ISABELLA
He handed me a drink and downed his like it was water. I followed him, feeling the burn slide down my throat.
William took both glasses and set them on the catering table.
“Come on. Let’s go to a real party, because all I need now is for the obnoxious half-brother of the Lycan King to show up too.”
He barked it under his breath, gripping my wrist hard and dragging me through the crowd toward one of the hallways leading out to the garden.
Wasn’t the King’s obnoxious half-brother... his own father? I didn’t even dare ask in the shitty mood he was in.
My heels clicked over the stone tiles and I lifted my head for a second, just long enough to catch Kaden’s frown when he spotted us leaving.
There was nothing he could do about it. He’d put me under William’s protection, and hone
