Chapter 860\u00a0<\/p>\n
Judy\u2019s POV\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daisy Baldwin stood at the front gates, as if she belonged there. She tucked her short blond curls behind her ear and tried to keep her head held high, as she always did. However, I could see the tension in her shoulders and the way she kept looking around, as if she were afraid she would be found at any moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDaisy is here?\u201d Irene asked, her hands dusty with cheese. I noticed my friends were all staring at me, their eyes wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is,\u201d Adam confirmed, nodding his head at the tablet that clearly showed Daisy waiting at the front\u00a0<\/p>\n
entrance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to tell my father,\u201d Irene said as she reached for her phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWait,\u201d I blurted before she could pull up Gavin\u2019s number. I turned to look at her, holding out my hand to stop her from calling him. I felt the sizzling crackle spark my fingertips, and I quickly pulled my hands back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Magic surged through me, simmering and angry, and it made me feel uneasy. I needed to learn to control this magic before it controlled me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Irene must have noticed the magic because her face went pale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I cleared my throat and stepped away from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me just see what she wants,\u201d I said, turning back to Adam. \u201cI\u2019ll walk out and see her.:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not a good idea,\u201d Irene said, shaking her head. \u201cMy father would be furious if he found out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, Gavin\u2019s not here, or I\u2019d have him go talk to her,\u201d I said, raising my brows at her. \u201cIf she\u2019s here to talk, then we will talk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll go with you,\u201d Erik said as he stood from the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I nodded, and together we headed towards the front door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you sure this is a good idea?\u201d Irene called after us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, maybe Irene\u2019s right. Daisy is bad news,\u201d Nan agreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m going to be the Silver Crescent Pack Luna, then I can\u2019t cower away from a fight if one is presented to me,\u201d I said from over my shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t fight!\u201d Irene yelled. \u201cYou\u2019re pregnant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll make sure she doesn\u2019t fight,\u201d Erik assured her as he followed me out of the front doors. The front courtyard was bright with late afternoon sun. Guards stood at their posts, hands near their weapons, eyes trained on the iron gate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And there she was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daisy Baldwin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 860\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n
The closer I got to her, the more I realized that she no longer looked like the confident puppet she\u2019d been when she was playing everyone and stealing the stone from the Landry\u2019s. She looked wrung out. Hollow around the cheeks. Her lips were pale. Her eyes had shadows like she hadn\u2019t slept in days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she saw me, she straightened like a wire being pulled tight. She wrapped her arms around herself like she was trying to hold herself together, and then I saw her lip\u2026 it was swollen and cut in the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My eyes narrowed at her as I stepped closer to the gate. Just before I reached the latch, Erik grabbed my arm gently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go out there if I were you,\u201d he said, his eyes never leaving Daisy. \u201cThe Alpha wouldn\u2019t want you to go near her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I knew he was right, and I should compromise. Gavin was going to be upset once he found out that I was even entertaining Daisy at this point, but I had to be honest, I was curious about what she wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I folded my arms across my chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, I\u2019m here,\u201d I told her. \u201cWhat do you want, Daisy?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daisy\u2019s eyes flickered to Erik briefly before they fell on me again. She sucked her bottom lip in her mouth, and I wasn\u2019t sure if I was mistaken or not\u2026 but she looked almost nervous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI need your help,\u201d she finally said, her voice sounding strained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWith what?\u201d I asked, annoyance clear in my tone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know you owe me nothing-\u201c\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad you know that,\u201d I said, cutting her off and raising my brows. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be here, Daisy. After what you did\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI stole from a family who took something from another family,\u201d she clipped, pressing her lips together and creating a firm line. \u201cI did what I had to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you have to do it?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of my mate,\u201d she blurted. \u201cHe made me\u2026 he told he\u2019d end this pain that he put me through if I did what he said. He knew my sister had once been married to Gavin Landry, and he wanted me to use that to my advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My ears rang at her admission, and I stared at her with my mouth gaping open.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry\u2026 your what?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
If she had a mate this entire time, then why was she after Gavin?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her cheeks flushed as if she could hear the question without me speaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mate,\u201d she said, shifting her gaze to the ground. \u201cHe\u2019s not my fated mate. But he did mark me years ago and had been keeping me around without much love.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I blinked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 360\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a chosen mate?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She nodded, her eyes briefly meeting mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI do\u2026\u201d she said almost hesitantly. \u201cIt\u2019s a long story\u2026 but it wasn\u2019t really my choice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My heart stopped in my chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were forced to mate with someone?\u201d I asked, my brows pinching together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She nodded her head once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was told that my only hope of breaking this bond is the host of magic,\u201d she continued, meeting my eyes. \u201cFor a long time, I thought that was Lila, so she agreed to help me if I helped her figure out how to unlock her magic. By then, she already had the Moon Gem back\u2026she couldn\u2019t figure out how to get the magic from the Gem and put it inside of herself where she thought it belonged. I was the first and only one she\u2019s told that she wasn\u2019t able to get the magic out of the gem. For everyone else, she lied and told them she was too tired to practice magic, but she could feel it inside of her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We Built a Kingdom From Ashes That Still Remembered Love by Aila Frost 860 Chapter 860\u00a0 Judy\u2019s POV\u00a0 Daisy Baldwin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shadow-slave-by-author-novelnozi-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}