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61. Through his façade
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Faking the Mate Bond 62. Never let go
Zephyr’s POV]All the way to the art gallery, I kept debating myself.There was a part of me who wanted to tell her everything from the beginning to the end truthfully, and then the other part who was scared to face the consequences that truth might bring.I clenched the steering wheel.I tried mind-linking Janus, but he was busy with his father and didn’t respond. He was the only person I could talk to about this because he was the only one who knew everything about me and my past.But maybe I knew his answer already. He wanted me to tell the complete truth to Diana the moment I entered this pack. Diana’s gaze on me was making this worse because the last thing I wanted was her suspicious gaze. If I don’t clear her doubts now, she might think something strange again.Me siding with the Saint? How could she even come up with something like this?I didn’t want to lie to her. Hiding the truth was a thing, and telling a white lie was another.‘What should I do?’ I asked my wolf, Drystan.
Last Updated : 2023-02-26Faking the Mate Bond 63. Championship journey
[Diana’s POV] “I can’t believe this. My son is leaving for six months,” beta Arthur sobbed in his handkerchief. “What will I do all alone in the palace for six months?” “I am sure you can ignore the absence of your son for six months, as you ignored his presence for twenty-one years,” Janus said in an impassive voice. Beta Arthur cleared his nose into the handkerchief, crying fountains. “You never change! Now your words don’t even hurt,” beta Arthur said, choking on his gasps. “I am already so proud of you. Go make me more proud, son! If your mother was here today, she would have been so proud.” Beta Arthur looked at the sky. “Honey, look, our son has grown up so much. Please look over him from the stars and protect him. All these kids.” He looked at Zephyr, Vera, and me standing at some distance from them. Janus grunted, looking at the sky, “look over this poor old man, mother. I fear someday this Hidden Land will flood with his tears.” Beta Arthur clasped Janus in his arms. “W
Last Updated : 2023-02-28Faking the Mate Bond 64. The last message
[Diana’s POV] I tried to remove the red curtains from the windows of the closed carriage and look outside, but Zephyr stopped me. “Archer asked us not to look outside until we pass through the portals, so we mustn’t,” Zephyr said. “As the princess of the pack, shouldn’t I know the method of entering and leaving the pack?” I questioned. “Well, I don’t have an answer to that,” Zephyr said. He was sitting in front of me while Vera sat beside me. Father said once we were in the Jupitus palace, we’d be given personal maids or butlers. Yet, I was allowed to take a personal maid if I wished. Being a woman came with its own pros and cons. They did not give male participants the luxury of having their own butlers; they had to accept the ones the championship committee provided. Our ride through the portal was smooth, which was uncommon for a carriage ride. It was rather daunting. We didn’t know what was going outside. Haunting silence enveloped our carriages for over fifteen minutes. A
Last Updated : 2023-03-02Faking the Mate Bond 65. Flames of life
[Diana’s POV]If it weren’t for Zephyr and Reese who held me right on time, I would have dived right into the lake.Miya yelped as she looked at me, widening her eyes. She scrambled herself off Zared, who sat up on the ground, rubbing his back.“Oh, my! Are you ok?” Miya lifted the hem of her gown and rushed to me.I carefully opened my palms, revealing the black egg. It was warm and I could feel its temperature rise even though it wasn’t enough to burn my skin.“I think it’s fine,” I said, looking at the egg, then at Miya.She looked at the egg with apologetically knit brows and then at me.“Oh no, I was talking about you. You could have fallen into the lake,” she said. She gasped. “Oh, no! your gown! It’s torn. I am so sorry.”I looked at my dress. It was torn from the waist.“Sister, are you hurt?” Reese asked, tensing his brows.I shook my head. “I am completely fine. Don’t worry.”“We need to worry,” Zephyr said. “You can’t enter the palace in a torn dress.”Miya’s eyes filled wi
Last Updated : 2023-03-04Faking the Mate Bond 66. The Pretis palace
[Diana’s POV] “It eats flames?” I asked. Miya nodded. “But not just any flames. It’s young, so we must provide it with the most nutritious and sweet flames,” she said. “Flames are sweet? Flames have taste?” “Not for us, but for them,” Miya said. “So? Where can we find this sweet flame?” I asked. “Flowers,” Miya said. “Flowers? You mean nectar?” I asked. “No. The flames you get when you burn a flower.” “Oh.” I tensed my brows slightly. “What a sweet way of making sweet flames. Burn the flower. Makes complete sense to me. But what flower is the most nutritious?” “That’s the problem here. You see phoenix as babies are very delicate and picky eaters. Every individual has their own taste, so we need to experiment and see what suits its taste. My mother’s phoenix loves eating flames of burning camellias, especially red camellias, which are rare to find.” “How did she find out what her phoenix likes?” Miya shrugged, lifting her hands. “By feeding her flames of over a hundred ty
Last Updated : 2023-03-06Faking the Mate Bond 67. A death threat
[Diana’s POV]I turned around.“Zeph!” I ran to him as he dashed to me.Panting, he stopped, his hands on his knees.“I…” — pant — “thought I would” — pant — “reach here before you. But this place is” — pant — “huge. I am sorry, I am late.”“It’s ok. You are right on time. Settle down your breaths, first,” I went to the carriage and fetched a water bottle, proffering it to Zephyr. “Here, drink it.”“Thanks, princess,” Zephyr finished the entire bottle in a few gulps. Water droplets slid from the corner of his lips down his throat. His adam’s apple bobbing sensuously with every gulp. He licked his lips and exhaled, wiping his mouth on his cuff.I gaped at his lips, and suddenly I was thirsty.He looked at me, and I looked away.“Ok, now that everyone is here. Let’s go,” Archer said. He was holding a considerably big wooden box.“What’s that?” I asked.“A gift for luna Nesta from our luna. They are… close friends,” Archer said.We entered the palace. It was in the aesthetic of white, re
Last Updated : 2023-03-08Faking the Mate Bond 68. Flower flames
[Diana’s POV]It took us about two days to settle down in the Pretis palace.Zephyr and I would share a room. We would stay together as per the championship rules for the female participants. They gave Reese and Janus separate rooms, but Archer forced them to share a room. Archer wasn’t taking Izel’s death threat to Reese lightly at all. He also said that it was the best opportunity for Reese and Janus to bond together since they were going to be the future alpha and future beta of the Xenon pack.After a lot of argument, there was nothing Reese and Janus could do. They had to share a room. They had no other choice.It was indeed dangerous to leave Reese alone. We were only getting to know new people every day. None of us knew what their actual intentions were, so it was only intelligent to stay alert and on guard at all times.One thing was obvious: Outers feared us.The maids of the palace would shudder and plea for forgiveness as if I would carve out their hearts for not adding ex
Last Updated : 2023-03-10Faking the Mate Bond 69. I had found…
[Diana’s POV] I still remember the day when Bea forced me to attend to a client. The second client I attended to as a courtesan. She said that she wasn’t doing it for herself, but for me. To break the lie I had been telling myself. A lie that Mask would return for me. She wanted me to face my reality and get back to business. After those seven days with Mask, I declined all the clients. I wanted to trust him, believe in his words that he’d return. Like a fool, I was preserving myself for him. Two years. I somehow managed to avoid taking clients for two years. I reread his letters over and over again. I surrounded myself with his memories, his gifts he brought me, the clothes he bought me. I had found Mask when I had lost all hopes from my life and I wasn’t ready to let go of that hope. There were times I had to grovel on my knees so that Bea wouldn’t force me to take clients. But that night Bea didn’t listen to a word I had to say. She dragged me to the VVIP room in the loo
Last Updated : 2023-03-10
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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
