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Ten: Little Sister

Author: Birdy
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-05 06:32:48
KAIREL

“This is quite the deep cut, Beta Kairel,” Agnes mentioned as she dressed my wound. That was the fourth time she’d mentioned it in just fifteen minutes.

It was my shoulder that got stabbed, doesn’t she think I know that?

“Why did you come instead of Banes?” I asked, ignoring her remark like I had the first three times. Banes was the healer, while Agnes was the head of maids within the facility.

I was just as surprised to see her show up this morning. “Banes had to run errands for his pregnant wife. He asked me to fill it out for him. Alpha Aegon would be furious if he found out.”

Of course, he would. Yet she found it comfortable to tell this to me despite being his Beta because she knew I wouldn’t say a thing. They all knew this. I bobbed my head slightly as the burn of the antiseptic bit into my skin. “I see.”

She wiped the surface of the injury with cotton wool. It was only a matter of seconds before she asked another question.

“What will be the slave's fate? She was not ki
Birdy

What do you think of Kairel's and Wendi's interaction? they so cuteeeee.

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