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I kept my chin up.
Good girl, Bad Girl murmured.
Chapter 27
Conrí
Before the lift reached the penthouse I’d received seven messages from my pack announcing her arrival.
She’s here Alpha.
The one in the dress.
She’s beautiful.
I put my phone face down on the hall table.
I checked my reflection in the mirror by the door and the doubts arrived immediately, right on schedule.
Do you think the formal dinner suit is overkill?I asked Kael.
And you ask this now.
Fuck.
I straightened my jacket anyway. It was fine. It was a dinner. This was what one wore to a dinner.
Don’t do anything to spook her, I told him.
What if she tries to attack us?
She’s not going to attack us. A beat.We’re not going to try and stab her with a knife. Are we?
We should have eliminated him when we had the chance.
He’s weak.
Unstable, Kael insisted.
So is she, I added.
We both went quiet with the mutual acknowledgement of two beings who had just talked themselves into a corner and recognised it simultaneously.
The doorbell chimed.
I heard Charles cross the foyer. The soft mechanical precision of the door.
“Good evening, Miss Horvat. May I take your coat?”
“Thank you, Jeeves,” she said.
The amusement in her voice was immediate and completely unguarded. Charles did not correct her. He was far too dignified to correct anyone about anything, which was precisely why I’d kept him for all these years.
Something in my chest shifted.
The nerves—and I would not be admitting to nerves, not to Kael, not to anyone—dissolved. Just like that. Gone before I’d had time to manage them properly.
We can woo her, Kael said. The word sat oddly coming from him.Slowly, perhaps.
