ログインSabrina. " But all is not lost..." he stated, a cunning glint cropping his eyes. " There is another way that you can make yourself useful in the palace..." Alpha King Alexander informed, his eyes holding mine in a way that had my skin prickling. " Either that, or you will be forced to leave the palace. .We only keep people who add value here, after all." He expressed, a deep chuckle escaping from his lips. All along, from the moment I entered in, I remained composed, listening as he spoke his mind, selling a picture of calm and composure even when every part in my body was screaming with anger, bitterness. But aside from chalking it all down, what more could I do? He was the Alpha king...it was not like I could fight him, at least not at the moment.. I was now powerless, my wolf was dead, I was practically a cripple.. What could I possibly do? I just allowed the humiliation to burn through me, inch my inch, fingers tightly clenched, with no claws to pierce my sk
Rhys. I only had a few hours before the contest. 'Hang in there, Sabrina...' ' I will come for you..' I whispered as I drifted off to sleep. The former Queen had told me to eat light, but with my frying nerves, how much could I possibly eat? I had ended up taking a few bites, drinking plenty of water, and going to bed earlier. The next morning, the morning of the contest, I was long up before Jake came knocking on my door. " Slept well?" He sounded nervous as he asked, his voice laced with so much tension that you would think he was the contestant and not me. Yeah. For a person whose fate was hanging on a super thin thread, I had slept too well, I would say. " Let's head out.." He didn't even give me time to respond before he instructed. " The contest will begin in about an hour. You need to be there earlier enough." He urged, nervously, motioning for us to leave. I didn't stoll either. And I wasn't going to lie. I was a hell of nerves, so many what if
Rhys. " At least now you will have options." She mumbled, sounding disturbed with the earlier excitement diming for a moment. " With your Phantom Alpha abilities, you can now be a royal member without having to go through with the contest." She added, forcing a smile. " But that will come at a different cost." She stated, and my heart clenched. Why was I not so surprised, though? This was the royal palace.. Everything had a hidden cost. Did they really have to make life so complicated? " What cost?" I chalked down the bitterness in my throat as I asked. " You might have to let the council know about your newly discovered abilities. " She took a pause, as if she was mentally assessing tbe situation, before proceeding. "Of course, your name will be doused with prestige, they will introduce you as a new addition to the royal family, and you will get to enjoy all the glory that comes with it, but.." She paused, and I clenched my fingers at the 'but' I didn't e
Rhys. "Sleep early. " Jake instructed, already walking away, and I nearly scoffed. Sleep early? It was already hours past midnight. How earlier could that get? Well, he didn't seem to notice, and even if he did, he didn't seem to care, either. " You are a Phantom Alpha." " You are a Phatom Alpha." . He was mumbling to himself, as he paced back and forth in the room, and at some point, he lifted his head to face me, the expression on his face unreadable. " You don't seem to get it, Rhys!" He added, with an incredulous face. " This is js big.." He whispered, more to himself than to me. " This changes everything. " He added, and I shot him a questioning look. " With this gift, you might not actually have to take the contest." He explained, wearing a wide smile. " Sleep early. " " The Queen has to know. " He instructed, and with that, he was already gone. I was left there, standing in the balcony, buried deep in thoughts, but with a sense of dread coil
Rhys. " I honestly don't know how you survived something that almost killed your father..." he wasn't even looking at me as he spoke. His voice was low, a mixture of mild pride and disbelief. Honestly, I understood why he was so worked up..If I hadn't managed to get out of that mirage, I probably would have ended in a far worse situation than my father's. From how quickly things were progressing, the pain, the buzzing in my ears, the darkness that was slowly creeping in, the consciousness that was slowly fading away, and the suffocation, another second there and it would have been a miracle if I would have ended up as just a cripple. Yes. I would have been lucky to come out as s cripple. From the pain that had consumed me, I had sensed it, death so near that it had been practically chocking me. And, I might have never seen my father at his prime, but after going through such kind of a torture, I would give a standing ovation to anyone who went through it and came out
Rhys. " In over a million people that have ever been subjected through phantom fury..." He squeezed out, his eyes reddening. So, the person was called a phantom Alpha. And the act itself was Phantom Fury? I nodded, as it dawned on me. Jake looked out through the open balcony. He was seemingly taking a moment to recompose himself. That topic seemed like a sore spot to him. " There has only ever been one person to survive that hell." he whispered, swallowing a bitter lump. One person in a million? Well, I think I was the second one in history, then? "But that person was left nearly crippled.." He squeezed out, his eyes reddening at his words and reading the room, my heart clenched. He couldn't have been talking about himself, could he? But he wasn't crippled...Crippled. . I bitterly clenched my fingers at the words. I had come to hate that name and everything attached to it..From Jake's words the other day, Sabrina had been crippled too. Surely, it wasn't
Rhys. 'How long are you going to fight it, Rhys?' ' It's barely the first day and you are already losing your sh*t! The future is surely going to be interesting. I can't wait to see you surrendering to the mate bond, and to our beautiful mate!' My wolf's sarcastic voice rang in the back of m
Sabrina. " What game are you playing at, now?" Still on the couch, he asked, his dark eyes searching for mine, and the sleep vanished from my eyes as I took in his grumpy face. " What are you talking about?" I asked, the irritation in my voice hardly concealed. In the name of all things liv
Sabrina. The past few days after our wedding were pure hell. There were like a thousand things that I was supposed to do. From the ten hours of gruelling Luna training, to the back-to-back night meetings that I had to hold virtually with the execs of my company, Rina Dream Scents, and then,
Sabrina. " The choice is yours, son." There was a gentle smile on Alpha Callum's face as he explained, a sweet smile that seemed to mock at his son's bitter face. " You...you" Words seemed to be failing him, and for a moment, Rhys couldn't form a coherent sentence. His face twisted with







