Chapter 302

Chapter 302

Third Person’s POV

Lance’s heart ached.

She smiled when happy, but hid her tears when sad, showing him only a calm facade.

Adelaide had never declared her love. The only time she mentioned it to Cedric, it sounded like a child’s lullaby.

Yet he chose to believe it, clinging to it for comfort.

Lance harbored some resentment toward Erasmus.

Returning from the southern border, he’d hoped to court Adelaide properly before proposing. But Erasmus’s words turned his plans into a rushed wedding.

Fortunately, Adelaide knew his proposal had been sincere.

Adelaide slept fitfully until dawn.

With Priscilla staying at the palace, she wasn’t expected to pay morning calls.

But soon, New Year fireworks woke her.

After staring at the ceiling for a while, she got up and dressed.

Beata entered to help with her hair, mentioning, “Alpha Lance left early for the packhouse to receive military officials.”

“Did their mates come too?” Adelaide asked.

As the Blackthorn Pack’s Luna, she needed to entertain guests‘ mates.

“No mates. They’re all military personnel,” Beata replied.

“Is Paisley up yet?”

face. “Put some blush on. I don’t want

them, just decline,”

Only Alpha

tossed the blush box at her.

toe, kicked it back, and

and handed it to Beata with

leave us for a moment. I

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laughed. “Just say it, Paisley. No

She left, chuckling.

sat beside Adelaide, examining her own reflection. She knew she couldn’t

a flat tone, she said, “Wendy sent word. Grandfather refused my mating with Germain. Instead, my cousin Mona agreed to it. She begged outside his door all night, frozen

Mona know what Germain’s

Wendy told her everything,”

Adelaide picked up

Paisley despised foolishness.

Mona ambitious, but now saw

Wendy herself,”

accessory.

fool clinging to

nodded. “I can understand other women thinking that way. But the Stephens family is a prominent southern clan, centuries–old and ever prosperous. Why should your she–wolves attach themselves to other powerful packs? Wouldn’t it be better to choose a smaller pack and become its

call her stupid,” Paisley said, fastening Adelaide’s pink

just wealth. He left the capital this morning. Who knows what kind

surveilling

Paisley

If I had

hand away. “You don’t even have a mate, how can

to find, but two–legged men aren’t,”

anyone.

desire to mate with

but royal

deemed

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