"Are you ok? What happened?" Demetrio whispers to me as we sit at the table.
"Yes. I am fine. Nothing happened." I lie to him.
"You are a bad liar, Kari. Did you drink from the alpha dog?" He asks me.
"Fae, please start serving the meal, our alpha will not be eating with us," Adeline instructs the wolf servant. The thin, young wolf nods her head and heads to the kitchen.
This distraction mercifully saved me from having to answer Dem's question.
"Why isn't your alpha eating with us?" I ask Adeline as innocently as possible.
"He has other matters to attend to right now." She answers with a smile.
"I see." Not completely believing her. The alpha is avoiding me.
"How far along are you?" I ask while Fae puts down our plates of food.
"What do you care?" Marcos asks suspiciously.
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