-Riley-
I couldn't believe the Queen took the call. Of course, I understood that she might be a part of the council... but why would she answer the call? And she asked me to keep Rome next to me all the time? Why? I stared at my phone with a wince.
My cheeks flamed and I had never felt so embarrassed in my life.
"Your future Mother is-"
"Gem. I know what you are going to say and I am going to have to stop you there," I said as I put my phone down. Now that I had finally taken the first step to cut Hiran off from my life, I felt like a burden had lifted off my shoulder. I rushed out to meet Roman and to tell him about my conversation with his mother -- of course, not all of it, but the important parts-- but he wasn't in the room. Neither was Adrian. I walked to the kitchen to see one
