A False Heiress's Guide to Love and Power

“Little wolf.”

“Lessie?”

Two familiar voices sounded right in front of her.

“Max? Ethan? What are you two doing together?”

Alessia looked up, surprised to see the two of them standing side by side. It was almost surreal.

Both were dressed in sharp suits, and next to them stood a man Alessia didn’t recognize.

“Out to dinner with friends?” Ethan walked over, while Max and the other man followed at a more leisurely pace.

Max wore his usual nonchalant expression, but the man beside him looked at Alessia with open curiosity and gave her a little wave.

Alessia nodded in greeting.

“We’ve finished eating. We were just about to head back to campus.”

“Everything alright?” Ethan asked.

She nodded again. The Mortons had originally wanted to drive Alessia over, but Cole had volunteered for the job. Since both she and Cole needed to check in anyway, Alessia figured it would be easier to go together, so she’d turned down the Mortons‘ offer.

The Mortons had been disappointed for days, and Alessia had spent just as long trying to cheer them up.

She couldn’t understand it–how could grown adults be so childish sometimes?

about me, little

exasperated sigh and shot.

end up together? That’s a rare

Max replied, keeping

obvious there

nodding toward

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greeted them,

me introduce you–Mia, Esme,

to meet you. I’m Ethan, Lessie’s

smirked. “I’m her

man grinned. “Not a brother of any

about the whole brother/ex–brother business. The tension between Ethan and Max

bits.

heard my granddad mention you before,” Bacchus said, seemingly oblivious to the atmosphere as he offered Alessia

too.”

in uncanny harmony–one blocked Bacchus’s hand, while the other slipped an

his

unfazed by their antics. She brushed off Max’s arm, shot Ethan

Linden, principal at

was the grandson