"But I will call her myself tonight, okay? You can't go saying anything to her or her mother. Is that clear?" I instructed. My mother nodded in agreement, before I rose from my seat. "I have to leave now," I stated."I've got a meeting in thirty minutes." "Really? With whom?" Ivan asked, twirling
*AN HOUR EARLIER* SOPHIA I stepped into the guestroom, weary from a long day at the hospital. My legs were killing me, and I could not wait to soak them in warm water while listening to everything my sons had to say about their day. I also needed to meet Asher about leaving. After Adelin's threat
Alpha Asher Morris. ~"Madam! Stop right there!" I didn't listen. I pushed past the guards and ran straight to the door of his room. Luckily, I still remembered the door even after eight years. The guards tried to hold me back, but I clenched my fists and banged it as hard as I could. I prayed, w
ASHER The weight of the night's events lingered in my bones as I awoke to a new day. The emptiness of the Palace felt suffocating, each room echoing with the absence of the children I had come to love so much. She cried all through the night with her face buried in my chest. I wouldn't be lying if
The questions stopped for a while, and Gaston's phone chimed. I frowned when he unlocked it, stared into the screen, and dropped his jaw like he had just seen something very unbelievable. "Your Majesty," He called out. I narrowed my eyes on him. "I think you might want to see this." When the det
SOPHIA I couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't stop crying. Every single minute I found myself asking what was happening to my boys. Where were they? Were they in trouble - of course they were! Had they had anything to
"What the hell is this about, Asher? Aren't you supposed to be busy finding my boys?" "Why should I? Huh? It's not like they are my sons…" He paused, and I knew it was to watch my reaction. I couldn't hide the anger that was brewing in the pit of my stomach. It expressed itself in everything, incl
ASHER How could she? That was the only question that ran through my mind as I fixed my gaze on her, wishing she would say something and not stay silent like she had fallen into a fucking trance. Soon, she looked up at me and shook her head. In her eyes, I could see defiance, stubbornness, the unw