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Veronica’s POV

Fate probably hates me.

My life has started going down at some point and it just continued to become worse ever since.

Red Eyes, red eyes.

The Alpha.

All along he was the Alpha who I thought would be the most impossible thing to happen. I refused to ever consider this possibility even if it had signs.

Maybe because I wish he wasn't.

Maybe because I wanted him to be different, be someone else.

Be someone else that I could trust.

Not yet another Alpha who tricks me.

The world must be mocking me.

“You,” I whispered with bitter and harsh accusations in my words. I glared at him so hard that I wish he would feel it in his bones, make him see the hatred I harbor against him.

He was sitting on his throne, legs apart and his elbow on the armchair, his chin propped on his hand. The moonlight was entering from a window behind him, shining some light at the otherwise dark room. It cascaded a shadow over his figure.

This is the first time I can truly see his face.

His
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