Kael should have walked away from her the moment the conversation ended. That would have been the sensible thing to do. A human girl at a noble gathering should not have held his attention longer than a passing moment, especially not when he had spent years surrounded by women far more beautiful, more powerful, and far more willing to throw themselves at him for even the smallest fraction of his attention. Yet somehow, he remained standing beside her on the balcony while the rest of the gathering faded into background noise.
Music drifted upward from the ballroom below, softened by distance and the cool night air moving through the estate. Candlelight spilled across the marble floors while noble guests laughed beneath golden chandeliers, completely unaware that the future heir of the Were
