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Cassar Salvaterre did not know the definition of the word now.

Personally for me it meant this very second. I knew that Alpha Soren wasn't going to show up for my meeting this very second, but I was expecting sometime soon.

Not a week later.

Most of the week, I locked myself in the pink room. I would snarl at anyone who dared open it. Which was only the Alpha whose presence didn't last long after I threw part of the bed's headboard at his face. The other person was Harlen who came to make sure I was still breathing once an hour. I barely ever opened the door. Only for the pack wolves to bring me my meals. And once for a little girl who brought me her favourite books so I wouldn't be bored. That one melted my heart a little. I didn't have the heart to tell her I didn't like to read. She even suckered me into telling her she could come back sometime so we could discuss my favourite parts, so now I had to read the books.

Every once in a while Harlen would take me for a walk like I was th