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FAKE BRIDE OF THE ALPHA KING Epilogue
Epilogue The palace had never felt so restless.Servants moved quickly but quietly through the halls, guards stood straighter than usual outside Briar's room and an unspoken tension lingered in the air. Inside her room that had been temporarily converted for the birth, Briar gripped the sheets as another contraction tore through her.Azrael was pacing.He had been pacing for the last hour, then sitting, then standing again, then running a hand through his hair before returning to pacing. His composure, the calm dominance he carried in every other situation, had completely unraveled.“Breathe, your Majesty,” the doctor instructed gently from beside the bed.“I am breathing,” she managed through clenched teeth before another wave hit her.Azrael stopped pacing immediately and rushed to her side. “Why does it look like she’s in more pain than necessary?” he demanded, his voice tight.“It is necessary,” the doctor replied calmly. “This is labor, Your Majesty.”He looked like he wanted t
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AZRAEL: I couldn't believe what just happened. I couldn't believe that Xylevia would go to that length to punish me over a 50 decades long feud. But here she was, even though she was dead, she had managed to ensure that her ghost would linger forever. She had managed to make sure she made my unborn daughter into a chimera: A blend of a siren and a wolf, one that'd be loyal to the siren who sired her. Meaning she might hate me and her mother. My hold tightened around the glass of rum in my hand and I had to reign myself in so I wouldn't shatter it. I heard Briar stir behind me. I immediately rushed back to her and the sight of her, pale, fragile, and weak made my stomach tighten. I couldn't believe my foolishness had nearly cost me her life. I couldn't believe Xylevia compelled me to hit her. “Are you okay?” I asked as I grabbed her hand. I could feel her pulse under my hold. Her eyes flickered up towards me. “Yes, I'm fine. Is she… Is everything fine now? Is she gone?”“Yes bab
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115 Azrael's POV The room smelled faintly of antiseptic. I hadn’t moved from the side of the bed since Briar had been brought in, my fingers gripping the edge of the stairs rail so tightly I could feel the strain in my knuckles. Every minute stretched longer than the last. Each sound, the soft beeping of machines, the shuffle of footsteps, felt like it was echoing directly into my chest. My heart wouldn’t stop racing, and yet, somehow, time slowed to a crawl. I tried to focus on my breathing, tried to anchor myself in the fact that Briar was alive, that she was in there, but my mind refused to stay still. Every scenario, every possibility, every potential outcome I had imagined over the past hour replayed in endless loops. Soon, one of the doctors stepped out. “Your Majesty, we’ve managed to stabilize her. She’s going to be okay.” I exhaled so forcefully it almost hurt. Relief crashed over me, and for a moment, I thought I might collapse onto the floor. My hands, which had
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114Azrael's POV Everything happened too fast and yet not fast enough.Bella’s body lay crumpled on the ground, blood spreading beneath her head, but I felt nothing for her. Nothing except a violent, unfinished rage that still burned in my veins. “You’ll never be free of me,” she said, her voice cracked but steady, blood spilling down the side of her face. “I made sure of it.”The words hit something dark inside me.I grabbed her by her neck and hauled her upward, her feet dangling, and slammed her into the concrete wall with a strong force. The impact was sickening, and a dull, wet thud followed by the sharp crack of bone meeting stone. Her head snapped back, her eyes rolling into her skull as her body went instantly limp.I let her drop, then I turned to Briar.The rage that had sustained me vanished, replaced by a hollow, freezing dread. She was terrifyingly pale. Her eyes were wide, fixed on me. She was trembling so much I feared she might shatter.I moved toward her, but I cou
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113Briar's POVXylevia.The name hung in the air like something ancient and cursed.She smiled slowly at him, and there was nothing soft left in her face. “Of course you thought you killed me,” she said calmly. “You’ve always been so arrogant in your destruction, Azrael. But I had to survive. I had to. How else would I give you a dose of your own medicine?”Azrael’s body was still locked in place, muscles straining visibly against the invisible hold. His jaw was clenched so tightly a thin bead of blood escaped the corner of his mouth, yet his gaze remained a weapon of pure, unadulterated hate.“Don’t do anything stupid. Because this time, I will kill you for real.” he warned, his voice shaking with restrained fury. “She threw her head back and laughed.It was not the quiet, polite laugh I had grown used to. It was sharp and ringing, almost musical, but cruel underneath. “You think you can?” she asked lightly, stepping closer to him until she could feel the heat radiating from his
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Briar's POV My head was still spinning, and waves of white-hot pain still pulsed behind my eyes, but I forced my focus onto Bella. No, not Bella. I didn't even know what to call her anymore.None of it made sense. My thoughts felt slow and thick, like I was wading through water.“Bella, listen to me,” I croaked, my voice trembling but desperate. “Whatever this is... we can talk about it. If you’re angry, we can fix it. We can resolve this without any more blood.”She stared at me for a heartbeat, as if I had just said something crazy and amusing.“Resolve it?” she repeated softly.“Yes,” I insisted, swallowing hard past the dryness of my throat. I leaned forward as much as the ropes would allow. “You don’t have to do this. Whatever Azrael did to you in the past, we can sit down and talk. I'll make him listen. I promise you. We can work something out.”Her expression shifted then, and for the first time since I woke up, a new emotion surged to the surface, raw and volcanic.Rage.
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