Leora
"I'm not making this up, Coda. If only you were there to see his face. He looked...troubled, and deeply resentful. Resentful towards me." My throat was dry as I struggled to get the words out. "Everything was fine before he left the suite. It's like we were in a happy bubble until it burst last night, and now, he hates me."
Coda slid over on the couch and pulled me into a hug. "I'm sure he doesn't hate you. There's a lot going on in the kingdom, and he is probably just overwhelmed. Gunner can't even tell me everything because he said there are things that need to remain between him and Bryan."
Bryan seldom spoke of the burdens that came with ruling. Keeping things from me would be an unspoken weight that I needed to learn to carry. My journey from a lowly omega to queen had been a
