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18 A Husband’s Plea
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Arden’s POVFor years—since childhood, really—Nala Longman had been presented to the courts as the perfect heir of Belmont. Soft-spoken. Gentle. Well-mannered. The kind of woman who smiled politely, blushed on cue, and never raised her voice. Harmless. Polished. A delicate ornament of diplomacy wrapped in silk and etiquette.But now?Now I saw the truth.She was nothing like the sweet creature she pretended to be. She was the product of a steel-spined empire, sharpened by a court far more ruthless than Eldenwald’s, raised under the shadow of political titans who understood that power was never given—it was taken.And under all that velvet, she had teeth.Sharp ones.But she made one fatal miscalculation.She didn’t know me.No one intimidates me. Not kings. Not generals. Not Presidents, Heads of State, Tyrants. And certainly not pampered heiresses who waltz into my home as if I’m a trophy they’re entitled to mount on their wall.“You can’t have what you want, Nala,” I said qui
Tempting the Wrong Prince 111 The Cage They Built for Me
Arden’s POVI should have left the palace the moment the press conference ended.Every instinct screamed at me to walk away, to disappear into the night and reclaim the solitude I’d carved for myself. I could have gone back to the anonymity of my hotel suite, where expectations couldn’t claw at me. I could have ridden straight to the border—a few hours of cold wind and open road—and never looked back.But Eldenwald was burning.The riots that had started as scattered protests had grown into something monstrous—fires spreading through overcrowded districts, people clashing with guards, crowds surging through the streets with desperation sharp enough to taste. It was no longer unrest.It was hunger with a voice.My security detail warned me that travelling now was dangerous. The roads were volatile, the gates unstable. Even I—who feared very little—was not foolish enough to get trapped outside the palace walls with no way to reach Cassandra if everything collapsed.So I let my father co
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Arden’s POVEven him, the king, the man who ruled a nation with an iron hand, could not trust the woman seated beside him on the throne. His own queen. His partner. His supposed closest ally in all matters of the realm.And yet he expected Cassandra, gentle, unguarded, soft-hearted Cassandra, to withstand the very same venom he could barely tolerate for an afternoon?“You expect Cassandra to tolerate what you can barely endure,” I said quietly. “Is that reasonable?”His jaw flexed, a muscle ticking in frustration. But for once, he had no immediate argument. No lecture. No polished royal retort waiting on his tongue. He simply stared at me, throat tight, eyes darkening with truths he didn’t want to acknowledge.“Her parents,” I continued, “were your wife’s closest friends. Your queen used them to get exactly what she wanted, your court’s favour, the Crown Prince title secured for Richard, and once she’d taken everything she needed, she crushed that family without mercy. You know this.
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Arden’s POVThe king stared at me as though he no longer recognised the son standing before him, as though the outrage, the defiance, the refusal simmering beneath my skin had carved me into a stranger he’d never imagined raising. His eyes moved over my face slowly, as if waiting for the illusion to crack, for the real, obedient Arden to return.But obedience had died months ago. And whatever version of me he thought he owned had died with it.Shock rippled across his expression in delayed, painful waves, disbelief giving way to confusion, confusion collapsing into something tight and wounded. He had expected resistance, yes, but not this, never this. He had always believed I was the son who would bend. Break. Yield for the greater good. Yield for the crown. Yield for him.But there I stood, entirely unbroken.For a moment he merely blinked at me, as though trying to steady himself, trying to gather the tatters of royal authority that were slipping through his fingers like water thro
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Arden’s POVWhen I arrived at the palace, the tension in the air was thick enough to taste, an acrid blend of fear, agitation, and desperation. Even the walls felt taut, as if they were bracing for the next blow. Guards rushed through the corridors with clipped urgency, attendants whispered in frantic clusters, and the distant thrum of unrest outside the palace walls seemed to vibrate through the marble floors.It was chaos disguised as order. A kingdom pretending it was not already on its knees.I didn’t greet anyone. Didn’t slow down. Didn’t pretend to care about the formalities expected of me.I went straight to my father’s wing, pushed through the double doors without knocking, let them slam against the wall behind me, and found him pacing behind his desk like a caged animal forced to confront the limits of its power.The moment he saw me, his face tightened, hardening into something between fury and relief, though he’d sooner die than admit the latter.“Where have you been?
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Arden’s POVThe king had been trying to reach me all day.His name flashed on my screen relentlessly, missed call after missed call, each one a knock against my patience, a reminder of the strings he thought he still owned. A lesser man might have answered out of duty, fear, obligation.But I didn’t answer. I let the phone ring out every single time.I wasn’t going to be summoned like a pawn on a chessboard. Not today. Not by a man who believed the title father still held authority after years of wielding his power like a weapon.If it weren’t for Cassandra…If it weren’t for the fact that she was trapped in that palace, isolated, ridiculed, cut open by whispers meant to bleed her slowly…If it weren’t for the reality that leaving Eldenwald now would mean abandoning her in the hands of those who hated her most……I would have left without hesitation.Without explanation. Without witnesses. Without looking back.My loyalty to Eldenwald had never been romantic or sentimental. It wa
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