11

Carla

I emerged from the dressing room after attending to the essential alterations to my appearance that were required. I will freely admit that I was petrified, and for some strange reason, I had the impression that I was even more helpless in the hands of the beta than I had been in the hands of the grotesquely old alpha king. This is something that I will never understand. Despite this, I made an effort to convince myself that I had nowhere to go and that the only choices I had were to either play this marriage game strategically or accept the fact that I would pass away in the near future.

On the other hand, I couldn't help but consider the possibility that there was nothing wrong with the alpha king and that in the normal course of events, I would become pregnant very soon. This was a possibility that I couldn't help but entertain.

When I showed up, Beta Asher was there waiting for me, and I couldn't believe it when I saw that he had gone shopping and purchased a lot of dresses