All Chapters of The Alpha King's Princess : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

It was a trick question. I knew that he didn’t want me. He’d said it as much, but as I met his gaze, I couldn’t help but answer. Candido had always been so important to me. He always would be.“I know you don’t want me,” I said, trying to keep my voice even. “I’ve… made my peace with it, but that doesn’t mean you have to marry Sibyl.”He bared his teeth, his eyes glinting with anger. “Hedy, you—”I didn’t want to hear anything he had to say about it, but I was lucky that I didn’t have to.“Your Majesty!” Someone called from down the hallway. “We have an update. One of the vampires is still alive!”My heart lurched. How had a vampire survived that fire, let alone get caught? Was it just one? I met his gaze, daring him to delay going to go see what the man had to say. He huffed and pulled back, stepping away from the still sizzling door.“You have no concept of politics. With everything at stake, it has nothing to do with me being honorable, and everything to do with this is what has to

I leaped out of the fountain, tackling the woman to the ground and slamming my fist into her face. Before someone else could get up, I twisted and took them down with a swift, sharp kick to the chest. Then I was up. Someone grabbed my jacket, but I was moving with too much force to punch someone else. My jacket was ripped off me. I didn’t stop. I turned into the force of it and swung at whoever had grabbed me.My claws cut through empty air, but I didn’t stop.I couldn’t stop.There was so much rage in me and so much power. It felt like my power had come from a deep, overflowing well. I was furious and powerful. I tore through the groups of people. Not caring what was torn off me or what else was happening. Someone scratched me, and I felt it healing as I drove his face into the ground.But wait. This wasn’t me.I wasn’t the type to just fight people like this.I wasn’t the type to reveal how much strength I really had.It had to be the smoke. I had enough control to keep from killing

I could tell that Candido was surprised at my declaration. Norton went still and quiet. Sibyl flushed and whirled around on me. More than the anger, there was fear there. Her gaze dropped to my chest briefly. She bared her teeth in a vicious snarl at me. But her eyes were haunted. Was she thinking about the vampire and his plans? Was she afraid of him?Had he threatened to kill her if all of this didn’t go according to his plan? It would almost make sense why she seemed so desperate, but when I thought back to how they were in the woods, I doubted it. Whatever she was getting from him was at Candido’s expense and I just couldn’t have that.I looked back at Norton and found him just as angry though his fear seemed more subdued than hers. Maybe he was being threatened, but he was also manipulative and fully able to ask for help instead of working against Candido like this. Him selling off pieces of his territory was probably a ploy from the vampire, or maybe it was just him making a way

I didn’t know what to do or say. I was just lost and alone in Candido’s office. I looked around, remembering most of the moments I had spent in here, stealing a bit of his time for myself. Could I stay in this house? Could I stay at his side when he found this woman he spoke of? Could I ever let him go? I didn’t want to think about it. I didn’t want to think about him and this woman that would spend the rest of her life with him. Everything in my heart was crying out in agony at the thought, yet I could feel myself distancing from it. There were so many things that could change, so many unknowns, and so many issues that I just couldn’t solve on my own. But there was time. Candido said he’d met her weeks ago, but that was before the moon before my birthday. What if he was feeling something that I simply wasn’t old enough to feel yet? He could have confused me with someone else. Even if it was a different person, he didn’t know her. He knew me. He loved me, no matter what h

I couldn’t say how long I stayed there, crying on the floor of the library, listening to Francium sobbing through the phone, but it was a long time. The crack in the New Moon’s panel hadn’t shrunk or grown, but it seemed to grow darker above me.Soon, I heard movement. There was no more sobbing or words, but I heard him walking away from the phone. I listened and waited to hear something else, but there was nothing but silence. TThen, the call dropped.I felt my resolve start to build.I couldn’t stay here.I couldn’t let anyone know what had happened.The campus wasn’t safe, and there was nothing more that I could do.I stood and walked slowly through the halls, walking back the way I had run. I found my shoes and noted the new damage in the halls, great, wide cracks in the mortar. The gilded edges of the hallways had been cracked and revealed the dark stone beneath it.As I exited the academy, I said nothing to the Team Gamma-2 members, and they said nothing to me.One of them spok