The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 150
Fiona
I woke in the morning with a jolt of panic, thinking I’d overslept my alarm.
But after checking the time on my phone, the realization dawned: there was no alarm. Because I didn’t have to go to work today. Or tomorrow. Or for a while.
nto my wrist.
his chest. “Remember?”
mumbled. I heard the sle
brace – and took stock of how I was feeling.
my fiancé worked; then we had dinner together in the evening, and after that he shared with me, as promised, the story of his investigation into his mother’s untimely demise. It was ver
comfortable and peaceful. So I stayed where I was and let myself drift back off to sleep, too.
ng him it was time to get up for training.
then it was my turn to make hi
stuff I was buying.
on to the early childhood education titles later.
found me still lying in bed scrolling on my tablet.
e rabbit hole of educating myself about motherhood, I found I had a new obsession.
ddlers really could increase a child’s IQ, then I was going to do my best to make that happen.
r around noon. I figured it was Alexander checking in on me and didn’t hurry to the phone. A few minutes later I regretted that, because it had actually been Nina, and the second that I read her text I was suddenly all haste.
meet up? We’re due for a hangout. Someplace we can talk.
t I hadn’t even told my best friend yet about the fact that I’d started my maternity leave. So I fill
said she’d be right over.
a and then got dressed in a hurry.
at the palace very qui
er very bad or very urgent.
gh, was light when I opened the passenger door of her always shiny Mercedes Benz. (She really cherished that car and treated i
, removing her designer sunglasses a
!”
putting the car in gear and starting toward to the palace exit. “You l
love. What is even happening, though? Am I
red highlights in it, but in the right light, it does look holographic, huh?”
ll mostly white, but it also appeared to b
ina?”
s. “But I make it look easy, huh?”
s in our regular booth. I had to push the table in her direction a little in order to be comfortable, though, making me
“I missed coming here with you.”
ee the ring again.”
ugh, and let her study the precious gems.
g. Fi, this is beautiful as f**k.”
nd of can’t believe the whole thing actually happened…”
, Fiona, that I am always right?”
etly, “So—about that thing.”
“What’d
me back from that trip or whatever. He’s still M.I.A.”
sank, like a brick had fall
d me right away: something
ou sure?”
or anything.”
how I just knew that Nina wasn’t wrong. That my father was still missing. That my mother was alone in our family home right now, likely worried
more I found out about the pac
hesitant. I egged her on, pleading for her to spil
es and finds someone else has assumed his place. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it sounds like a lot of fighting and tension.”
elf whisper, “Shit.”
it was all in disarray. Grandfather’s life’s work, all his efforts—they’d been smashed to pieces.
her seat. “I wish it’d been better news.”
f my life was already over, anyway.”
rowned deeply. But then, gratefully, changed the subject.
r her well-tuned ability to distract me when she knew that was what I neede
nd… it’ll be ju
“Yes.”
mischievously. “Great. That’ll be fun.”
ance.
She shrugged. “He’s around
r reprovingly. “Please tell me you’ll behave this weekend. Okay?”
ly. “Whatever do you mean, behave?”
“Never mind,” I said, doing all I could not to laugh. “I forgot you don’t even