Hearing Cora's question stirred something uneasy in Rowan's mind as he was terrified of being suspected as an omega. Still, after all those months, no one had openly questioned him about it, except for a few who doubted his skill as a knight or looked down on his humble background as a beta.
"Oh, you don't have to answer that! Sorry, was I being too nosy?" He remembered Cora saying it while scratching her neck awkwardly and glancing at Ruth, who was too busy chewing and sipping wine to notice Rowan's frozen expression.
His face clearly couldn't hide his feelings.
While he was in the library reading books while sitting by the window, the wind blew softly through the open library window, making the curtains sway and the pages of a nearby book flutter. Outside, the trees bent and rustled with their leaves carried away by the breeze. Rowan looked out in silence, watching how the sky shifted between gray and pale blue.
