Mated To The King’s Gamma By Jessica Hall

Chapter 28

I was up early before the sun had even risen fully, wanting to sneak down and see Ivy and bring her something to eat. I wondered how her first went. Getting dressed quickly, I opened the door to find Liam standing next to my door playing a game on his phone, his fingers jabbing hard at the screen while he cursed at it, making me assume he was losing whatever game it was he played.

Shaking my head, I step past him, and he follows with his head down, focused on his game.

“Stupid game,” he growls as he follows me downstairs to the kitchens.

“What are you playing?” I ask, not really caring, but if I had to listen to him curse his phone out, it would be nice knowing what he is cursing about. I wait for him to answer as he starts stabbing his phone viciously with his finger.

“A cake-building game,” he tells me, and I pull a face at that. With crazy finger poking and cursing, I assumed he was playing some killing or shooting game.

“A cake building game, cake like you eat?” I ask, wondering if it was code for something else. Yep, making this stupid pink unicorn thing, but the sprinkles are going too fast, and the placement is wrong. It deducted more bloody points.” he snaps before looking at me.

“Have you got a phone?” he asks as we walk into the kitchens. I shake my head, and he turns to Clarice.

“Mumsy, oh dear mumsy?” he calls in a sugary sweet voice as he excitedly moves toward her station.

“Yes, Liam?” Clarice yawns tiredly, looking like she had no sleep at all.

phone?” he asks, and she

asks, pointing to it in his

need to download a game so you can send me your

it

Damn near gave me a heart attack when I

Liam tells her, unlocking her phone as if he had done it a million times before. Clarice raises an eyebrow

focused on her phone. Clarice looks at me,

to work making Ivy some breakfast and Gannon so I can take it down to them. It seemed like the perfect excuse to go there. The King

finds me a picnic basket, and I leave Liam with Clarice, rushing out the doors toward the main foyer area

roar rings out from down the corridor, and I see Ester running stark naked from the King’s office. My stomach sinks as she rushes toward me, clutching her clothes in her hands just as Damian steps out from the stairwell further up. He grabs Ester by the arm and shakes the woman

of undress. He shoves her away before both his hands hit the door of the King’s office, then slams shut with a loud bang. I gasp as Ester runs out the castle doors. And I turn

the King didn’t kick his own mate out to be with the likes of her. Dustin growls before storming off, and I turn to find Clarice with a

to mine. They soften a little before she gasps. “Come on, you go down there like that, and Ivy will know something is wrong,” she tells me. I look at the picnic basket

was hurting enough, and she could read me like a book. It would only hurt her more if I went down there crying about what

waiting by the kitchen doors when she walks toward them, and Clarice

for me; I swear if the King” she doesn’t

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