(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
(Ruth's POV)Asher wasn't the only professor training us today. There was a lot of them and some guards were around. I don't know if I'm the only one who got confused by this entire situation because I kept looking around, and not everyone seemed surprised. Why do we have all the professors here at the same time? Do they have some sort of announcement that they want to give us? Did something happen, or is something going to happen?"I think you should stop looking around like that. Everyone is going to have their eyes on you. You look like you're the only one confused about this situation," Amelia whispered in my ear.I nodded and looked around again. She was telling the truth, but why isn't she surprised? After all, I know this is her first time coming to this school. Is there something that only I didn't read?"Why aren't you and everyone else surprised? Did they announce something that I didn't hear?" I whispered in her ear.She shook her head and whispered back, "I don't think an
(Ruth's POV)Everyone followed the professors out of the school. A lot of people were against this and kept saying a lot of things against the royal family. I don't know why this is necessary when we can just use ourselves as the subjects and make the damages minimal. At the end of the day, I don't think we have the right to use the rogues as test subjects.We got to the entrance of the Forest of Poison, and everyone wouldn't stop talking. I kept looking around as the place felt eerie and weird. No wonder this place was called the Forest of Poison; who in their right mind would want to come here?"We have reached the entrance, and this is where you all will start the hunt. You're going to look for the rogues around and use them as your subjects. Remember to only cause minimal damage; you can't hurt anyone further," one of the professors said."A hunt? No one told us we were going on a hunt. Isn't this supposed to be training? Why should we attack people who have done nothing to us?"I
(Ruth's POV)I followed them into the forest while they surrounded me. I was the one in the middle, and somehow I didn't feel safe, even though they were supposed to protect me. It just felt weird. I was getting a bad feeling about everything, and I just wanted to finish and go home as soon as possible. I didn't say anything to any of them. I tried to avoid starting a conversation because just looking at them made me angry. It's the fact that they are the ones who tried to hurt me and now are protecting me—that feels unreal. "You need to stop looking at us like we're going to hurt you. Nothing would happen to you as long as you stay with us," Walter said to me. I turned my head to look at him, giving him a death glare. "Don't even think about talking to me, babe. I don't know what the hell I'm doing with you people, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to regret it!""I heard you made a dare with my brother, and you said you wouldn't portray your hatred around us, that you would be acting
(Ruth's POV) I almost felt like I was going to drown as I fell into the water with a stranger. I didn’t know who he was. I thought he was one of the rogues, but I saw him wearing the school uniform by the time we entered the water. I only panicked about saving my life. I tried swimming, but I suddenly got a leg cramp.My heart was beating way too fast, and I was scared of dying. This was an experience that I had gone through before, and I knew how it felt to be in a situation like this. It hurt me so much that I kept getting flashbacks of how I fell into the water after bleeding so much the last time.The pain I felt while trying to survive and then crawling into the water to end my misery all came back to me. Because of this, I couldn’t breathe, and I was struggling to keep myself alive. Was this going to be the end for me?Did those people bring me here deliberately, knowing that everything here would only make me feel this way? After struggling for a while and seeing him swim to th
(Ruth's POV)It took me a while to recover from the fact that my father sent a secret bodyguard to protect me from them, knowing he couldn't trust them. Also, I heard he was smiling at them when they came to visit him, but he had other plans in mind after all.Could he be doing this to test them? Could it be that he wants to see if they would actually hurt me or not? I don't think they would dare do that, considering how cowardly and thoughtless they are. They know what would happen to their pack if they did that."It's hard for me to believe what you're saying. You could just be one of them—who knows?" I said after a moment of thinking. I was not going to let him mess with my brain.He murmured, as if he understood what I was saying. "I clearly understand you, Your Highness. You can do whatever you want with me if I end up betraying you."I didn't know whether to believe him or not, but one thing was very clear—I could not go on my own anymore. I didn't have enough strength, and afte
(Ruth's POV)The Carter brothers, who I thought were supposed to be protecting me, are now setting a trap to catch me. I didn’t understand the situation, and I tried not to panic in front of them. Panicking would only give them an opportunity to taunt me."What the hell do you think you are doing? You think you can get away with this? I should have known you all were up to something!" I shouted at them, trying not to show my fear and not caring if they would attack me or not.Ripley moved closer to me. I thought he wouldn’t be one of them, but he joined them this time. This is what I should have known a long time ago: they are blood brothers, and they will always support each other in their atrocities.What they are doing now only made me hate them more. I can’t believe I considered trying to forget what they did as a dare. Who would have thought they would still do something like this, knowing I am the Alpha King's daughter?"Your Highness, I’m sorry that we are doing this to you, bu
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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