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**,

look into people before he buys them I shrug.

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

The only one

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

lady knows what I've 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 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

"Do you love her! "With all my

I

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 a

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 words to me. She

It stops the accelerated healing around our major o**ns. Then she took my

her like that our bathroom. I had to sit there until the paramedics 18:17 Thu,

away. That is one of dozens of stories

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 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

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 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

The f

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

"Do you regret it?"

could imagine. It brought me, my sons, and

my

head

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