She gave a weak smile.
"What I see in you." She said. "Is pure. I’ve never seen it anyone else."
Jasmine swallowed hard.
"But you know my father." Jasmine said. "I’m just like him. After all, I am his daughter. Perhaps, Your Majesty, you should stay away from someone who would do you no harm."
The Queen smiled. "Is that a threat?"
"No, your majesty." Jasmine said, her heart already skipping.
The Queen laughed aloud, but then Jasmine realized she was only playing.
"I’m just joking around." The Queen said. "My kids hated it when I would be so mean with jokes. It gave me so much joy to scare them and tell them it was all jokes."
Jasmine gave an uneasy smile.
"I know your father." She said. "I know Bale. Although he wasn’t always this way."
Jasmine was now interested.
"What do you mean he wasn’t always this way." She asked, confused.
"Your father. He wasn’t always bad." The Queen replied. "You know when someone says that someone just becomes evil overnight? Yes, that’s what happened to him. I never thought I would witness it with my two eyes. He was the sweetest young man you would have ever met. Jasmine was shocked.
This was the first time she was ever hearing something about her father in such a way.
She had always only heard the hand stories of him rampaging and murdering packs, taking their women, betraying people.
She had never for once heard that he was kind.
Never at all.
"You’re surprised." The Queen asked after notching her facial expression. "Well, I don’t blame you. I would be surprised too if I were you. We’ve all heard how bad Bale is ."
"I didn’t know my father has a good side." Jasmine expressed.
The Queen shook her head. "Don’t get me wrong, my dear. Your father is evil. One of the
the most evil and brutal men I have ever met. But he was not like that in the beginning. He was gentler, soft. You know, back in the day, parents used to bring their children around. Alphas, future gammas, and even Lycans. Back then, Lycans weren’t so haunted. They would come so that I would acknowledge them as future Alphas. He would come, and they would stay for about a week every year. And your father was among them. He and his brother will-
"My father has a brother?" Jasmine said, interrupting the Queen without even noticing it.
When she realized it, she hurriedly apologized.
"Forgive me, Your Majesty." She said.
"It’s alright. Yes, he had a brother—an elder brother. You see, your father was the obedient one, responsible, and his brother, who was supposed to be Alpha, was already being naughty and playful." She said. Well, in the end, he got into a brawl and was killed."
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