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65. Flames of life
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Faking 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
Faking 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
Faking 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
Faking 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
Faking the Mate Bond 70. The opening ceremony
[Diana’s POV] Event: Introductory and opening ceremony of the Werewolf World Championship. Location: Courtroom, Pretis palace. Presided by: Alpha Vidar Jupitus and Luna Nesta Vidar Jupitus. ***** “Now entering the participants from the Xenon pack!” They announced us. “Prince Reese Xenon. Prince Janus Lakin. And Princess Diana with her partner!” All the participants from all the packs were waiting in the ballroom to be called into the courtroom through the gate we were standing behind. The huge wooden gate leading to the courtroom opened before us. Crepuscular golden light cracked through the ajar door, flashing on our faces as a completely different world opened up before us. I took a deep breath, holding my hand near my belly. We were the first pack to be introduced to the gathering. The courtroom was filled with public in the middle and rear rows of the ground floor. While the front rows closer to the grand staircase leading to the central throne-balconies and side balconie
Faking the Mate Bond 71. Saint and the attack
[Diana’s POV]The main gate of the courtroom that was used by the public to enter opened up with a creak.Through the blinding light spraying into the room, a silhouette emerged.The image that was somewhere in my mind, but not clearly in my vision, flashed in my head again and again.A sharp pain bolted through my body, paralysing me in my seat.Everyone in the courtroom, from the lowest to the highest rank, got on their feet and bowed their heads as the silhouette walked in. Even the darkest corners of the courtroom were lit up with feathery light. One that one would expect to find only in heaven.But it seemed that those light rays filtered through the air surrounding me, flaming into a kind of darkness one would expect to find in black holes. The gravity, the heaviness, the suffocation, took me into a trance.I was still sitting on the chair on the side balcony of the courtroom, yet I was somewhere else, too.Maybe in my mind. Maybe in my past. Yes, in my previous life, when the
Faking the Mate Bond 72. Unbreakable bonds
[Diana’s POV] The opening ceremony concluded. But even after the ceremony ended, the royals and even the public lined up to pay their respect to the Saint. So they postponed the evening ball that was arranged especially for the participants. It would now happen at night where the participants would interact and get to know one another. Right after a few minutes Archer removed the barrier around us Zephyr said that he would take Carol to my room and feed it some flower flames since it looked so tired and Janus accompanied him and both of them left from the back door of the balcony. “Can we leave as well?” I asked Archer. “No princess, you and prince Reese need to stay until the public and royal guests leave. I know you need rest, but please wait a little longer,” Archer said. Reese had been peering at the Saint as he interacted with the public. People were devoted to the Saint. So much so that a few went in a full bow at his feet. The guards protected the Saint from all sides a
Faking the Mate Bond 73. Get-to-know ball
[Diana’s POV] Saint along with Alpha Vidar went to the inner temple in the Pretis palace, which was connected to the Oracle chamber and the royal library. The royal library was only accessible to the alpha and a few others he permitted. The royal library was linked with the picture gallery, which was accessible to the guests, palace staff, the royal family, and the public on special occasions. “I don’t think Saint will attend the ball,” Miya said. We were on our way to the royal ballroom after resting a little after the opening ceremony. “Yeah, I can’t imagine the Saint dancing and drinking,” I said, looking around as we walked through the corridors leading to the ballroom. “By the way, where are Zephyr and Janus?” Zared asked. “You sure there’s nothing going on between these two? They sneak out like secret lovers in some kind of forbidden relationship.” Miya and I chuckled. “They took Carol out. They most probably are in the Draco garden, getting flowers for Carol. All of us
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