Chapter 6- Kael steals Luca's mate!

~KAEL~

I woke up to the sound of my phone buzzing nonstop. I grabbed it, already feeling the weight of the notifications before even looking at them. The headlines flooding the screen were worse than I expected:

*Kael claims an unknown mate—who is Aria?*

*Kael steals Luca’s fated mate! Has he gone too far?*

*With Eliara by his side, why would Kael choose this nobody?*

I stared at the screen, feeling the anger rise in my chest.The comments were relentless, picking apart every decision I had made. Aria wasn’t supposed to be in this mess. She was Luca’s fated mate, promised to him. And I had taken her. Stolen her right out from under him. It didn’t help that Eliara, my top concubine, was still in the picture, and everyone was wondering why I didn’t just make her my Luna.

*Eliara’s been loyal for years. Why pick some weak girl?*

The anger was boiling over now. They didn’t know her, didn’t know me. They thought I’d gone mad, like I’d just thrown my entire future away for nothing.

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