The Beta's Regret: ONCE REJECTED, NOW MY EX'S QUEEN
I rose slowly to my feet, the movement deliberate, controlled, ensuring that I did not give them the impression that I was reacting impulsively, even though beneath the surface, everything in me had sharpened into focus.
“You are suggesting a transition of power in the middle of instability,” I said.
“We are suggesting a return to stability,” one of them corrected.
“By reinstating a man who created the instability in the first place,” I replied.
“And yet,” he said, “he maintained control over it.”
That word again.
Control.
As if it justified everything.
As if it erased everything.
I took a step forward, closing the distance slightly, my gaze locking onto his.
“You are confusing control with
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