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37. The silver cage
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Faking the Mate Bond 38. The escape
[Zephyr’s POV]Astoria had attacked Reese, but Willa had created a light shield around him right on time.Porter teleported beside Astoria, holding her back. He pointed his wand at Reese. “I wanted to respect him because he is your son, Willa, but it looks like respect is given to people who deserve it.” Porter said. “Not to rampaging beasts. They should be caged and killed before they do any further harm to the society.”“Put down your wand, Porter,” Willa warned, standing as a barrier between the light benders and Reese.“Look at her drawing her wand at us for an impure blood,” Astoria said. “Her priorities have changed and her loyalty lies in her impure family now. There’s no point in keeping her around anymore. Kill them!”“That’s not something you can decide, priestess Astoria,” Porter said in a calm tone. “She is under the saint’s service. Only he can decide her fate.”“And I’ll gladly give my life for his cause…” Willa said.“Can you give your son’s life for his cause?” Astori
Last Updated : 2023-01-30Faking the Mate Bond 39. Hysteria of life
[Zephyr’s POV]Archer stepped forward, but Alpha raised his hands, and he stopped.“Kids, go ahead,” Archer said.As if we would.“Mother…” Reese took cautious steps towards Willa.“Stay away!” Willa yelled. “Stay away from me. All of you!”“Shoot,” Alpha Urza said in an impassive tone. He stepped closer to Willa until the mouth of the gun was against his chest.Willa took in a trembling breath, gritting her teeth. She tightened her grip on the gun as her finger slid over the trigger.“You think I can’t shoot you?” she snarled at alpha.“It doesn’t matter what I think. What matters is what you think,” he said, staring into Willa’s eyes. She pressed her lips together, taking a determined breath. Nodding, she chuckled. “If I am going to die anyway, I’d rather take you down with me, Urza,” she said in a hoarse voice.Alpha Urza smiled, “five seconds are all you need to pull that trigger. I am giving you a chance to kill me. Just five seconds. I won’t protect myself, nor will anyone els
Last Updated : 2023-01-31Faking the Mate Bond 40. In my voids
[Diana’s POV] (((FLASHBACK))) “Do you know what the real tragedy is, Dia?” Mask asked, cradling my fingers in his hands. My head rested over his chest as I lay on him, skin to skin. A thin blanket covered us not to keep us warm, but to help us cool down from the high of our union. “What?” I mumbled against his collarbone as I lifted my gaze to meet his. Honestly, losing my virginity to him was the most bittersweet experience. Today, he didn’t play any games, we just went for it. And I was prepared both mentally and physically for it. Yet he took his time preparing me and allowed me to adjust accordingly. He kept asking if I was ok, if I liked it, if I felt any discomfort. Those little gestures made me feel like it wasn’t the kind of lovemaking one would expect in a brothel or between a courtesan and a client. “That I only have one life, one heart and one soul to give to you,” he said. I lowered my gaze. I was trying to come down from the high, but he mercilessly took me high
Last Updated : 2023-02-03Faking the Mate Bond 41. Teasing him
[Diana’s POV]Several things had changed ever since I woke up.Vera was on leave and instead of another maid, I got a full-time butler. Since it was my father’s order, I couldn’t do anything about it either.My bodyguard had turned into my butler. From my food, to my shoes, to my perfume, and even the opening and closing of the windows and door in my room was taken care of by Zephyr.He was mysteriously allowed to stay in my room even at night like an owl on watch, and it was creepy. I’d rather have walls staring at me than a living person.Zephyr was with me every second of my day and night. He wouldn’t let me off his eyes even for a minute… “Are you coming in the bathroom with me as well?” I asked, annoyingly.“No, princess. But I am outside. You have the watch on your hand, right?” He showed me the watch he wore on his left wrist. “They are both connected. So if you sense even a slight discomfort, just hit the button. What wall, what door, I will cross them all and come right at
Last Updated : 2023-02-04Faking the Mate Bond 42. I am yours
[Diana’s POV]I was expecting Zephyr to be standing by my car when I left the academy, but he wasn’t.I got in the car and looked around in the parking area.“Why is he not here?”‘Girl, are you serious?’ I could feel Kiera making that weirdest face. ‘You literally left him in the palace and asked him to not follow you here. Why are you disappointed? That poor bodyguard is just following your orders.’ she sang.I frowned and looked through the windshield, holding the steering wheel.‘He is around. You are pissed. He isn’t around. You are pissed. What do you want?’ Kiera kept yapping while I used her vision to see through the other vehicles.I rolled the glass down, allowing the air in my car, brimming it in my lungs. He wasn’t there.“I want him,” I mumbled.‘Thee finally speak the truth from thy tongue,’ Kiera said.“Oh, god! Not you too. Janus and Archer were enough for such complicated language and no! I don’t want him like that. I want him to take me shopping! I can’t go to the ma
Last Updated : 2023-02-05Faking the Mate Bond 43. First life-1
[Zephyr’s POV] (Reader’s discretion is advised. Proceed with caution.) (Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, graphic violence, child trafficking, mention of drug abuse.) * *** ***** *** * I was a one-night mistake. An unwanted illegitimate child of one of the strongest alphas. A son of a mother who didn’t want to give me up, so she fought the world just to keep me safe. And that was how she lost her life — trying to save me from the men that my father sent to kill me. My mother, Ilana Darkken, was once a commander of the Jupitus pack’s magic defence. She was beautiful, bold and one of the strongest witches of all time. A woman too feral to be bound, but too out of reach to be desired by all. And my illegitimate father, Vidar Jupitus, the alpha of the Jupitus pack, was one such coward who desired the storm but was too weak to take responsibility for the impact. He slept with my mother a day before his marriage with his legal wife and the current luna of the Jupitus pack, Nest
Last Updated : 2023-02-07Faking the Mate Bond 44. First life-2
[Zephyr’s POV]Urza? Hidden pack?What is he talking about? What the heck is the Hidden pack now?“He is… Archer Lakin.” Alpha Urza said.“Archer Lakin?” I have heard that name before. Archer cautiously stepped closer to me. “I was your mother’s classmate in the magic defence academy. We were… friends.” Archer said.I remember. My mother often talked about this man named Archer Lakin.‘And there was also this extremely introverted boy who was always dug into books, burying himself with words in his grave of solitude. Yet somehow when I talked to him for the first time, he was the warmest person I’d ever known. And then we formed this literary club where we talked about literature, longing, magic and love. Archer Lakin and there were others too, but he stayed with me for the longest. I think some people just need someone else to break down the walls, and behind those walls, they are the warmest and most comforting people. I wonder where he is now and what he is doing? I wonder if he
Last Updated : 2023-02-08Faking the Mate Bond 45. Closeness
[Diana’s POV]Zephyr stood at the entrance of the fitting hall of a vintage styled gown store in the mall.His back faced the fitting hall as the slightly parted black curtains hid and revealed his figure.A beautiful violin concerto was playing on the record subtly while I tried on various gowns. None of them suited my taste because I wasn’t paying attention to any of them. My eyes involuntarily went to the reflection of Zephyr’s figure in the floor to ceiling mirror before me.Zephyr hadn’t said a word since that time in the parking lot. It’s already been two hours, and he wasn’t even complaining about why I was taking so long shopping. Not that he was in a position to complain.He is my bodyguard, it’s his job. Not like we are on a date or something that he’d care about in time. I entered the changing room and put on a corset boned, sleeveless, sheer black gown. It hid my breasts and body below my hips. The material from below my breasts to waist was a black net with corset bones
Last Updated : 2023-02-09
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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
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
