_Rowena's POV_
When everything had settled that night, I sat in my room with my hair piled on top of my head and my oldest, softest house clothes on when Velvet burst through my door without knocking, which was unlike her.
"He's here," she blurted out, a smile on her face..
I looked up from the book in my lap. "Who is here?”
"King Alaric." She said it like the words should produce a reaction. "The Alpha King is here.. At our gate. And he drove himself here.”
I closed the book. "What?"
"He came in a black Mustang," she said, slightly breathless. "He just pulled up and the guards let him straight through because obviously they let him straight through, he's the Alpha King, and now he's standing in our entrance and my luna he looks……" She stopped. Pressed her lips together
