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{Ciril's POV}The mate bond is such a strong concept and powerful phenomenon.Hearing the Alpha Prince’s voice sounded like the best sound for my ears and it made me happier than usual, happier than I expected myself to be. If I didn’t control myself, I would have leaped up from my knees, raced through the hall, and flung myself into his embrace, adding a dramatic effect to this our love story. But then, I knew two things for certain; There was no love story, 1. And 2, I wasn’t out of the woods yet. The Alpha Prince could just interfere but only the King, his father, had the final power over what was to be done to me.I wasn’t stupid to not know this, and I knew better now than to be relieved thinking that I was saved by the Prince. I could only hope the King’s decision could be influenced by his son. But then a part of me just could not help but feel comfort and relief that the Prince was here— that my mate was here on my behalf. With the Prince’s presence, all the Council elder
{Ciril’s POV}The footstep sounds of the Alpha Prince approaching me filled my ears while the sight of him kept my eyes busy— even in such a tense moment, he was a satisfying sight to behold.But then my brain?My brain was bugged with all the troubling thoughts— filled with dread and weighed down by sadness.The Prince got to me now. And I took in a very deep breath when I noticed his lips tremble as he was about to speak. My heart was racing incredibly fast now but there was nothing incredible about it. It was scary.I was scared.“What is your name?” He asked me now, his voice gentle in contrast to what I knew mine would sound like… because the last thing I felt was gentleness. He had carried out the first dreadful step— asking for my name. One must first know the name of an unwanted mate before rejection as it would be used in the rejection phase— i.e.: “I *name name* rejects you *name name* as my mate.”Alpha Dylan had most likely been told my name by Dolores or Ivanka that day
{Ciril’s POV}I kept being hauled by these Sentries and I kept on weeping as we went. The Prince had told me to act— hence make my hurt believable. So that was what I was going to do.But then I was scared. I was scared of the Alpha Queen. She looked like a very smart woman.What if she figures out the truth?What if she finds out that I’m faking and has me killed?I just have to hope things go well. We took a turn down an elegant and brightly lit hallway and then I knew we were getting close to her Chambers or room or wherever she was positioned. My eyes randomly fell on Edwin now and we made eye contact very briefly before he looked away. But then before he took his gaze away, I noticed something on his guise.Pity… or concern.I couldn’t really tell which I saw on his face but I knew he wasn’t all that comfortable with what was going on.Maybe he isn’t as cruel as I thought.Mighty and heavy gold-plated doors were opened now and I was flung into whatever room we had walked in. I
{Ciril’s POV}I tensed as my eyes fell on her.Ivanka in a royalty-embedded dress was still a vile sight. I trembled back now.She had power over at RawHowl since she was the Luna’s daughter but here she had even more power as she was now the wife of a Top Reignile General and the Alpha Prince’s best friend… while I was still a slave— always the slavegirl.I made eye contact with her and I backed away while she smiled in reaction— smiled evilly. Fear struck my chest and it made me pace faster but then I only succeeded in backing up into one of the statues. I stopped walking now with a hastily beating chest and just then, she began to speak.“How do I look?” She asked me weirdly now but then I stared at her dress for a moment in order to give her her answer.“You.. you look clean and pretty, Ivanka.” I said and she immediately bawled at me.“It’s Mistress to you!” She stoned her words at me and I tensed and then I corrected myself.“Sorry, Mistress.” I said with my head bowed low. “G
{Ciril’s POV}Last night was no common night at all.To me, it was a torturous night.I had just gotten to the Palace but I had already seen enough reason to want to run away. But then I couldn’t run away since I knew the repercussions I would face if I was caught— deadly repercussions. But then last night was still compelling me to scarper away, and now that it was daytime, I could only walk around with dread in the pit of my chest.I had seen gory scenes last night.I have never seen a werewolf so brutally wounded. There had been blood everywhere in the Hencher, and the more we tried to treat the Warriors that bled, the more they bled.So many of them ended up dying and the Caregivers could only save just a few. Hence, by the time I was done with my shift, I had the blood of 100 men on my dress and skin… and I had one question to ask. What sort of creature wounded these warriors in this fashion?Note. I had so many questions— a bunch of them, but this was most paramount among othe
{Ciril’s POV}How can the event of someone’s promotion be seen as bad news?How can you detest the rising up of someone to noble posts?Well, when that person is Ivanka, you think of it as the worst type of news.Ivanka was one of the most vile and cruel souls I’ve ever met and instead of her likes to be pulled down the ranks of supremacy, she was being exalted even more.Instead of her being stripped of her power, she was being fueled with more while I was abandoned on the opposite side of the spectrum.Now she had been made Seneschal and was now in charge of me— in charge of my life. What could be more horrific than this?I tried to stop myself from visibly panicking now that it was announced. I tried to stop myself from trembling as Ivanka’s eyes were on me since I knew that was what she wanted.With Edwin’s conclusion now, Ivanka stepped forward, spreading her arms apart in a dramatic fashion that signified pride and self praise. I and the other Slavegirls just stared at her displ
{Ciril’s POV}“I said, take a seat.” Ivanka glared at me with her harsh volume… and then she smiled weirdly. “Please.” She added with a gentle smile.I slowly started bending to sit, not bothering to check if there was actually something behind me that I could sit on, but then fortunately, my bum met with an object— most likely a clothed stool, and I sat down on it. “Good girl.” Ivanka muttered and she gave me a once over before she positioned her bent self before Alpha Dylan, causing her nipples to point downwards. Just then, Alpha Dylan rose up from his sitting position and hovered his burly figure over Ivanka who was bent, ass turned towards him.They both stared at me now and I tried to pick which vile face I would look at while Alpha Dylan inserted his shaft into Ivanka’s behind. I randomly chose Ivanka’s face but it was a stupid choice.Ivanka licked her lips now and then she sashayed her hips in preparation to receive Alpha Dylan and just then she gasped.Loudly.Her back arc
{Ciril’s POV}I rested my eyes on the Prince and I tensed with the sight— and I tensed even more with the proximity.I was standing skin-to-skin with him…His hands on my waist had stopped me from falling… but then they were still on my waist.He was holding me.— with warm gentle hands that caused the hairs on my skin to gain wild excitement.I stared at him, into the blue mystifying wonder that were his eyes.They were beautiful from afar, but up close…They were something else.—something more beautiful than beauty.. and I don’t even know what that is.I tried to focus on forming words now. “I.. M-My. It w-wasn’t.. I didn’t…”Speaking was suddenly the hardest thing in the world.But then I knew why— It was the effect he had on me. But despite knowing this, I couldn’t tear my gaze off of him.I couldn’t stop looking at the calmness and lure that adorned his face and features. He was effortlessly the most stunning chap I’ve ever seen— and I’ve met a lot of stunning chaps as over the
{Ciril’s POV} Of all the visible things and people in the Reigns, I didn’t expect to see Clord. Heck, I didn’t expect to see anyone that I knew out here. But now I had seen Clord, and I was doing his bidding.We were running like a mad dog.I didn’t understand a single bit what was happening but then I was doing as Clord had said because considering everyone that was about me now, he was the one I knew to an extent. He was before me as we darted furiously out of the FogHoulst Pack and back onto the sandy paths that led to the forests and other locations. But then we headed for the forest. Clord was running so fast that it was hard to keep up with him— he was the madder dog. Meanwhile, I was getting tired now so I turned to see if the few people who had been chasing us had stopped chasing us and returned to being the people I had been admiring in the market area.I made a quick head swivel and what I saw next made me tense, even while running. I almost tripped and fell.The numbe
{Ciril's POV} I was wrapped in a robe from head to toe, with my face scarfed.And then I was experiencing the hunger for three stomachs. I was very tired too but then all these things combined weren’t the most disturbing things to me at the moment. There are some other things. Strange things and stranger things have been happening to me recently. I don’t understand them, that’s why I’ve tagged them as strange.Let’s start with the strange.Strangely, I’ve been getting memory flashes of a scene. Well, maybe not memory, but I’ve been getting these flashes of a particular night— probably the night of the full moon when I had been with the Hencher Mistress.I was getting flashes of my eyes glowing and me looking very furious while killing someone. In these flashes, I don’t see the face of the person being killed by me as my hands are always placed on the person’s head… before I would smash the person’s head. It was unsettling that I was murdering someone— that brutally. But it was mor
{Prince Landon’s POV} I walked up to the man they were pulling towards me and then I realized he wasn’t really struggling. The warriors were just being extra dramatic. Nonetheless, I didn’t mind, or didn’t care. They dragged him and stopped him before me and I gave him a head-to-toe glance before looking at his face. “Leave us.” I told the warriors who were around us and they all bowed and left. But Balif, he’s been acting very prompt and faithful recently so I’ve grown a bit fond of him so that I’ve made him one of my escort guards. Lately, I’m easily piqued and don’t need entourage Guards who would annoy me when I issued them commands, and Balif was forthcoming in that aspect. “Walk with me.” I told the Seer as he straightened his cloth which the guards had roughened and soiled. He had a pure white cloth in his hand but he didn’t use it to clean his body. He only used his other hand. And then he promptly started walking with me after making a gentle bow. “What is your name?” I
{Prince Landon’s POV} I was in my chambers now.Two days had passed and I hadn’t gone out. I was supposed to be out deploying scouting troops to go to distressed packs and help them with the Feral situation— especially now that they are growing in numbers, but I didn’t go. I didn’t feel like doing anything so I had instructed Dylan to take over that duty and similar ones for the time being, because…I was confused. I was disturbed.But I was mostly angry. I was angry at fate for doing this to me. It didn’t make sense to be angry at fate but then I couldn’t help it. I had to blame someone or something as I couldn’t blame myself. I was clean and ready on my part. I had made myself righteous for the moon goddess and she had freaking embarrassed me in front of the people of the Reigns— made a fool out of me. I slammed my fist on the stool next to me now. That was the fourth one I was breaking over the past two days. Thankfully, I had so many more stools in my Chambers. They were
{Prince Landon’s POV} We were in the Private Quarters. By we, I mean my mother, Abasha, Ivanka, Dylan, Anita, Balif, and some other guards. Weirdly, Anne was here too and I wondered what she was doing here since I had gotten used to her weird absence from our lives recently. But then I didn’t really care. Thinking of how strange Anne had become was the last thing on my mind. We were all together, and there was a momentary silence but then the uneasiness on everyone’s faces was screaming. There were also periodical bouts of outbursts.“How? How is this possible? It doesn’t make sense.”That was Abasha’s bout of outburst. “That slave doesn’t deserve it.” “Yes, you’re right. She must have done something to influence the process. She’s too wretched and filthy to be chosen! I mean, she’s a fucking slave!” That was Ivanka responding to Abasha. “This is bad, man. This is really bad” That was Dylan— standing before me and trying to get me into the conversation.I was seated on a woo
{The Hencher Mistress’ POV} “It’s Anne. Can you tell a story— the story of how a mother had to give up her child for the greater good.”“You’re about to die and Ciril who is out there wandering through the forest needs to know about the beginning so make me the new narrator by telling me.” I heard those words and I understood. I had lost so much blood but then I could afford to tell the tale before my life quenched.I started…**[Flashback To 17 Years Ago]I have not always been the Hencher Mistress of the Palace…I once had a daughter and a sick husband. But then my husband died from his sickness. He had been a General in the Royal army, hence why I was a mistress, but then his sickness killed him. My daughter and I were left alone but then life was still good— I loved my daughter and lived for her and my responsibility in her life made the pain of losing my husband go away soon.And so life was good.I was one of the esteemed Mistresses of the Palace and I lived my life to the fu
Chapter 98 ~ {Prince Landon’s POV} I didn’t understand what had happened.One second it was here and the next, it was gone.The hall had flown up into a raucous mood but I remained calm as I tried to make meaning of what I had just witnessed.I didn’t want to believe that the moon goddess had rejected me.That can’t be a possibility.I was prophesied as the vessel. I was told to be the chosen one from my birth so there was no way that the moon goddess could have rejected me.— especially after coming so close to me.She was this close…There had to be an explanation. I turned and faced the elders once again and I watched them as they raced between one another, asking questions and seeking answers.I didn’t want to believe that they were confused too. I didn’t want to believe that they didn’t have an answer.I clenched my fists and then I crept down from the raised platform that had been built for me. I climbed down and then I stopped before the area where the elders were perched, c
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t really understand how I got outside the room but I raced back inside now. I raced back and crashed on the ground before the Hencher Mistress who was surrounded by a pool of her own blood. I held her face— her beautiful face, as she blinked almost unconsciously and I shook her up a bit so that she focused her gaze on me. She smiled. “Ciril.” She called my name gently and shook my head as more tears poured out of my eyes. “Are you okay? Please tell me you’re not dying…” I muttered as I stroked her cheeks and then I looked around to see all the bodies that littered the ground. “Tenn… he stabbed you.” I muttered as I recalled and then I looked at the knife that was still in her belly. It was buried deeper now and seeing that broke me. “Ciril.” She called me but I ignored her as I tried to lift her up. She groaned with my attempt so that I immediately left her and panicked the more.“I can’t let you die.” I shot you to my feet. “I’ll go and get help.” I sugges
{Princess Anne’s POV} The lucent light left the Revel Hall and all its vile bodies behind.I was outside the Hall and I felt its presence before it passed me by.I was blind but I could see it with my senses.The Prophecy from years ago was finally about to come to pass..The light left my axis and then it trailed through the Palace grounds directly over the heads of people around— not interacting with them but claiming their attention as no one could resist not looking at the bright and beautiful glow that was traveling the night sky. This glow was the Moon goddess spirit and although she was just in the form of a light, she was very conscious of her movements and orientation. The moon goddess’s soul traveled through the stretch of the Palace until it got to a secluded room in one part of the Palace.Her vessel was in there..Her gentle soul hovered over that room for a moment and then, at its own timing, it entered and sank into the body of the one who she had Chosen right from th