•Dahlia• That was childish. Slamming the door loudly was not something I did when I didn’t get my way. Where was this behavior even coming from? I couldn’t explain it but being around Hayden made me act unlike myself—in a bad way. It could be because of the mate bond and it trying to force us to be together while our hearts and mind were not in for it at all, putting either side at odds. But I didn’t really care about all of that for now. I only cared about getting Hayden to host the banquet we talked about. As I walked back to my room—a new room by the way, I was no longer staying at an average guest room in the palace—I gave more thought to Hayden’s behavior. We both didn’t like each other, obviously. But we’ve made a deal, we had to work together. Why couldn’t he just throw a banqu

