The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate
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Chapter 14: because the people fear him?
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The two of them take a small, compact carriage into town, manned only by their driver.
Typical protocol would dictate at least a few guards, but Mattel had said that having more guards with them would only alert their presence even more, and so the two of them would head in largely unattended.
Upon their arrival, King Mattel flips the large hood on his heavy cloak, such that it nearly conceals the entirety of his face.
Regina, startled, cannot help but to inquire, “Why are you wearing a hood, King Mattel?.”
She can see the line of King’s Mattel’s lips, quirking into an unamused smile from underneath the hood’s edge.
“My face is quite well known around these parts,” is all the explanation he gives, before exiting the carriage.
He pauses, however, to help Regina down with surprising gentleness, and Regina can’t stop staring at the massive hood that conceals most of his face.
What does it mean, that he must wea
