(Ruth's POV)A kiss coming from Alpha Ripley at the most unexpected moment is shocking for me. At first, I couldn't move or push him away even if I wanted to. Then, it became hard for me to control myself as he kept pushing his lips into mine. His fragrance was too good. His lips felt so soft and sweet; they tasted like honey. I closed my eyes, letting myself go and immersing myself in his embrace. I was enjoying it, letting him kiss my lips and giving him access to my tongue. My hands slowly went up his sturdy body.“What on earth do you think you're doing? You need to stop! He doesn't want you. He's going to hurt you after this. Did you forget what they did to you?” my subconscious mind kept bringing me back to reality.My eyes snapped open, and I immediately pulled away from him. I couldn't believe that he kissed me like that and I responded. I was too embarrassed and slapped him before I could stop myself."W-what the hell is wrong with you? How dare you?!" I yelled at him, not k
(Ruth's POV)"How can you be here mom?" I asked, moving closer to her but she suddenly frowned and pushed me back. "Are you out of your mind? In what way do I look like your mom? You and I don't even look alike!" The real voice of the person said and pushed me. That's when I realized I was indeed hallucinating for no reason. The girl in front of me just had similar features to my mom. It wasn't her. There's no way my mom would be here in the school. Why would she even come here?"I'm sorry about that. I was just occupied for a moment and said nonsense. Ignore me." I apologized. She scoffed, "You better keep your occupation at home. Don't go around making people uncomfortable just because you have issues. You should probably wear glasses. How ridiculous!" I watched her leave angrily. I guess she was playing with me earlier when she said she was my mom. I should have known she was playing with my feelings. It's not exactly her fault. Some crazy girl was calling her mom, she would h
(Ruth's POV)"They sent you, didn't they?" I asked him in a serious tone. He looked confused as he stared at me, "What do you mean?"I couldn't believe how shameless he was acting in front of me right now. Acting like he didn't know what I was talking about, he was talking about how happy he was to see me alive and then he ended it with me not rejecting him?"You don't understand what I'm talking about? You're here asking me not to reject you all. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't. Why should I listen to you?" I fired at him.He let go of my hand while looking down again. Why was he acting pitiful in front of me? They certainly want something from me if they don't want me to reject them. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but it seems like their life depends on it."I didn't come here because of the rejection. I'm just here to apologize to you. I know one apology won't do it, so I'm going to apologize every time I see you from now on.""Apologizing seems like an easy thing for yo
(Ruth's POV)Though this is a tempting offer, I refuse to be used by him for his personal gains. I know he's trying to set me up with this. He's trying to give me a bad reputation, anything to bring me down. "I don't think I can do what you're asking, professor. There's a reason I'm this weak and it's something you're very much aware of. I can't lose my focus on less important things." I whispered to his ears and moved back. He looked at me, probably trying to read my mind but it wasn't possible for him because I was guarded. He wants to make me fail in front of everyone, then it's fine. At least the king hears of everything that happens here. What's going to happen if he finds out that they're deliberately picking on me again?"It's an honor to demonstrate with you professor. I don't mind getting beaten, at least I'll learn something." I said loud enough for everyone to hear and they laughed. He nodded, getting into position. "Fine, we'll do whatever you want Ruth."I got into pos
(Ruth's POV)Did I hear that correctly? "What do you mean? Who almost shifted?" I fired at him. He took a deep breath, "You almost shifted, Ruth. I know it's hard to believe but it's the truth. I had to stop you right there or you would have revealed yourself to everyone." The way he sounded so genuine, I almost believed him. I didn't know what to do other than end things with him. Is this his new method of mocking me or what?"I thought you wanted to say something important to me, but it seems you're not done making fun of me yet. Is it so thrilling to know you ruined my life?" I questioned him, trying to remain calm, but it was too hard for me.My rage was building up inside. The fact that he could only think of making fun of me in such a painful way only meant one thing: he wasn't remorseful about what happened to me in the past and he wanted to haunt me with it."What do you mean making fun of you? I'm not making fun of you; I'm telling you the truth. You almost shifted. You're
(Asher's POV)"What? She almost shifted?" Walter questioned after I told them what I saw. "Are you sure?" Aster asked instead. I nodded, "I'm very sure of what I saw. She was so angry that she almost shifted. It's the first time I'm seeing her like that." I'm very sure of what I saw and there's no way I'm going crazy. She almost shifted while I was fighting with her. Her energy was what pulled me back. It was as if my wolf was listening to her. It was hard for me to believe too. We heard she was the red wolf and needed to be protected. She's also the cure to our curse, but we never saw her wolf. It was a bit hard to believe that she had her wolf all that time and we didn't know. Everything just felt too strange that I had doubts after she kept blaming us of killing her wolf. I thought she was just being hateful towards us, I never imagined she really had her wolf before. Nothing we do now might be enough for her after all. "There's no way. You probably saw wrong. Just admit that
(Ruth's POV)"I love you." The words I heard from him that I couldn't believe he was saying made me look around to see if there were cameras everywhere or if there were people hiding in the bushes trying to make fun of me. But somehow, there was no one around us as I listened to his nonsense.I quickly touched his forehead to see if he was burning up or something. "Are you okay? Your forehead seems to be fine, but you don't seem to be okay upstairs.""I'm telling you the truth right now. I don't know how else to explain this to you, but I'm in love with you, and I want you to please give me a chance. Even if you think I don't deserve it, try to see what I'm going to do for you at least." He continued to insist, and I didn't know what to say to him anymore.It's his audacity to say something like that to me, knowing there's no chance I would want to be with someone like him. Why should I risk my life for a bond that doesn't matter to them? They are only doing this because I'm in a hig
(Ruth's POV)"I can't believe I accepted it!" I yelled for the umpteenth time in the room. It was morning, and we had just come back from having our breakfast. Everyone must be preparing to go for training again while I couldn't stop thinking about the ridiculous offer I accepted. Why did I agree to something like that?"Your Highness, is something bothering you? You can talk to us about it," Andrea offered, while the rest of them also turned to look at me.Amelia was more worried than everyone else. She didn't understand what I was saying since she had been going to bed earlier than other days, and I haven't told her about my encounter with all of them except for the one that happened in the afternoon."What do you mean? There is nothing wrong with me. I'm just thinking out loud!" I replied, but they kept looking at me suspiciously."I don't think you're okay. You have to tell me what happened. You said you agreed to something. What did you agree to? Did anything happen to you last
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(RUTH'S POV)A FEW MONTHS LATERIt’s been a few months since everything happened, and I’m finally trying to move on from the past. I thought my father was going to cover up what happened again, like he did with my mother, and pardon his sister, but I was wrong. I confronted him about everything, and he put his sister on trial.She has been stripped of her position as a princess and banished forever. She’s also locked up for the rest of her life due to the harm she has caused others, and for hurting so many people, which was a major part of her judgment. Her wolf has been taken from her, and she’s now wolfless. Her subordinates have also been punished, and everyone else involved in this has received their due. Alpha Morren finally got his punishment from the king for framing my mother and trying to kill my brother and me. He was removed from his position, his wolf was taken away, and he is now a rogue. He’s locked up in a certain place for several years before he can be released. He c
(Ruth's POV)I'm not scared of this situation because I know they won't succeed. I watched as they prepared everything, and they even got a witch who was going to transfer everything for them. They must have been preparing for a very long time. If only they knew that they were going to fail.Meanwhile, my attention went back to my mom, who was terrified. She was even at the point of begging them to use her blood instead because she didn't want anything to happen to her daughter. Then again, she was begging them to leave me alone and not kill me because I didn't do anything wrong."Stop begging them, Mom!" I yelled at her angrily.I was mad at her and them. Why would she keep begging when they obviously wouldn't listen? It was embarrassing for me, and I didn't want her to keep doing it. She stopped begging them and looked at me."My poor daughter. All I have ever brought to your life is pain, and now you are going to suffer because of the decisions I made. I should have just married an
(Ruth's POV)I knew I was going to be listening to another sob story about how unfair life has been to her and how my father had everything easy. She's just insecure and jealous of her brother, nothing more. If she wanted to be Queen so bad, she should have worked harder."Did you just say that about my story?" she questioned me.I nodded. "Your story is stupid and useless. I don't care about all this nonsense you just said, but I'm very sure your father made the best decision not to make you a queen. You don't deserve it at all."Her countenance changed to a serious one. She looked very evil and mad, her face turning red because of what I said. But I wasn't going to stop there. How could she hurt all those people and deceive so many, just because she wanted to rule over everyone?"You are nothing but a power-crazed psycho who should be getting treatment for your obsession. Someone like you can never become the queen with your mentality. You want to kill me just to get enough power to
(Ruth's POV)Why didn’t I think that this would be a trap? I should have been more careful and not led the both of us here to be caught like this. But then again, isn’t this a good thing? If this means I would get an opportunity to see the leader of all this nonsense, then I’m happy that I got caught by them."Now that we managed to get caught by them, what are we going to do to get out of this? Because you really messed up this time, and you didn’t give me time to think," Ripley scolded me.Why is he getting mad at me when the situation is in a good place for us? If we manage to get out of here, we can finally think of how to end him and stop all this nonsense immediately. We will also have to make sure no one else tries this again."You know this was a trap that wasn’t planned by me, but since we entered it, it’s our opportunity to see the leader. Don’t be sulking over this," I replied to him.We stayed in the dark room, and he refused to talk to me anymore. I think he was thinking
(Ripley's POV)She's asking me to kill the only person who might have quality information that would help us find the leader of this organization. I thought she wanted to badly find out who was behind all of this, but now she's asking me to kill him. I'm confused about how she thinks sometimes. I decided to mind link her to talk about this. ‘You don't have much time. We need to get him to say something before the others arrive. Don’t you understand the situation? We can't kill him, even if we want to.’‘Why don't you just give me a few seconds? He is about to give in. You can't ruin this by not trusting what I am about to do. He will confess immediately. He's clearly scared to die, which is why he is running away in the first place,’ she replied.'Are you sure about this? I don't think we are in the situation to be doing all of this.''I'm very sure. Pay attention to him, and you will see how he is. He's very scared, just acting like he's not,' she assured me.Then, I turned my atten
(Ruth's POV)The training was over, and we were already stamped as one of the warriors of the rogue King. We don't even know who that is yet, but we're supposed to work for him. I wouldn’t have been in this situation if I didn’t want to catch who that bastard is, since he’s so interested in me.We were taken to a building that looked a bit modern and had a lot of people there. We were told to choose an apartment in pairs. Ripley and I immediately decided to stay together, and I thought they might refuse since we were of different genders, but they didn’t care.The main thing was that we already got a place to stay so we could do our duties. After all that, they acted like they cared about us earlier. Once we got into the apartment, we checked around to see if there were cameras or anything watching us, and we found out there were indeed cameras installed in the apartment, which was a room with two beds.It had a kitchen counter space and a bathroom. We decided to check the bathroom, w
(Ruth's POV)By asking me to be my former self, why do I feel like he's trying to ask me to become an idiot like I was in the past? I looked at him in confusion. Even if I become an idiot, that doesn't mean they are going to be convinced by that act. They probably have my scent or part of my blood to know that I'm the one. That’s the only way I'm going to get caught. I need to stop that from happening, which is what I'm expecting from him—not becoming an idiot."I don't understand what you're saying. Don’t you see what is going on here? They probably know that I might come into this place, which is why I need to do something. Your brothers are already spying on me. Don’t you think they might have told them about this?" I said to him.He shook his head immediately. "My brothers wouldn’t tell them about something like this. Besides, they don’t even know that we’re out here doing this."I took a breath of relief. "That’s good news then. I’m glad you didn’t tell them anything, since you c
(Ruth's POV)"I'll only let you go on one condition... that is, you have to let someone go with you to protect you, even if you don't want to," he stated.I already knew who he was talking about and why he was asking that as a condition. He knows how much I hate them. I'm sure my father doesn’t know what I've been doing behind his back, and he'll be very surprised—or probably disappointed—when he finds out that I'm not as hateful as I thought I was."I don't mind at all. Just tell whoever it's going to be to compose themselves and not make me angry whenever I'm trying to do something important. I wouldn’t want to have any issues with anyone," I said to him. Since we had already agreed on the fact that I'm going to go out there and find out for myself, I can't keep letting others investigate for me. It’s time for me to go there and use myself as a way to get through to all of them. I have my suspicions, but I'm not going to think too much for now until everything is finalized.I went b