All Chapters of Once Rejected, Now Desired : Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

SOPHIA By the time Asher was done apologizing for the awkwardness of the dinner, the food was already cold. So, we all made it our point of duty to empty the plates without saying another word, knowing how well we could get distracted by the next hot topic. Once we were done eating and the servants began to clear the table, I looked over at Adeline who kept her eyes on nothing in particular as she held onto her glass of red wine. She had been destabilized since Asher's question. I couldn't blame her. I would be worse if I had to lose any of my children at any point in time. "Adeline dear, why don't we leave the boys to do their little chit chat while we catch up in the garden?" I called out. I had not forgotten what she whispered in my ear when I arrived with Asher earlier. As a matter of fact, I had been counting seconds down to that very moment.She snapped out of her reverie and turned to look at me. She didn't appear to hear what I had said before, so I repeated my statement. A

AUTHOR Adeline Blane Borne meant every word she had said to Sophia - a girl who had been raised as her sister. Adeline had never liked Sophia for obvious reasons, especially that goody-two-shoes attitude of hers. It was one of the many things about Sophia that sickened Adeline to her stomach. It was also one of the reasons she had decided to “help” Sophia in her fight. “It would be so much fun watching her try to beat Reed at a game he knows too well.” She thought to herself on the drive home. To her, this was all nothing but a very interesting soap opera she had been given a one time chance to direct. Who could possibly want to miss out on that? She stayed silent throughout her ride home beside her husband, Reed. Adeline could feel his eyes on her for most of the drive, but she continued to play oblivious. She knew that her meeting with Sophia had been haunting him. She knew the question that lingered at the tip of his tongue, and wondered how much it would take to push it out of

ASHER “Good morning, your majesty.” Gaston called out from behind me once I walked past him. I didn’t stop to look at him, perhaps it was because at that point, my mind was more occupied with trying to keep Sophia safe. She was swimming in dangerous waters, I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that. I tilted my head backwards to spare him a shirt glance. For some reason, he was sweating profusely, and not even the black handkerchief he had in his right hand could do anything about it. I narrowed my eyes on him. I had not seen him that way in a very long time, and it wasn’t just about the sweat. There was a worried look in his eyes that caused me to pause in my tracks. “What’s going on?” Straight to the point, no much talk was needed. “Something is wrong, your majesty. Something is terribly wrong.” The noise from the door of my throne room distracted me. I didn’t know I was supposed to have a meeting with the lords today. It definitely wasn’t on my schedule. “There is a meeting

SOPHIA “Let me go!” I screamed, but the nasty sack bag over my head must have muffled the sound, because whoever was carrying me didn’t seem to care. “I said put me the hell down, or you’ll suffer for this! All of you!” I couldn’t see or smell anything through the bag worn over my head. It was impossible to breathe in anything but dust. My mind continued to wander to Ivan’s face as I was being carried away, and back to Asher. My sweet Asher. I should have… I should have told him everything. He would have been able to find me. I was thrown into a chair, and felt a tight rope go around me three times, trapping my hands and legs. I tried to kick the people away, but my shoulders were pressed down, and two large hands pressed my ankles together with so much force, the right almost crushed the left. I screamed in pain, before I felt the bag being lifted from my neck. My head dropped as I coughed violently. I couldn’t deny the fact that I was more than grateful for the gift of sight -

SOPHIA My absolute worst nightmare. I should have known this was all her from the very start. There was no way Reed would have been bold enough to step foot into the palace after what he had done, knowing fully well that some of us - especially Asher and his wife - were fully aware of what he had done. When he had the backing of the queen dowager, you were unstoppable. And that was what Reed was. My intestines tied themselves into a tight knot as she slowly and majestically approached me. She looked at me with dark blue eyes filled with hate. At that moment, I began to ask myself a lot of questions as cold sweat trickled down my forehead. Did I do something more than love and marry her son to deserve such hatred? It was fine that she didn’t like me, I had never expected her to. I was an omega born to an absentee mother and a now late father, and her son was the alpha king of Darkmoon. But this hate? The steaming one that exuded from the pores of her skin and heated up the alre