DESDEMONA

I looked up and I saw Alpha Alaric standing straight in my front still only unto my hand.

He turned his çold gaze to Laura. “Clean up this,” he carried me up in their present, his silence alone meant a lot.

I rested my head on his broad chest, listening to his loud heartbeat, my own heart also skipped a beat, and my face turned red remembering the other night when that same chest had pressed me down, when his shadow had swallowed me whole.

The hall grew quieter, no one dared to move, not even Laura who stood frozen, her face pale. His silence was louder than thunder,...