The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me
"I thought it would be nice to have a more... intimate setting for you to get to know everyone."
"How thoughtful," I managed, my hands folding in my lap to hide their trembling.
A woman to my left, whose name I vaguely remembered as Ashley, poured tea into my cup with exaggerated care. "We were just discussing the upcoming Harvest Festival. Do you have experience with event planning, Miss Graves?"
"Not really."
"Oh." Ashley's smile didn't waver. "Well, I'm sure you'll learn. Eventually."
The conversation flowed around me like water around a stone, polite and excluding in equal measure. They discussed people I didn't know, referenced events I hadn't attended, spoke in the coded language of wo