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The Mating Ritual
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2024-10-26 07:02:27LIONEL
Lucius, I don’t think this marriage was going to work after all.Like, it’s not entirely your fault.Enough playing the game of blame. I made my decision based on what was best for me and you.You cannot choose what’s best for me. Lucius growled within me.We are having nothing to do with a Donovan and that was my final decision—it still is. I am only doing this because we’ve come this far and there was no other way to convince grandpa everything was going to be fine.For now, the best thing to do was to keep playing the priest. We needed to keep him sniffing around until Regina gave in and said something that ended the marriage or, of course, until we got married. It was one of those two options. The last thing that would happen was to have the whole world think I was the one who made the efforts to end the marriage. I needed to save my pack the embarrassment and keep Grandpa in check. If Regina finally broke and did whaRelated chapters
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