Page 47 of Claimed By the King's Gamma

"At least promise to speak with Damian before you do anything you will regret, Kyson.You're upset, and if you break the little trust you have built with her, you will regret it.You don't want to harm her!"I don't finish.He knows what will happen if he tries to kill her.We all took the same pact—a pact he made us take after losing his sister.

A pact that ensures his queen's safety, no matter the circumstance.If his future mate's life is in danger, we are to choose her over him, every time, no matter what.If it comes to her and him, we take a bullet for her and let him die.We chose to take that pact, and he begged us to take it.That goes for him, too.He tries to kill her, and we will be forced to put him down to save her.He can order us to stand down.Technically, until he marks her, the pact won't be in full swing, not until his mark lies on her neck.Yet we will still honor it, knowing who she is to him.

"I promise I will speak to Damian first," Kyson tells me, and I suck in a breath of relief.

"You go straight to Damian.I want your word.You won't sneak off to your office.You won't look for her.Give me your word, Kyson, that you will go to him."He's furious, but he also knows I'm right.Damian is his calm place.

Those two are more like brothers who have some strange understanding.Kyson is like my brother, but those two are synced oddly.They are an extension of each other, being raised like brothers, enduring the same torment at the hands of Kyson's father.Damian is also the only one who, if I can't talk him down, usually can.

"Fine, just give me the drink."

"I want to hear you say it."

"I will go straight to Damian, okay?"

I sigh before I relent and pass him the bottle.He takes it, and I don't miss the tremble of his hands as he twists off the cap.Usually, that only happens the few times we try to get him sober.It never lasts long before we give up.His tremors are always terrible, and we hate seeing him like that.The king is an alcoholic, and everyone knows it, yet with Ivy, we see hope because it is apparent he tries not to drink himself into a stupor while with her.

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