Chapter One Hundred FourteenElsie POVThe dining room was bright, too bright, the morning sun streaming through the tall windows and casting harsh light across the polished table. Silver gleamed. China clinked. The scent of fresh bread and roasted meat filled the air, but Elsie's stomach churned with something that had nothing to do with hunger.She sat between her mother and father, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes fixed on the plate before her. Across the table, Malcom's parents beamed with barely contained excitement, their faces flushed with the joy of a union they had wanted for years. Malcom himself sat at the head of the table, his shoulders straight, his chin lifted, the picture of a proud young Alpha who had won his prize.Elsie wanted to scream."This is truly a blessed day," Alpha Soren declared, his voice booming across the table. He was a large man, weathered and broad, with the kind of laugh that filled a room and the kind of hands that had hauled nets for decades.
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