Chapter 101

VALERIA’S POV By the time my training was over, exhaustion and sweat clung to my muscles like a second skin. Damn I need a long shower. But it felt good. For once, today hadn’t been a complete disaster. It had started with new opportunities—for everyone. And now, I found myself looking forward to our plan. Dimitri would be announcing the annual pack party soon, and if everything went as planned, Elijah and the others would finally have a chance to prove themselves. More importantly, if I could get even the slightest opportunity to interact with one of the royals, I might finally get some answers. Was Dimitri really telling the truth? So far, he hadn’t given me any reason to doubt him. He had been lenient with me—surprisingly so—and I wasn’t the only one who noticed the shift. Even the slaves were being treated better. They were allowed to interact freely now. To speak with one another. That was never the case when I had lived as a slave here. Back then, we were nothing more than proper