Strained Formalities

It had Alpha Magnus written all over it.

He had 'coincidentally' chosen a night my father was out of town and my mother was shifted to work at the hospital. This meant it would be just me... and Kaelen.

It seemed I had assumed incorrectly that Magnus was done trying to play matchmaker with us. When I had been accepted as a probationary Beta heir, naturally I had thought the surprise dates would