Chapter 28


    I was up early before the sun had even risen fully, wanting to sneak down and see Ivy and bring her


    something to eat. I wondered how her first went. Getting dressed quickly, I opened the door to find


    Liam standing next to my door ying a game on his phone, his fingers jabbing hard at the screen


    while he cursed at it, making me assume he was losing whatever game it was he yed.


    Shaking my head, I step past him, and he follows with his head down, focused on his game.


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    “Stupid game,” he growls as he follows me downstairs to the kitchens.


    “What are you ying?” I ask, not really caring, but if I had to listen to him curse his phone out, it would


    be nice knowing what he is cursing about. I wait for him to answer as he starts stabbing his phone


    viciously with his finger.


    “A cake-building game,” he tells me, and I pull a face at that. With crazy finger poking and cursing, I


    assumed he was ying some killing or shooting game.


    “A cake building game, cake like you eat?” I ask, wondering if it was code for something else. Yep,


    making this stupid pink unicorn thing, but the sprinkles are going too fast, and the cement is wrong.


    It deducted more bloody points.” he snaps before looking at me.


    “Have you got a phone?” he asks as we walk into the kitchens. I shake my head, and he turns to


    rice.


    “Mumsy, oh dear mumsy?” he calls in a sugary sweet voice as he excitedly moves toward her station.


    “Yes, Liam?” rice yawns tiredly, looking like she had no sleep at all.


    “Can I borrow your phone?” he asks, and she sighs.


    “What’s wrong with yours?” she asks, pointing to it in his hand.


    “Nothing, but I need to download a game so you can send me your coins.” –


    “For a game?” she repeats, pulling it from her apron pocket. She hands it to him, and he lights up as if


    all his Christmasese at once.


    “You better not be using it for porn likest time. Damn near gave me a heart attack when I opened my


    browser to see what you’re into, you man,’ she scolds.


    “I promise. I am just downloading a game, so I can send myself some sprinkles,” Liam tells her,


    unlocking her phone as if he had done it a million times before. rice raises an eyebrow at him.


    “Sprinkles?” she asks him, and he nods, focused on her phone. rice looks at me, and I shrug.


    Liam sits on a stool by the counter, and I set to work making Ivy some breakfast and Gannon so I can


    take it down to them. It seemed like the perfect excuse to go there. The King surely doesn’t expect her


    to starve.


    When I am done. rice finds me a pic basket, and I leave Liam with rice, rushing out the doors


    toward the main foyer area to see amotion.


    A loud roar rings out from down the corridor, and I see Ester running stark naked from the King’s office.


    My stomach sinks as she rushes toward me, clutching her clothes in her hands just as Damian steps


    out from the stairwell further up. He grabs Ester by the arm and shakes the woman with a sneer on his


    face.


    His eyes run up the length of her, making him growl loudly at her state of undress. He shoves her away


    before both his hands hit the door of the King’s office, then ms shut with a loud bang. I gasp as Ester


    runs out the castle doors. And I turn to find Dustin ring toward the doors she ran through, along with


    half the kitchen staff who had rushed out to see what themotion was.


    “He wouldn’t have, would he? Ivy, she’s-” tears burn my eyes on behalf of Ivy. Surely the King didn’t


    kick his own mate out to be with the likes of her. Dustin growls before storming off, and I turn to find


    rice with a murderous re on her face.


    She presses her lips in a line before her eyes go to mine. They soften a little before she gasps. “Come


    on, you go down there like that, and Ivy will know something is wrong,” she tells me. I look at the pic


    basket in my hands, and nod my head.


    Ivy was hurting enough, and she could read me like a book. It would only hurt her more if I went down


    there crying about what I saw. So reluctantly, I followed rice, knowing she was right.


    Liam is waiting by the kitchen doors when she walks toward them, and rice stops beside him.


    “Find out what happened for me; I swear if the King” she doesn’t finish.


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    “He did, and I will whip him myself,” she growls, striding past him. Liam watches her go before gripping


    my shoulder when I go to pass him.


    “I know the King. He is being a dickhead, but he isn’t unfaithful. It is nearly impossible for one to cheat


    on their mate. At least for us Lycans anyway,” he tells me before walking off toward the guards at the


    end of the hall.


    Stepping into the kitchen, the staff were all murmuring about the king. I listen, trying to calm my racing


    heart.


    “She is always all over him, though I thought he learned after thest time,” Sheri tells Amanda, who


    sighs heavily.


    “Enoughdies, we will find out. You know the King is on edge after the news he receivedst night,”


    rice says, cutting thedies off.


    “What news?” I asked rice, curious, but it was Sheri that answered.


    “Another family was found, more children by the river.” She exins with a grim expression on her


    face.


    “How old were they?” I ask, horrified that more rogues were killed. “A few around our Queen’s age, and


    some young ones, about five or six years old, and an elderly woman,” rice answers before she


    sniffles.


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