Twenty-Eight: Natalie
Natalie’s P.O.V.
All of the work the masseuse had put in was pointless as I felt myself tense back up. I cleared my throat, resisting the urge to pull the slices of cucumber from my eyes and look over at her.
“Not very much,” I answered, embarrassed to admit that he hadn’t told me anything about them. I had to find out for myself that his mother was even still alive. At this point, I doubted he would willingly offer any information to me if I asked.
We were still at the ‘tell me your favorite color’ stage even though we had already slept together.
“They didn’t have the best relationship,” Chanlies started, but the hardness of her voice took me aback. Her bubbly and excited tone was gone, and in its place was a darkness that I hadn’t expected.
I wanted to stop her and tell her that Killian would tell me about it in his own time, but I also really wanted to know. Maybe it would help me to understand Killian better.
her pack, and even without
to tell,
happy. He gave her everything she
what happened for the king to be dead and his chosen to be in a coma. Killian had spared no *when it came to me, and
to look at her. When she spoke again, her voice sounded more direct, and I knew that she was now
gossip, and the royal family. would have lost a lot of respect. Charlie looked away from me as I sat up, mimicking her position on the edge of my
there for her, and I reached over and grabbed her hand on top of her robe. over her thigh.
much she hated him for bringing her here against her will. He would yell at her for being so selfish and impossible to please. When other people were around, they acted like the perfect couple. But when it was just the family, they did everything they could to tear each other down. It didn’t help that
really little. Killian was there for all of it though. He watched as it destroyed them. Then, one day, we were having a family dinner,
father joined us, you could see the way that what remained of his soul left his body
shifted into his beast before taking off out of the castle. My mother chased after him, begging and pleading for him to listen to her, but he was having no part in it. He killed my mother’s fated right in front of her. The pain of losing her
disbelief. The healer had said that the queen’s mate had died, and I had just assumed she was talking about the king. I could
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