Aria's POV
The woman sitting at the next table looked back and forth between Julian and Kierra, her eyes filled with undisguised disgust.
"I only saw your mate having a casual dinner with a gentleman," the woman chimed in, her sharp tone cutting through the quiet dining room. "But look at what you're doing right now."
Julian's face flushed a violent, dark red, his wolf scratching furiously under his skin as his temper reached a boiling point.
"Mind your own business!" he snapped at the woman, his knuckles white. "Kierra and I are just friends!"
"Oh, I see," the woman scoffed, turning back to her steak. "Very close friends, as I can tell."
Unable to win the crowd over, Julian whipped around and vented all his rage back onto me.
"Aria, do you have any idea what your problem is?" he s
