VARDIS. I sat in the private room of my club, tapping my fingers on the table. This was the most expensive club in the city, and I had it built the moment I set foot in here. It's done because I had the best people on it. I usually loved the quiet here, but I couldn't stop looking at my watch because a confident woman was supposed to be here by now, and she was keeping me waiting, which wasn't making me concentrate on anything. "Are you going to keep doing that? You're making me nervous," Kaelen said. Kaelen was an Alpha, and we had been friends for a while. He was the only one who could stand me and my tantrums, but like every other person, he hadn't seen my eyes, except for my doctor, of course. "Do what?" I asked, trying to sound bored. "Checking the time every thirty seconds,"

