Too Human for My Mate, Perfect for the Rival Alpha
The moment she saw me, she stood up with a bright, overly sweet smile, wrapping her arms around my shoulders.
"Rowan! I called Victoria this morning and she mentioned how hard you've been working. You really shouldn't isolate yourself so much. I brought you a gift from my recent trip to the Northern Territory Trade Hub!"
Delilah pushed an ornate silver box across the glass table. Inside sat a crystal flask of rare moon-bloom nectar.
I looked at the gift, then at Delilah's overly eager eyes, and pushed the box right back toward her. "I don't use territorial nectars, Delilah. What do you actually want?"