Just as I had known from the moment I was invited, the meal was as much a disaster as I had expected. After tension you could cut through with a knife, and awkward conversations about wedding plans which Grace was doing her best to avoid, Goddess knows why, Grace and Kael had become engrossed in conversation. Conversation they were so lost in one another that I wished I was anywhere but at the table with them. That was not a meal I had needed to be involved in, and it still made no sense as to why Alpha Kael had felt the need to invite me.
But as all will to live was slowly slipping from my body, snippets of their conversation caught my attention. So, my only focus had become listening to their bizarre exchange. Paying attention to simply stop myself from dropping to sleep, as I did not wish to seem rude to the man Grace would soon be marrying. What he thought of me was clearly irrelevant, but Grace would surely punish me if I made a show of her...
