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Faking the Mate Bond 13. Geniuses and fools
[Diana]I came on the rooftop, looking for Reese, and found him sitting on the edge of the roof, sobbing silently.“Hey, you crying?” I asked.“No, I am having the best day of my life,” he sniffled a sob. “Why are you here? Go away!”“I will… once you get on the safer side of the roof,” I said.Reese didn’t reply.“What are you thinking?” I asked.“Nothing!”“If you think that if you jumped from there and died, would people care? Would father care? They will,” I said and Reese turned and looked at me with the ugliest frown.So, he was indeed thinking about jumping off the roof.As a child, maybe I can play it off, but as an adult, it broke me how a fifteen-year-old was thinking of ending his life just to see if his parents would care.I cautiously walked closer to him.“The entire world cares once you are gone. But when you are here, suffering, alone, they are blind and deaf and dead. It’s strange how death can make the world love us instantly, isn’t it?”“If I jump… will father love
Faking the Mate Bond 14. You're not going
[Diana] (3 years later…) * * * My legs were shaking under the table as the anxiety concentrated in my stomach. Janus placed his hand on my knee, and my legs stopped shaking. Right. No need to be nervous. But how could I not be nervous? I looked at father, then at beta Arthur, then at Willa and then Reese. We were sitting around the dinner table. Father had invited Janus and beta Arthur for tonight’s dinner. Ever since I told father we need his time, we have been having family dinners every night. It was like a mandatory ritual every night where Reese, Willa, father and I sat together around this very dining table. He’d ask how our day went and we’d give him an overview. He knew everything about our life, anyway. His spies were everywhere around us, but still he’d ask. Well, he was trying to be a better father and I could see it, but right now, I had severe doubts about it. “Alpha, she is too young,” Willa said. “I am nineteen, mother. Meanwhile Reese is eighteen. So he is
Faking the Mate Bond 15. Father's health
[Diana]Father peered at me as Lyvia collected his blood samples. I peered back at him with a poker face.“The reports should come by tomorrow,” Lyvia said. Father gave a curt nod. “I want to see the reports before father does,” I said and both of them looked at me. “It can be just a normal flu like my father claims it to be, but in case it isn’t, I want to know about it in detail.”Lyvia looked baffled by my intense tone. Father let out a sigh.“S-sure, princess,” she looked at father. Father gave a slight shrug, and she smiled faintly.“You should take this medicine tonight. Once the reports are out, I will prescribe some new medicine if needed,” Lyvia talked to father.“Can I know what medicine you are giving him?” I asked, walking to the nightstand next to my father’s bed.“It’s a flu medicine, princess,” Lyvia said with a nervous smile. I didn’t want her to feel awkward, but I had to save my father at all costs this time.“What are you doing, Diana?” Father asked. “I trust Lyvia
Faking the Mate Bond 16. The public court
[Diana]“It’s funny how excited everyone is to see someone die,” Reese said. “Sometimes the rules of this pack make me wonder what exactly our ancestors were trying to hide? The outside world from our pack or our pack from the outside world?”I tensed my brows and looked at him because what he said, for the first time, made sense.“Like do they carry some disease which can affect us or do we carry some deadly virus that could spread to them so we are basically being quarantined in our own pack and we don’t even know,” he said and it got the horses of my brain running.“What is up with you today?” I asked him.He looked at me casually. Over these years, he had turned more into a man from a teenager.I hate to admit it, but he was handsome and no wonder half of the ladies in the academy were trying to hit on him. My past knowledge about him wasn’t helping much in this life, though.Because in the past, Reese would bring a new girl to his bed every day. He was a big playboy until he foun
Faking the Mate Bond 17. Fake the mate bond
[Diana] The heavy jingling of chains silenced the constant buzzing from the public. A boy in tattered white pants that had turned almost black from being covered in dirt walked through the public. He wasn’t wearing anything on his upper body. The soldiers surrounded him from all the sides. His hair was messed up and his face partially covered with them. Shackles were all over his body, around his neck, his wrists, and his ankles. All he did was enter our pack. Why were they treating him like a serial murderer? He walked up the stage. He was tall, lean, and had an athletic physique. My eyes trailed over his perfectly carved muscles, broad chest and back, lean legs and abs. His chiselled body reminded me of… Grey eyes behind the mask flashed in before my eyes. My breaths sped up. I clenched my fists, managing my breath. I dug my teeth into my lower lip. He can never enter my life again. Never. “What is your name?” Father asked the invader. The soldiers were standing behind the
Faking the Mate Bond 18. I can't lie to him
[Diana]Father came into my room. It was eleven at night.He sat across the table, facing me. He had been silent ever since he entered my room and I had been quiet as well, glancing at him now and then.I cleared my throat. “F-father. Your reports…”He glared at me and I shut my mouth, dropping my gaze to my intertwined fingers on the table.His dark eyes and murderous aura gnawed at me to the core.I had mind-linked Janus and asked him to be with Vera and Lyvia. Willa could use this chaos to either manipulate father’s reports or harm Lyvia.But, I guess I didn’t have to because Janus was already at the hospital with Vera and, according to his words, Lyvia was preparing father’s reports.Father’s finger tapped on the table. In the haunting silence between us, those taps were like gunshots.Father let out a deep breath and gulped hard, rolling his tongue over his inner cheek.“Tell me the truth,” he said, and I flinched.I looked into his eyes, relaxed myself and said, “he is my mate,
Faking the Mate Bond 19. The mate test
[Diana]“A mate test?” I exclaimed at the elder’s suggestion to remove all the suspicions revolving around me and the invader.“Yeah. If he is truly your mate, he can easily pass the test. Nothing to worry about, sister,” Reese said with a smirk.The royal court was called the next day in the courtroom to decide on the invader. They were ready to accept the divine decision and allow the invader to live, but only if he passed whatever stupid test they had prepared.I knew Reese was majorly involved in all this. Maybe he was using this opportunity to prove that I was lying and expel me from the pack. So finally, he started showing his true colours, but this time he was revealing his intentions earlier.It didn’t matter. I was mentally prepared for this day ever since I was reborn.I looked at my father, who sat on the alpha throne. Even he couldn’t help me. If he strongly opposed the elders, their suspicion would get a spine.I bit my lower lip and looked at the invader who was kneeling
Faking the Mate Bond 20. Pure madness
[Diana]How long has it been?My body was still limp, yet I had partially regained my consciousness.Tick tock!Tick tock!Tick tock!I could hear the clock. The red light from the setting sun entering through the floor to ceiling glass windows stained the white bedsheets red. My breaths were so loud in the stark silence of the room. I stared blankly at the windows, seeing the red sun slowly being engulfed by the horizon.I lost. Did I really think I could make things work in this life?How can I be so stupid?I felt like I was lying in the pool of my blood. But I wished he’d come even if we lose, even if the sun would set.I didn’t want to stay in that room any longer. I wanted to leave, run as fast as I could.Reese’s silhouette blocked the rays of sun entering my eyes.“You lost, sister,” Reese said as he sat on the chair beside my bed, crossing his legs as he leaned against the back of the chair with a victorious smirk.I lowered my gaze.“He isn’t your mate. Even if he is, you
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