Ella
“Where is Alexander?”
I wrenched my arm away, ignoring the sting of pain. “He had something come up at the last minute. I decided to come anyway.”
My father’s face darkened. “Without your Alpha? That’s incredibly irresponsible, Ella. If Alexander couldn’t make it, then you should have stayed home.”
“I was invited, too,” I reminded him. “My name was on the invitation. Not just his.”
“As Alexander’s mate,” he hissed. His eyes flicked down to my dress with disapproval. “And certainly not dressed like… that.”
I resisted the urge to cover myself. The black dress wasn’t even that revealing compared to what some of the other women were wearing tonight. But to my father, anything that showed I had a figure at all was “provocative.”
I glanced at Lilith, who was hov
