Evadne's POV

“Why are you in my mate’s library?” I demanded.

“It’s the Alpha King’s study,” she waved an idle hand. “Kal allowed me access here, or else my head would’ve been hanging in the front gates already.”

I snorted. “Oh, how I wish it were the case,” I murmured casually.

Now that caught her attention.

I closed the door as I approached her. “When will you give up, Elise?”

Her mouth twitched. “Give up what?”

I bared my teeth. “Don’t you understand? Kallias will never love you back because you’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You’ll sooner find yourself in the Prison of Despair than in the altars of...