“You never wanted this power, so that makes you perfect to wield it. You want to serve your people rather than to fuel your own desires. You’re noble.” She smiles, pleased. I continue, “You choose to see the good in people, and you trust easily. I love those things about you, but it has caused you p
KaneI’m having lunch with my mother at the gazebo. She insists that we spend more time together. Now that I’m about to become a father, she wants to make sure I’m ready for the responsibility as if I have not been taking care of an entire kingdom for over a century. I don’t tell her this and just s
“What better statement is there to make than giving my son a shifter name because he is part of that world? He’ll be of both worlds, the first half-shifter to become king of Crimson Peak.”She grimaces. “I see your point, darling. But must we name him Connor?”“What’s wrong with Connor?”“It doesn’t
There’s something I’ve always wanted to ask my mother, but I’ve been too scared in the past to voice it out loud. Things are different now, and I want to know.“Why did you stay with Bernard for all those years?” I ask. “He was unfaithful and cruel. He only cared about himself and his own ambitions
LolaI knock on the door of Willow’s room before entering. She is never in the library anymore, so I have to come visit her. She used to have a bedroom by the library until Rainer decided these rooms would be better. Her new rooms are larger and more comfortable so I guess that’s why Willow never go
I wrinkle my nose. “Ugly?”“When they come out, babies are kind of squished,” she tells me. “Being born is hard work.”That makes sense to me. I know where babies come from. Emory explained it to me last year when the stork story was becoming less and less believable. I’ve never even seen a stork at
“I like you better naked,” he says. “You’re the one that’s distracting.”“Because I’m the size of the moon and hard to miss. I practically have my own gravitational force at this point.”He laughs. “You’re not big. You’re pregnant.”“I’m still big. Does it matter why?”He pushes the fabric of my shi
KaneEmory sits up, her face scrunched up in discomfort. I’m about to ask her if she’s okay before she lets out a pained scream. I lean up, placing a hand on her back to comfort her. She’s breathing quicker, her green eyes wide in realization.“The baby is coming.”I nearly jump out of my skin. Fear