The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me
She looked up when the door opened, registered me, and looked back at her book.
I went in and walked slowly along the nearest wall, reading spines. History, mostly. Territorial records, pack law, a long run of what appeared to be journals or chronicles, their spines labeled by year in handwriting that changed every few decades. One entire shelf of maps, rolled and sleeved in labeled tubes.
"You can sit," the girl said, without looking up. "There's a chair at the end."
"Thank you," I said.
I found the chair, a low wooden thing with a worn cushion, and sat in it and looked at the shelves around me without taking anything down. The girl turned a page. The lamp on the table cast a warm circle th