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**,

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

looks bad. But I understand," she sits on one of the chairs at the tea time- table. At least, that's what I think that's for. "Jacob

my father. The only one

brought all of them. But I oddly feel safer now. Like I have a little bit of control. I go over and

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 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. "Do you still

you love her! "With all my

I

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

and show her the yellow parchment paper I've carried around with me since

It stops the accelerated healing around our

like that our bathroom. I had

her away. That is one of dozens of stories about me and it's nothing compared to

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 before we found out, but he lived a certain kind of lifestyle and it scared me. I was part of a pack that was

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 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

The f

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

"Do you regret it?"

than I could imagine. It brought me, my sons, and my baby, she

my

head

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