Chapter 44
"Oh, mother moon," the Queen cries out when she comes in without knocking. I look back to see her staring at them eyes. wide with her hand on her pearls. "Your majesty. Maybe try knocking next time. I could have warned you,"
This
i
is my home, she dismisses me. "Are these real?"
"Yes, I fail at hiding my laugh.
weren't at dinner, she comes over to me and starts inspecting the guns without touching them.
I'm weren't
not hungry. It was a long day."
"Yes, I saw it
it on Wolf National, she sighs. "You're quite the troublemaker, Local L**,
before he buys them I shrug. Tm
on one of the chairs at the tea time- table. At least, that's what I think that's for. "Jacob told
father. The only one I've
on the middle row. I look them all over and wonder why the f****k I brought all of them. But
been through from what Jake has spun into her head. I know how he sees me. I've always known, but it's not the truth. Everyone sees what they want to see. That kid in the diner saw something that didn't exist anymore. I signed that picture because I'm no one to burst his bubble
her!
I
to either one. Bills started piling up. She stopped taking care of herself and
to hack the ATMs all over the city. I paid off a lot of her debt and I tried to get her some help. I reach into my pocket and show her the yellow parchment paper I've carried around with me since her death "Those were her last words to me. She saw that I could take care of myself and she injected herself
the accelerated healing around our major o**ns. Then
that our bathroom. I had to sit there until the paramedics
one of dozens of stories about me and it's nothing
might seem like I have so much to live for. My work. My father. My friends that now include you and your family. There is this weight on me. Weight I've been carrying my entire life and I'm tired, Ally. The bad outweighs all the goodness that I once held on to. I don't want to be strong anymore." "You know, I never believed in fate, she wipes her tears away, "I rejected my mate long before my husband came along. We were friends before we found out, but he lived a certain kind of lifestyle and it scared me. I was part of a pack that was a die-hard traditionalist and ne was." "A
for me to meet the prince. I told him and he thought it was funny, I fell in love with this man who had been raised the same way I had been. We had so much in common. When I finally was
The f
"Yes,she smiles. "That's him,"
"Do you regret it?"
I could imagine. It brought me, my sons, and my
my
head
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