Chapter 119

VALENTINA The moonlight glowed in the night sky, declaring the joy of the kingdom—the joy for the ending of the darkness and the joy of their new queen. But not for me, not anymore. Not after finding the envelope hidden in Andres’s closet. I glanced at it. That seemed to softly glow in the faint moonlight. The scarlet ribbon, meticulously knotted around it, appeared to have been tied with care, deliberately, as if whoever placed it there wanted me to hesitate before opening it. I swallowed hard. My throat was dry, my heart hammering inside my chest like a trapped bird. ‘Why?’ I whispered to myself, ‘Why was it in the closet? When I lost it, I wasn't residing in the Alpha Supreme's room. I still remember that I couldn't find it, and now it was in his closet…’ ‘That only means one thing…’ ‘Andres, he removed it.’ Kira whispered, she was shocked and speechless as well. ‘But why would he do so? And—And that nightmare, how did the other me know about it—in the nightmare?’ Bile of dread rose