Her Roommate Dared Her to Blow a Kiss at the Alpha King—She Did. He Caught It. "Come Get It Back"

"Her Roommate Dared Her to Blow a Kiss at the Alpha King—She Did. He Caught It. 'Come Get It Back.'" Josette Carwyn has spent three years at Harrogate Academy perfecting the art of being invisible. She's the only student certified to handle wolfsbane, she designed a garden bed the faculty adopted permanently, and she hasn't attended a single dance since arriving. Then her roommate Pippa dares her to blow a kiss at the Alpha King during the Midsummer Festival — from fifty feet away, through a crowd of four hundred. It's supposed to be harmless. Anonymous. Forgettable. He catches it. Closes his fist around the air. And mouths five words that change everything: "Come get it back." Within minutes, lanterns are cracking, sparks are leaping from stone walls, and the most powerful man in the Western Reaches is standing in a corridor asking for her name — not her title, not her rank. Just her name. What Josette doesn't know yet is that this bond won't let her hide. Every touch throws visible light. Every moment of honesty makes the glow brighter. And the woman who swore she'd never disappear into someone else's story is about to discover that being truly seen by the right person doesn't erase you — it makes you luminous.