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.

and I felt his aura rush out

work cleaning my hand and wrapping it. “It will heal once you shift. Do you think you

you heal it?” I asked. My hand was throbbing to its own beat, my fingers

cupping my face with his hand. He pulls his phone out of his pocket. “Once the moon

call me that,” I murmur, looking away from

you something,” Gannon says, unlocking his phone and scrolling through

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

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. Gannon hangs his

come around, Ivy. You just need to

I do?” I ask. Gannon frowns when I see his eyes glaze

did nothing. It’s what your mother did. She k****d the King and Queen; she also k****d the King’s sister.” I blink, astonished, unable to believe what I was hearing. That

rest. After your shift, I will

isn’t for another couple of

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 as if she had just banged it which would explain the curse that left her lips. They stopped by the door and glanced at Gannon, who nodded to them before standing up

want to be dragging you to the cells for disobeying the King,” Gannon tells them. She nods before rushing in with Abbie close

cake made, but I couldn’t

it, Ivy. Clarice did a good job. We spent all day making it.”

knowing just how much we always wished to celebrate our birthdays but were 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 made. We never knew if they

go without wishing you a happy birthday,” Clarice says, placing the blue cupcake in my hand. She lights it with it a

Clarice said, and to humor her, I

for?” Clarice asks, a teary

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