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ROGUE LEADER POV

"So you see, my queen, if your little king had stayed away from my daughter, he wouldn't have killed her and she would still be alive today."

"I was going to make her my queen!" Dominic says quietly

"WHAT??"

"I was going to make her my queen," he repeated a little louder.

"We had already agreed, and we were going to announce it over dinner that night. We wanted everyone to know our intentions before we gave ourselves to each other. Maximus, I loved your daughter with everything in me. It wasn't the death of my mother or father that caused my heart to freeze and me to become the cruel and ruthless king... It was the loss of her. She was the one that kept me centred, kept me honest even when pulling pranks with Seb and Nix. She was the one that made living for so long worth every second of it. But the prince of that time died that day with her and the king everyone came to know and fear was born."

I can't stop the couple of tears that slide down my cheeks after hea