Laila fell silent for a long moment, her eyes moving back and forth between her boss and the enormous black wolf in the room. In a single instant, her entire worldview had been shattered. The creatures she once believed only existed in fantasy novels had revealed themselves… and she had fallen in love with one.
She could hardly believe it.
The boss she deeply respected… whom she admired as an extraordinary human… was not even human at all. And now she realized that she had been surrounded by werewolves the entire time she had been living in the Kingdom. If someone had told her just a few hours ago that werewolves were real… and that she was about to marry one… she would have laughed.
But now, staring directly at that reality, there was no laughter. No joy. Only a gnawing dread settling deep in her stomach. A sharp, twisting tension that made her feel like the ground had disappeared beneath her feet.
