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“Eat first,” he purred.

My head snapped up.

There—there it was again.

That amber glint in his eyes.

Not a hint of blue.

Not even a flicker.

Just black and gold.

Wrong.

Unnatural.

I blinked—and it vanished.

“Your eyes…”

He tilted his head, expression mild.“Yes?”

“Nothing,” I said quickly, turning away as if the plates suddenly mattered more than my sanity.

I lifted them with careful hands, passed one to him, kept the other for myself.

My mind was playing tricks on me.

It had to be.

That’s what I told myself for the rest of the day.

But no matter how many times I repeated the lie…

I never managed to convince myself.

Chapter 15

Thaddeus

Our mate is hungry, Wulfric growled.

I slid another egg onto her plate.

Not for food, you fool, he snapped, pacing inside me like a storm trapped in bone.Can’t you scent her incoming heat?

I smiled pleasantly at Euphemia when she lifted those dark brown eyes to me.

Mmm.

Yes.

Euphemia MacDonald.

Euphemia Wulverton.

The name tasted sinful on my tongue.