A Mate To Three Alpha Heirs

{Elira}

~**^**~

I knew what to say, and more importantly, what not to say.

I was no longer a child. I had grown up too fast beneath the weight of things I wasn’t meant to carry. So I chose my words carefully.

"I get to go to school, Uncle," I said, looking into his eyes. "Alpha Cyprus has promised to send me."

A silence followed.

Then I watched something shift in my uncle’s expression. The furrow between his brows softened into guilt... and then slipped into disappointment.

Guilt—for the promise he once made to me and never fulfilled.

And disappointment—because now, I was choosing someone else who was going to give me what he hadn’t.

Lady Maren stormed toward me, her face twisted in rage like the bitterness that had roots deep in her bones.

Of course, she was coming for me. I braced for it.