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30. Kind and Gentle

Author: Kiki Jones
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HAYLEE

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I was still shaken up when Princess Sophia and I returned to the palace. The young Princess didn’t leave my hand, dragging me along with her as she looked around the living room nervously.

“Phew! I don’t want to run into her.” Princess Sophia whispered, obviously talking about her latest rival.

The little girl told me to tiptoe around the passageway so no one would hear us, and I didn’t utter a word even after she walked past her dad’s office, where he usually spends most of the hours of the day.

“What are we going to do about this?” Liya asked me.

I didn’t have to be told that she was talking about Leo’s case—I mean, Jose’s case. Would I ever get used to not calling him Leo?

“Honestly, I don’t know, Liya.”

Liya asked, “Would you go with him? If he tells you it’s time to go, would you?”

Now that was a question I didn't have an answer to.

“Again, I don’t know, Liya. I can’t even think right now, and even if I want to leave, I don’t think I can with what Alpha King Xale
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