Chapter One Hundred and Forty
| felt sorry for Axel. His mother truly was a sicko
1 hugged him because it felt like the right thing to do, and after a few moments, his hands wrapped around me.
“I needed this,” he admitted.
“Thank you for lettinginto your life. | feel like | had been selfish for never really asking all this time.”
Axel releasedfrom his embrace. “Let's go to the gardens; this is a place | go to clear my mind and it's
literally the most beautiful place in the pack*.
| had never really been one fascinated by nature; | wasn't the type that adored flowers though it would be nice
to receive them, but I'd rather prefer focusing on the issues at hand, and back in the Windborne pack | had a lot
of that, there was no tto be entranced by
nature.
But it was different this time.
My mouth dropped open when | saw all the flowers of different colours. Though I didn’t know their names, but for
the first time, | appreciated the beauty of nature.
We were not alone.
Beatrix, who | hadn't seen since Thane’s crowning was here. The wind tousled her dark blue hair, as she turned
to us.
“Beta, ‘Queen’, greetings,” she says, and | didn’t miss her emphasis on my title as Queen.
“How are you doing, Commander Beatrix?” | answered when Axel said nothing.
“Very well, | had actually wanted to see you,” she says, walking up to us.
“Now might not be the right time.”
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| looked up to Axel, and he gave a firm nod.
“I would have wanted to speak to you ‘alone’, actually...”
“No,” | said before she could finish her sentence. “Whatever you have to say to me, you can say to him too.”
The ‘I need to speak to you alone’ routine was getting exhausting.
“I don’t know... how the beta would react to this.”
“Well, he is staying here,” | said to her.
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She took a few minutes; she seemed a bit lost in an internal struggle. “Okay, whatever happens...” she paused
before starting all over again. “You know about the attack smonths ago; those offenders I think they had all
been in black cloaks, and they broke into your room when you were alone.”
“Yes, | think | could vividly remember that and also how they had been massacred by Thane,” 1 replied.
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noticed.
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“No,” Axel says.
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she could answer, he continued. ‘|
think you would have gone through
with it, then you saw how dangerous
it could be; you would have been
discovered as the culprit, so you tried
stopping it, but they were already
riled up, and so you cup with yet
another plan, to win the Alpha'’s
favour—or to be noticed, so you
played along, and at the end, you
turned against them when they least
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“I asked you a question; did I get that right?”
“Yes,” she answered silently.