Chapter 225 72: A Painful Existence

• Lily’s eyes opened several hours later, and she was on the floor in the inner chambers, where Elliott had left her after choking her until she went unconscious hours ago. She helped herself up to sit down and pulled her legs together, laying her head on them. She didn’t want to think about anything, but she blamed herself for ending up in this situation.
• When he returned over a moon ago to take her from the east to the capital, she asked him why they were moving, and he told her because he was the new king of the kingdom. He told her his cousins had died at sea, and the alpha father had also succumbed to death on hearing the news about the fate of his sons. That the throne now belonged to the only living Ainsworth, and that was him. After they arrived at the palace, he revealed to her that he was also the son of the Alpha of Alphas and not his brother, like she and everyone else always thought. She couldn’t read him as well as she used to in the last few years after they became mates. His mind was completely barricaded, and she didn’t know what he hid.
• She wanted to read his mind; it made her suspicious of everything, but she kept it all to herself.