#Chapter 123: Confidence

Elara

“Elara, would you do me the honor of a dance?”

Draken stiffened beside me when Lucien said those words. It wasn’t just his body that stiffened, though—our mate bond suddenly flared to life for the second or perhaps third time that night, a surge of heat and protectiveness that I could feel beneath my own skin.

I glanced up at him, my heart skipping a beat as I saw the way his jaw clenched ev