Chapter 12— You can look.
Rowena’s POV
I was sitting on the bed patiently waiting for Ryker. It was midnight already, hours away from the mating ritual. I had left the ceremony and went straight to my room immediately after it. According to Ryker, he told me to wait up here.
The light from the moon shone heavily on me, illuminating my structure, and making me look like a sort of angel, it did well to illuminate the opposite of what I was feeling inside of me. My stomach churned at the thought of being intimate for the first time and sadly, not with my mate but with a man I barely knew. This wasn't how it was supposed to be but the events that had occurred these past few days weren't how I had imagined them either.
The door creaked open slowly, if I wasn't aware of my surroundings I wou
