My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

Chapter 0252 "Interesting."

"Excuse me, your highnesses. I wonder If i could have a word with Miss Skylar here about some of her suggestions today. I was truly fascinated by your ideas young lady." A grizzled but kind looking old man says to me. As innocent as he looks though, Xander's warning is making alarms blare in my head. This is what he was talking about and they are not wasting time trying to separate us.

I look to Xander to see what! should do. I don't want to openly offend anyone, but !I also do not want to go anywhere with this guy alone. He's not an Alpha, I can smell that much. So he must be one of the Elders. He looks battle worn and almost tired. His frame is still large and imposing, but I can see that he hasn't trained in years and the atrophy in his muscles is very evident. His wrinkles hide a myriad of scars, meaning he must have been a great warrior at some time.

Xander gives a slight nod, letting me know it's okay, but he doesn't let go of my arm when the Elder starts to turn and move away. We follow behind.

"I thought we could take a walk on the veranda, it's such a lovely evening." He makes his way to the door that leads out onto the balcony that sits behind the ballroom. He finally looks back at us when he pulls the door open"

Oh!

other Alphas and Elders, I can watch over Miss Skylar, if you have somewhere

always like hearing her talk about battle strategy and training. It's something we have bonded over actually. She's

Xander squeezed my hip to help keep me calm. I wanted nothing more than to punch this old bastard in

tight, I'm

head with male and female warriors. As a trainee in the Elite Warrior program

down, and I was trying." Xander looked at me and we both laughed. I'm surprised he admitted

you are not even age eligible yet." He let his nice old man

Reggie decided that I should join now, so I did." I shrug