Alpha Easton’s Runaway Mate
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Chapter 17: A King’s Luna
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Regina cannot sleep.
She stays awake, deep into the night - far later than she had ever stayed up before - staring blankly up at the ceiling.
It had taken hours for the trembling to subside.
She does not know what it is, that King Mattel Darius had controlled tonight.
She does not think them mere shadows, because mere shadows did not have the kind of attributes that those- those things had.
Because mere shadows did not summon a crushing, all-encompassing fear just by looking into their depths.
Somehow, what King Mattel Darius had done- what he’d commanded- had been far, far darker than mere shadows.
For from the depths of these shadows, had come surging a kind of darkness far blacker, and far more sinister, than anything Regina has ever known in this natural world.
She had glanced just momentarily, into those moving shapes, and had found herself rooted to the spot, petrified with the kind of bone-deep, gut-churning terror that
