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.”

comes from the Old World and he

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

ever come across.

to mingle,” Samsen says. He’s big and tawny. Aaron angles so

protect me.

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

course.” He glances

like to entertain

handling this. Part of me worried that

be resorting to violence, and part of me worried if he did keep his temper in check, that he’d be speaking on my

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

our guests into the dining room.” I turn to my

you can ask any of our packmates to clear that

and moves

hope nobody wrecked the place in the

I was upstairs.

this way,” I say. I lead our group through the center of

to allow some of

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