MEGHAN
After the extorted declaration of allegiance, I was led to a room on the upper floors of the pack house - but still at a lower one than where Callum and my children were. There I remained for most of the day, until mid-afternoon, when two slave girls entered, their eyes fixed on the floor, muttering that the Alpha had sent them there to me to "prepare me for the banquet."
I dared not send them away, or say I would do it myself.
And so, I spent the next few hours being washed and groomed by those two girls: in the meantime, I had been handed a speech to learn, which I was supposed to deliver at the reception - a long-winded, cheesy and utterly bogus statement in which I professed myself not only immensely happy to be home again, with my father, and more than ready to stand besid
