LEILANI
Was I perhaps dumbfounded?
Yes.
Because this was nowhere near the reaction I had expected from Aesir. When the realisation hit me that we were in Eitbjorn, in the palace of the Alpha King who had banished me, I panicked. Because what else was I supposed to do? The whole point of taking his money came with a promise that I would never show my face before him again.
Yet, here I was. And I had expected him to be hostile. I had expected the same Alpha I met in his office seven years ago, the one who had held nothing but coldness and contempt in his eyes for me. The one who had called me a gold-digger and told me to vanish.
Knowing how much of an arrogant Alpha he was, I thought he’d walk over to us and ask me what I was doing in his kingdom and then remind me of our deal. But none
