Future Beta Nate
It didn’t take Ayla long before she was fast asleep beside me. I don’t think I’ll be getting any sleep tonight. I hated being in this place and knowing her ex was just down the hallway from us. She wouldn’t choose him in the morning, would she?
“I’ll kill him,” Duke growled in my head.
“And then we'll start a war with the eastern mermaid kingdom,” I snapped. I know my mother said the most important things in life are worth fighting for, but I’m starting to feel like this is a losing battle.
“It only feels like that because she is scared. She loved that i***t, and he left her when she had no one.” Duke whimpered. I looked down at my sleeping mate and my heart broke for her.
She has had such a hard life. And then to find out her mother was alive. I can see why she wo
