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.”

you

every time he caught me, but I didn’t care. I saw how free the warriors seemed, running through the forest every

you learned quickly just how rigorous

really is.”


on me too–I think to try to deter me. But for some

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

will

me

sort of thing. Not all kids are.” Alexander was looking around the treehouse again, but there was something different in

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where they could just be a kid for

sit up straighter.

“Why wouldn’t I?”

“I want to be better than my father was, I want our child to have the childhood I never got. Freedom to explore, to make mistakes, to just be happy, I didn’t know

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