The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate
Her lips curved into a smile sharp enough to draw blood, and any misplaced sympathy I had been feeling for her quickly evaporated.
"Well, if it isn't our newest business partner," she called, voice pitched just right to draw eyes.
She moved toward me in a graceful glide, her entourage of perfectly groomed pack wives trailing like satellites. Their perfume clung thick in the air, sweet and suffocating.
"Vanessa," Brittany said, my name rolling off her tongue like something distasteful. "How… brave of you to come tonight."
Her eyes skimmed over my gown with slow, deliberate contempt. "That's an… interesting choice. Did you find it at one of those discount designer outlets?"