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Chapter Sixty
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2025-02-23 05:30:32
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She Was The Queen Chapter Sixty-One
Khai went to sleep before the afternoon. He hadn’t had any real sleep. After all that running around and me waking him up, he must’ve been exhausted. Taking into account the mental gymnastics he was performing on my mind – I couldn’t blame him. He’d been asleep since 6 am.I had nothing to do as usual so I took a candle from the drawer and matches and went into the woods.With the absence of everyone, the dark omen covered me like a canopy and I felt its weight on my forehead. I went to the woods on the far left and the omen felt lighter on this side.I found a patch of dirt and planted the candle in the ground and went on my knees. I had not done this in a long time and began to wonder if it was necessary anymore. I didn’t know what I was anymore. I was in an in-between space between Sun Wolf and Traga. I couldn’t fully call myself Traga nor could I still proudly proclaim myself as a daughter of Yaga.It was a roll of the dice. If she heard me then we were still connected if she didn
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-23She Was The Queen Chapter Sixty-Two - Khai
I wish I were somebody else. If I were Falcon, I wouldn't have to be related to myself or anyone in this family. If I were Jacob, I would be strong and healthy. If I were my sister, I would live a carefree life. If I was just anybody else but me life would be better. It seems that Roman is the only highlight of my life, other than that, it's just darkness.I woke up in a bad episode last night but it was better than the others. It was shorter than any of my recent ones but I stayed away from anyone, afraid it would return just as quickly.I was miles away from home, perhaps even in River Cresent territory but I could still feel Roman. She was alive and breathing but most likely upset at my absence. What a disappointment I'd been all weekend, I couldn't even greet anyone when they came back.Her eyes flashed in my mind in the darkness of the night, opening wide, snapping me awake in the storm. I woke up to the crackle of thunder and rain beating down on my skin. The tree I was under wo
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My saliva burnt in my throat when I swallowed it. My blood pulsed as if passing by sores in my veins. My heart rate slowed by the minute and I was afraid that any of these breaths would be my last. My body burned with a pain I'd never felt before. It wasn't like period pains, it wasn't like a stab or a scratch. It was something else. It was as if my blood itself burned and moved around my body full of little knives and glass shards.When the bullet nested itself in my shoulder it was a tolerable pain but something inside of it injected itself in me like a bee-sting.I could hear everything, feel everything but not see anything. I could feel Walter's covered fingers pull the cold metal out of my arm. The anaesthetic was not effective. It clicked onto a glass container in the corner. A sick sob followed after and I knew it was Yolanda."I can't watch this.""Then don't!" Walter barked.Yolanda's footsteps receded. He was annoyed and stressed. I'd never seen him look so sick with worry.
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He came quickly to my side and knelt. He took my hand in his and placed it on his face. Tears streamed down his face, his eyelashes glittered with droplets. This was Khai, in his purest form, in his vulnerable state. This was what I was waiting for, uncovering this layer of him but I didn't want it to happen this way.Tears threatened my eyes like they were being burnt by his fumes, the opening of his layer."Your death would send me into a spiral I cannot even imagine," he said.I caressed his face, smooth and without scar or blemish. He was so beautiful and perfect, like fine china."I missed you,” he said into my neck before he placed a kiss.His breath made my knees weaker than they already were."I missed you so damn much," he purred with a voice getting deeper.He began sucking on my neck. It was deliciously painful and the pain in my body became background noise as he kissed my neck and lips. His lips travelled up to my jawline where he reached higher to bite my earlobe."Khai.
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"Guess whose back?" Khai enthused tiresomely.Hannah and Yolanda turned around screaming at me. They both pulled me into painful hugs. Everything hurt, even the slightest and most tender touch felt like pins and needles."Please get me painkillers," I asked Khai when he placed me at the dinner table.He left immediately and came back with two capsules of red and green. "I felt it first you know," Yolanda told Hannah."Me too I just didn't want to disturb," Hannah said as she brushed my shoulder. I unintentionally hissed at the pain. "Regard her arm, it still hurts," Khai told them.They were talking about me waking up. The whole pack was sensitive to me now. They would know if I was sick or hurt, it's why they all showed up immediately after I got shot."It still hurts?" I heard Edna behind the girls.She stepped into view and nodded reverently."Come to my room later on okay," I nodded in shock. She'd never invited me anywhere, let alone the privacy of her room."Where are the boys
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I asked if we could sit outside in the sun, maybe I'd feel better. Khai rolled out a mat and poured me a glass of orange juice. He carried me outside and laid me on the carpet and he laid right beside me.His face rested in his palms and he brushed a lock of my hair behind my ear. He moved closer and kissed my forehead. We were in the middle of the garden where anyone interested could see us."Every moment you were asleep I felt helpless. If you didn't come for me...""Then you would have been shot," I said."Is that what you want?" I asked him."In this circumstance, yes. I'd rather be the one in pain. Not you.""This pack needs you. I don't regret taking that shot for you."Khai shook his head. "It was a human who shot you. When I tried to go after him his scent had suddenly disappeared. That doesn't happen. A scent doesn't disappear just like that, especially a human's because they don't run that fast.""What was he doing in
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-26She Was The Queen Chapter Sixty-Seven - Khai
I sent Jacob out three days ago to investigate what happened. Who was the man and why was he there? Who sent him? Traga land and all the lands surrounding us owned by wolves were protected by the law against poaching and any type of hunting. No one was allowed to hunt there so what was he doing with a gun? Was he trying to be lucky? Who would hunt a wolf? A taxidermist? Had he intended to wear my skin or put my head on a wall?Anyhow he needed to be found and killed. He was going to tell the whole world about 6-foot-tall wolves. He must've seen her turn human after he shot her. We couldn't let him go. He had to be found and all the people he told.Although I was asleep, I was aware and held her as closely as I could. I could hear her breathing. Finally normal. Her heartbeat was good for a sleeping woman and her hair smelled the same way it always did; cedar with a hint of honey. It made me feel like I was in one of my daydreams.In th
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I headed for the bathroom, locked the door and washed my face at the sink. My face was heating up, I wanted to cry. I felt like a failure. I was killing her. I couldn't save her. I couldn't find her perpetrator and make him beg her for forgiveness. I couldn't make her feel like the queen she was. What kind of alpha fails his luna? And what could I do? What could I do to save her? Wait for Walter to figure it out?All I could think of was finding the stupid human who did this. But every time I did that it took me away from her. Those days when she was unconscious I would go out, run for miles looking for him but every second I was away, I felt horrible for not spending it with her.But what if that idiot could help me? I'd have to beg a species below me for salvation. My pride was a huge lump in my throat but for her, I would swallow it. I wouldn't lose the only completion I had in my life.I had such a huge hole in my heart ever since my father's death and havin
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She Was The Queen Chapter Hundred and Twenty
The world was red as I backed away, trying to shake the blood off my face. Intiyago walked slowly toward me. Prowling, Ravenous and angry but his eyes – his eyes were sympathetic.Roman, this is not what I want. His voice was soft in my head. He stopped in his tracks, his head lowered down and he licked drops of my blood which had fallen on a rock.No.But it was too late, his pink tongue wiped the rock clean and his eyes surged with a golden glow. A menacing growl ripped out of him.This is what I want!His voice was heavy again, dark and sharp. The sun healed the scratch and I could see properly again. I charged toward him and clawed at his face. Claw after claw I saw blood and more blood until his face was disfigured. He howled and jumped to the side where he rammed me into a tree. The impact almost broke my ribs but I got back up and gave him everything I had. I rammed him into the other tree and bit into his arm so hard I hit his bone.The painful howl he screamed satisfied me i
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Malcolm decided to return to the funeral with a busted nose and lips. I waited on the porch for the guard dogs to appear. They said that as soon as Khai was buried we would get to go.Nothing else mattered but my vengeance, nothing at all. There was no after. I couldn’t imagine it and if I died killing all the Azraels I would be satisfied, I would’ve achieved my life’s purpose.A couple of wolves… Ten? No fifteen. Twenty-seven? Thirty! Thirty, to be exact broke out of the forest, ravenous and ready to fight. Traga guard dogs. Slightly bigger than other wolves and their legs showed that they spent their time fighting and running. These were strong wolves. I almost felt pride when I saw them coming in, if no one knew – they would’ve thought they were wild wolves.I got to my feet as family members and other Tragas came back to the house in their human forms. Hannah ran to my side.“You don’t have to do this. You’re the alpha, send them out instead. You stay.”Vomit bubbled in the back o
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When we were out of sight he loosened his grip on me. My hand quickly found its way to his and I held it tight. I couldn’t let go of the warmth, even for a second. I still allowed my mind to play tricks on me. If I did not look at him and imagine his voice as Khai’s he would be Khai.“You can’t do that type of stuff. It’s traumatising,” he said.I knew it was wrong. I did not doubt it but I didn’t care.His other free hand ran down his face. He looked tired and sleepless. The bags under his eyes were swollen, and red cracked through the whites of his eyes. Had he not slept? I looked away from him, to the trees and anything else that would allow me to swap him out with who I wanted him to be.“That’s why we have to look at him before they shut the casket. It prevents such things.”Leaves crunched under his boots and my heels. My ankles and toes hurt.It was insane how it hadn’t been a complete year since I met Khai. I met him in winter and lost him before winter. I let go of his hand. H
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A blur turned into a man with long hair, hunched forward, his back to me. His shoulders moved up and down as he sat on the other end of the mattress. Sunlight poured into the room and it was warm.“What do you want Malcolm?”“Alpha,” he said dully. I groaned.“Please don’t call me that.”“Thank you, I wasn’t enjoying it.” He simply said.We were alone in the room, Edna and Audrey must’ve left for breakfast or something. A little tingle in my stomach made me desperately want to see his face.“Hey look at me,” I told him and he adjusted his weight.His hair was wet, dripping still and parted in the middle. He looked clean, it suited him to be clean.“Why do you keep long hair, you look like a songwriter,” I said.A small smile etched upon his face and I had no idea why it felt good. I hated it.On the other hand, my arms felt like they had been squeezed into immobility and my body was heavy. My nose was runny and I sniffled. I had been lying on one side the whole night, crying in my sle
She Was The Queen Chapter Hundred and Sixteen
The hours went by and people stopped coming. Most must’ve been sleeping but I could hear them outside, mourning and crying, their whispers like the wind whistling through leaves.Before I could notice, Edna had curled into a ball and fallen asleep. Yolanda said she was going to the bathroom, but she never returned for a very long time. Audrey and I sat in silence for 20 minutes, just staring off into the darkness and the shadows that danced along with the candle flames.“She’s with Jacob, you know?” Audrey mentioned matter-of-factly.I looked over at her and her face was deepened by shadows, the crevices of her smile were like dark corners. The statement didn’t surprise me – rather I was absorbed in the atmosphere of everything. How dark and gloomy everything had gotten, how everybody’s smiles had turned into tears and clenched teeth. It only took a single moment.“How has this affected you?” I asked her.The question scared me at first, I was afraid she would give me something intell
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That night Khai’s bedroom was cleared and they only left the mattress. The room was as bare as carcasses my brothers and I left stripped of any flesh after a hunt. His smell went along with everything and all I could smell was the stench of cigarettes, old, from when Khai used to smoke as a teenager.The room was to be the main room of mourning. Whitney, Edna, Yolanda, Audrey and I sat in there with scarves covering our heads and the longest dresses and skirts we could find. Tradition was the reason for everything lately. We were supposed to sit there and mourn until the sun came up and the funeral began.I didn't want to do it, it sounded miserable. But then I realized I was nowhere above misery and I was the one who spent days with a corpse in bed, pretending and hoping he would wake up and call it all some foul joke. That never happened.Although I wasn’t officially a widow I was considered one. We never got down to tying the knot but his ring hun
She Was The Queen Chapter Hundred and Fourteen
Malcolm’s eyes fell on me, cold and stern.“This is not Malcolm’s idea, it is simply tradition,” Raymond said calmly.“Yes… but I am the alpha, I can rule that tradition out of the book,” I said.Raymond’s face hardened. He stood up and stormed toward me. His hand wrapped around the collar of my shirt as he pulled me up to his level.“Haven’t you caused enough trouble, bitch? You will do as we say and fix what you broke.”His voice was coarse, hot on my cheek.“Raymond, calm down! Leave the girl alone!” Edna protested.With all his strength he threw me back into the couch and I sat back down. I tried not to show it but my heart was racing and I was scared. Raymond was a large man, akin to a bear. If we wanted to, he could’ve thrown me into the wall and broken through it.“Roman, I hoped I didn’t have to make it explicitly clear but
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Before I could get to know Audrey better Yolanda came to call us. Yolanda and Audrey’s relationship was characterized by brutal teasing, nothing was off the table. Yolanda only needed to say a sentence before Audrey criticised it.“Where did you pick up that atrocious accent?” Audrey asked as we walked down the hallway.At the first step, Yolanda tittered.“Must’ve been from those years when you tutored me. Heads up, read a book before you think you can lecture someone.”“I love to see you taking initiative, I didn’t know you could read.”The two giggled between each other. I didn’t know how to feel about the jokes though, since I couldn’t read.It never mattered if I could read or not back home, what advantage would such a skill afford a culture of people who hardly read? School didn’t exist either, at least in the formal sense. All older wolves saw it as their responsibility to educate those who were younger than them. One morning I’d find myself hunting with my father and the next,
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I was told I was not needed for the meeting that was happening in the living room. What could I say for myself anyway? I could hear them shouting from downstairs, anger and confusion laced in their voices.Audrey and I sat in Khai’ and I’s room… my room. She dressed up in Yolanda’s sweater and jeans and she looked better in them. As I was dressing up in the bathroom Audrey had already made the bed and put everything away.“It still smells like him in here,” she said as she folded a blanket and put it away in the wardrobe.“You didn’t have to do that,” I said as kindly as I could.Inside I was fuming. How dare she change everything? The room was so neat and tidy it was like any other day. She smoothed the bed until it had no wrinkles before she sat on it.“I cannot sit in disorder,” she stated.Her face was placid and innocent, I couldn’t find it in myself to yell at her
