"Wh—What?" Nadia stuttered; she staggered back and tried to wrap her head around the confession. "How could you say that? How could you say something so horrendous like that?"
With that, Nadia cried; she ran off, and Shayne didn't even have the decency to chase after her. In fact, he was relieved because he could finally get her out of his hair.
Now, he needed to figure out how to get in touch with Fenja.
Meanwhile, at the same time, inside the ballroom, after Jaxon's speech, the Alpha took his mate off the platform and mingled with some important figures to introduce Fenja to them.
"This is not what we agreed," Fenja said. She smiled, but her eyes filled with dread as she noticed how people were very eager to approach them, and obviously, they were ready to ask her questions.
"I told you that we will meet with a few people."
