#Chapter 83: Lied

Logan She lied to me. That’s all I could think. All I could comprehend in that moment. She had lied. But now, wait, that wasn’t completely true. She didn’t lie. She’d hidden it. Conveniently, she had excluded the information until it was more favorable. She had tucked it away behind those wide, earnest eyes and soft smiles, locked it up so tightly that not even a hint escaped. The missing princess. The one the whole damn kingdom had mourned and questioned where she had gone. I had thought she was lost to the wind, never to be seen again. And this whole time, I had been married to her. And she let me believe she was just a healer. A nobody from nowhere. My mother had once openly accused her of being a rogue. I stood in the center of the Summit room, every bone in my body stiff with disbelief as the words still echoed in my ears. “My daughter.” The Alpha King’s voice still reverberated off the marble, but the rest of the world had gone muffled. Evelyn. My wife. The wo