-Valerio-
We were sitting in the dining room, having breakfast. I was again watching Octavia as she ate. It wasn’t that I wasn’t hungry or wasn’t going to eat. I just had to make sure she was full before I took a bite of my own food. When it came to mated males, especially alphas, their mates’ needs always came first.
“Could you eat and not stare at me?” she sneered, making me smile slightly.
She was still the same defiant female I knew. It was good to see her finding her fire again.
“Not until you’re done,” I said, seeing her surprise.
“Suit yourself,” she replied simply, turning back to her food.
It was, for once, good to feel her disobedience. It meant she was growing stronger by the second. Even though I would allow it only while she was healing, she would later learn not to s
