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.”

from the Old World

His silver 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 than Karolina or even Tobin-and he’s probably the

ever come across.

and tawny. Aaron angles so he is in front of

protect

so ready to fight.

easily. “Of course.” He glances

you like to entertain our

appreciate how he’s handling this. Part of me

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

those things. He’s deferring to

into the dining room.” I

packmates to clear that

and

hope nobody wrecked the place in the

I was upstairs.

group through the center of the main hall, thinking that they can take a

the very least to allow some of our pack to show their respects-and many do.

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