Chapter 39
kept her eyes glued to the window, watching the outside through the tinted glass, the could reel hilian’s gaze on her face more than a few times, but she fright
The air in the car was heary with tension. Nobody said anything. And that was just fine with Lys. There was nothing to say, after all. He had said all he wanted to say, and be was doing an he Bad wit. Shewmoot poing to be pathetic and say anything
She was here as a member of the King’s Guard, not as hu mate. She wished
felt like that, instead, inte
It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life for having landed such a job Ajob that she never would have thought she could get even in her wildest dream she wished she could
else away and bask in the feeling of a new beginning and a promising future Instead, here she was, miserable because of a male who was not worth it
Tyra looked at her wristwatch, calculating how much longer they would be on the road the grouped internally when she noticed in had just been five minutes since the last time she ches he watch, and these was still two he is until they reached their destination.
Time on earth she was going to survive the next two hours, the couch 1-
Shit!” she cursed as the cat tweerved suddenly and then came to a sudden stop. The sudden momentum threw her from her seat and towards Julian’s side. He wrapped his hand around her as she settled in his lap.
Over the intercom, the driver informed them that there was an obstacle on the road and that it would take a few minutes to deat
Lata hurried to scramble oči Julian’s lap, but he rightened his hold around her waist. He dropped his head and nuzzled the side of ber neck, running th-
the tip of his
(of his nose aling her skin.
What do you think you are doing?” she asked sharply. She hated her body’s instant reaction to being so clow to him–heart racing and skin tingling–but she was going to die before she gave him any indication of the effect he haden hen.
“What does it look like I’m doing?” he asked against her skin, his warm breath washing over her sdn. He moved one hand beneath
ith her uniform jacket and polled her thirt, untucking it i
Trop!” she snapped, reaching for his hand and pushing it away.
He let her gou but only to grab her chin seconds later. He named her face towards him. “Hawn’t you missed me?” he asked.
For the first time that day, she really looked at him. Was he crazy? Or, was he suffering from memory loss? “We are on our way to fetch your future queen,” she said, because it seemed that he needed a reminder.
“And” he asked nonchalantly, droking her jaw with his thumb “What’s that got to do with this?
She clenched her teeth. What a paycha. “Let go of me,” she demanded.
His eyes moved from her eyes to her lips, up and down again. Tightening his grip on her chin, he kept her fon pulling back as he pressed his lips to hers. Lyra kept her lips pressed together and pushed his shoulders.
When be realised she wasn’t going to let him in, he pulled back and released her. Lyra shot off his lap and scrambled back to be neat. Shooting him an angry glare, she started fixing bet
Julian sat back in his seat and the one leg over the other lazily. “Aren’t you going to do anything about it?”
“about what?” she snapped, no longer avoiding his gaze–or try to act professionally. She made a shove of wiping her lips with the back of her hand with a disgusted look on her face. Julian’s lips curled in a condescending sm
going to get my future queen 1 thought you’d grab that chance to remind me that I’m your mate
mate, Have you finally given up your delusion
Lyra’s hands curled into fus. She really had been stupid and foolish. To think that she had actually started believing that he cared about her! Now, not only was he humiliating her in this way and completely disregarding her, but he was also mocking her while at it. She wanted to be so angry that she didn’t feel the hurt that was crawling inde her, but the pain won.
The car was still stationary, so she reached for the door and pushed it open. She alighted and shut the door behind her, checking her surroundings. All the other cars in the convey had also stopped and were waiting
Without hesitating, she walked over to the car behind and opened the back door. Zero was inde, alone and using his tablet.
“I’ll join you,” she told him, climbing into the car without waiting for his response
“Sure,” he said, placing his tablet down. “Everything okay?”
“Teab,” she said, putting on her seatbelt. “The king wint to be alone. ”
Their were questions in zero’s eyes, but he did not ask them Instead, he nodded and asked, “How is your new job?”
“Great,” she said half–heartedly she had the urge to vent, but she had been the one to tell Zero to stop being involved in her issues with Julian She couldn’t do that then go ahead and dung her frustrates with Julian on him it was her burden to bear. Alter all, Zero had warned her, hadn’t he?“Hopefully I don’t ruin it.”
Seeing as she was already lening her personal feelings get in the way of her work, maybe it wouldn’t be long before she did that.
-Why would you say that? You’ve got this,” he told her. “Don’t forget that you beat a bunch of spoiled lite beats who have access to the best sous and opportunities”
Like always, Zero could make her feel better. She looked at him with a small smile. “Aue you saying that you are a spoiledelite boat?”
“Depends on the situation,” he told her with a mischievous wink.
Crystal could barely hide her dulike for Lyra when the commuy from the palace finally arrived at the Blacksword Park.
As if it wasn’t enough that a
tatik Chinsega noch as Lyta had affected the Laws in the kingdoris, she was now staying by the king’s side as his personal bodyguard What on earth was the everybody was going to think they wear the same as Alpha borlines.
I had almost hurt physically when her father had put her in charge of establishing the new scholarship under Lyra’s name Crystal wished she had nevet lett the palace. That way, she wuokliuve sude sure that nothing, like this ever happened
It was a good thing that she was going bark, Lana’s disse to shine and glat was over, she just did not know it yet.
Despite the dark feelings in her heart, Crystal smiled at Lyin alle greeting the king “I’ve heard about your achievements at the Academy Congratulations.“
Lyta was not fooled by Bar take smulle, but she returned it with car of her own “Thank you. I learned a lot.”
Crystal nicheind inwardly. The only thing someone like needed to learn was her place, and Crystal klare to that as soon as possible.
That night, Lyra was assigned to stand guard outside the gurst tooni where Julian was staying. The problem was julian was not alon–Crystal joined him. Even after everything that had happened, Lata believed that they would not spend the night together. Julian bow she was right outside the down, I at Wall have to be utterly trust to do that.
Not long after Crystal walked through the door, however, the sound of loud feminine moans reached bei vai „happening behind the door.
Lyra had been betrayed conuless times before, but this one weighed like
the beginning of a larg
sound that left no doubt what was
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nually cared about her. He had made her think that he treasured the connection between them. But now, he was showing her that whatever hopes she had held in her heart were a
they bearing chanhei
in the empty hallway, and Lyra looked up to see Zero approaching she hoped that he would not hear anything, but then again, he was supposed to have far
Per got to her, he stopped and cocked his head towards the “Want to get out of here?
ded to get out of there. “I can’t leave my post,” she told him.
“There’s lots of guards right outside. No one will miss you.”
