Chapter 0006
Violet
Soon I noticed the gasps and all the eyes that seemed to be honing in on us as he led me across the dancefloor. He was an incredibly competent and confident partner. I couldn’t. remember the last person who had led this way other than my Instructor. I glanced around the room, noting the way people murmured and stared at us. As I expected having an incredibly handsome date was proving to be a good idea, but I hadn’t expected him to be such a great dancer. I loved to dance. I always had. I couldn’t remember the last time I had actually danced on a dance floor. It had always been too busy to host balls in Darkmoon outside of the mating balls for the territory, and I never danced at those.
“I didn’t think you could get more beautiful than you were last night. You’ve surprised me, and that’s a rare thing…
My cheeks heated, and I looked away from the heat in his eyes. “I don’t look any different.” “You’re not the one looking.” He dipped me backward, his lips close enough that I could feel his breath on my neck. I shivered as he whispered in her ear, “Of course, I look forward to how you will change as our deal progresses.
I froze at that. Snapping my head back to meet his gaze. There was a teasing glint in his eyes that set me on edge and poked at something defensive in me. Something pricking at the back of my mind from the tone of his voice. It was heavy with meaning. Too heavy for something as simple as an agreement to continue sleeping together. For a moment, I wondered if he was a beta of a rival pack, but I shook that thought off. He was definitely an alpha he had all the arrogance and exuded all the power of one. That meant he had to be an alpha of a pack with designs on Darkmoon.
Great. Another man who wanted to take advantage of me. Before I could ask which pack he was from, Lucas’s voice cut me off.
“Get your hands off my
wife!”
I turned my head toward the sound of his stomping footsteps, curios as to why he felt the need to start a scene at the Gathering after causing a scene the night before. Yet, there was something gratifying about the fact that I didn’t see Nora with him. Maybe he’d figured out that it wasn’t in his best interest to bring her, or simply left her somewhere else in the -ballroom. I didn’t care which it was, but I was amused by the irony of it.
He’d left me behind to run to her the night before, and now he was running to me because I was in another man’s arms.
How fucking childish and pathetic. I would have never even looked Theo’s way if he hadn’t done what he’d done to me, but part of me knew he’d never see it that way. Theo pulled me closer, lifting me from the dip but not easing his hold on my waist.
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He smiled casually at Lucas, almost mockingly Wife?” Lucas snarled. “Are you challenging me?”
“You would have to be worth the effort first,” he said. “And don’t be childish. Wives wear wedding rings, don’t they? Fiancés, too, right? At the least, wives enter with their husbands, right?”
He flushed. “Get away from her, now!” “And if don’t?”
Lucas lunged forward, reaching for me. Theo turned, keeping me out of his reach before stepping in between us.
“Violet, get away from him now and come with me.” He glared at me, “How dare you show
up
here and embarrass me like this? It seems like you’ll never learn.”
“You’re the one embarrassing yourself,” Theo said. “And if you try to put your hands on her again, we’re going to have a problem.”
He glared at me. “You are still my wife. I am your alpha, and you will do—”
“Nothing,” I said, cutting him off. I glanced back as the people parted and Nora came stumbling through behind him. “You should take care of your new lover.”
“Don’t make a scene,” he said. “Have some grace and leave while I’m being nice, or you will regret it.”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “You’re the one making a scene, Lucas. I was peacefully dancing with my date. No one told you to come over here. Now, if you’d like to air your own dirty laundry right now, we can, but you’re the only one who is going to be embarrassed.”
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