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The banquet hall was very large and luxuriously decorated. It was lit with warm yellow lights and played soothing music.
The wolves who came to the banquet wore high–end dresses and held goblets of wine laced with wolfsbane, whispering to
each other.
Everyone from the Sterling pack had good manners, from senior pack members and down. When they saw Taya, they didn’t make sarcastic remarks but politely greeted her.
Taya felt a little uncomfortable. She was used to being one of the only humans in the room, if not the only one, but typically shifters tended to be dismissive of her. That people were being polite to her threw her off.
Jackson seemed to have read her mind. He whispered in her ear, “You’ve been busy with this project with me recently, and you’ve done a good job. It’s expected for you to attend the celebration banquet as my female companion, and my pack knows if they aren’t polite to my guests, there will be hell to pay for embarrassing me.”
After hearing what he said, Taya tilted slightly to create space between their bodies. She didn’t want anyone to think that
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this was more than her attending as someone who’d worked on the project.
As seen through Jackson’s eyes, her small gesture was noticeable, somewhat of an insult.
Jackson didn’t show that he thought anything of it. After
leading her to the main table and sitting down, he called the waiter over and ordered a hot tea for her.
“Drink this first. It’ll warm you up. I know they keep it cooler in here because shifters are always hotter.”
He picked up a spoon and stirred the tea to cool it down before handing it over to Taya.
His actions were the same as Harper’s, which had been their habit since they were children.
They knew she was afraid of being scalded after badly burning her mouth once, so they always helped her stir and cool things down before giving them to her.
Especially Silas. No matter what the situation was, he would let her eat first.
They were very poor then, and after Taya had a heart attack, she needed a lot of money to buy medicine.
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