HAZEL
I released them and flexed my fingers, trying to get blood flowing back into them.
"You need to stop antagonizing me."
"Maybe I'm just saying it as I'm seeing it." He tilted his head and studied me like I was some interesting specimen. "Don't tell me you expect love in this arrangement."
"No." The word came out sharp and hard. "I get what I want. I get back what I lost. I get my Luna title back and I get to marry into a prominent family. Love is the least of my worries."
"I guess this conversation is done then."
He turned to walk away. Really walk away. Like I was nothing. Like this conversation meant nothing.
"Did you get it?"
He stopped. His back went rigid.
"What?"
"My grandmother's present to this pack. The reason Lily of the Valley agreed to this arrangement in the first place."
I still had a mission. Aldric's demands.
His head turned. He looked at me then he looked at the sentinel.
