-- Kingdom of Matthias -- Royal servants' hall -- 6.00 am. .... I woke up with an aching sensation across the surface of my joints. The earth's ozone layer, which had recently dropped heavy snow, replaced the unusual suspicion of darkness that surrounded the entire cold room. All I could catch from yesterday was that I was talking to my servant about Arthur. And the next day I returned to this room, with Matthias beside me. He was still fast asleep, with his naked body bearing witness to our illicit copulation last night. ‘Ha .... What have I done? This is not what you should be doing, Isabelle. Sleeping with Matthias will only make Estella more suspicious,’ I muttered to myself, realizing just how stupid my actions had been last night. And sure enough, what I'd feared fell before my eyes. Estella realized Matthias' disappearance and broke the door to this room down. A commotion was triggered in the morning as she witnessed her groom-to-be in bed with an Omega maid. "You stupid
"Matthias has gone mad. I warned him not to be rash when he got that threat, and he did just the opposite," Walking over and pulling me up in a hurry, Arthur complained about Matthias who also seemed to have understood the situation."Arthur, I don't understand that threat you spoke of," I retorted while determined to keep up with his fast pace. "Who exactly is threatening Matthias? Does this have anything to do with Frederick?""No," Arthur replies quickly. "Estella knows you are the lost daughter of Esther from the kingdom of Magnolia. And she did it to attack you. Don't you know that Theodosius' kingdom and yours are enemies?"I swallowed my saliva along with my breath with a tightening sensation in my chest. "My parents once discussed that. The kingdoms of Theodosius and Magnolia have long been at odds."Arthur nodded his head and glanced his pale face at me behind him. "And Estella used that to fuel the fire between the princes. She said she would denounce your true identity to W
"Isabelle. You always and always chose another Alpha over me," he said flatly, coldly, yet with both irises that barked like the sun raging in the night."That foolishness of yours always makes me wonder if you love me, or if all this time your sweetness has been a poisonous boomerang for me because no matter what I do, you never do what I want," he continued, facing me with an expression tinged with disappointment."Matthias. .." I muttered with a very heavy heart. "You know I love you. If I didn't, then there's no way I'd still be here when Frederick has made his love available to me. You're the only hope I have ...""Then get off the carrier now and come back to me," he ordered. He was still wielding the long, sharp sword seriously, not playing with his anger this time.I was forced out of Arthur's arms, set my bare feet on the royal grounds, and faced him. On my second step, I felt a hand grab me tightly and pull me back."Arthur?" I said in astonishment. He didn't let go of my ha
"MATTHIAS!"I screamed like a doomsday trance, but not for Alpha who had his stomach pierced by a long sword by his friend.Frederick had decided to truly become a monster. As Matthias tried to revive him, to give him a chance to return to the right path, he stabbed him in the stomach with his sword.Through and through, until blood flooded the ground we stood on."Ugh!"Matthias lost his balance, the wound was too big for his legs to support him. He fell to the ground and almost hit his head on a rock if Arthur didn't help him immediately."Matthias! No!" I screamed as loudly as I could. I moved to go to him, but Frederick blocked my way."You!" I growled. My anger brought tears to my eyes, which I didn't know were tears of sadness or anger. His hands grasped me so tightly, that I cried out in pain."You're crazy! Did you have the heart to kill your own best friend? Matthias was innocent! He wanted to give me, his beloved Omega, to you!" I snapped. With one of my idle hands, I punche
"An Alpha will sacrifice anything for his beloved Omega. I'm sure you're aware of that," he said, eyes fixed straight ahead like the point of a sword spear sure of its aim."I don't think William and Nathaniel's arrival here is a coincidence, nor do I think they will solve this easily," he said again, continuing. "So before anything bad happens, I want you to leave this place. Go, your parents will protect you.""Wh--what!? Hey! I don't want to! Frederick! Listen to me!"Unilaterally and without waiting for my consent, he lowered my body and pushed me away with all his might. My gaze on Matthias was immediately blocked by his body that advanced like a fortress on the frontline.And the sword that was already lodged in its sheath, he threw it at me. Frederick advanced alone, facing the two princes who were fully equipped with weapons of war."N o... This is not what I want ..." My legs trembled as if hit by a tornado, and my hand that held the sword trembled like the ground was shaken
"Does he not want to eat at all? What about the medicinal herbs I sent yesterday?""She spits out everything that comes into her mouth, Your Majesty. Unfortunately, Princess Isabelle refuses to swallow anything.""That's all right. Then, you may leave. I'll take care of it here.""Yes, Your Majesty."/creak/Right at the sound of the door clashing with the cold squeak of the frozen marble floor, I forced my eyelids closed. The conversation I heard earlier, I believed to be Frederick discussing my condition with Magnolia's royal doctor.After my parents failed to persuade me to eat, it seemed that today I would have to fight with Frederick again. I hope he won't be violent towards me at least."Isabelle. I know you didn't sleep. Get up and finish your breakfast. Or do I need to use violence to get you to eat? Do you intend to die in vain?"I knew it. As soon as Frederick walked into my room, he immediately hit me with his scathing words. Despite me currently being so weak that I could
"It is fitting that your marriage comes before your baby, and also for your coronation, dear," said my father, the king of Elbarrack Magnolia.Indeed, my breath stopped at that moment, when he uttered the word marriage so abruptly without a foundation. But before my heart could pump with rage, he mentioned marriage next to Matthias' name.Where I thought they were going to marry me off to Frederick, it turned out to be the other way around."What do you mean, father? What wedding are you referring to?" I asked confused, as I glanced at Matthias who was standing next to me, still supporting my body with both hands."What else? Marriage, darling. You want to marry Matthias, don't you? Then the sooner the better. Everything is already prepared. We're just waiting for your body to recover," he replied with a hand that tapped me lightly on the shoulder, then moved to my head which was the target of his stroking."I don't understand, sorry," I replied clumsily. Both my mom and dad's eyes sh
The arrival of the horse-drawn carriage was our farewell to this young crowning party."I still remember how Frederick used to ask me to cool the war between the five Princes of Theodosius Kingdom. I did not agree to it at first, but now I do not regret having done so," my father declared one last time before getting into the carriage.A wave of my hand accompanied their departure. My father's words still lingered in my mind, or rather what Frederick did for me never left my mind."Your father was right. If it hadn't been Frederick who broke up the civil war between the princes of Theodosius, we wouldn't be here." Matthias, next to me, finally spoke up after stroking my tense shoulders."Hm." I nodded my head in response. "He's also the one who sacrificed his princely throne for you so that he could legally marry me."The look on Matthias' face showed great agreement. We wouldn't have been able to do anything without Frederick's great sacrifice.Matthias was almost sentenced to death