Chapter 109

I had expected him to look away, but he didn’t. The eye contact didn’t faze him. He smiled faintly, but something about that smile sent a shiver down my spine.

The smile was meant for me—he was staring right at me.

Someone like that…what did Mom want with him?

Our eye contact was broken by one of the guards tapping his shoulder, and then he disappeared.

“Your Highness, Prince Alaric is waiting,” one of what I assumed to be Elyx’s guards called out from the side.

Elyx nodded and made his way toward me again.

I quickly scanned the situation. If even the Lycan prince had to be told that Alaric was waiting for him, it meant getting close to Alaric wasn’t going to be easy. Not at all.

“Hey!” Elyx stuck out his hand, and I took it. “I had a good laugh today, Adelaide.”

What did he mean by that?

James slammed his arm over my shoulder, pulling me closer. “Apparently, she’s been dying to meet you,” he said, his tone overly dramati