Chapter 210

Alpha Gideon’s Pov

The rest of the dinner went by in a blur. Maeve tried, truly she did.

She kept smiling, talking, and asking little questions to draw me out of my silence. She teased me about eating so little, nudged me under the table with her foot, and even made jokes I knew she thought would make me laugh.

But none of it worked. My mind was too far away, wandering where it shouldn’t.

Still, I