He's coming home; Lucien will be here any day now. And from the talk around the dinner table last night his stay this time will be much longer than the norm. I got the feeling though that there was something more than the nuptial ceremony in the works, something the others hadn't shared with me but had kept amongst each other.
Not for the first time I was reminded that I was an outsider, that no matter what I do I will never truly be one of them, will never escape the low status of my birth, something I've been battling since I was old enough to understand.
Not that I've been treated poorly by the royal family of all clans, nothing could be further from the truth; but I'm very aware that there are some things I'm left out of that I wouldn't have been had I been the real daughter and granddaughter of the family. Then again if I was, I wouldn't be able to have Lucien as my bedmate.