Chapter 40: I need you to make my daughter fall in love with you

"I am tired" she said in a voice choked with tears, "I am so tired. I want you back."

Her free hand came over her face and she wept, shoulders shaking terribly, her heart in a shattered mess. Her hand holding his grasped tightly, feeling, remembering the many times he had held her hands, and she wept even more.

"I want you back" she cried amidst the tears, "Please, King , please... Come back to me."

He heard... And so did the shadows that lurked in the darkness.

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Joan watched Koty come up to them. He looked more handsome each time she saw him. He was working out, she noticed as she examined his dressing; his armless v-neck white shirt that clung tight to his skin accentuated the growing muscles under and the muscles on his exposed arms flexed with each movement he made; he had on grey shorts and a bandana was tied around his black hair and his look was perfected with the cute smile he wore. He strode to them, hands in pocket.

"Girls." He greeted when he came up to them.

The girls bei