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bConrad /bPOV

I look baround/b, confused as I’m in the prison. But it’s empty. I call out, but no one responds. I take a bstep /bback and bump into something hard. It’s ke. He is hanging from the ceiling and being

drained like a stuck pig.

“You enjoyed killing me. She’ll know you’re a monster soon enough“.

Suddenly, his scream fills the air, and I have to cover my ears.

I close my eyes and only open them when it stops. I’m now in my office.

“You believed I deserved to be hit and terrorised. Will you do the same to her when she deserves it?

I see Cordelia on the office floor with a bruise forming on her face as my hand throbs.

I yell back at the scene before me. “I would never hurt Lewana“.

“You said you would never hurt me either. You lied to me. Will you lie to her?i“/ii. /i

I spin around and see Mary standing in the kitchen looking down. She has clearly been crying.

Liames through the door at the back.

“You failed us. You threatened us. You couldn’t lead us when it mattered. You don’t deserve to be

Alpha King. You don’t deserve her.

Liam storms up to me and punches me in the face.

I sit bolt upright, gasping for breath and holding my face. I’m cold and mmy bfrom /bthe sweat glistening on my skin as I sit up in bed thinking about what happened.

It was just a dream. But was it really? Nothing in my dream was wrong.

Lewana starts to store beside me. Shit. She must have sensed my distress. I ce a gentle calm on

her back and send a calming aura through her. It’s only a few minutes before she is back in a deep

sleep.

I look at the clock on the bedside and it’s 3 am. I’m not getting back to sleep after that.

I leave the bedroom and start to walk around the house. The guards are confused when they see me, but just nod without asking any questions.

I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since the night Lewana was taken. Arthur was right. I relied bon /bit too

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bmuch /bbto /bbcalm /bmy nerves. bI /bgo to the kitchen and make bsome /btea. Not beven /bclose to bthe /bsame calming effect, but it’s better than nothing.

bI /bhead to my office to do some work. It’s been two months since I went over everything bproperly/bb, /bbNow /bI have a timeline to make sure everything is perfectb. /b

In six months, I will be a father. I can’t be like this when they co

I have to protect them when theye. Everything needs to be in order. The house also needs to be in order. We’re bgoing /bbto /bbneed /ba nursery. We’re going to need nannies. We’re going to need newborn stuff, What stuff bdo /bthey even

need?

I pulled from my train of thought with a timid knock at the door.

“Come in“.

Lewana walks in, concerned. “You weren’t in bed this morning, and I was worried“. She looks bat /bbthe /bchaos of papers around my office. “How long have you been up?“.

I don’t even look at the clock when I answer. “Just a few hours. I woke up

wanted to get some stuff done“.

with tons of energy and

She walks over to me and traces her finger over my mate mark. I lean into her touch.

“I can feel your emotions even more now since I marked you. You may not be lying to me, but byou /bare keeping something from me“.

Fuck. I can have her worrying about me in her condition. “My brain is just catching up to the reality that you’re back. I woke up thinking you were missing again“.

I can tell she doesn’t believe me, but she is letting it go for now.

“I’m going to get breakfast. Youing?“,

“I’ve already eaten. You must be starving, though. I can have something brought here for you“.

She looks at me even more suspiciously. “No, I wanted to go to the kitchen with everyone“.

“Well, you have fun and I will catch up with youter“.

She leaves, saddened, and I just drop my head into my hands as she leaves.

One of the maids brings me my breakfastter, as that has been the system since Lewan.. I will let her know eventually, but I will let her settle in first.

taken.

Liames byter to check on me and stands in a military stance at ease when he entersb. /bbHas /bhe always done this, or am I just noticing?

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“Alpha King. Luna Queen has requested a few thingsb. /bShe wants to bgo /bbshopping /bbwith /bMichelle to bget /bsome maternity clothes and bigger jeans. She has also asked to arrange a meeting with councilwomen Valerie and Nightstalker. Something around her n for Anthony and bCorde /b

“Make sure she has double the number of soldiers she needs. Some in uniform and some in in clothes. Assuming she will need a credit card as well“. I smile at him, but he remains stone faceb. /b

He was much more rxed yesterday. Was it because he is morefortable with her than with meb? /b

I pass him the card, and he leaves without saying another word. As he leaves, I reach out bto /bhis bond and realise it has been shut down. No wonder we are no longer in sync.

It must be because of the shadows. That has to be the reason I did all those things and why the bond is shut down. I wonder if there is still some trace of them here. Is that why I am having the nightmares?

I added ‘research shadows‘ to my to–do list today and continued working.

I’m not ready to talk to Mary yet, so I decide to go talk to Kimberly. She has always been the more motherly of the three girls to buy and organise baby stuff. I then go check out the space upstairs for the nursery. I decided to knock down a wall to extend our bedroom into the next room and order contractors.

I have to get everything ready.

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I hope we will get multiple chapters soon. is the dy because you are still writing this book?

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