Sheila asks me about myself. Everything. My age, my likes and dislikes, she asks about my (two) friends and everything else she can think of. I've never had lavender tea before, but it tastes good and I suddenly find myself enjoying Sheila's company more than I imagined I could. She’s a little crazy, but I kinda like her. "Dinner is ready," Mary announces after a while, "Alpha Robert will join you shortly." "Perfect, thank you," Sheila replies and we get up to enter the dining room where we had breakfast this morning. Sheila tells us where to sit and I get nervous because the head of the table is to my left and I know that's where the Alpha will be sitting, "My brother-in-law is not a monster, by the way, even though he looks like one sometimes. He doesn't have anything close to frust

