Hannah’s POV
The moment the dance ended, I realized something dangerous.
People weren’t just watching anymore.
They were studying me.
Carefully.
Like they were trying to figure out what made me worthy enough to stand beside the Alphas.
Kael stepped slightly closer to me again as we moved away from the center of the dance floor. His presence beside me felt steady, grounding, like an invisible wall shielding me from the attention pressing in from all sides.
But the whispers had grown louder.
More confident.
Less hidden.
“That’s her.”
“The human girl.”
“She actually danced with Alpha Kael.”
I swallowed slowly, pretending not to hear them even though every word landed clearly in my ears.
Riven leaned slightly toward me as we walked.
“You did better than most of them expected ,”
