[ALEXEI]
"No, don't be. If anything, I would be the one apologizing. I got you tangled in this shit the moment you knew I was your mate. Maybe a rejection would have made your life easier," Carl sighed defeatedly.
They had gone through so much and each time he looked at his mate, he wondered whether this was the kind of happy story he should have given him. His mate deserved to be happy and yet through and through, Darius had gin through incomprehensible shit.
It was something that gave Carl sleepless nights. He had promised his mate that they would be fine, that life would be better but it seemed like they were just getting into more complicated situations. He hated this for his mate and wished there was a way around it.
Being the beta king gave him so much power and yet at the same time, it denied him the chance to protect the man he loved with all of him. The universe was cruel and they couldn't deny that. It wasn't fair, not to any of them.
