ARYA

I blinked at the sight of Soren, who stood in front of my room with a blank look on his face. He looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there. I guess his alpha had given him an instruction he couldn't refuse. We both stared at each other in silence for a few seconds, a frigid tension settling between us.

"Aren't you going to say anything? You knocked on my door," I said, my voice tinged with impatience.

"You have a visitor." The words stiffly left his mouth. I arched a brow at him, ...