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Chapter 27

Sleep exhaustion was beginning to hit Lily like a train.

The prince had ordered an extravagant event for the evening. A masquerade ball to celebrate his engagement to Cherie. As if that alone hadn’t been enough to make Lily want to walk into the forest and never return, she had scarcely gotten more than an hour of sleep to hold her over before Samantha was waking her to the prince’s beckon call. She had been careful all this time not to bring back the scent of a wolf—and for that reason, she was cutting her sleep opportunities short by spending hours and hours scrubbing herself clean in the shower.

Typically, she found time to nap throughout the night. It was never enough, but it was something.

Tonight was different.

Leon arrived with a dress. Something sparkly and gaudy and outrageous. Lily took one look at the thing and grunted, her eyes hollow with sleep, "Take it back."