2.7

“I’m serious, Cedric. It’s time for you to stop blaming yourself. No one else does. My alpha blames your king and the whore, and your king blames himself. No one is blaming you. She wouldn't want you to suffer like this.”

I scoffed, doubting that. “I didn’t have to be the one to try and reveal everything to her. I should have….I should have trusted your alpha more. He should have been there with me. Everything would have been fine then.”

“I doubt it would have been fine,” Meldec muttered.

“Not fine, but she would have blamed me or her father more than him. He wouldn’t have been in his office either for that awful woman to try to ensnare him. Ela would be here with us now, not out there somewhere, heaven knows where, defenseless and all alone.”

Meldec makes a face, furrowing his brows. “You know, I don’t think the Luna is as defenseless as you all assumed she was.”

“What do you mean?” Of course she is. She is so small and kind. She had to have multiple guards with her at all time