WRITER’S POV • • “It is from Phillip” Anna scaled as she read through the letter, the room has become quiet only the fore place making small cracks as the fire woods split from the flames, “ he wants us to me for me to come to see him “ Anna explained to Kal who was silent, his hands covering his mouth as he was in thought “ I can just –” “No,” he called making her look up in surprise by his answer “ what ?” “ No, Anna, you must heed to what he wants, he would just want to drag you more into this, I don't want you near that murderer “ Kal we have talked about this” “ yes we did, I said I will help you, my love, I will but you do not need to be near him, you do not need to associate with him anymore” “ I need to find out who killed Thomas “ “ you do not need to, good riddance that someone else killed him,” Kal exclaimed with his hands up in the air before it came to his waist “ I just don’t want him near you Anna” “ Kal, you know that’s all I want with him, I can’t get close

ANNA’S POV ~~ I was drifting in and out of sleep occasionally but I knew it was morning already from the sound of the birds chirping from the window, after rustling and contemplating if I should get up from the comfortable bed and the more comfortable arms of my alpha I stood up, The windows were left open and curtains were drawn, I took up my robe before going to the balcony to get my daily dose of the morning breeze and nature, seeing some guards were on duty and some servants attending to some of the overgrown flowers and cutting them, I had gone back inside after that I looked over to see Kal had tousled over to my side making me giggle, and wondering how long it would take to notice my side of the bed isn’t warm anymore, my attention over to the portrait that was near one of the windows stills, it was a picture of the woman who had an uncanny resemblance to kal, I assumed it was his mother from how much they looked alike and he has no sibling that I knew of, I stared at her g

ROSE’S POV~~Everything I do, I do for love, why can’t I be loved, do I not deserve love? How much I’ve yearned for love from the only alpha that ever caught, my eye, my Phillip, I learned from him for years, he was the love of my life, my first, I gave him my body before I had even gotten matedJust when I thought everything was going to work out, I was given the burden of carrying my family name and making them have good social status and standings, even after that I still met him by chance and continued an affair, the only console I had in my mind was that he was not interested in any omegas, so his heart was safe, that was I thoughtUntil he met ivy, everything had turned upside down after that, it drove me mad how careless she was how no matter what she says or how indifferent she acts to him, he still only had eyes for he, and I who has sacrificed everything was just kept to the side while she could have everything, what did she have theta didn’t? what could she give that d

WRITER’S POV~~~It was the queen’s anniversary party and evening had already approached fast, with their bodies spent from wind and gossip, the next item was for them to have a bath at the private hot spring at the late queen’s pavilion, And as expected they were all excited and in high spirits, not everyone, as Beth noticed her sister’s sour mood, as they all moved to the bathhouse, they had all changed to their towel and the eager ones were already in the large pool of summer spring water that was said to clear your skin and heartRose didn’t join she just sat on a pillar she watched the stars, attest she had to get her mind occupied with something, she wanted to leave in reality, but that would cause great dishonor for her husband, it would be taken she had something against the thrones, “sister” Beth’s worried voice called to Rose whose attention and head snapped quickly to where Beth stood, she could see her sister looked far from happy”“What happened sister,” Bath asked

ANNA’S POV~~After the encounter with Andrew, we had retreated to an inn that kept us warm for the night, even when I had bathed thankfully the inn gave hot water, I had washed laying down and waited for my husband, he stayed sitting at the small fireplace his thoughts astray, I knew in his heart he still felt mad that he didn’t know what had happened to me, yes I had told him nothing, not the market nor the fact that I was kissed by that bastard Phillip, I wanted him to be less worried, I was too broken to share my insecurities, he side he loved but how far would that love go before he started seeing the real me, the me that I tried to hide for so long I drifted up, turning the other way, we didn’t sleep close to each other that night, but I felt when the bed dipped and when he laid down, my heart hollow with worry as to what would become of us, ~~The next day we had made another long journey through the kingdom and back to the capital, making it by dawn, the servants were