The gap between Tobias and me had only been widening with my inability to respond to his feelings, making the pack members raise their eyebrows in the process. They were beginning to question the legitimacy of our relationship, suspecting that their beloved Alpha had sacrificed himself for the sake of protecting me from them.
In an attempt to prove their conjunctures wrong, I decided to join the pack for dinner, which I usually did in my bedroom. By deliberately sitting beside Tobias, I even engaged him in a conversation, something that unfortunately couldn’t last more than a mere minute or two. I knew it wasn’t going to look good, but Tobias seemed determined not to entangle himself with me from the wedding night.
The younger Knight spent the rest of the dinner entertaining the querie
