CHAPTER 168

  He scrunched his face up before he relaxed his posture and his eyes softened. “For many years I have lived with hate, it was all I was taught. I was taught to hate the royal family, I was groomed to exact my revenge. So I helped Silas, a rogue king, my father, capture the Dire Wolf. Not only did it hurt your prince immensely but it gave me great satisfaction that I could hurt him the same way I had been hurt my whole life. Growing up without my mother, I felt like I had been cheated.

  “After Riocht and seeing that there were worse things than my Rogue king father, like Orion, I couldn’t say I wanted that life anymore. However, Jack was a means to escape the current situation. Then Jack, who I swear is born with a four-leaf clover up his ass, by chance, runs into King Kellen, in a bathroom of all places, and decides your father will give him a pretty penny for him. Trafficking him, was not part of my plan. At one point, yes I wanted to kill him, now I just want out.”