Pretend

Kira's POV

It felt like the whole world was against me. Any time I hoped to be able to live a single day in peace, something always came up. Now I knew that Lucille wasn't the only one who hated me. Asher's mate knew I was a woman, and she felt threatened by me. It was almost funny, how could someone like her feel threatened by me?! It just didn't make sense. Asher was only playing with me, there was no way he would ever have that sort of interest in me. However, Elena was merely a woman, and she had every right to be jealous

Avoiding Asher would be the reasonable thing to do, and I would avoid him if I could. I lived in his part of his palace and he might think I was going against him if I tried avoiding him. And if I decided to move back to my old room, it could be seen as a betrayal on my part, plus Lucille would think I was planning on seducing Killian again. Nothing I did would end well for me. I was trapped between two hard places with no means of escape.

I spent the next two da