Chapter 102

I plaster on my most gracious smile. “Honored members of the

Council, welcome!”

I step forward and shake hands in the order that they position. themselves and pray I’m not committing some terrible faux pas by not starting with Petyr or Aleksei. But they are to the back of the others, so if I bypass everyone else…

Aaron and Liam flank me and make their own hel los.

Karolina grips my hand hard. I lock eyes with her and wonder what it is she is trying to convey. A warning perhaps?

“There is food spread throughout the main floor and

additional buffet tables outside. Please. Eat. Have a drink.”

the Old World and he

back. His eyes are light and taking in every detail. There’s a preternatural stillness to him that gives off

ever come across.

mingle,” Samsen says. He’s big and tawny. Aaron angles so he is in

to protect

“Look at this wolf! Always so ready to fight. Relax,

course.” He glances

you like to entertain our guests, Alpha Leah?”

this. Part of me

temper in check, that he’d be speaking

Aaron isn’t doing any of those things. He’s deferring to me.

guests into the dining room.”

ask any of our packmates to clear that area

and moves quickly.

have to hope nobody wrecked the

I was upstairs.

I lead our group through the center of the

of our

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