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Chapter 188 — What queen Helen said.

Author: Charity writes
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Queen Helen's POV

I asked Ken to give us a moment alone.

He looked at me when I said it … the specific look he had developed over the last few weeks, the one that said he was deciding whether to trust the situation before he committed to it. It was a good look though. You know, it was indeed the look of someone who had stopped accepting things at face value and had started requiring more than that.

I had helped build that in him, even if the methods had not always been right.

"Mother," he said
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