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**,
buys them I shrug. Tm
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 told me some things about
The only one
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 don't strike me as someone who wants to
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
"Do you love her! "With all my
I
ton, she stopped going to either one. Bills started piling up. She stopped taking care of herself and I started pickpocketing. Selling
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 saw that I could take care
tumors removed. It stops the accelerated healing around our major o**ns. Then she took my father's
I found her like that our bathroom. I had to sit there until the paramedics 18:17 Thu,
of stories about me and it's nothing compared to what happened to me
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
him and he thought it was funny, I fell in love with this man who had been raised the same way I
The f
"Yes,she smiles. "That's him,"
"Do you regret it?"
sons, and my
my
head
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