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A Royal Conspiracy #17: Benjamin

Author: Katherine Jaynara
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-29 21:29:57

That was better news. The mighty king reduced to a vegetable, trapped in his own useless body. It would be a kind of justice—the man who'd stolen my mate forced to lie helpless while she watched him fade away. Perhaps, in her grief, Emma would finally understand what she'd done to me, how she'd left me hollowed out and powerless.

But it wasn't enough. She was still breathing. Still his, at least in name.

"Your friends on the outside are nervous," Pearson murmured, wiping an imaginary spill from the table beside me. "They're covering their tracks, distancing themselves from anything that might connect them to the explosion."

Cowards. I'd expected more from them—from him, especially, the minister whose family had provided the resources, the connections, the access we needed. The man who'd promised me that when the monarchy fell into chaos, when the precious werewolf queen was eliminated and the king either dead or mad with grief, he would ensure I was released. That my rightful position
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