The Lycan Monarch’s Voluptuous Mate
Her dark eyes sneered at my wide shoulders, my thick waist, and my black tunic.
"She wears the clothes of a stable hand," the woman sneered, leaning over to whisper to the man next to her, though her voice carried across the whole room. "She has the build of one, too. Is this what the Lycan court has come to? We breed with royalty, Valerius, not with southern plow horses."
A few low, harsh chuckles broke out down the table.
My throat closed up tight. For a second—just one humiliating second—I was back at Gideon’s kitchen table. I was seventeen, wearing a stained apron, listening to Sienna laugh while Tristan looked down at his plate and pretended he didn't hear her calling me a cow.