Chapter 217: You want to play dirty… I’ll play dirtier
Selene POV
Today was the day of the trial and something felt... not right!
Noah has been busy the entire week, holding meetings discreetly, Reid would seek his audience at odd times during the night and what was worse, they weren’t talking... they were using their mind link making it impossible for me to eavesdrop on them. Something was going on with those men and I didn’t know what it was or what it could be.
Noah’s health was not at its best. Although he kept crooning to me that he was fine, he had a deathly pale and was constantly wincing with pain which he would hide whenever I was around and it’s been a few days, with no words from Kragen. The last time we spoke, he had promised that he would find a way to keep Noah healthy.
I had a lot of questions for him... and most of them were regarding his mother. We’ve talked about almost everything but why has he never spoken about her? Did they not have a good relationship? The mother mentioned that she had failed him and this was the only way she could do her job as a mother to keep him. Also, who was she? What position did she occupy in the ethereal heaven that was so demanding that she couldn’t take care of her son?
"I don’t have the stomach to wear the ceremonial robes!" Noah sighed "I wish I could find an alternative but my father will flip,".
"Or it could be a new thing that a lot of people would copy and it’ll become a long-lasting trend in the pack. Faustina and Brenna told me that since you joined me to cook in the kitchen, a lot of families and husbands especially are buying the idea. They’re saying if the King can set such an example, how much more of them? It’s safe to say that you’re a good influence,".
"As if!" Noah scoffed, hiding a smile "I just wanted to spend time with my woman. I didn’t mean to start a trend and I thought the people didn’t like me,".
"They love you, Noah!" he had his back turned to me, so I went to stand before him. "The love didn’t start because of what you did for the people in the lower town. Long before that, they’ve always noticed how you tend to put them first. The only reason why a lot of things didn’t go the way you wanted was because you had a lot of unsupervised, greedy, pot-bellied officials and elders who were siphoning funds meant for the people’s project but that will end soon,".