Chapter 114 I Bow To No One But My Queen

• KILLIAN
• The black box had been sitting on the coffee table for hours, and I'd been pacing back and forth like a predator circling its cage. I had opened it earlier and found a bunch of white lilies, each one laid carefully atop blood-red velvet. A message of sorts.
• I clenched my jaw, my anger growing by the second. The scent of the flowers was faint, but it made bile rise up in the back of my throat, triggering my couvade symptoms. Annoyed, I tossed it into the metal bin and slammed the lid shut, trying to ignore the way my stomach rolled incessantly.