#Chapter 131: Approval and Defiance

Ella POV “The castle,” Elizabeth said for at least the third time in the last five minutes, her voice full of awe. “I can’t believe I’m actually going to get to visit.” “I can’t believe you haven’t already,” I admitted, glancing at her with a smirk. Elizabeth, the only daughter of the Alpha King, had access to places most people could only dream of. If anyone should have been able to walk through those gates without a second thought, it was her. The fact that Alexander had managed to secure the venue when no one else had was… curious. I had no trouble believing that he and Christopher Slater had crossed paths—two successful businessmen and eligible bachelors were bound to end up in the same circles. But Alexander’s hesitancy when it came to Slater was hard to miss. There was more to their history than he let on, but I didn’t push him on it. Whatever it was, he would tell me when he was ready—or not at all. I could live with that. What mattered was that Al