Olivia’s words struck through me like a fatal blow. I didn’t deserve to be here. I knew that. Everyone knew that.
But it wasn’t because I had loose morals or a child. It was simply because they were nobility, all prim and proper, and I was a shadow of my former self. A wolf-less waitress, just trying to get by.
I had no right to waste the princes’ time.
They didn’t know that I wasn’t here for romance. I had no intention of marrying any prince. I just wanted medical care for Elva, and to find my wolf.
I couldn’t tell them that, though, so I kept it all bundled up inside of me, buried down into the deepest part of myself.
Let them think whatever they wanted. They would anyway, no matter what I said.
Olivia sneered, smug like she’d won a victory here.
Yet before she or I or anyone els
