After a heartbreaking betrayal by her cheating mate in college, Soraya seeks solace in a passionate night with a mysterious stranger. But when she wakes up with no memory of his name or face, she's left with only the consequences - a surprise pregnancy. Determined to raise her child alone, Soraya navigates college while secretly searching for the father. Fate brings them together again in the unlikeliest of places - her classroom. The stranger is now her professor, and to her surprise, he's kind and gentle. But their reunion is short-lived, as Soraya discovers he's not only married but also the Alpha of the pack. Devastated, she flees after overhearing a sinister plot to use her as a surrogate. Deceived by his wife's lies, he believes Soraya rejected him. Two years later, their paths cross again, but this time, Soraya has moved on - into the arms of another Alpha. Will their tangled past and hidden truths tear them apart forever, or will they find a way to rekindle their lost love?
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The princess's choice
When a prince decides to take a commoner as a wife, he has to forfeit his throne to any of his siblings, and where he has none, a member of the extended family takes over the throne.
Having seen that Prince Charles has decided to spend the rest of his life with Renee, his girlfriend from a poor home. He was asked to detach from the throne. Where Isabella took over.
Isabella, for her part, had a handsome, tall, gentle bodyguard, Christian, who took over from her formal guard, Tony, who had gone for paternity leave and didn't return; rather, he was transferred to another section.
"Don't you think he will make the best husband for me?" Isabella, sitting with her friend Emily, speaks.
"My princess, do you mean Xavier?" Emily asked, not knowing whom the princess was referring to.
"No, but my bodyguard. I am in love with him." She answered boldly.
Emily could get surprised; she kept mute for a minute; her tongue seemed so heavy to roll words out from her mouth, but she had to talk.
"My princess, it seems you have forgotten in a hurry that your brother was denied his birthright, seemingly because he made his intentions known to the council that he is in love with a commoner and has decided to marry her. "Is that the same thing you want to happen to you?" Emily asked her carefully.
"Emily, I have never wanted to be the queen of this kingdom; it has always been my dream to keep a distance from this. My life is independent; freedom of choice is what I wanted. And if loving my own bodyguard will cause me the throne. Fine, I am ready for it." Isabella answered, as her face would reflect her action.
"You must know the consequences of what you intend to do." Emily, he honestly spoke.
"I'm sorry, Emily, for the fact that you are my best friend, my childhood friend, as that doesn't mean you should predict my life for me. I am in love with my bodyguard; I do not care about the outcome." Isabella sounded it, pure, without going back. "Listen, then the custom and tradition of this kingdom may forbid it. Again, trying to deprive me of my right, as the queen, even when I never wanted it. I have decided to fight for the throne. I shall be fully crowned the queen; I shall rule this kingdom. Taking it to its promised land is my priority. I am not as weak as my brother, who couldn't stand for the throne he claims to be his." Isabella, the tone could sound so bold.
" I see you are bold, in this ready to claim the throne, defend the love you seek to have for chrisirian. But don't forget, you are not dealing with dogs or a mere animal. These are human beings, men who have known the tradition and had vowed to keep it." Emily replied with warning. "I am your friend, your best friend, and I won't lead you astray. Don't forget, you are betrothed to the prince, Prince Xavier, and him will you marry." Emily talked back at her.
Isabella couldn't bear it; she almost slapped Emily when Emily held her hands.
"Isabella, has it gotten to this?" To attempt laying hands on me?" Emily could ask with a trace of curiosity.
"Yes, it has all gotten to this." Isabella replied. "I am sorry, but your words kept hitting on my head. You have the time to reflect on the reality to me. But I can't resist the feelings I have for Christian. I thought it was just for a boss and her employee, not until I went on to give him the first kiss, right in his room, off duty." Isabella exposed herself.
"My God, Isabella, do not allow the council to know about this. What if he does not love you? He will use this against you. I know he must have seen your nakedness." Emily, asked indirectly.
"Yes, but he had refused to lie with me. Though he professes his love for me as well. But, I think, he is scared not to be fired or sent out of the palace by grandpa, who approved his duty." Isabella further answered.
"At this time, Isabella, he has to leave." "Xavier is the one for you, not a commoner. Your own personal bodyguard. Do you know the height of taboo this is? Our own princess falling in love with her bodyguard." "Come on, lady, you should have thought about the cons first." Emily could try convincing her.
"I do not know Xavier; neither will I want to spend the rest of my life with him. And for the tradition, they are made by humans; the same human will definitely change it. I am ready to have the throne and, at the same time, my lover Christian. This two must be achieved." "I am not speaking barbarian here; it is clear." Isabella is almost concluded.
"If you had known how desperate your cousin was. Atlas is over the throne; you won't be saying this." Emily shows a deep surprise.
"You think he will have the throne?" Isabella asked.
"With the action you have put in and the taboo you have fallen into..." Emily was quickly interrupted.
"I beg your pardon, do not, never in your life, call my action a taboo." "You have your life, same with me." Isabella, warned and continued.
"But your life as the queen is a mirror before your subject; it has to reflect the kingdom's expectations." Emily sipped from the glass of wine as her throat was almost dry.
Isabella walked a lot toward the window; she sighted Christian, who was just standing on his duty post, right beside Isabella's car.
"What a handsome, charming man he is. He is so handsome he could get me crazy; his skin is so smooth and attractive. He is taller than expected; his smile always gets me crazy, and I fall in love with him on a daily basis. Who is Xavier to be compared to him? In humility, caring, love, and romance." Isabella, having the full tone with her.
"I am fully in love with him. And nothing will anyone do about it." She concluded.
SORAYA ONE YEAR LATERSo this was what bliss felt like. It was everything I had heard it would. A mate whom I had gone through hell and back with, a daughter we both would give our lives for without hesitation and a happiness that knew no bounds.Xaden was the mate he had promised me he was going to be. “Earth to Soraya…” I heard him whisper in my ear. His hands held firmly against my waist. I didn’t realize when he got so close to me. “What’s wrong, love?”Nothing is.I turned around to face him and met his gaze. “Sometimes, I still feel like she's going to show up.” I answered. I knew she was gone, there was no way she could have survived the poison but still, at the back of my mind, there was once in a while this nagging feeling. Xaden sighed and shook his head, cupping my face as he did so. “Have I given you any reason to feel so?” I shook my head. “Nothing, and absolutely no one is going to come between us again. I love you, Kaylee and our little boy…” he said as he dropped on
XADEN“Of course not. I loved you Evan and I really wanted to be with you. Killing you was completely Malcolm’s idea. He wanted the connections that came with being married to Xaden so he forced me to go along with all of it. I felt like I had no choice, you really have to be believe me Evan.”I couldn’t help but chuckle at the load of bullshit she was spewing all in a bid to save her worthless life. Hopefully this Evan guy saw right through it.“You loved me?” He asked and I felt my blood boil at what a stupid question it was.“What the hell are you doing Evan? You can’t possibly believe that Celeste ever loved you!”“Let her speak!” He bellowed. “Come here Celeste. You really wanted to spend your life with me?”I could only watch in anger as Celeste made her way to him, holding him in a warm embrace as she spewed more lies.“I’ve spent every minute of everyday thinking about you since Malcolm had forced me into that heinous act. I’m really sorry I wasn’t bold enough back then to spe
XADEN I thought to myself as I tiptoed slowly to get a good idea of whom it was, she was fighting with. The fella seemed to really be in quite the sour mood but I was still unable to make out the voice clearly. I decided that there was no point sneaking around, I hastened my steps and headed straight for the living room.Upon opening the door, I was greeted with the sight of the kind of vermin I never thought I’d ever have the displeasure of seeing again.“What the fuck are you doing in my house?! You sacrilegious sack of shit!” I yelled as I found Jeremy in my living room, about to pounce on Celeste.“Xaden!” She screamed. “Be careful, he’s gone completely crazy! He keeps saying...”“Shut up Celeste!” I snarled. “You did this! How could you let this unrefined buffoon into my house?”“What did you just call me?!” He turned to face me and I finally got a good look at him. He looked dastardly, almost inhuman as he was beginning to appear like some unholy alchemy of man and beast.I kn
XADEN It had been almost three days since I’d heard last from Soraya and I could feel the fear, slowly creeping in. It was unlike her to stay radio silent and even on the days she didn’t feel like talking, she would always try to send a message at least.I looked at my watch and saw that it was past 7am already. Three days and not a peep, it definitely wasn’t looking good. I went for a quick run, in the hopes of clearing my head. I didn’t want to entertain the wild thoughts that were beginning to plague my mind.When I got back to the house, Celeste was already waiting in the kitchen. I had been hellbent on avoiding her all week and she was almost never awake this early in the morning. I winced, knowing I’d inadvertently walked into a well calculated trap. “Good to see you can still show your face.” She spat out derisively. “I thought you finally decided to run after Soraya like the lovesick puppy you’ve proven to be.”I steadied myself, choosing to remain calm and silent as I too
EVAN“I honestly can’t believe this. Celeste actually tried to have you murdered because she wanted to be with Xaden?”“To her, I was simply an obstacle. A mere nuisance that she had to get rid off so she could enjoy the splendor and lifestyle that came with being married to a man like Xaden. She poisoned me while I was asleep and thinking I was dead, her father bundled me into his car and they drove deep into the woods to bury me. When I came to, I tried to beg Celeste for help. That was my biggest mistake. They pummeled me with their shovels till they thought I’d stopped breathing and buried me in a shallow grave.”I took a deep breath and looked up at her. She seemed completely lost for words. “You shouldn’t look so surprised. I mean, she poisoned your two year old daughter. Such a person is capable of doing anything.”“I know Celeste can be ruthless but I always thought she became this way over the years. This incident happened more than ten years ago. I’m just surprised that she’
EVAN“That’s what the nurse said but I doubt there’s much you would be able to do for her.” She said in her tone that was completely crippled by fear and resignation.“Well, this is an hospital ma’am. Why are you so certain that we would be unable to get her the help the needs?” I asked, doing my very best to sound as genuinely oblivious as I could. I was fishing for information and I didn’t want to spook her just yet.“I know you won’t be able to save her because this has happened before and the doctors who attended to her then were just as clueless. All they did was stabilize her but it was only a half measure. Without the antidote, she wouldn’t be alive for long.” As she spoke, I could feel the weight behind every word, the immense gravity behind each statement and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for all the pain she had to be going through in that moment.“Well, I’ll advise you don’t give up hope just yet. Things like this always have a way of working out in the end.”“I don’t need
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