Chapter 39

The walk toward the clearing was silent after that. Neither Claude nor I spoke a word. The council members loved Natalia because she could be easily swayed—because she was materialistic and selfish. I was the opposite. I was a small girl from a small pack in the middle of nowhere, a girl the King had fallen for, and somehow, no one knew how to handle me. I was unpredictable—a flaw in their perfectly laid-out plan.

It made me wonder what they were all planning, and why I had to be in the middle of it all. It was evident that the Seelies didn’t want another war on their hands and that the council was full of greedy shifters who wanted to control everything and would go above and beyond to get what they wanted. And what better way to do this than to have the most powerful being in the world at your side?

Killian wouldn’t harm me. But the way he had been acting recently, I found it more and more