Chapter Forty Four

Alpha Slade and his mate’s seats remained empty.

“I need to go to the restroom” I said to Thane.

“Axel can go with you.”

“I can go on my own,” I say, my cheeks reddening. I didn’t think he should worry about any attack, not after the example he had set for the others. I noticed how the other pack members seemed to keep a good distance from me; they were all afraid of coming too close and I couldn’t blame them.

Thane wasn’t happy about my choice, and I was very sure he would come looking for me if I took more than a few minutes. But I wasn’t planning on returning; after all that happened today, I just needed to go back to the room and shut everyone else out.

It was only going to be six months. I reminded myself.

I knew the way back to our room, and I had made sure to study the routes we had followed when coming here, I wasn’t about to get lost again.

I exited the hall, very aware of the stares boring into me.

"Luna,” a female who had been leaning against the wall, called; of course, it