A knock echoes through my room, sharp and urgent. I frown. It's too early for anyone to be bothering me unless it's important.
I pull open the door, and a young maid stands there, her head slightly bowed.
"My lady, Lord Ethan is downstairs. He wishes to see you."
My heart stumbles.
Ethan?
He's here?
After what felt like years of admiring each other, we've finally decided on the way forward. Mating.
It was a decision that we took the night Delilah and Caspian secretly left. I was excited to tell her the next day only to find she was gone.
I didn't panic so much when I was told she left with Caspian. Where to? No one knows.
But Ethan is here now. My soon to be mate.
I push down my excitement and straighten my robe. "I'll be right down."
But when I step into the living room and see Ethan standing there, my excitement vanishes like a candle snuffed out.