Ivy POV

“Quick, sit down while I try to take care of your hand,” Dustin said, dragging a cut in half wine barrel over. He flipped it, so I could sit on it. The other guard growled at him before gripping his shoulder.

“We were told to bring here, that is all,” he snapped at Dustin. I looked at the man who stared at me like I was the scum over the earth, and I quickly averted my gaze.

“Remove your hand, Trey, or f*****g lose it,” Dustin snapped at him.

“I’m following orders, the King said to bring her here, and that was it,”

“F**k the king,” Dustin snapped, and the man went to take a step toward him when Gannon walked in. “Yes, f**k the King, remember where your loyalties lie, Trey,”

“They lie with my King,”

“And she is your Queen,” Gannon snarled at him, and the man whimpered before his eyes went to me.

“You haven’t been here as long as the rest of us, but the King swore us all to choose his Queen over him,”

“If so, why is she down here, then?” The man demanded.

“Because the King is an idiot. Move Dustin. I will wrap her hand. Go fix up the old King’s quarters for me,” Gannon said, crouching down in front of me.

“Yes, Sir,” Dustin says while Trey growled and Gannon glanced over his shoulder at him.

my face,” Gannon ordered him, and I felt his aura rush out and

“It will heal once you shift. Do you think you can hold off a

asked. My hand was throbbing to its own beat, my fingers were black and purple,

I could, but only the King can heal you. My saliva or blood won’t work on you since you aren’t mine,” Gannon says, cupping my face with his hand. He pulls his phone out of

call me that,” I

unlocking his phone and scrolling through the pictures. He stops before turning his phone

he asks, and I take the phone from him. A sob escapes from my lips when I realize it is my mother. I nod, tears trekking

I smile sadly, brushing my thumb over the picture of her. What I would give to hear her voice again. She looked a little younger than I remembered in this picture, but I knew it was her.

Ivy. You just need to

ask. Gannon frowns when I see his eyes glaze over, and i could tell he was mind-linking. I waited for him to finish,

k****d the King and Queen; she also k****d the King’s

some rest. After your shift, I

for another couple

as hear someone curse. The stable doors opened, and hope bubbled in me. Thinking it was Kyson to tell me this was some sick joke, but it was just Clarice and Abbie. Clarice rubbed her elbow

in with Abbie close behind her. Abbie embraced me, hugging me, then checking

had a cake made, but I couldn’t carry it down,”

job. We spent all day making it.” Abbie

never allowed, never allowed the cakes we made for the children in the orphanage. Abbie and l always stared longingly, wishing we could try the cakes we

long; Gannon is right; the King is on the warpath. But I couldn’t let you go without wishing you a happy birthday,” Clarice says, placing the blue cupcake in my hand. She lights it with it a match,

wish,” Clarice said, and to humor her, I did. Abbie smiles sadly and

Clarice asks, a teary

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