Queen's Beginning

Queen Annabelle’s POV

A promising young man, that Captain Fawkes, and my son’s childhood friend. I keep my composure until he leaves the library and the doors shut firmly behind him. My husband holds my hand and didn’t say a word of complaint in spite of the painful grip I must have on him.

I haven’t seen my son in nearly four months and the first news I hear of him is that his husband is pregnant. Although certain species of male shifters are able to carry an entire pregnancy to term, it is a feat impossible for human males. Unless sorcery is involved. I close my eyes.

Edward had moved to rub my shoulders—they were tight and hard under the new stress of all the new revelations.

What I want most is to see my baby again and even though I have not voiced my bitterness, I know it is there and I know it is because he left without a goodbye. When Alex had first embarked for the Kingdom of Lupus, I was angry at him.