Chapter 23
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Yasmyn's POV
I took a deep breath before walking to the palace. I know I have a lot to do but I just want a damn break.
One day I was scrubbing the dishes clean in The Sundown Pack. And the next day I am here running the capital on my own watching my family crumble because of some unknown reason.
By the time I walked to the palace, Brendan was long gone.
"I am sorry," I heard a whisper in the back of my head.
I wanted to pull my wolf out, beat the s**t out of her and then demand The Moon Goddess to give me another wolf. Because I hate mine!!
"Hate is a strong word," she said and I realised that loud thoughts are the way we communicate with each other. Good then.
"And yet, I hate you. How could you just mark the wolf you see clearly not knowing what kind of a person he is?" I asked her and she didn't say a word.
"Mates are supposed to be nice, aren't they?" She asked me back.
I don't know if I should cry because she is innocent or the fact that she is making me feel even more irritated than before. How can she think that all mates are nice because they are mates for a reason?!
"He rejected me, okay? I was doing my best to show him his place until you walked along and marked his wolf. You happy now?" I asked her and I felt a grunt on the other side.
As if she is in a state to grunt at me!
The inside of the palace is eerily quiet. Even Raul and Vernon are not here either. Selena is sleeping because she needs to wake up in the evening and take care of our parents.
The more I think of them, the more there is a pang in my chest. My mother thinks I am her killer. Not recognising me is a thing but to think that I would kill her is making me feel a hole in my chest.
I sat on the couch and asked the kitchen staff to send me a cup of tea with a stick of cinnamon in it. The diner I used to work at used to make the best cinnamon tea.
Now that I think about it, I was probably happier when I was scrubbing the dishes rather than the Royal office where I am signing documents that came from Alphas and Betas across the world.
I am eighteen who recently had her shift. I highly doubt if a girl of that age is even allowed to rule an entire race.
Just when I was thinking of it, Raul walked to the living room and sat beside me. It's really been forever since I spoke to him in person. It's either he is busy all along or I am.
Adi told me that Raul couldn't become the King because of his medical reports. But no one filled me in on what came in his medical reports.
"Is everything okay?" I asked him and he simply nodded his head, with a shoulder shrug.
"It's weird, you know. Watching the family empire fall down brick by brick, having no idea how to stop it" he said and I nodded at him.
That is a very accurate way of saying what we are all going through at the moment. We are all watching it collapse and none of us know how to stop it.
"What happened to you, Raul? Why couldn't you be the King?" I asked him to which he laughed.
The kind of laugh that didn't reach his eyes. And I gave him a sad smile. If he doesn't want to talk about it, then I don't want to either.
"You never told me that Brendan Rivera is your mate. Damn, that's a power move" he winked at me and I scoffed at what he said.
"I would say the same if he was one of the nice ones. But he makes my blood boil and every time I am around him, I just want him gone" I rolled my eyes.
"Liar!" My wolf said in the back of my head.
Yeah. Whatever.
"He was never the nice one. I remember heading to The Sundown Pack once when I was probably eight or nine. Along with our father and Adi. Brendan had the biggest attitude," Raul told me and I smiled at him. He was excited to share a memory that belonged to him.
"He kept challenging us. He kept saying that he is powerful even without the Royal blood. Adi broke his nose that day," Raul said again making me chuckle this time.
"But there was something about his father though. He was scary. And his mother was overly sweet. She fed me peanut butter toast even after I told her that I was allergic to peanuts," Raul told me.
And now that's scary. Because from what I know, that was an attempt to murder. That too, a Royal heir.
"I wanted to be a nice kid and kept quiet. If I had known that you chose that pack to restart your calm life, I would have warned you" Raul shrugged his shoulders.
Well, if someone did give me a heads-up then I wouldn't have sat here and recall the times when I was the last happy.
Someone cleared their throat and my eyes landed at the door. But Raul still had a smile. How come I didn't pick Brendan's scent while Raul could.
Okay wait. Does that mean that he said all of this knowing Brendan was standing there all the while..?
Damn bro!!
"I thought you left with your bag and car," Raul said and finally turned around to face him.
Brendan's eyes were firm as he looked at me and walked towards Raul and I. Raul moved closer in a protective way while Brendan bowed to me before standing straight.
"I am here to serve you, Queen" Brendan said.
Ah huh!
Something is terribly wrong.
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