#Chapter 88: Anything To See Her Smile

Julian’s POV Alice’s outburst had pulled the attention of the entire table. It had been so extreme, over something as innocuous as a necklace, that worry stirred within me. Did she simply adore that necklace so much? Or did she hate Olivia enough not to want to show her anything? Or was there some other reason? “She’s protective of it,” Amber said. “She doesn’t like others to take it.” Amber said the words lightly, but there was a kind of tension in her face that made her mouth into a hard thin line and her eyes tight. This might have been the truth, but I didn’t think it was the full truth. There was definitely something more going on here. But… what? Thinking back, I remembered a time in my own pack when, after the gala, Alice had come running to me. She had clung to me so tightly, that my suitcoat jacket had even suffered some pin-prick holes where her fingernails had dug in. At the time, I had wondered how her little human fingernails had torn through the fabric. A chil