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104. Shattering hopes
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[Diana’s POV] Lies over lies. I wasn’t there with Zephyr during the celebration, so I don’t know what actually happened. But whatever they were telling about Zephyr was utterly ridiculous. I just knew in my heart that no matter how many masks he wears, Zephyr can never do what they were accusing him of. What made the entire atmosphere more tense was the presence of my father and the alpha of the Saturna pack. We were in the courtroom filled with the royal Jupitus family, the guest packs who had come to the Jupitus pack for the championship, and all the important high-ranking officials of the Jupitus pack. We were sitting on the side balcony while Alpha Saturna was seated on the balcony in front of us with Darren and Verena who had been glaring at me, half of her face bandaged and bruises all over her body. In the rage, I didn’t see where I was hitting her. It seemed as if I had damaged her face severely. I am not sorry about that. Not at all. Zephyr was standing in the cent
Last Updated : 2023-05-02Faking the Mate Bond 106. The trial-2
[Kazeal’s POV]Diana looked at me, perplexed. As if she wasn’t able to believe that I had told the truth.I hadn’t taken her side. I sided with the truth. This was something that was gnawing at my conscience. I did this for myself, not for her. I don’t care about her. I shouldn’t.“Lies!” Verena yelled, grabbing the railing of the balcony. “They are both lying! I don’t know what black magic Diana did on the Saint to say such lies. They confessed they were alone in the lounge, too. Who knows what the two of them were—”“Shut up, Verena!” Alpha Saturna growls. “Pardon her imbecility.” He looked at me. I lowered my gaze in a nod.“Do not disrespect our Saint! You are in no position to question him. Saint didn’t have to, but he already took the oath of truth in front of the entire court! This is the truth that even the heavens can’t deny. I am highly disappointed in you. Your actions and your words have let me down and this is the most shameful moment for our pack. Do not make it worse!”
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[Kazeal’s POV] Every word that came out of Zephyr’s mouth felt like shards of glasses prodding at alpha Vidar. Luna Nesta tensed up, looking at Alpha Vidar, baffled and so did the rest of the royal family members. “Your first crime, alpha Vidar Jupitus, was infidelity. Yes, you weren’t married to luna Nesta when you had an affair with my mother, but you were committed to her because the very next day you married her.” Alpha Vidar was red with rage and so was luna Nesta. Zephyr smiled at both their reactions. “Do you even have an idea what you are talking about?” Luna Nesta said angrily. “Ilana Darkken, the former commander of magic defense of the Jupitus pack, my mother. Do you remember this name, luna, Alpha Vidar?” Zephyr said, and luna’s pale face stared into nothingness thoughtfully. She placed her hand on her mouth as if some realization had dawned on her. Then she peered at Alpha Vidar with wide, doubtful eyes, questioning him. “What is he talking about?” “Oh, I remember,
Last Updated : 2023-05-04Faking the Mate Bond 108. The worst of the worst
[Kazeal’s POV]He tried to save Diana by putting off those flames, but nothing could extinguish those flames. So, he gave himself to her flames and burned with her until he remained nothing more than a shadow. She was gone, and he was burnt but alive.The day Diana died was the beginning of the end of this world — the worst of the worst.He was the worst of the worst Serith had warned the world about.Holding Diana’s burnt body in his arms, Zephyr Darkken lumbered all the way from the Wenos pack to the Jupitus pack with his charred body. The ground he walked on burst into flames. Such malignant and roaring flames any force of nature couldn’t put off, not even God. It looked as if the world around him was the ocean of fire and the waves of flames washed his feet. Those flames spread like a wildfire across the world, from walls to walls, from body to body, sparing not even the souls that it clawed. A virulent curse that didn’t stop until it had brought the entire world to ruin.The win
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[Kazeal’s POV] “Did your memories return?” He asked, and I nodded once. “Thought so. Do you remember everything now?” I shook my head. “Only until I stopped you from spreading the flames in Goredom and Gloratia,” I said. Suddenly, I was conscious of every breath I took in his presence. As if one wrong breath and every other breath in this world would cease to exist. He tensed his brows thoughtfully as he sat on the chair across the circular table I was sitting around. “Where exactly was that?” “Right in this tower. In the magic crystal chamber,” I said. “Hmm. Yeah, I get it now. So you still don’t remember the whole thing?” I studied his body language and nodded. It was already difficult to read him before and now it seemed impossible to tell what he was thinking with his poker face and impassive voice. “I don’t remember the details either. It is a lifetime ago memory that too in a state when I wasn’t even in my right mind. But I think the reason you don’t have memories afte
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[Diana’s POV]You knew I was scared to be lonely, and that’s what you left me with.You took Janus away from me. You took Vera away from me. You took yourself away from me.Was it easy for the three of you to abandon me so easily?You are worse than Mask, Zephyr. At least he left me with a hope that he’d return. You left me completely hopeless.What am I supposed to do now? Wait for you? Let you go? Forget you? Move on?I still don’t understand why you pointed the gun at me. Was I in your way or did you really use me to get where you wanted just to discard me later?Which is the real you, Zephyr? The one that you had before we went to the Jupitus pack, or the one you showed later?Was I a game to you because you played me so well? You love playing games, right? I hope I was entertaining for you. But don’t you think two lives are too much of a time to waste on a game?Give me a reason, give me an excuse. Tell me lies because I don’t think I am strong enough to hear the truth.I don’t e
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[Diana’s POV] I was in no mood for a party, much less celebrate my birthday, but— “Sure,” I said with a smile. “I will wish for a good job as a birthday gift this time…” “Done,” father said. “... from God,” I said and father dropped his excitedly lifted broad shoulders. I chuckled. After we finished our dinner, father and I strolled in the garden. “What kind of job are you looking for?” He asked. “Something that will make me an instant millionaire,” I joked. “You already are. If you combine all the properties that’s in your name and lands, you already are a multi-millionaire, little one,” he said. “That’s your money, father. Not mine. You are generous enough to give it to me,” I said, and we silently strolled for some time. “You have grown up so fast, Diana. The way you are handling yourself makes me so proud of you.” “You shouldn’t be. Because of me, you have to hear all kinds of things from the elders.” “Don’t worry about those old men. They keep blabbering all the time.
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[Diana’s POV]Kazeal stopped playing. Parting the flute from his lips, he opened his eyes and looked at me.“Happy birthday, Messiah,” he said, freezing me under the scrutiny of his silver eyes.But those eyes didn’t scare me anymore.“This was the emptiest birthday wish I have received today. Such words don’t suit the mouth of the person who would have prayed more than me that I was never born. You would be the last person to be ‘happy’ on my birthday.”“Can’t deny that,” Kazeal said plainly.“How the hell did you even enter my pack?” I glared at him.He glanced over my shoulder.I looked back just to see Willa coming our way. There it was. The answer to my question. She helped him get in, which means father might not be aware of his presence in the pack.“Honey… I brought the Saint here…”“I should have known,” I chuckled sardonically at her. “I am sure father isn’t aware of all this, right?”“Honeybee, it’s not what you…”“For God’s sake, just shut up! You are still the same old yo
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Hey everyone! I am AM (Akina Mirai) First of all, I want to thank each and everyone of you who read this story. Thank you so so so much for bearing with me and making this story come alive so brilliantly. Diana and Zephyr. Oh, God! These two were a big challenge for me, but oh so beautiful they are, my heart still keeps on melting for both of them and I can't help falling in love with all the characters I created in this story. Don't forget to let me know who your favourite charcater was in this story! And if you enjoyed the book, please don't forget to leave your precious review on the main page of the story. It helps the story to grow a lot and so do your gems and comments. Do share it with your friends and let's keep the family growing! OMG! I can't believe I have done this. I would also love to thank my editor and the complete GN team for trusting in me and giving me this opportunity of writing and just allowing me tell a story because that's what I wish to do until my last
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[Zephyr’s POV] Diana and Kaz regained their consciousness as the three of us returned to the sky, our battlefield. Kaz looked at Diana and then at me. The mana I had gathered around me was massive enough to cause an explosion that would end half of the world. I knew I had to stop, but I didn’t know how to stop it. Diana was already weak and upon that I was absorbing mana right from her soul. I need to get her away from me… Kaz flew beside Diana. Grabbing her arm, he tore her away from my proximity. Breaking the gravity of my soul that pulled mana from his soul, he pushed Diana towards the ground. “Zephyr…” Diana’s scream faltered as she neared the ground. I whistled sharply. The winds, combined with Kaz’s threads of mana, surrounded her and helped her land safely on the ground. Kaz turned to me. “It’s you against me now. Kill me and end this last war,” he said. “If I do that, who will save this world?” I said. Kaz frowned. “What do you mean?” “With the amount of mana
Faking the Mate Bond 140. Blank pages and words
[Diana’s POV]Grave?I felt my body go limp.I shook my head. No. This isn’t possible.Archer and Willa teleported me to the graveyard where Janus and lady Ilana had dug out a coffin.Carol shrieked agonizingly over the coffin.“No. No…” Stumbling, I fell beside the coffin.Janus dug his claws into the coffin and broke open the lid.“Zeph!”“Zephyr!”“Son!”Archer and Janus got Zephyr out of the coffin and laid him on the ground.His pulse and breaths were weak. He was unconscious.I covered my mouth with my hands. Kazeal had buried him alive.“Zeph! Zephyr!” Janus shook his body. “Hey man! Get up!”“Zephyr! Son!” Lady Ilana tapped his cheek.Archer made his way beside Zephyr. He asked us to move away from Zephyr to allow air circulation around him.“Ila, check his pulses and tell me if they turn weak,” Archer said and lady Ilana scuttled beside Zephyr, keeping her fingers on his pulses.“Messiah!” Kazeal roared.Janus stood in front of me and Willa, glaring right into Kazeal’s eyes.
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[Diana’s POV](Trigger warning: Reader’s discretion advised.)***Ever since I returned to the Pretis palace, I knew something was off.But it took me a while to realize that something was wrong with Zephyr. I felt it odd when I told him I wanted to rest and he just let me rest.Whenever I say I wanted to rest, we usually end up having sex, but this Zephyr was trying to avoid intimacy with me. Yes, he hugged me, but that was it. He even avoided kisses. I will not lie. I was scared for some time that maybe everything that was going around me was affecting our relationship. The thought that Zephyr might actually be falling out of love with me haunted me until Janus asked me the same thing.Janus told me how Zephyr was not Zephyr, even though he almost completely acted like Zephyr.That’s when I sensed it and I wished we were wrong, so I checked it for myself yesterday.Kazeal might have prepared himself to be like Zephyr in every aspect, but I knew he wouldn’t ever be able to prepare
Faking the Mate Bond 138. Illusion of traps
[Kazeal’s POV]Diana cowered into my arms, clenching on to me as if I was her last lifeline left. I was.“Relax, Dia. These are just nightmares.”These nightmares are my gift to you, my Messiah. I hope you see for yourself what you have done to this world.It’s still not too late. You still have time. Stop before things slip from my hands as well.I stroked her back as she drifted back into sleep. Another round of those nightmares that I had designed to break her slowly, but certainly.I sighed, peering at the ceiling, hugging her tighter as she panted with a slight tremble taking over her body again.“No… no…” she mumbled.I intertwined my fingers with hers.“It’s alright, Dia. Everything’s fine, just fall asleep.”Stay dreaming and leave the reality to me. I will bring everything you have misplaced in this world back to its place.*****“You don’t have to attend to meeting if you aren’t feeling well—” She had the power to make me speechless without even trying.Words seized from my
Faking the Mate Bond 137. War and aftermath
[Diana’s POV]It hadn’t even been a week to father’s burial, and Willa was gone. She hadn’t taken a single thing from the palace. All she left behind was a note saying that she no longer had a reason to stay in the Xenon pack.Often the walls that look the strongest are the hollowest. Reese was in the same condition.Most of the time, Reese stayed by father’s grave.“It’s dinnertime, Reese. Let’s go.” I placed my hand on his shoulder.He was lost in nothingness. Recently, silence had been his only response.I knelt beside him.He had completed father’s burial without shedding a tear. But that didn’t mean father’s death hadn’t affected him at all. And after Willa left, his condition had worsened. He was bottling himself up.Although he kept himself busy with the pack affairs and the war with Gloratia, it was at times like these I could see his pain in his eyes.Meanwhile, because of Serith’s powers, I knew father was in a better place, reunited with mother. Even so, I felt his absence
Faking the Mate Bond 136. Don't blame me
[Zephyr’s POV]What we have been preparing for has finally begun.Diana had waged a war against the outer world. By now, the demonic werewolves would have started appearing all around Lycannora.After demonisation she had changed a lot. Diana’s appearance seemed as a reflection of Serith herself. Her horns, the dark vine tattoos that wrapped around her hands and around her neck. Her blood-red eyes that had the power to stop time if she wished. Her aura that held the gravity that could alter dimensions and space. Diana’s presence overpowered almost everyone and everything on the battlefield.The goddess of the underworld had surfaced and the Serithian war had begun.It hadn’t even been an hour and the Wenos army seemed so subdued. There was no way mortals could keep up with a goddess’ incarnation. The only person who had the power to stand against Diana was the Saint.Devon walked closer to Diana and stood between her and his army.“Prince, what are you doing?” Ragnar asked Devon.“R
Faking the Mate Bond 135. She's gone
[Kazeal’s POV]She’s gone.I had searched every corner of the Heat Knox tower.Diana has escaped.A stifling bitterness rose in my chest like a burning stab. My crazily pulsating heart was only darkening my thoughts and coherence.Clenching my fists and jaws, I shut my eyes.It’s not like I have never been angry before, but I had never experienced such an excruciating wrath before. Its extremeness was sinful.I stared at my palms.How did she slip out of my grip?The warmth of her body and the softness of her skin are still afresh in my hands.When did she obscure my senses?How in heaven did she escape?I don’t get it. I don’t understand this.Wiping my sweat around my lips, I sat on her bed. Raking back my hair, I held my burning head.Taking a deep breath, I licked my dry lips.There is no way she can escape this place on her own. Not even with her Messiah powers. The only key is with me and without my mana, the barriers around the tower cannot even be sensed by normal wizards.But
Faking the Mate Bond 134. Let's rewrite our stars
[Zephyr’s POV]I kept whistling in the eolian language, summoning a storm around Alpha Urza’s body as a barrier from the rest of the battlefield. Kneeling beside his body, I peered at him blankly. I held his cold hand in mine. With a blurry vision, I looked at the sky. Kaz’s men hovered over the Wenos palace. Through the blustering winds cutting me off from the rest of the world, I looked at my army that was in constant struggle with the Saint’s men. I couldn’t keep track of everyone from where I was, but I could tell that Archer and mother had left the battlefield a while ago. “We, the wizards under the Saint’s command, give you the Jupitus army a chance to retreat. Stop the attacks and retreat or else we will have to pacify you by any means possible.” A wizard hovering right above Asashi and Aera warned. So finally, Kazeal has openly involved himself in this war. “We do not wish any harm to the innocent. We are here to preserve peace and stop the war. If any of you launch any
