#Chapter 44 - Extra Security

Celia Soren’s hand in mine feels right. It does not feel like the times we have been affectionate before, the times when we were a couple during the days of our contract. This is something different, like a new page in the book of our relationship has turned. I’m still quite unsure on how to feel about it. I know that Soren and I are fated mates, yes, but how can I forget how he asked me to leave the pack? How he allowed Bianca to humiliate me in front of everyone that is of prominent standing in his pack and the Lycans. She humiliated me in front of two packs that I belong to. First with the Werewolves, a group of wolves and people who never accepted me because of my low rank and wolf-less identity. Second with the Lycans, with me as their missing princess even though I know nothing about their culture or ways outside of my mother’s journals and diaries. “Your Grace,” the Duke’s voice snaps be back to reality, bringing me out of the haze of my thoughts and mind. “There is so