_Rowena’s POV_
The next morning, Celeste sent me a message.
She didn’t ease into it as always. The message I saw left me dumbstruck.
“The Alpha King wants to see you. He wants to have dinner with you tonight. Don’t overthink it.”
I read it, put my phone down, pick it back up and read it again.
I wasn’t overthinking it. I was just reading it carefully. There was a difference.
I told myself I felt nothing about it. I was calm. Unbothered. Completely indifferent to the fact that Alaric had specifically asked to have dinner with me.
Then I ended up spending forty minutes deciding what to wear.
I settled on a deep burgundy dress, it was simple and fitted. The kind that didn’t try too hard but still made a point. I looked at myself in the mirror, decided I looked fine,
