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The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter twenty-six
EdricI took her in for a second, not sure she was actually serious, but she had a determined look in her eye, one that said she wasn’t going to take no for an answer.I hunched my shoulders and rolled my eyes.“Come outside. If I shift here, Bane would waste no time in tearing down my library,” I motioned to her with my hands.‘You bet I will. I freaking hate this place,’ Bane growled inside me.When we reached the meadows, I watched her for some more time, trying to gauge how she felt about me. There was no emotion in her eyes.For now, she seemed to have forgotten her sorrows and the reason she was here, trapped – me.Instead in her large, almond-shaped and colored eyes, was curiosity etched so deep, it threatened to burst out of her and bite me if I didn’t do what she wanted.“You sure about this?” I asked again.She nodded enthusiastically.“Alright. Now, move a little back. Gotta give 'em time to adjust to you,” I said, buying myself time to prep for the transformation, and just
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DianaThe moment Edric shifted back into his human form, he closed up.He didn’t want to talk to me…or just didn’t want to talk at all, and I let him. If I was being honest, the time I had spent with his wolf was enlightening.His wolf was the opposite of him.Or, just a different side of the same coin. You could tell he possessed a lot of energy, but he had this calm to him, almost like he didn’t really know his power.He came up to me so easily, that I wondered if I posed that little of a threat, and his way of being vulnerable around me was really endearing.Even in werewolf-dominated environments, it was rare to have people interacting with their wolves, and so, I doubted I would see Bane again in such calm settings.I knew not to ask. I watched him go into the house before letting out the breath that I had been holding. You know…now that I think about it, save for the feeling of being trapped, this is a much better quality of life than the one I was getting from my father back at
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DianaMy morning routine was pretty simple. Take a bath, cook for Edric and Muzan (because Muzan was nice), and do the dishes after.The dishes were the hardest part.Once that was over, usually by mid-morning, I had the rest of the day to myself till dinner, when I had to cook again.I spent it in the library, doing my research about how to kill an immortal wolf.The thing is…there was no book like that.You could tell that he did spend a lot of time researching how to die since there were a lot of things here that could easily point me in the direction of death, but nothing specifically matched his case scenario.Well, I made him a promise I intended to keep, mostly because it felt like he would kill me if I didn’t.But also, because it was my biggest shot at freedom.I needed to kill him if I was going to be free, the promise of the gold and mansion notwithstanding.At least, that’s what I told myself, even though I was starting to find that this place was not so bad, after all. Bu
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EdricDiana was a sport, and not in the exhausting kind of way.She was more like the wind that rushes through you when you’re mid-sprint, and it was honestly very refreshing. I spent all afternoon with her, correcting her mistakes and teaching her new words.Honestly, for the most part, she was fine.It would have been difficult for anyone to distinguish between her and a well-governed maiden.She was also sharp as a tack.I didn’t have to continually repeat myself unless she wanted to annoy me.Once we were done learning, she had gained more knowledge than any student I had ever taught."Wow," I smiled as she stood up proudly, adjusting her shirt and smiling from ear to ear before giving a long stretch. "I should begin to teach you some advanced math concepts." I joked."We could work that out," she shrugged.I didn't expect her to be so open to something as complex as math.It was even mind-boggling that she didn't flinch, especially since I explained to her, some of the things I d
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DianaSomething about the way Edric started treating me unnerved me a little.If something is too good to be true, then it most likely is. I didn’t know how to explain it, but it felt uncanny.Nothing beats the feeling of knowing what someone was capable of, and seeing them manifest it.Even if it was negative, it was predictable. That was a huge plus.Edric could turn me into his unfailing slave if he really wanted to and without very much effort on his part. I was already behaviorally docile, mended from birth, and beaten to perfection. All he needed was a little coercion. And yet, he didn’t.Yet, today, he chose to smile when he saw me from afar, and he chose to raise his hands and wave.Edric the monster waved at me.It felt unreal. Of course, I waved back, but I couldn’t shake off the weird flapping in my stomach that came again. As I swept the main area of the house, where everyone would see, his smile plagued my mind.It was definitely wrong.I couldn’t bear to see him smile a
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DianaI didn’t know what to make of the dream or what it meant.Was it supposed to mean anything? I have dreamt of my father harming me multiple times. I mean, he did it in real life. How much more difficult of a dream did it have to be?It was simple.Right?I held my wrist, till feeling the pain of the burn. But I remember what Edric said about the phantom pain. That shouldn’t have translated to real life, no?I rubbed on the wrist, and the pain seared my brain. I had to look at it, and lo and behold, there was a wolf head…staring at me, with a slight glow in its outline.What the hell was going on?I peered hard and long at my wrist, hoping that like all dreams, this would melt and I would see my normal wrist again.It didn’t.This was as real as my bed…as real as the very air I now breathed. As real as my captivity.Then, it came to me.‘Child of prophecy.’I didn’t feel watched. This wasn’t like the voice I heard before. It was within me. I rubbed at my wrist, thinking it would g
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DianaWhen I entered the room, I did everything religiously. From clearing out the used dishes to dusting the cabinets, I made sure I didn’t look like I wasn’t doing anything.I turned over his bed and swept a little chafing to one side before I began looking for the book.That way, if he came in and I didn’t have enough time to cover my act, I had an alibi.The dirt.‘I was cleaning.’ Such an easy lie to tell.From there on, I turned the entire place upside down.Where was the goddamn book? Wherever it was, I was determined to find it, but holy moon goddess, he was good at hiding stuff.He told me not to touch his desk, so I avoided that with as much caution as I could.I just used my eyes to scan the entire place enough but saw nothing there of intrinsic value. Just a lot of papers where the writing on them made absolutely no sense to me.“How does v ever equal u plus at?” I chuckled as I continued my search. There was a long line of other things he wrote, similar to the initial ‘v
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EdricShe was hiding something. I could tell.But none of it mattered.If she was doing something that was going to kill me, and she didn’t want me to know about it, then I was all for it.What completely threw me off guard was the lengths she went to hide it. Attempting to seduce me wasn’t her character at all.She was awkward at it, and if I wasn’t holding myself from a burst of arousal, I would have laughed. It somehow made me gaze upon her innocence and view her as…even more precious.The fact that she threw herself into that circumstance, not knowing how it’d end, but thinking…maybe from stories that she had been told…that I would just let her go, was endearing.Hence, my little pecks and teases showed her what could have happened. The endless possibilities.The fact that any other depraved man would have taken that opportunity to explore her innocence… both scared and enchanted me.She was too pure for this world…too pure for me.I knew that, and yet, I couldn’t stop.I watched
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The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-seven
EdricPain.Hot, searing pain.I felt it burn my chest, slash a bone, tear through my heart, and graze a lung.I closed my eyes, as though that would somehow make it okay, but it didn’t, and it forced a roar out of my already damaged lungs.I noticed her hand trying to pull out of the stab, but I held it in place and stared her in the eye.“Don’t you dare give up,” I growled.There were tears in her eyes, but she was strong. She didn’t let them fall. Instead, she pulled the knife a little ways out and pushed it in again, sawing at my heart.The pain blinded me, and I didn’t know when I fell to the floor.“I’m sorry,” she whimpered. “I’m so sorry…”I nodded because she didn’t deserve to do this. I forgave her before it even happened, knowing that I was the one who was supposed to apologize.This one hurt – the stab, and maybe it’s because it had been a while since I had done this, but it seemed to do more than just hurt.It weakened me.Was I really dying?Oof. Never mind.The bleeding
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-six
DianaThe first thing that came to me while I was strategizing for ways to…end his life…was the one thing that made all werewolves run for the hills.Silver.I mean, it made sense to try this, since it was the one thing that served as the end of the road for all werewolves.Using normal blades to stab a werewolf hurts like hell, but in the right conditions, a werewolf would never die from it. The healing factor borne from the combination of man and wolf was just too strong.Silver, however, circumvented that strength.How? No one really knew.A lot of people believed that shapeshifters were impure beings, and because silver was a pure metal, it repelled anything that wasn’t of the original design of the creator.It made just enough sense for us to adopt, nothing else.However, if I was going to get a good chance at really doing damage to Edric, I was going to have to do more than just a stab in the chest with a silver knife.I was going to have to get the silver to soak into him. He n
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-five
DianaI froze, completely short of words.I didn’t want to tell him about this mark yet, so, I didn’t know what to say now.Despite the lack of practice and the surprise moment, I still managed to compose myself and talk.“How do I explain this so you can believe me?” I shuddered.“Princess,” he tilted his head in a challenge, “I’m older than I remember, and yet I look less than forty. If you told me there was a goblin that came every night to draw a small piece of this mark since you were eight, I would believe you without asking questions.”I took a breath and confessed.I told him about the voice, the message she gave me, and how strange it felt. I told him about the dream and, finally, the pain I felt before getting the branding.“Huh,” he breathed. He didn’t seem surprised or in any particular awe…just thoughtful.I tried to predict how he would feel about me hiding it from him, but there wasn’t any particular annoyance from him on that part.Instead, it felt like he was ponderin
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DianaI would never have been able to guess in a hundred years, that Edric was as good as I saw him play. When he played, my headshot into the clouds.I couldn’t believe it was happening, but his songs took me to places that I didn’t think were possible to go when I closed my eyes.He made me believe in the healing power of music.In my father’s house, music only existed to mock me. Each tune they played in jubilation was a direct jab at the life that I would never have. They told me with their songs, how happy they could be, and how left out I would be.Music made me feel lonely, but I must have been broken, because that was the one thing I clung to. No matter how scathing it sounded. No matter how much unhappiness the drums beat into me, I smiled.I smiled because it was an instrument.The player was the man.The harp struck a tune of rebuttal, but I hated the person who plucked the strings.It just made more sense. Now, I was able to enjoy the music that made the piano sound like s
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-three
EdricShe was hiding something. I could tell.But none of it mattered.If she was doing something that was going to kill me, and she didn’t want me to know about it, then I was all for it.What completely threw me off guard was the lengths she went to hide it. Attempting to seduce me wasn’t her character at all.She was awkward at it, and if I wasn’t holding myself from a burst of arousal, I would have laughed. It somehow made me gaze upon her innocence and view her as…even more precious.The fact that she threw herself into that circumstance, not knowing how it’d end, but thinking…maybe from stories that she had been told…that I would just let her go, was endearing.Hence, my little pecks and teases showed her what could have happened. The endless possibilities.The fact that any other depraved man would have taken that opportunity to explore her innocence… both scared and enchanted me.She was too pure for this world…too pure for me.I knew that, and yet, I couldn’t stop.I watched
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-two
DianaWhen I entered the room, I did everything religiously. From clearing out the used dishes to dusting the cabinets, I made sure I didn’t look like I wasn’t doing anything.I turned over his bed and swept a little chafing to one side before I began looking for the book.That way, if he came in and I didn’t have enough time to cover my act, I had an alibi.The dirt.‘I was cleaning.’ Such an easy lie to tell.From there on, I turned the entire place upside down.Where was the goddamn book? Wherever it was, I was determined to find it, but holy moon goddess, he was good at hiding stuff.He told me not to touch his desk, so I avoided that with as much caution as I could.I just used my eyes to scan the entire place enough but saw nothing there of intrinsic value. Just a lot of papers where the writing on them made absolutely no sense to me.“How does v ever equal u plus at?” I chuckled as I continued my search. There was a long line of other things he wrote, similar to the initial ‘v
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty-one
DianaI didn’t know what to make of the dream or what it meant.Was it supposed to mean anything? I have dreamt of my father harming me multiple times. I mean, he did it in real life. How much more difficult of a dream did it have to be?It was simple.Right?I held my wrist, till feeling the pain of the burn. But I remember what Edric said about the phantom pain. That shouldn’t have translated to real life, no?I rubbed on the wrist, and the pain seared my brain. I had to look at it, and lo and behold, there was a wolf head…staring at me, with a slight glow in its outline.What the hell was going on?I peered hard and long at my wrist, hoping that like all dreams, this would melt and I would see my normal wrist again.It didn’t.This was as real as my bed…as real as the very air I now breathed. As real as my captivity.Then, it came to me.‘Child of prophecy.’I didn’t feel watched. This wasn’t like the voice I heard before. It was within me. I rubbed at my wrist, thinking it would g
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter thirty
DianaSomething about the way Edric started treating me unnerved me a little.If something is too good to be true, then it most likely is. I didn’t know how to explain it, but it felt uncanny.Nothing beats the feeling of knowing what someone was capable of, and seeing them manifest it.Even if it was negative, it was predictable. That was a huge plus.Edric could turn me into his unfailing slave if he really wanted to and without very much effort on his part. I was already behaviorally docile, mended from birth, and beaten to perfection. All he needed was a little coercion. And yet, he didn’t.Yet, today, he chose to smile when he saw me from afar, and he chose to raise his hands and wave.Edric the monster waved at me.It felt unreal. Of course, I waved back, but I couldn’t shake off the weird flapping in my stomach that came again. As I swept the main area of the house, where everyone would see, his smile plagued my mind.It was definitely wrong.I couldn’t bear to see him smile a
The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride Chapter twenty-nine
EdricDiana was a sport, and not in the exhausting kind of way.She was more like the wind that rushes through you when you’re mid-sprint, and it was honestly very refreshing. I spent all afternoon with her, correcting her mistakes and teaching her new words.Honestly, for the most part, she was fine.It would have been difficult for anyone to distinguish between her and a well-governed maiden.She was also sharp as a tack.I didn’t have to continually repeat myself unless she wanted to annoy me.Once we were done learning, she had gained more knowledge than any student I had ever taught."Wow," I smiled as she stood up proudly, adjusting her shirt and smiling from ear to ear before giving a long stretch. "I should begin to teach you some advanced math concepts." I joked."We could work that out," she shrugged.I didn't expect her to be so open to something as complex as math.It was even mind-boggling that she didn't flinch, especially since I explained to her, some of the things I d
