Rowan
The past five weeks were some of the longest I have ever experienced.
Five weeks of back-to-back meetings, discussions, arguments, and careful negotiations to reach an outcome she could live with.
And five weeks of watching her become a force I barely recognized.
I wasn't sure if it was because of the heavy gloom no longer hanging over her shoulders, but the jump in assertiveness had been a bit jarring. Pleasantly, if I was being honest.
And it saddened me a bit of it might have come from fear of what the world would be like if she didn't hold her ground now.
There had been discussions she simply refused to move from, even with uncomfortable push from a few of the Supreme Alphas.
When compromises were offered that fell short of what she wanted, she looked at them with those grey eyes and said no.
So many nos.
I might have liked it a little too much.
