Chapter 99. Fredrick's hand shook as he tipped the bottle of whiskey. Asher passed him and took a large gulp. “Why didn’t you say anything, Mother?” Bjorn asked Margi as she sat on the floor, her head in her hands, silently crying. “Because it was based on gossip from an omega in your laundry room,” she whispered. “Why were you in our laundry room?” Agatha asked, aghast that the queen had been in the place that was reserved for those who served them. “Your son had croup. I have told you multiple times he needed to be in a room full of steam. But, as always, you thought you knew better, and were f*****g ignoring me, stating that it was an old wife’s tale, and you did not want him in such a dirty place. I took my grandson when he was hardly able to breathe, and went down to the laun

