Natalie
The moment I opened my mouth, I ruined it all.
I should have kept quiet if I knew Malakai wasn't going to forgive my words. I wasn't thinking fast, to be honest.
The first time, I had silenced Malakai and his Beta. But I wasn’t foolish enough to think this was the end.
It took everything in me to avoid my father's sore gaze. Oh, look at him glare into my soul.
He wasn't angry. Not at me, that's for certain. But his expression had turned sour... he said nothing.
That was how disappointed he was in me.
“I believe this conversation is over,” Malakai said with a note of finality. “Conrad, let’s go.”
But I was the one who invited them here... it was me.
Why—why was this happening to me?!
The Beta nodded. He had an unreadable expression on his face. I could never tell wh
