Reborn To Reject My Regretful Mate For The King Chapter 17
After that day, Gavin never threatened to kill me again.
But I knew he was still testing my loyalty.
He had been betrayed by those he trusted most. He would never put his faith in someone because of a single embrace in the dark.
A month later, Rhys came to me.
“You’ve known who King Gavin is for a long time, haven’t you?”
I didn’t deny it.
After a moment of silence, Rhys told me Gavin’s story.
When Gavin was eight, his mother, the Luna Queen, was poisoned by the private nurse she had trusted completely.
His father remarried, and Gavin grew up in the Royal Castle under the watchful eye of his stepmother. He learned to be wary, to navigate the treacherous currents of the royal family’s power struggles just to survive.
During that time, his one true friend and ally was Magnus Thorne, an Alpha heir who was also undervalued in his own pack.
At fifteen, Gavin was named first heir to the throne.
When he was crowned king, his first act was to support Magnus in seizing control of Southridge Pack.
But once Magnus became Alpha, he began siphoning southern resources, raising private armies beyond the Crown’s authority, and forcing smaller packs to cede their mines and roads.