Seventy One.

Bella

“And the voices you are hearing are the Wolves, Lycans and Hybrids that are ….”

“I don’t want to hear voices!” I mutter, covering my ears with my hands. But no matter how tightly I pushed my hands against my ears, they were still there. I could understand how people went crazy.

He pulls my hands away, “You learn to block them out. That’s what my mum did. That’s what I do.”

“And I’m really the Queen?”

He points to the small crescent on his neck. “You marked the King.” He mutters with a smile.

“But Lilah is still alive?”

“Yes, but it doesn’t work like that. The blood of a King resides in the men of he family, not mum. She became Queen by marking my father.”

“So Halle would never have officially become Queen?”

He shakes his head, “As much as she wanted it, no. Though I was prepared to let her have control.”

“Right. But we talked about this. Being a Queen wasn’t…..”

He cocks an eyebrow at me and I didn’t know how to finish the sentence. I was someone who had a terrible childhood. I