Chapter 31Soraya's POVI looked at the wall clock, my heart pullementing in my chest. It was just a few minutes past eight and the dinner was to happen at nine.They really were early and I looked a mess.I looked down at my stained outfit, catching a faint whiff of the chicken sauce I’d helped make earlier. There was no way I would let them see me like this.“Stall them for a while, tell the maids to serve them wine and shoe them to the table, I’ll be down in a few.” I said removing the band from my hair preparing to go take a bath.Worse, my mother's words made me intensely, painfully self-conscious. I had spent weeks surviving in the mud and blood with Lucius, Silas, and Jax. They had seen me at my absolute worst, broken and bruised.But tonight, standing in my childhood home, the thought of them seeing me looking like a ragged servant made something inside me recoil.“Ma’am they said it’s important,” the maid insisted but I shook my head."Tell them I'll be down in fifteen minute
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