ALANA“Yes, that’s right, Alana. Excellent! That is how you do it!”I smiled and made my last turn before the queen luna and took a final pose.“Perfect!” She clapped her hands for me and stood up from her seat in the room where I performed ballet for her.I heard from William that the queen luna loves to dance before she injured her feet in a battle. I don’t want to argue that I did it out of just mere curiosity because I deliberately learned it to impress her.“Thank you, queen luna,” I said, smiling from ear to ear.Even though William kept me in the dark from them, I have never felt being treated negatively by her. Sometimes, I felt like she has this affinity for me because I am his son’s mate.“You must really be a fast learner to learn that routine that fast! Oh, your coda reminds me so much of when I am still dancing in the past.” She smiled and caressed my face. “Actually, I have been praying to the moon goddess all these years for William to find her mate so I could finally h
WILLIAM“Alpha prince!” Minerva stood up from her seat the second I entered the room hurriedly.I have to travel for hours just to come to the hospital where Alpha Killian is being treated to warn him to just shut his tongue-less mouth up.“What are you doing here, alpha prince? Is my daughter with you? Are you two getting along well?” Minerva asked in a joyful tone. “Is she doing fine, alpha prince? Can I ask where she is?”I threw her a cold look before saying, “Leave. I have to talk to your husband alone.”She blinked, embarrassment all over her face before nodding. “Yes, alpha prince.”I took the chair next to the pretending alpha and clasped my hands together. “I know you can hear me. This is the final warning to you, Alpha Killian. Stop whatever you are planning if you still want to live. Do not tell anyone about Alana if you still want your wife and daughter to live.”He snapped his eyes open and clenched his jaws. I know he wants to say something but he can’t speak anymore.“I
ALANAWe were all gathered around the bed of the queen luna where she is weakly laying down with the alpha king tightly holding her hand.When we arrived in the room, Georgia and Sophia were already there before us. Francine and Lucas also came with us.“Father, what happened to queen luna?” William sat down next to her mother and took her other hand. “Why does she fall ill suddenly?”“She was poisoned by wolfsbane,” the alpha king answered in gritting teeth. “The queen luna was poisoned by one of the people who have met with her this week!”All gasped in unison when we heard that. How could someone in the close circle of the queen luna do this to her? How can any of us here do that to her?The alpha king looked at each one of us intently. “I have a challenge for each one of you. The one who poisoned the queen luna must be here. I will give you one week to come out or any of you here can make him or her come out. If you fail my task, then everyone here in the room will get punished in
ALANA“William…” I whispered in disbelief.He is willing to take all the blame for me? My heart bled at the thought. He is willing to embrace being hated by his parents and the whole of the state just for me?The thought brought me dread even more.“No…” I shook my head wildly and stood up away from him. “I can never allow that to happen! You will be branded a traitor by your own father and will likely be banished to live as a rogue wolf! William, I can never allow that to happen!”He smiled at me and shrugged off his shoulders. “It’s okay. I could live as a rogue wolf for my entire life. I think I would love being one.”I gasped at him. Why is he lying to himself and me? Why is he doing this just to make me feel okay?“William, are you hearing yourself? How can I allow that to happen when I am the one who ruined you? If you did not find me in the basement, then you will still live your life by now. You will not be embroiled in this mess. Have you thought that ever since I came into y
ALANAAfter my conversation with William, I went to the queen luna’s quarters to check up on her condition but I was not allowed to get near her. All of the suspects in the poisoning are not allowed to so I just looked at her from the glass in her door.“I hope you’re going to be fine, queen luna. I hope you will wake up the soonest,” I whispered while gazing at her pale face.She is a very kind person. I thought she would not like me as the mate of her son because I am an ignorant lady but she looked past that and even taught me ger favorite ballet move.I saw and experienced her mother that I did not have.I sighed before turning my back just for me to freeze right in front of a pair of cold eyes of the alpha king.“Alpha king,” I greeted and bowed my head before him.“What are you doing here?” he asked in a monotone voice. “You should be out there searching for the culprit.”I nodded and clasped my trembling hands together. His presence is just too overwhelming for me. “I just took
ALANA“That is not true!” William snarled at Sophia. “You are just lying! You are trying to frame and implicate Alana right from the very start!”Sophia shook her head and appealed before the alpha prince. “Alpha prince, I am not lying! That is what my investigation said! Even though I am saddened to know that my sister can do that to the mother of her own mate, the investigation bore the truth and I cannot dare to tamper with it.”“Alana cannot do that. The queen luna is her instructor. She cannot do such things!” he continued to defend me but the alpha king shot him a look.“William, enough.”“But, alpha king!”He dismissed him by waving his hand. “Let’s hear what she’s going to say first. Tell me the details, Sophia.”And my sister gladly continued to pin me down more. “As you wish, alpha king. I believe Alana has the motive to kill the queen luna out of everyone here. Even though she is the alpha prince’s mate, her identity and ignorance are mismatched to the reputation of the alp
ALANAWilliam’s grip of my hand tightened with warm confidence.“It’s not like I am deflecting the questions, father. I just want to protect Alana at all costs from people who are going to use her for her weaknesses.”He threw me a smile and shrugged off. “Whether this is a test or not, I know that Alana has a pure heart and she can never hurt my dear mother.”I returned the smile shyly as my cheeks blushed. William never failed to make me feel seen and assured.“Alpha king, that was just a test? For real?!” Sophia exclaimed in disbelief. “But I swear that we really found wolfsbane in Alana’s room! Are you just going to ignore that?”The alpha king looked at his wife to explain everything.“The rooms of the three of you have been purposely put wolfsbane into so you would accuse one another. The rest of the suspects were just used as decoys to prevent the three of you from knowing that it’s a test.” The queen luna gazed at me proudly. “I just did not expect Alana to be so selfless to t
ALANA“There is no way I would let you go though those tests successfully, Alana,” Lucas said the second he came into William’s room to guard me because my mate left for an important meeting that afternoon.I was busy researching what to do to let my wolf out because the second test will be happening two days from now.“It’s not for you to decide, Lucas. I am telling you, I am going to win these tests and justify that I am his mate.” I raised my head high to look at him. “I will marry my only mate, Lucas.”He groaned and caught my arm tightly. “I am also your mate, Alana! Do not put me in the sideline as if your body does not respond to me more than it did when you are with the alpha prince.” His eyes lingered on the fading mark on my neck. “William already had you for months and now it’s time that I will have you all for myself and I will make sure to erase every bit of your memory with him.”I felt electricity run through me when Lucas put his hand on the small of my back causing me
ARIA“Z-Zuleik…” I stepped back while holding my breath when my back was literally on the cliff already. One wrong move and I could be a cold shredded meat in an instant.“Did you know what I went through just to penetrate the boundaries of this fucking palace just to find you?!” he said in gritted teeth. “Did you know that that fucking alpha prince whom you have been munching over with is holding Lola hostage?!”He grabbed my arm burying his nails on my skin. “You are my mate, Aria! You should have been with me! But what are you doing? You are busy fucking with him behind my back while your people are suffering!”He yanked me onto him while letting the shovel fall into my feet making me winced in pain but he just dismissed it coldly.“Did you know that you are fucking selfish? I sent Lola to get you and look what you put her into! She was captured by the alpha prince!”I grinned and tried to strip his hand off my neck. I don’t really like everything that he said to me now. I know it
ARIAI burst into laughter when he said that. That is actually the most absurd thing I have ever heard in my entire life and it’s the first time I heard about it.“Mates rejecting each other? Alpha prince, are you high on something? How can you be a mate to someone and reject her? You are just making me laugh with your useless lame jokes. Stop it. No one would believe you.”I turned my back ready to leave him in the cabin when he spoke again.“Alana, you and I are karmic mates because you are the granddaughter of the former alpha king that my father slayed.”I blinked and turned back around to see the guilt written all over his face.“What the hell are you talking about, alpha prince? What is this again? Why are you like this? Why are you inventing impossible things like that?”He remained in his place, his eyes fixed on mine as fear and determination crossed his eyes.“I regretted not telling you sooner because I am scared of the repercussions. I am afraid that the truth will take yo
ARIAMy eyes widened in shock when I saw the ruthless alpha prince that is feared by everyone outside and inside the palace shed his tears right in front of me.“Alpha prince!” I exclaimed when I didn’t know what to do. “Alpha prince, what are you doing? I didn’t mean to say those words. I was not thinking. I am taking them all back.”How could I ever properly think of doing or saying something when he is slowly going into his knees while his tears keep pouring?“You are right. I lost her because of my cowardice,” he said in a shaking voice while staring at me. “I lost my woman because I was not decisive enough. I promised to protect her when I rescued her from that godforsaken place but her life did not get any better in my hands. She suffered while being with me. She suffered because of me because she will always choose to protect me over herself.”He gasped and reached for my feet to touch it gently.“I saw how hard she struggled so we could be together but it’s already too late. I
ARIAThe ride back to the palace is riddled with a good tension with the way the alpha prince is holding and caressing my hand tightly.I just knew with his sticky gaze that something will go down the drain today and it’s definitely our clothes peeling off from our body.“Take us to the cabin,” he commanded the driver who turned the car around.I still saw Lucas’ car stopped as we passed by it.When we reached the cabin, I did not think twice and pulled him to me and kissed him passionately.I do not know why I am doing this and if I am kissing him right but I still did it anyway.The alpha prince froze for a second when I caught him off guard but he took control of the pace right after.Setting me up on the table, he settled in between my legs and cupped my breasts inside my top unceremoniously.I let out a gasp inside his mouth and opened my lips bigger for him to give him more access.Like all the other things and places in the palace, his kisses are also familiar.I know I have ki
ARIALucas bowed before us, his eyes still fixated on our hands as he greeted the alpha prince.“Alpha prince, forgive me for saying this but you should not be out and parading Aria. The alpha king is wary about your sudden changes. You have a wife, alpha prince. It is not good to see you with the other woman.”But the alpha prince just opened his hand just to grip my hand tighter. “Lucas, since when did I take up any of your ill advices? I am the alpha prince. I know more than you do.”The beta stood straight and looked into the eyes of the alpha prince, a move that I reckoned is a direct challenge to the alpha prince.The atmosphere got intense and I found myself analyzing the situation. The alpha prince and the beta are known to be so close to each other so I do not know the reason why they are looking at each other like they’re about to transform and tear the other up.“Alpha prince, I was put up by the alpha king to monitor your actions because he found you to be incapable of mak
ARIAI filled my lungs with the scent of the plants in the laboratory and smiled to myself.I’m feeling so at ease and comfortable in this place as if I belonged here.The medicine on the racks, the books about healing, and just the smell of the plants in this huge room are enough to put the biggest smile on my face.“Now, this is what we call heaven,” I muttered to myself while touching the equipment in the area.I don’t really know about the intention of the alpha prince to bring me here but I will never complain because I just love it here. It felt like I belonged here.“I think I have held this before,” I said while caressing a microscope. “And these books right here, I think I read them all before.”Closing my eyes, I walked slowly to the shelves of books touching every single one of them hoping that I would remember something.I do not believe the alpha prince when he insinuated that I am his mate but something right now has clicked in my head and I would just like to discover w
WILLIAMI bowed before my parents when I arrived at the hall. “Father, mother, you are back.”My mother ran up to me, opening her arms towards me giving me a tight and big hug. “Oh, my son! What’s with the cold treatment my alpha prince?”She chuckled but I cannot return the enthusiastic treatment since the betrayal of what they did to me is still fresh in my mind.I don’t think I could ever forgive them for what they’d done to me and Alana.The alpha king grunted in his seat while staring at me.“I heard from Sophia that you brought home a woman.”I laughed bitterly and shook my head in annoyance. “And she did not fail to report that to you.”My father stood up, his brows furrowed because apparently, he wanted me to be the best husband there is for someone that he knew right from the very start that I despise because of what she did to Alana.That, to me, is one of the biggest betrayals he can do against me on top of manipulating me to forget Alana.“William, I already told you to be
ARIAThe kiss deepened as he carried me and laid me down onto the grasses where he cupped my face and literally devoured my mouth like he has been deprived of contact for years.“You are back into my life and I could not thank the moon goddess for safely bringing you back into my life,” he said while caressing my face.His voice is cracked as if he is going to cry at any second. Pressing his forehead on mine, he sniffed my scent and aligned his breathing with mine.“I’m sorry for forgetting you, my love. I’m sorry for letting you alone all those years that I am not with you.”I immediately pushed him away the second he said that and sat up while fixing the strap of my dress.What the hell is he talking about? Although my heart and body are reacting positively to his touch, his words confused the hell out of me.What the fuck is he talking about? Is he talking about fated mates? But we are not like that. I already have a mate and it’s considered to be a jinx. And royal werewolves are k
ARIAI know something was different when I woke up and found the alpha prince just staring softly at me from the other side of the bed.His eyes are only fixed on me with a certain glow on them as if he wants to tell me so many things but forced himself to shut his mouth up.I never saw him like this and it kind of warms my heart to see him looking at me this way even when it sounds so delusional and out-of-reality kind of thing.“W-What happened?” I asked while sitting up. “What are y-”My voice trailed off when I found myself in his arms being tightly hugged by the alpha prince in an instant. He pushed me back down to the bed and settled his nose in between my neck sniffing me in the process.I was caught off guard but I did not move and just let him embrace me in the gentlest way possible.“I miss you so much. I miss you so much,” he whispered in my ears while kissing my head.I pushed him back but it’s like moving a big boulder rock. “Alpha prince, what are you talking about?”I c