Chapter 21

After the reception at the banquet hall, Crystal asked Julian to show her around the palace, which he agreed to. As far as anyone was concerned, it was normal for them to spend time together alone after Julian’s announcement. Crystal also thought it was a good opportunity to get to know each other better, but Julian’s intentions were different. His main objective was to obtain information from Crystal concerning the Blacksword pack. He could not directly interrogate her without arousing suspicion, so he had to put up with her chatter. It turned out that she had a whole lot of ideas about what she would do as queen, almost as if she had expected Julian to choose her. While she had made the excuse of getting to know each other to ask him to show her around, she barely asked anything concerning him. He was not really interested in her either–he knew everything he needed to know. To him, all the Alpha females wanting to be his queen were one and the same–they wanted to be the queen, period