All Chapters of FATED TO A TYRANT: Chapter 31 - Chapter 34

GALLAHAN’S POVDeath would’ve been better than hearing such a remark from my fated mate.I looked at her. First with disbelief. Then with resignation. And finally, with anger.The will to fight for her and our children was burned into ashes by the scalding words she said, and all I wanted right then and there was to hurt her back.Immature, sure.But I didn’t care.I had never, ever, ever thought I would willingly try to hurt the woman I would’ve loved to put on the highest pedestal. And yet here I was.Hurt and desperately wanting to hurt back.I dropped my hold on her and took a step back, ignoring the suffocating yearning to keep her close to me. I quickly put on the coldest mask I had in my arsenal and lifted the impenetrable iron walls around myself.“I see,” I said with a voice that was wrapped with piercing indifference. “Thank you for telling me exactly how you think and feel. So in return, let me assure you. The feeling has become mutual, Miss Alfiero. I wouldn’t want a child

WILLA’S POVI was bubbling with excitement to see Calisto and Gillian as I entered the two-storey cottage I had called my home for the last six years. But a dark and heavy foreboding feeling quelled the excitement when I noticed the lack of bustle and life.I had expected to be welcomed by the happy chatter and twinkling laughter of my children.Instead, I was greeted by silence.Eerie silence.Dread rolled my stomach into a tight knot. Did Gallahan and his men somehow find my home and took my children away?But that was impossible. I had asked Sarina to re-establish the protective enchantments around the house and make them stronger. She was also looking after the twins, and she would’ve put up a fight until the cottage cave in before letting anyone lay a finger on Calisto and Gillian. “Er, Willa?” Lewis murmured as he followed me further into the house with cautious steps. “I think something is terribly wrong. You said the twins should be here.”I wanted to say something, but I cou