The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 215

“So you and your father built this?” I asked after a little bit when it seemed as though the rain had no intention of letting up.

Alexander nodded as he fumbled to light one of the candles I’d picked up. It actually managed to light after a few tries, and cast the small space in a warm golden glow.

“Every weekend for about two months. He said every boy needed a secret hideout.” He ran his hand along one of the support beams. “I used to come up here all the time. Read books, play with my toys.”

It was hard to picture the cold and stern Alpha King playing in a treehouse as a little boy, but the thought made me smile. Alexander, young and carefree and without the weight of a dark future ahead of him.

If only that little boy knew what would happen to his parents.

“What happened?” I asked. “Why did you stop coming?”

“Alpha training got more intensive. Father said I needed to focus on my duties, not waste time playing in the woods.” Alexander shrugged, but I could hear the old disappointment in the way he said it. “I guess I just outgrew it.”

I thought about my own childhood, how different it had been. “I never had anything like this. My father thought playing in the woods wasn’t ladylike. Said future Lunas needed to focus on more refined

pursuits.”

did you

I could.” I grinned at the memory. “My father was furious every time he caught me, but I didn’t care. I saw how

faintly. “I bet you learned quickly just how rigorous a warrior

really is.”

extra hard on me too–I think to try to deter me.

that, both lost in our own thoughts. The rain was still coming down even harder now. It probably wouldn’t stop

will

me

that sort of thing. Not all kids are.” Alexander was looking around the treehouse again, but

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could build them one. Somewhere safe where they could just be a kid

idea made me sit up straighter.

“Why wouldn’t I?”

my finger. “I want to be better than my father was, I want our child to have the childhood