Chapter 65Mina’s POVThe court benches were unforgiving.Hard stone. No back support. Too narrow.I shifted again, pressing a hand to my lower stomach as a dull ache spread through my hips. Four months pregnant and already everything hurt.Perfect timing.Delilah sat beside me, her back straight, her expression carefully blank. The kind of calm she wore when she was barely holding herself together. On my other side, Alpha Tristan and Alpha Taylor stood like sentinels, arms crossed, their eyes sharp, and fixed forward.Damon was a few steps behind us.I didn’t look at him.I could feel him, though. The pull. The tension. The unsaid things pressing against my spine.Further up the rows and too close to the throne for my liking, sat Gwen, Lysandra, and Maggie.All of them composed. All of them smug.Maggie’s wheelchair was angled slightly, as if she wanted everyone to remember she was fragile. Weak. To be pitied. Her hands rested neatly in her lap, her face pale, and her lips curved in
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