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**,

teach your son to look into people before he buys them I shrug. Tm not apologizing for

what I think that's for. "Jacob told me some things about you. I hope you don't mind, "As long as you don't, I shrug, "He can tell you whatever

my father. The only one I've ever

over and wonder why the f****k I brought all of them. But I oddly feel safer now. Like I have a little bit of control.

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 and who knows? He could be the next generation of betas to take the city. To try and make it a better home. Neither of them knows that the

her! "With

I

ton, she stopped going to either one. Bills started piling up. She stopped taking care of herself and I started pickpocketing. Selling ***t on the streets to keep the one-bedroom apartment we lived in I got beat a lot. Not by her, but I got beat

year leading up to her death, I learned how 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

wolves who need tumors removed. It stops the accelerated healing around our

cut her as open. I found her like that our bathroom. I had to sit

one of dozens of stories about

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

for me to meet the prince. I told him and he thought it was funny, I fell in

The f

"Yes,she smiles. "That's him,"

"Do you regret it?"

me, my sons, and my baby, she smiles. "Fate

my

head

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