tired of being set aside

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate

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Chapter 36: tired of being set aside

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“What is happening?” Regina asks, hushed and anxious, as soon as they come to a stop in the grand foyer.

Regina hates, in this moment, the sudden realization that she had not grown nearly as skilled as she’d believed in deciphering the lord’s expressions.

Whatever hints of emotion she’d been able to discern from his features must simply have been the ones that King Mattel had permitted her to see, for now - when Regina wants desperately to glean something, anything, from his expression - King Mattel’s face is a perfectly blank veneer.

It makes something cold curl in her stomach, like a sudden chill.

“Nothing for you to worry about,” is the quiet reply.

*flashback*

“Mother- mother, where are you and brother headed?”

“Mother, why can’t I be allowed outside like brother, too?”

“Mother, when-”

“It is nothing for you to concern yourself over, Regina. It’s not of importance to you.”

She stumbles a quick step backwards, f