"He was stressed and didn't want you to leave," Joselin defended, and my lips pressed together in annoyance. "He's not here right now. You don't have to kiss his ass." I said, my attitude getting the best of me, and I saw Damien smile with his eyes closed at my comeback. "Please!" She waived her h
"The usual. I tried to help him, but he insulted my ability to do anything correctly and then told me that I was a disgrace and that he couldn't trust me to take care of things while he was gone today." The room felt silent, and even Joselin had stopped what she was doing. Repeating it didn't bothe
Charlie's P.O.V.Killian sat across from me, his desk between us, as he distractedly tapped his fingers on the hardwood. The surface had been organized and cleared, and I assumed he had caught up on his work over the past week. The two days he took off for the coronation and the trip to take Natali
I rounded my chair, puncturing the back cushion with my claws as I held myself up. "For once in our lives, can you please just try to be my family? You owe me an apology for what you said to me the other day! You should have been apologizing as soon as you said it, but you're too damn stubborn!" "I
Charlie's P.O.V.Killian's words haunted me all night. He had some nerve to try to decide for my mother if she should live or die. I didn't care that he had tried to talk to me about it first. He had no right to make any kind of decision for her when she was still alive. She was still breathing. The
One that couldn't ever fully leave him because of my ties to the crown. He could be as cruel and mean as he wanted because he knew I would still have to come back occasionally to check in or show my face for different functions. I had found some freedom, but I would never truly be free. The door t
"How dare you!" I interrupted him, thrusting my free hand toward the door. He looked from me to our mother, his fingertips brushing her biceps, and I immediately reached over and knocked his hand from her body. "Don't touch her! You have no right!""I told you a decision needed to be made." The hand
Damien's P.O.V.I didn't like how her glow had faded since we arrived here a few weeks ago. I despised that her brother didn't even seem to notice it, and I wanted to knock some sense into him. The idea of asking Killian to spar with me again came to mind, but I knew that wasn't a good idea. Once I