The Beast And The Blessed

Chapter 28

Twenty-Eight: Natalie

Natalie’s P.O.V.

All of the work the masseuse had put in was pointless as I felt myself tense back up. I cleared my throat, resisting the urge to pull the slices of cucumber from my eyes and look over at her.

“Not very much,” I answered, embarrassed to admit that he hadn’t told me anything about them. I had to find out for myself that his mother was even still alive. At this point, I doubted he would willingly offer any information to me if I asked.

We were still at the ‘tell me your favorite color’ stage even though we had already slept together.

“They didn’t have the best relationship,” Chanlies started, but the hardness of her voice took me aback. Her bubbly and excited tone was gone, and in its place was a darkness that I hadn’t expected.

I wanted to stop her and tell her that Killian would tell me about it in his own time, but I also really wanted to know. Maybe it would help me to understand Killian better.

female warrior of her pack, and even without

clearly a difficult story for her to tell, and I didn’t want to

best to make her happy. He gave her everything she could ever

the king to be dead and his chosen to be in a coma. Killian had spared no *when it came to me, and I was grateful for it, but knowing that his parents did the same thing and didn’t have a happy ending, I had to wonder what our

jet. She got five.” Charlie paused, and I heard her moving, but I refused to look at her. When she spoke again, her voice sounded more direct, and I knew that she was now facing me instead of laying on the table. “I’m sure you know that the mark of a chosen mate is

day with that kind of gossip, and the royal family. would have lost a lot of respect. Charlie looked away from me as I sat up, mimicking her position on the edge of my table with my legs hanging over the side. I grabbed my robe from the foot of my bed and slid it on quickly.

hand on top of her robe. over her thigh. She sent me a grateful smile before she looked away

to please. When other people were around, they acted like the perfect couple. But when it was just the family, they did everything they could to tear each other down. It didn’t help that my mother kept seeing her fated behind my father’s back.”

really little. Killian was there for all of it though. He watched as it destroyed them. Then, one day, we were having a family dinner, and

When my father joined us, you could see the way

for him to listen to her, but he was having no part in it. He killed my mother’s fated right in front of her.

died, and I had just assumed she was talking about the king. I could see why Killian would have a hard time with relationships after growing

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