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The black-robed wolf came at me so fast I barely registered he was moving before the wolf-bone dagger was already up, aimed straight at my chest.
~Valeria~ Alerion looked ready to kill him. “You are doing no such thing.”“The hell I’m not. I swore to protect her, remember? Or does that oath only matter when you’re the one talking?”Lysander snorted. “Honestly, I’d pay to watch the two of you get locked in separate rooms before this turns into a full mating season disaster.&rd
~Valeria~ “The man spent years making himself everybody’s problem. I’m not exactly crying over his turn.”I stared at all three of them in disgust. “So this is it? You hear your father is being tortured and all you have are smug little comments?”Alerion’s eyes met mine at last. “Do not make the mistake of calling him that like the
~Valeria~ Moments after the meeting ended, we were outside ready to head home when a figure suddenly flew over the outer wall and hit the ground hard.My heart dropped so fast it scared me.Who the hell was that? Was he dead? &ldqu
~Valeria~Connor folded his arms and glanced between me and Dad with open disappointment. “First, you defend them. Then you let them turn a preparation meeting into a public circus. Forgive us if we question whether either of you understands what this ceremony demands.”Zane took a step forward. “Show them respect, old man or I’ll teach you the right way to speak.”
~Valeria~ “I do not care what title or identity you think I lack,” Alerion said. “None of that changes the fact that I will protect Valeria. Your approval means nothing to me. If she wants me beside her, that is where I’ll stay.”Silence followed.
~Valeria~Dad gathered the royal old troops for a preparation meeting for my restoration ceremony, and one scornful look thrown at the guys told me they were not welcome here.“What exactly are Cassian’s sons doing here?” one of the troops demanded. “Guards, send them out.”Zane let out a hum
~Valeria~I was pretty sure the guy with the newspaper was going to follow me home and suffocate me in my sleep.Okay, maybe that was too out of line, but he'd been sitting at the same table for three hours pretending to read about local boring drama while watching every move Michael and I made. An
~Valeria~I kept having the same weird dream, and it was starting to freak me out.Every night for the past week, I'd close my eyes and boom, there I was, standing in some forest I'd never seen before. And right in front of me was this huge castle.Not like the Disney kind with sparkly towers. This
~Zane~Three weeks. That's how long I'd been going to therapy, hitting the gym twice as hard, and basically rebuilding myself from scratch. All for a girl who looked at me like I was a stranger she was being polite to."You don't have to change for me," Valeria had said when I told her about my app
~Alerion~Valeria had been acting like she was planning to rob a bank, and my instincts were screaming that whatever she was up to was going to blow up in her face.Three days of watching her jump every time someone said her name. Three days of her clutching that backpack like it contained state se







