Chapter 164. Dressing up to Meet the Guests

Everyone parted and found their respective places in the castle. It was almost time for dinner, and Alpha Knight had called for an informal gathering in the Circular Cabinet within the hour.

Olive sank into a sofa in their bedroom and closed her eyes.

Three months in a secret place? Without Wayne? Without this family, would she have come to love so much? It felt like the Vrek Cult all over again. A twisting sensation wriggled in her gut, and she groaned, turning uncomfortably. She didn’t want to leave. She didn’t want to be separated from her family again. What if she never reunited with them... just as she had never reunited with her parents?

“Don’t freaking think that again,” Wayne snarled, his features darkening and hardening.

“I’m scared, Wayne. A lot of things could go wrong. I don’t want to do this,” she cried out, hugging he