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

chairs at the tea time- table. At least, that's 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 he wants. They're his stories to

my father. The only one

as I set up the last handgun on the middle row. I look them all 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. I go over and sit across from her. "You

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

you love her! "With all my

I

she stopped going to either one. Bills started piling up. She stopped taking care of herself

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

who need tumors removed. It stops the accelerated healing around our major o**ns. Then she took my father's

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

one of dozens of stories about me and it's nothing compared

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

be able to handle those scandals. I couldn't believe that was my fate. "And then my parents arranged 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 able to get pregnant with Jonas, I came across my mate again. He was mated and had three sons. He'd

The f

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

"Do you regret it?"

It brought me, my sons, and my baby, she smiles. "Fate brought you to us for a

my

head

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