The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate
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Chapter 18: moving forward
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, they say. Rather, it is that which fears, but will walk through the darkest of it anyway.”
Mattel taps an idle rhythm against the skin of Regina’s neck, beating in time with Regina’s pounding heart.
“I guess I should hold some belief to your claim of me being your mate because a king’s Luna must possess a dragonheart, to be so brave as to walk through fear untouched.”
Regina breathes.
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**NEXT DAY**
Regina awakens to a room that is not her own.
In the light of day - sunlight streaming through wide-open windows, bathing the entire floor in a warm glow - it’s almost unrecognizable.
The entire room is submerged in the ghoulish, inky blackness of earlier - every inch of the four walls, the entirety of the floor, is bathed in that gruesome pitch darkness, gaping and incomprehensibly terrifying.
Slowly, still caught in between consciousness and that hazy world of dreams, she sits up, the s
