**Piper**

True to my word, I returned a few minutes later dressed in comfortable jeans and a thin, long sleeved sweater. I'd pulled my hair into a ponytail and put on my favorite pair of boots - the same ones I'd worn the night Jax and I went to the bar. Had that really only been a few days ago? Seemed like a lifetime had passed since I'd been with him.

"Ah, so you did decide to return." Prince Gregory beamed at me.

Only then did I notice he'd ...