Chapter Ninety-nine

**GWEN**

Have you imagined when two elephants are in the same room? The feeling of those beside them especially if they look like they are going to fight? That was how I felt as my mate walked into the room. And the annoying part of it was his composure.

He was grinning. Nonchalantly.

"There is nothing funny about the situation, Ashton." His mother was at him.

"Life is simple, Mother. We make things complex for ourselves." He came to sit beside me and took one of my hands. It was a mindless action, from what I could deduce.

"We have a ceremony coming up!" His mother snapped.

"And everything is going to be fine, Mother. We have a team in charge of planning those kind of things. We don't need to meddle."

"Is that what you think, Gwen?" As she asked me, I could see her eyes flick to our entwined fingers before lifting to my face.

I shook my head. "I am not of that school of thought, Mother."

"Then, you see that the Queen needs to be available all the time to make this work. I had to pre