A P
, the oppressive weight in the air was pal
oing on, a sharp, authoritative vo
ne
ason's grandmother, her fac
than I could count. It had become a humiliating reflex. The mo
y skin, the icy clarity from my
voice terrifyingly calm
morning, you threw a tantrum and shattered Elias's Moonstone Amulet! You com
asking the deadness in my eyes.
"I thought if you simply apologized and showed genuine remorse, I m
eel there for a day and a night. Without my explicit
is face a perfect mask o
if to protect me. "Alia definitely didn't do it on purpose. Sinc
vering protection. Now, watching his performance, my stomach churned with nausea. He wasn'
what has it changed? If it weren't for you, I would have stripped her of her title l
was dragged to t
ernous sanctuary. Over the past three year
el beside me, wrap his warm coat around my shivering shoulders, and fee
think that
night. The heavy oak
hand reaching out to gently brush a stray lock of hair behi
willpower not to violently flinch. His touch, which used to ignit
g my eyes fixed on the stone a
rt of the tortured, loving husband, b
he guards stationed outside wouldn't deny me that basi
d Pack-a gilded cage where I wa
to the restroom, two hushed voices dr
okay to let Alia ta
wall, gesturing for the maid to stay back. She, too
s completely gone, replaced by a soothing, indulgent warmth. "She's used to taking the fall for these things. You don't
ent entir
, you are always the one I can rely on. Whenever someth
ad brother. "From now on, whenever something like this
ack, you are the
into a million pieces, was
e door open, to expose their sickening affa
gic slammed the b
needed his perfect meat shield to protect his precious Karin from the
the freezing hall. Cason came to check on me
f Alphas. My knees were bruised and bleeding, every step send
d out my phone and dialed the only person in t
up on the s
ll warmth and illusion. "I need a lawyer and the Pack'
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