Chapter Four Hundred and Forty Eight

Hati's POV

I wake to the girl sleeping besides me, not having moved or struggled away and despite my past affliction I've cuddled her all night because I need that.

Which is not something I had chosen to do in the past.

I roll to my back looking to the ceiling with a sigh as I think about last night and what the warriors uncovered after all these months of searching.

They’ve found Aspen, and no less found my mate in the hill of my rival.

Theodore Moon… why hadn’t I summed that up myself?

I have no emotional pull to the child itself, at least I do not currently feel one. But I know that Aspen resides I side her and that makes me feel the need to take her.

But the problem has arisen that we bow know where Aspen is being kept, and we also know the dislike that will be poured into her from her unfortunate parents.

She’ll be poisoned, and I cannot have that.

And though I know the probability is slim to none of actually taking, I cannot let go of the thought of doing such things.

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