Mated To The King’s Gamma By Jessica Hall

Chapter 37

“You are asking the impossible. How am I supposed to sneak her out?” he demands.

“She can meet us somewhere, and we can grab her on the way. Either that or I stay, Kade. I won’t leave her behind,” I tell him, snatching my phone back off him. He growls and I turn away from him, walking up the street only for him to grip my arms.

“Fine, fine. What is this plan you have?” he purrs. And I turn in his arms to look up at him. He smiles back at me. “I’m sorry, Love. I didn’t mean to upset you,” he tells me, cupping my face in his hand.

*Now tell me what you want me to do,” he says, and I smile. He was going to help me.

The breeze was cool as the day slowed down, and all the servants prepared for dinner and end-of-day tasks. Tugging the white sheets from the clothesline with Ivy, we folded them, bringing the corners together and placing them in the basket. Our interactions had been flat most of the day, and she had been quiet for most of it. I was itching to tell her that Kade agreed and I tried a few times, but then had to stop because someone was always around.

A guard, another servant, so amongst the blowing winds and the flapping sheets, I moved closer to Ivy before reaching over and dropping the pocket watch into the front pocket of Ivy’s apron. She glanced down before putting her hand in the pocket and feeling around for what it was.

“When the big hand is on the twelve and the little is on the seven, I am leaving,” I whisper as she examines it.

reached into my shirt and produced a small key from my bra that I had to take off Gannon’s key chain when he

around and finding the keys. He

It’s for the laundry door,” I whisper, nodding to the one

out. You have to be there at 7 PM sharp,” I quickly tell her while glancing around, and she nods. And for the first time in ages,

convinced him,” she smiles and I smile back

I tell her. Looking at the sky, the clouds are moving in dark and heavy and it was going

won’t tell on me?” Ivy

me,” I whisper before reaching over and gripping her arm. “We will be free. Just not the freedom we used to long

Ivy says in return. Those words meaning more to us than a simple I

her I would have been dead the moment I tied that noose and around my neck, if she hadn’t climbed up there with me placing it around hers too, the rope never would have broke,

my lower back and growl.

lobbing them at him. Peter was one of the stable boys. He was 15 and had a mop of blonde curly hair and was always up to mischief

behind the castle wall just as Dustin walks around. The mushy apple smacks him in the face, and he freezes on the spot, stunned for a second before wiping the mush off. I chuckle, unable to contain it while trying to muffle my laughter. Peter hid behind him before popping his head out and sticking his tongue out at me, and I pin him with a glare. Dustin wipes the mushy apple off his clothes, growling. Bits of apples sticking to his crisp, clean