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{Ciril’s POV}I immediately shot up to my feet And my heart seemed to make that motion with me as it threatened to break out of my chest with the way it was beating against it now.Abasha was in my room and she had seen me with Prince Landon. She had seen us together. It was a live and an unquestionable sight. I started to tremble.With her smile still on, she casually walked into the room now and I started to panic. She had caught me with her husband and mate-to-be— once he marked her, but she didn’t look angry because she knew it was over for me. I turned my weary gaze to look at Prince Landon. I wanted to know what he taught about what was happening. I wanted to get a glimpse of what was going through his head and I met him scowling.He looked angry… and seemingly, he was directing that infuriated expression to Abasha.— who didn’t seem to care.“So,” She started to say calmly.” Are you two just in love… or are you still mates?” She asked Like did you lie to all of us about bei
{Ciril’s POV}I don’t like kneeling.I’ve been kneeling all my life but I still haven't gotten used to it. Well, I shouldn't, because it’s an uncomfortable process. I knelt down now… or I was thrown to the ground so that I landed on my knees— Any way you want to put it.The Sentries, happily led by Taka, had hauled me through the Palace common grounds— as they have done in the past, and they had brought me to the throne room where the Alpha king and Queen and their Generals were seated. Some of their council members were around too and I was resting on my knees before them now.The air was quiet and tense and they all looked not-happy and this filled me with dread. But then, it didn’t end there as on my right was where the orchestrators sat down. — Abasha and Ivanka.It was a full house— they had all come to witness my misfortune. I saw a cruel smile on Abasha’s face— as expected, and then on Ivanka’s face, I saw a scowl— also as expected. I drove my gaze away from them and bowed
{Ciril’s POV}“But arrest my son first.”I tensed with that statement and I looked at the Alpha Queen in my terror.I didn’t think I would ever hear her say something like that. With her utterance, not Sentries, but Warriors started pouring into the Throne room and surrounding us on every side. I couldn’t count them. They appeared scattered and uncountable. I gazed around in shock and confusion. I still couldn’t believe this was about to happen. In my swiveling and staring, I caught Abasha’s face and caught her smiling. Ivanka, who was beside her, looked tense by the switch of events but Abasha seemed to be fancying this outcome. But just as I realized this, her guise changed and she jumped up to her feet, looking troubled.“Oh. My Queen, please no. Don’t do this!” She pleaded in sudden tears and I stared at her in disbelief. What the fuck?!“Abasha, stay out of this!” The Queen commanded and Abasha halted her pace. “The Prince knew the consequences when he challenged me!”By this
{Ciril’s POV}“Now… Kill her.” I heard those words and I couldn’t believe I heard them correctly. But then the Alpha Queen was glaring at me and it served as a form of evidence that those words had truly been said by her. Prince Landon tensed as she turned to glare at his mother.“What?!” He bawled at her and tried to get up again but the warriors around still held him down, coupled with the silver chain that was wound around his arms and legs. The Queen responded to him rather calmly.“I said, kill her.” She told Prince Landon without a hint of emotion and the grip of the warriors around me tightened before they started pulling me back towards the point where Dylan was standing. “But. You.. you gave me your word!” Prince Landon said with a rising volume. “Y-You said you wouldn’t kill her if I rejected her!.. and I’ve just rejected her!”The Alpha Queen smiled at him and looked over at me. I was being placed before Dylan and held down on my back by the warriors in preparation for my
{Ciril’s POV}He was a feral.I saw his dead body the other day and he was standing and walking. I trembled away in horror.And so did everybody around me— including the warriors and Ivanka who had been one second away from striking me dead.They were all seeing what I was seeing so they reacted the way I was reacting even though everyone around was much stronger than me.No one would see fifteen supposedly dead bodies walking towards them and not tremble. — especially since these fifteen dead bodies were fast and brutish. One of them picked up pace and lunged at the warrior closest to them who was acting all bold and valiant. The Feral ripped his right leg away before pouring out his intestines.Fuck bold and Viliant.With that Feral’s attack, Bedlam broke loose and I tried to scurry up to my feet and make a run for it. People truly trembled now and the Alpha King started yelling in his alarm.“Get more warriors in here! And get me General Matthew. He didn’t burn the dead bodies li
{Ciril’s POV}I walked now like I was being hunted.I slept now like I was being monitored.I ate now like I was destined to be eventually poisoned. I was cautious with everything.In everything I was doing, I did carefully.Why?Because I didn’t feel safe. Prince Landon had agreed on a conflicting deal in order to save my life but then I had to be careful on my end because the truth was that I didn’t trust these people. Ivanka, Abasha, the Alpha Queen— I trusted none of them.So far none of them has done anything harsh or touched me— which is good but also very disturbing.It’s unusual and odd. And it makes me scared at every point of the day. I carried on with my days, working my shifts at the Hencher, serving in the Kitchen, and presenting the Warriors with their food at the Garrison, and it was oddly peaceful that I got no interference. But as disturbing as that was, it wasn’t as disturbing as the fact that I hadn’t seen Prince Landon for some days now. I mean, I had seen him
{Ciril’s POV}I don’t like kneeling but once again, I was on my knees. I don’t like getting into trouble— nobody does, but once again, here I was— in trouble. I was in trouble for a crime I wasn’t sure how I committed it. Once again, I was in the throne room but then this time around, instead of panicking or trembling like I had been doing the last time I was here, I was just staring into space.I was scarred. I really didn’t understand what had happened yesterday evening. It was just too sudden and too odd for me to comprehend. Too gory for me to fathom.Princess Anne was in the Palace clinic being treated but from the report we had gotten and from how the Queen was raging, it was obvious that Princess Anne had lost both her eyes. She was fully blind. I was so confused and anytime I tried to make meaning of that scene from yesterday, I became even more muddled.But then, there was one good take from all of this. Prince Landon was finally talking to me. I’ve been on my knees for mi
{Ciril’s POV}I was allowed to go freely. In fact, I was abandoned in the Throne room— as once Princess Anne came and said that I was innocent before leaving again, everyone went after her. She had been unconscious, but suddenly, she was awake and somehow she found her way to the Throne room and stopped the unnecessary bloodshed just when it was about to begin. And so, the Alpha Queen and the Generals with her raced after Princess Anne. Prince Landon had gone after them also but he had dismissed me first.“Take that side door and find your way to your room. Stay there and I’ll meet you there soon.” He had told me before trailing with the crowd. And just like that, I was free. Moments ago, everyone thought I was guilty but there was no better vindication than the Princess herself saying I was innocent. I got up to my feet now and I sighed heavily before giving the rest of the warriors and Sentries around a nasty look. Minutes ago, they all wanted to rip my heart out and now, they w
{Ciril’s POV} “Hi.”You know, I once quivered anytime I spoke to the Alpha Queen or Ivanka or any other esteemed bitch in this Palace… but now?I’ve never felt so confident. It felt amazing knowing that they dreaded my presence and not the other way around. It was a really incredible feeling. It felt amazing seeing Ivanka, the same vile Cunt that always reigned her devilry and aggressiveness upon me— it felt amazing seeing her tremble before me now.One word, “Hi” and I felt all their pulses rise. I decided to be as slow as possible in order to enjoy the moment to the fullest. I decided to take my time.— go to them one by one.I rested my gaze on Ivanka now, and I smirked. My first specimen. She was scowling at me and breathing heavily in her attempt to hide her uneasiness. She looked stupid. I wished I could tell her that. Oh, wait. I could.“Hi, Ivanka. You look stupid.” I said now and she tensed at me addressing her before she scowled.“You think being the Champion means a
{Ciril’s POV} I spilled blood and I reigned chaos… .. but then I was only just getting started.Weirdly, there were only a couple of warriors left for me to kill— a litter of about fifteen of them after I had just killed dozens. It was weird because I expected the Alpha Queen to send the entire Garrison after me since she knew I was here.Anyhoo…I punched my claws into the throat of one of the warriors just as he tried to attack me, and with the force of my bashing, his head instantly separated from his body and just stayed there on my claws.I used it to smash into the head of another attempting Cunt— skull collided with skull and they both cracked.“AHHH!” I heard the yell of a new warrior who was trying to be brave as he raced toward me with every aggressiveness he could offer. He got to me but just as he swung his blow for my head, I bent down and swept him off his feet with my hand grabbing his leg. I held him up in the air and growled at the rest of them so that they trembl
{Ciril’s POV} “Woah.”“Oh my...”Those, among several others, were the comments from Clord and Feryt. It was a few hours past midday and the once-clear clouds had suddenly gone dark… because of me. I was raging as I focused my eyes on these very walls that had caged me with gloom and torment. I was heaving now and as a result, Clord and the others knew that the sky’s fury was my doing— a reflection of my grief and rage. It was thundering loudly now and the wind all around us was beginning to grow wilder. I reveled in the pending ChaosI was about to resume my trail towards the Palace but then a voice stopped me. “Ciril?” The voice said beside me now and I instantly veered my gaze to the side to see Feryt. She trembled slightly with my gaze.“What do we do now?” She asked me. She spoke loudly since the wind was getting more fierce by the second and crowding the silence as a result. The skies thundered again.“Stay here.” I said now with my scowl evident on my face. “Stay here until
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t say a word.I didn’t say a word to any of them. All I did was walk, trek, trudge— all of them. And this made us go faster.At the pace we were going, I calculated that we might actually get to the Palace in a day— or not. After some hours of my ignorance and my fast traveling, they stopped me.By they, I mean the democratic bunch— Feryt, Clord, and Gordius. Feryt was their leader or representative this time around and she crept before me to prevent me from moving forward.I scowled at her when she suddenly appeared before me. “Ciril, we need to talk.” She told me. I shifted to the side and slipped past her, continuing onwards but then she was stubborn so that she trailed after me and blocked my trail again.“Ciril, stop! Just stop and listen, okay?!” She said with a stern tone and was immediately joined by Gordius on her right and Clord on her left. As usual, Gordius was annoyingly confident with his old face while Clord looked frightened by me but then the
{Ciril’s POV} “What?”“What?”Anika and I said simultaneously.Her ‘What’ was the first one. I looked at her just as she looked at me, and then we both looked at Gordius who had initiated the confusion.“Oh, I’m going to like this.” Clord said as he sat down on the ground beside one of the Bears. It growled at him so he shifted away to a new position before refocusing his gaze upon us and smiling.I glared at him. “Stand up. I told you we’re not stopping yet.” I said to him and then I turned to Gordius.“For the last time, stop messing with me, Gordius.” I told him and then I looked between Feryt and Anika. “Let’s keep moving.” I said and then turned to continue on my way. “I’m not messing with you, Ciril.” I heard Gordius’ voice again. “This girl right here is the one who will train you.” I halted. And then I spun around and started trudging to him with my bashful intent— I clenched my fist tight. I was done hearing his voice so it was time to shut him up… since he didn’t want to
Chapter 145 {Ciril’s POV} Morning came, and with it a new creed.A vengeful one. I got up with my heart evidently beating— it knew today marked the beginning of something significant. Something chaotic.I sat outside on a log of wood in between the guards of both of my Bears. I sat there motionlessly and waited for the rest to wake up. And eventually, they did. After several minutes, they strolled out simultaneously to see me seated motionlessly with my eyes closed. I was now meditating. I hated the concept but then yesterday had made me realize that it was an important concept and that Gordius was right. My emotions were controlling me and I needed to work on making it the other way round. I need to be the one in control. But then at the end of the day, I didn’t really care that I was being ruled by my emotions since I could still kill my enemies in that State. I only cared now because I didn’t want anything to jinx my fighting over at the Palace since Gordius said that meditati
{Ciril’s POV} I touched the twin half-love-shaped metal bracelets on my wrist now Erin just gave me the most shocking but relieving news.The Hencher Mistress was alive. All this time I had just been hoping— praying that she hadn’t died that day, but then over time, realization started to sink in and I started to welcome the fact that I may have lost her.— since I had recalled how fatal-looking the wound on her belly was, plus she had betrayed the Palace by helping me and I had left her in the hands of those wretches. All these conditions put together didn’t seem like a combination that the Hencher Mistress would survive in her condition and so I had spent frequent nights crying about it and hating myself for leaving her can there that day. … but now it turns out that I had concluded wrongly. All this while, I had grieved and beaten myself up in vain for the Hencher Mistress was alive.My mother was alive.Fresh tears glossed up my eyes now and Anika and the others noticed this a
{Ciril’s POV} “Why?”“What do you mean?”Anika had stopped me with her words and I was staring at her now, wondering why she was asking to go back to the same dreadful place she had just escaped from.“I mean that we have to return to the Palace because it will be a dire matter if we don’t.” She said now, confusing me the more. Clord, Gordius, and Feryt shifted back to our axis now, seeing that we were not trailing after them anymore.“What’s going on?” Feryt asked and I turned to look at her from my dazement. “She says we have to return to the Palace.” I said, still in confusion.“Wait. What?” Clord said now, stepping forward. “You’re joking, right?” He asked her with an odd laugh and when she didn’t respond, he turned to me.“She’s… she’s joking, right?”I returned my attention back to Anika now. “What’s your reason? I don’t understand what you’re saying, Anika.” I said to her now. “What dire matter are you referring to?”I spoke rather calmly now, and I did so because I didn’t wan
{Ciril’s POV} “Ciril, is that you?”I heard Anika’s voice and almost couldn’t believe it was her voice. It had been so long since I heard her speak.All of us were shocked by her sudden consciousness as we had really lost all hope. I had already lost hope.— all of us had lost hope except Gordius. He didn’t look shocked, and this was because he had trusted his words to the final minute, unlike the rest of us. The rest of us stopped believing him when hours were slipping past and Anika wasn’t responding. But then again, you can’t blame us for not buying his words. I personally had a beef with him and feel like he just says anything he wants to say. I focused my attention on Anika now as she slowly grew back her consciousness.“It’s me, Anika. I’m.. I’m here.” I told her softly now and she blinked before thoroughly focusing her gaze on me.With our eye contact, the roles switched— as she was the one who looked shocked now. She gazed at my face for a while and I noticed that she was