River
“You will never sleep hungry while I’m alive.”
I said the words, and I meant them. I did not bring Lenora to Blackstone in order to mistreat her or make her miserable. I knew it wasn’t an ideal situation for her, being forced to join herself to a broken Alpha like me, but I didn’t have any intention of exacerbating her suffering. I certainly had no intention of denying her the most basic need of food.
Still, I couldn’t help but wonder why she was refusing to eat downstairs. I narrowed my eyes at her suspiciously. “Was my father unkind to you today?”
She looked up from her plate with an expression of surprise. “What? No! Your father has been nothing but kind. He was very patient with me today.” She said it with such conviction that I did not doubt her.
“Then why are you
