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**,

son to look into people before he buys them I shrug.

on one of the 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

like my father. The only one I've ever

them all over and wonder why the f****k I brought all of them. But I

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 s**t that happened with Darren was just the final straw to all the other f****d up s**t I've had to endure.

her! "With all

I

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

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 with thus serum called

need tumors removed. It stops the accelerated healing around our

found her like that our bathroom. I had to sit there until

her away. That is one of dozens of stories

person he knows. That maybe a long time ago I was the kindest. To you, I 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

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

The f

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

"Do you regret it?"

fate brought me more happiness than I could imagine. It brought me, my sons, and my baby, she smiles. "Fate brought you to us for a reason,” "Don't do

my

head

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