Amelia’s POV
I did my best to try to ignore the way Claire was clinging to Damien’s arm, but no matter how many times I dragged my eyes away, they always managed to find their way back to him. To Claire. To the way her manicured fingertips were digging into the otherwise smooth fabric of Damien’s sleeve.
It became easier to look away as Jake and I reached the bottom of the stairs, mainly because I no longer could see them from this level, with so many other people between us.
The crowd here was bigger than I imagined it would be, and I had already thought it would be somewhat sizeable. There were so many packs in the kingdom. If they all sent even five people each, that would be enough to fill a place even this size. Some likely brought more, some less.
I clutched Jake’s offered arm ev
