DYLAN’S POV Things were now very tense at the palace because the news of my mother’s crimes had somehow spread. I could hear the omegas gossiping about her even though they stopped and pretended to not be saying anything whenever they saw me. I had also noticed that they no longer respected my mother as much as they used to. It was almost as if they now saw Laila as someone who was going to bring justice not only for what my mother had done to her parents but also for what she had done to them. Nothing hurt me more than this because this was my mother. I hated the way she was being disrespected and I was also struggling internally with coming to terms with what I had read on the letter and heard on the recording. I knew the judgement that was to come for her and I couldn’t prepare mysel

