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2024-10-29 19:42:56Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Silas has his face set in a grimace.
This was the very first time that he was called to the palace kitchen. The staff had requested he check the meals they had prepared. He already brought his very own poison taster, who was currently sat next to him. The food checks were supposed to be run by his father, Alpha Irvine. However, he was unavailable. Silas had been told that his father had something to do at the Boreas. Something about checking in on a certain general’s son.
Which was ridiculous for Silas. Why would he leave his own son for some other general’s?
“Just who is my father visiting?” Silas asked the staff, his eyebrows already furrowing. Not the mention the snarl t
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