“I suppose,” I say. “But I still feel bad about making her wait.” “I guess she’s made a couple of new friends,” says Mark. “I’m excited to meet them,” I say. “And I’m so sorry about the mess I made for the maids. You’ve told them I’ve apologized, right?” Mark chuckles. “Don’t worry, baby,” he say

I nod. “I can’t believe it either. I don’t think it’s possible to thank the Moon Goddess enough for how things turned out.” “I hear that,” he says. It doesn’t take long to get to the council room, where Reece and Eli are already waiting for us. They look a little impatient, and I don’t blame them.

Especially when it’s someone like Gene they are trying to track down. He is the most incompetent person I’ve ever met in my life. It’s hard to believe that he was ever chosen to be king. Why, it was his own incompetence that led him here in the first place. Where he ever got this hair-brained notion

“Smithy,” he says.“Okay, Smithy, did you steal food from this man’s storage unit?” Mark asks.Smithy looks at the farmer, and there’s guilt all over his face. Finally, he admits he did it and apologizes, and Mark works out something with Farmer Mark so this guy could do some work for him and earn r

“No.” Alpha Alice crosses her hands across her chest. “I’m staying out of this. If these Alphas want to take you, so be it. I know how the contest was supposed to go, and if one of them had a male baby, then that will be the next Alpha King. I’m not getting on their bad side.”“Appalling!” I shout.