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**,

into people before he buys them I shrug. Tm not apologizing for what he

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,

father. The only one I've

them. But

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 and who knows? He could be the next generation of betas to take the city. To try and make it a

love her! "With

I

too. When my father died, she had to get a second job. When I was 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

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 words to

stops the accelerated

our bathroom.

of dozens of stories about me and it's nothing

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

went to school together and I could never keep up with him. He was always the center of attention. As most alphas are. And I knew my family wouldn't 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

The f

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

"Do you regret it?"

my sons, and my baby, she

my

head

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