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.
of her pack, and even without the mate bond, he was completely taken by her.” She took a deep breath, and I listened carefully
a difficult story for her to tell, and I didn’t want
to make her happy. He gave her everything she
similarity to his son was already at the forefront of my mind, and I had to wonder what happened for the king to be dead and his chosen to be in a coma. Killian had
island, and he gave it to her. She wanted a private jet. She got five.” Charlie paused, and I heard her moving, but I refused to look at her. When she spoke again, her voice sounded more direct, and I knew that she was
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 table with my
on top of
lungs out at him, telling him how 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 my mother kept seeing her fated behind
there for all of it though. He watched as it
father joined us, you could see the way
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
said that the queen’s mate had died, and I had just assumed she was talking
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