Marked By The Rogue Alpha
She'd just decided no one in this room was going to catch her looking like it.
Elara drew off her gloves one finger at a time, then her travelling coat, in no hurry at all. She knew exactly what the waiting did to me, and she took her time precisely because of it. She didn't sit. She looked the room over, then Meredith, then me, with that same unhurried attention I'd grown up under, and it set my teeth on edge the way it always had.
"I received a letter," she said. "Very polished. Very respectful. Rotten all the way through." She set the gloves down. "A great deal of soft language about concern for a young woman's wellbeing, and underneath it, a knife with my son's household on the point."
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