Chapter 297 Temptation & Her Mistress

Logan

The symphony of the ballroom surrounded us: the gentle murmur of voices, the soft clink of glasses, and the mesmerizing notes of the orchestra weaving a spell around the dancing couples.

But amidst all the sounds, there was a silence, a charged void, between Ella and me. Every step we took, every turn, and every glide was a wordless conversation.

My wolf, always alert beneath the surface, yearned to entangle with hers, to join in a dance of their own. I could feel the pull, the almost magnetic attraction between our two spirits, and it was maddening.

“I wish she would let me in,” my wolf complained, his voice a growl in the back of my mind as it mirrored my own turmoil. “Just for a moment.”

“I know,” I answered. “She’s a fortress.”

No matter what I did, Ella and her wolf resisted. There was a barrier, a wall she had erected, both to protect herself and to maintain at distance from the chaos of my world. My wolf growled low in frustration, longing to bridge that gap, to assert our bond..

I wanted to pull her close, to feel her breath against my lips, to lose myself in the intoxicating allure she radiated. The urge was overwhelming, almost primal, yet the conscious part of me fought it..

I knew it wasn’t the time, nor the place.

“You keep staring at me,” Ella said, a ghost of a smirk playing on her lips. “It’s weird.”

through a twirl as the music

shade of red than it already was. “You’re flirting with me.” “So what if I am?”

hand tightened on her waist, her fingers gripped my shoulder a tad firmer, our eyes

and the fall was tantalizing. But just as the dance concluded, with our faces inches apart and the promise of a kiss hanging in the

glanced to the side and met my father’s piercing eyes. They held

the shift, the sudden tension. Her eyes, previously soft and lost in

catching in my throat, “get yourself

replied, her voice betraying what almost sounded like a hint of disappointment. “I’ll wait for

I knew I had to face my father, to address whatever reservations he held. But the thought

note still lingered in the air as 1 walked over to my father, a poignant reminder of the emotional

protector of a stranger. And yet, the very elements of her that baffled me also drew me in, like a ship to a lighthouse

gossamer thread of thoughts

family estate-solid, enduring, and occasionally imposing. “Your ‘girlfriend’ seems quite taken with the

followed his. Ella, in her ethereal beauty, looked slightly out of place amidst the grandeur, like

the shadow of at smile dancing on my lips. “She has a way of connecting with people,

too close to mine, so I allowed you and your Alpha Princess to play your little game of ‘sticking it to the man’. But remember who you are, Logan. And who she might turn out to be. It’s

my gaze still fixed on Ella. “Rodrick beat that escort, and you and

father said, subtly gesturing around with his martini glass. “Then perhaps after that, you’ll go straight for

a man in the corner. He wore a blood red suit, with snakeskin shoes

paid his bill in quite some time, so it’s all settled now. But

confident. Marina, dressed in an expensive red dress, was on his arm, laughing at something he had whispered. But the laugh only went as far as her lips; it didn’t reach her

Where I was reserved, he was boisterous. He reveled in the attention, while I often

his lips.

I retorted, glancing from Harry to Marina. “And you, enjoying

of making everything feel

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