~Kael~
"She thinks I’m having an affair with that she-wolf and said nothing about it?" I leaned back in my office chair, arms slung over the sides, lazily casual.
"Just asking to increase the guards," Darius nodded stiffly.
"Nothing else?" I asked in a low voice, tapping my fingers against the armrest.
Not even a flicker of jealousy?
Darius hesitated, then frowned. "Her eyes were a little red, though."
I stilled. Red. She cried?
"Got it. You can leave now.”
But Darius didn’t just leave. He lingered, hesitating, then finally asked, "Kael, may I ask why you let Princess misunderstand you were having an affair with Lila? Even calling her here... and making her wait in the hallway after I told you Princess had arrived?"
"Just a thought," I said lazily.
That she-wolf Lila had been lin
