Levi didn’t attend events. They had always been more of your scene with the dancing, the conversation, the way he’d be dragged from un-noblemen and jealous women all night long. He’d only go with you acting as his buffer, or so he had before he’d left you.

Levi never wanted to be anywhere less in his life than here, at this damned gala in the Scout’s honor. Not only was it full of people he hated, but he had to watch as every bachelor in the capital fawned over you. The way he had…