Chapter 126: Maggie’s Secrets Revealed
All hell broke loose. Murray and Fredric’s men shifted into their wolves and lunged for Maggie’s men. Everyone shifted and started to battle one another. All I could hear was the growling and snapping of teeth.
“No…” I heard Maggie say from beside me.
A wolf lunged for her but she ducked just in time to miss the attack. She stood to her full height and looked around the camp with wide eyes. She could no longer maintain her composure and I also saw anger swimming behind her irises.
She then turned to me and growled. “You always ruin everything. Can you see what you have done? Luther will not stand for this!”
“Looks like you picked the wrong side.” I smiled. “Good always wins out in the end, Maggie. You just have to believe that.”
Her eyes were burning with fury, and she muttered under her breath as a couple of her confidants lunged at me. “Take her with us. We’re out of here!”
They grabbed my arm roughly and dragged me toward the forest. I tried to cry for help but everyone else was busy fighting and Maggie’s guards shoved something in my mouth so I couldn’t make a sound anymore.
“Don’t kill her!” Maggie ordered, “I need her wolf!”
I almost rolled my eyes and told her she was delusional, but I kept that to myself. It was best not to anger the lunatic.
They pulled me past the tree line away from the battle.
I decided that now was as good a time as any to play dumb, so I forced myself to fall over and hit the ground hard.
“Ah!” I groaned.
Maggie stopped and her guards tried to pull me roughly to my feet. “What are you doing? Move!”
“My head, it’s spinning. I don’t know what’s wrong.” I only hoped that my acting skills were as good as I believed them to be.
She looked down at my knee and it was in fact bleeding. “Get up. You can still walk.”
I shook my head and pretended to pant heavily. “I can’t breathe. Everything is spinning.”
I fell to the ground again and pretended to be passed out.
I knew that she wouldn’t leave me out here in the forest. I was too valuable to her. She needed me because she wanted my wolf which she now believed gave me immunity to Theo’s powers.
she freaking fainted!” she
me up and drape my
head hanging low and pretended
thought I could play along
and further away as we moved
it was quiet. I knew these forests well and I
reinforcements; You, start patrolling the area and
“Yes!”
away from us and I
keep her talking. But I couldn’t
I mumbled under
her snap, “What did you
for a beat and said
no, no! Theo is not yours, he belongs to me!” she muttered. I wasn’t sure whether she was talking to me or
mine! We have been through so much together. We have loved
that Theo loved her in that way? They were siblings.
much. He was always aloof, seemingly
her face closer to mine and placed her lips close to my ear. “Then, I found out that neither Warren nor I were Sebastian’s children! Could you understand how that felt? Every day and every night, I lived in constant fear of my cruel father finding out about the truth! I had to put up an ignorant face even in front
They were my safety net if you will. Justin was set to be the next king and I believed if I had the heir’s favor then Warren and
pulled away from me. I could tell she started pacing back and forth based on
also thrown in jail with them? Regina and Justin were sentenced to death and I knew it was only a matter of time
children had ever lived a normal childhood. I’d never been so thankful that I spent most of my
knowing when it would be your last moment in the world. You watch those around you
It was just so hopeless that I almost
through.
in my room the entire time and had nothing to do with
I did my best not
the king would not listen.” She said through gritted teeth. “That freaking bastard was ruthless and stubborn as a mule. But
since then I have tried to get close to him. I owed him my life. I wanted to thank him, but he kept his distance. I tried my best to approach him. He was like us, lonely and out of place in the royal palace. The more I followed him around, the more I was attracted to him,
My stomach churned.
never gave up hope. I went to pray to
eyes from opening
and Maggie picked it up thinking it was a gift from the Goddess herself. Later, before she got married, she decided
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