Fifty-one:
Ellery Corbin
There had been a strange energy when she had gotten up that morning. Actually, there had been a strange energy since last night. Larissa had come back, and she had brought someone with her. No one would say who. Diana was trying to distract her with party planning but she was painfully aware that not a single, Thayer man, including Ethan, would look her directly in the eyes when they spoke. They also all seemed to suddenly have to disappear the moment that she started to talk with them. Including her own mate. Elle knew she was an outsider, but she had thought there had been some common ground established in her short stay.
Now, it seemed, that had disappeared, and she had been regulated to outsider status again. “Are you alright, Elle?” Diana asked. “You don
