Chapter fifteen (Chase sits next to me)

TXUNAMY’S POV

The servants soon started to serve dinner.

The dinning was abuzz with the conversation between the two Alphas and their Luna, and of course, their two favourite children, Oliver and Riele, but not me.

I was sitting four seats away from them and it didn't seem odd to any of them, but I had no trouble sitting there alone. I was used to being the lone kid, the one they never paid enough attention to and it didn't hurt. As long as they let me have my peace, I had no trouble with being alone.

When my eyes went to Riele, she was smiling at me.

I knew it was what she wanted.

She was sitting directly opposite Oliver now, and for every eye contact that they made ostentatiously, I felt bile rise in the pits of my stomach.

They were showing their pleasure with each other and it made me wonder if all those years ago when I had first been betrothed to Oliver had been a joke.

I had spent years preparing to be a royal bride, only to be rudely awakened to the fact that I was not goi