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13. Geniuses and fools
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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
Last Updated : 2023-01-04Faking 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
Last Updated : 2023-01-05Faking 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
Last Updated : 2023-01-07Faking 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
Last Updated : 2023-01-07Faking 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,
Last Updated : 2023-01-08Faking 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
Last Updated : 2023-01-10Faking 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
Last Updated : 2023-01-11Faking the Mate Bond 21. Rose and thorn
[Zephyr] I stood outside the room where Diana was being treated by the royal doctor, Lyvia. Alpha Urza was back from his sweet little trip outside the Hidden pack. He towered in front of me. The knights with him stepped to cuff me. He lifted his hand and dismissed them. I smiled to myself and looked into his eyes. “What happened to Diana?” He asked in a dark tone as if I did something to her. “Ask your daughter what your son did to her, alpha,” I said. He turned to enter the room when I said— “I hope you found your answers and proofs.” He glared at me like a hunter glares at the other hunter aiming for the same prey as him. He didn’t say a word and entered the room. I leaned against the wall, pulling my head supine. “Diana…” I mumbled, shutting my eyes. I had to control myself for her. No matter how much I want to kill Reese Xenon, I can’t. I shouldn’t. I tightened my fists, crossing my hand across my chest. “Zeph.” I opened my eyes and looked around. We were alone in
Last Updated : 2023-01-12
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Faking the Mate Bond 141. Under the starry night
[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.
Faking the Mate Bond 139. Light through darkness
[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
