She hesitated.
That hesitation was the blade.
She looked down at her feet, her heart racing against her chest. For a second, it took everything in me not to grab her and force her to talk. But when she did speak, I wished that she hadn’t.
“The Alpha,” she said quietly. “He is… in Alessia’s room. He went to her last night.”
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