LEILANI
I took his hand.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have. It was the way he was looking at me, as if he couldn’t handle the thought of me falling off this castle’s edge, and he wasn’t ready to take the chance.
But that didn’t make any sense, though. Why would Aesir be concerned about my safety? The Alpha didn’t care about me, never did in the past, and it made no sense for him to start now. Even if he had already figured out my lies, it still didn’t explain why he would look so scared at the idea of me dying.
And if he still believed my lies, then I was still a stranger to him. Why would he be frantic with the need to protect someone he just met?
It made no sense, and I wasn’t naive enough to believe he cared for me. He was probably putting on a show for my family and also trying to impress
