SOLD TO THE ALPHA KING
Bailey looked at him and then at Rider and then at me, like she was checking who would try to soften things for her and I could already tell she was not in the mood to be softened.
“So you are all saying she just walks in here and we sit and smile and pretend this is nothing,” Bailey said, and her voice was calm but I could hear the edge under it, the part she was keeping down.
Rider answered her quickly, “No, we are saying she gets the audience, it is brief, she gets nothing from it that changes position or access or standing, and she leaves with the same rights she walked in with and nothing more.”
I watched Bailey’s face when that landed and she did not look relieved or angry, she looked