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My mate was best friends with The Hybrid Queen! I couldn’t believe it, and it made me a little fearful of her. Not because I was truly afraid of her, but because I found my presence almost an insult to her. How could someone like Everly ever be with someone like me when she was practically royal herself?
I mean, her cousin was the king’s warrior, and she was best friends with the queen! I just couldn’t see how I could ever live up to Everly now. I was no one, and she... SHE... I couldn’t even describe Everly with words anymore. It would simply be a sin to try, but her words haunted me for the rest of the day: You see, my best friend kept quite the secret from her mate…
I didn’t want to dwell on it because I was harboring a secret of my own. I attempted to convince myself that it
