Lahat ng Kabanata ng Claiming His Queen : Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

LILY. My phone buzzed for the thousandth time in four hours, and looking down at the screen, a small, annoyed smile curved my lips. "Adler?" Tamara nudged me gently with her shoulder, and all thanks to the blue and red lights in the club, I could see the sly smirk on her face. "Girl, that man wants to be all up in your business." She should know. Because the last time I picked up Adler's call, he had informed me how he was done with the meeting with Luigi and was off to shore. Telling me I could take my time, so why couldn't he leave my phone alone?'Oh, Adler' I dropped the phone screen to the table and laughed, "I'm sure he just wants to ask if I need a ride back to the manor.""Or ask if you're drinking, or ask if your feet hurt, or ask if we're stressing you," Tamara counted with her fingers, then taking her glass of punch from the table, pouted, "I wish I had someone who'd bug me like that."Antonio appeared behind her, wrapping his arms around her neck and kissin

LILY My consciousness began to stir, and my lids reluctantly fluttered open, catching the fluorescent glow close to the dressing mirror in front of my bed. Seeing Adler seated silently in the dark, facing the mirror and cleaning a gun with a small torch, the scale left my eyes, and I sat up, letting the covers drop to my waist. Since the confetti bomb attack three days ago, he had been a shadow of himself, gazing into space when he was with me, and when we embraced, he did it like it was going to be the last time he would see me. Also, he refused to tell what exactly had occurred that night. When he did, it was to loosely explain that he had overreacted. Which I knew he hadn't. Kyra refused to tell me a thing, and Adler made sure Rune was nowhere close to me to spill the truth. But I noticed that the soldiers that roamed the Manor's compound had doubled, and when Adler wasn't around for the night, a couple of them stood by my door, refusing to say a thing even when my eyes d

"Good evening, ma'am," Laron murmured in pain and winced. He clutched at his arm and shut his eyes.Rune immediately crouched before him, holding his shoulder and then letting the boy's face fall against his chest. The boy's breath was heavy and cracked. When Rune touched hiss chest, he yelped.Rune looked at Kyra, "He got beaten up." he was sure she could see that from his torn and dirty clothes, but she wouldn't know there were a few bones broken. Did they still beat up children this badly?"We need to take him to the hospital," Kyra said.But Laron shook his head with effort, "No, not hospitals. He'll find me and kill me.""Who are we talking about?""..... He says a wig was found in the pub and traced it to you people. " Laron opened his eyes, "I broke my arm as I tried to get away from him. Hurts like a bitch... ""Hey, watch your tongue now." Rune narrowed his eyes at him, but the boy only gave another lazy grin and snuggled further into his chest."We just have to find him a h

LILY"Laron, stop asking questions about guns and stop bothering that man," I yelled, but he touched the goon's gun's butt, and they both gave me a smile.From what I could hear of the little excerpts, the boy was asking how much it cost, "Life done teach him a lot," Nonna whispered, watching as he looked up at the goon once more. "That boy will be the death of you."We were strolling through the manor compound, courtesy of Nonna, who had decided that staying alone in the manor would be bad for the baby's pregnancy.Laron had initially followed us, but after some time, he became bored and limped away. If that was Adler's reason for wanting the pregnancy to be a girl, I think I was on board. Hopefully, she didn't have a bite of Kyra, which would be ten times worse.And was not I relieved Kyra did not read minds?"How is Adler?" Nonna asked."He does sound fine." She looked at me, puzzled, and I explained, "I have not seen him in a few days, Nonna." I hoped my smile was genuine enough.

"Did he just say 'Good day to you, Lily'?" Rune inquired, sitting across from me in a chair while I lounged on the bed. "Surely, there's more to his call than that."Well, it wasn't all...***"... how did you get my number—what the hell do you want?""Easy, easy now. One question at a time. Concerning how I got your number: you should put a leash on your cousin. His obsession is getting crazy." he laughed, sending a cold chill down my spine, "Now to the question: what do I want? I don't even know."I'm standing in an open space, a hundred steps away from Nonna, talking to a man who was once on the verge of killing me."Oh, oh, I remember," he grunted, "Gradually losing hold of my sanity. Now that I think of it, did I ever have it?"And rapidly, I found anger replacing my terror: anger at everything he had put me through in the guise of playing a game, anger at the life he ruined."What do you want, you son of a bitch?"The other end of the call went silent for a few seconds, and when