"What?!" Myrna's loud protests echoed throughout the dining hall I’d marched back into right after I’d done the exact opposite earlier. "What do you mean you accept his proposal?!"
That had not been my intention at all. I had had no thoughts of gracing my mate’s dinner with my presence again once I walked out and neither did I have thoughts of accepting his proposal that had brought nothing but a heaviness on my heart.
I had wished for nothing but to escape it all. But when Myrna came after me, when my dear sister had encouraged me to all but keep running like the fragile thing I was, when she made it clear that she was so smart and deserving of the crown while I would forever be nothing but Elian’s stupid mate, something had snapped.
It wasn’t even my wolf that had wanted nothing but
