Chapter 123. Shrouded Allegiances

Astrid

Everything is just so stressful at the moment; it just looks like the whole universe is against me at the moment.

All I just want is some peace, but even that looks like it was too much to be granted. If it's not one issue with Magnus, it's another one with other people.

I've been trying everything I can to not come in contact with Magnus, I don't even know how to face him at the moment. I feel really guilty each time I even see him from afar; it's like I'm cheating on him by feeling the mate pull with the older man.

What's even more stressful is the fact that I have a huge feeling that Meredith is hiding something from me; I know her too much to know when she's hiding something from me.

And the most surprising fact is that she's being all secretive with that man, the strange man that we, or I, only just met on the night of the full moon.

"Hey, Astrid. I was told that you wanted to see me." Just the person I was thinking about; I was lookin