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Author: Scarlett
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-25 02:31:31

Aaron

The evening sky was painted in hues of crimson and gold as the sun dipped toward the horizon, casting long shadows over the grand courtyards of Mallory Palace.

The air was thick with tension, though tonight, for the first time in what felt like forever, there was a spark of hope burning in my chest.

Giovanni was back.

I hadn’t let myself believe it when the guards first brought word. "The Prince's ship has arrived,” they’d said, their faces wary, conditioned by months of unexpected dangers and false promises.

But when I saw him ride through the gates, battered but unbroken, his sharp eyes still blazing with that familiar fire, I knew it was real.

My brother had returned.

I rushed down the stone steps two at a time, my heart pounding. It felt like ages since I’d last seen him, since fate had torn us apart.

Before I even reached him, his leather armor stained with travel and battle, his dark hair windswept, and his expression grim....until he saw me.

“Aaron.” His voice was roug
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  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty Five

    AaronI don’t know how long I stood there, holding her in my arms.My sister.My little sister.The very soul that had haunted my dreams for years, whose absence had carved a permanent hollow inside my chest. She was warm and real. Not a figment of childhood memory or whispered family stories. Not the echo of a lullaby sung too long ago. She was right here in my arms trembling, hesitant, but alive.And the moment I held her, something inside of me snapped back into place. As though time had folded itself and restored a piece of my heart I hadn’t even realized had been missing all along.Darya.Tears pricked the corners of my eyes. I blinked them back quickly, not wanting to overwhelm her, but it was useless. One slipped free, tracing a slow path down my cheek. I didn’t care. I didn’t care that I was the royal Prince of Mallory, the General of our armies, the shield of our borders.Right now, I was just a big brother holding the sister he’d thought he’d lost forever.Giovanni sto

  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty Four

    Zoraya (Darya) The silence after the doctors left was almost sacred.I sat quietly on the edge of my bed, fingers brushing lightly over my stomach where the salve still lingered, cool and slick against my skin. The echo of the twin heartbeats played over and over in my mind like a lullaby I couldn’t forget.Two.Two babies.It was still hard to grasp.I hadn’t even fully accepted the idea of being a mother to one child. But now, there were two growing inside me. Two tiny souls, pulsing with life, hidden beneath my skin like whispered secrets from the Moon Goddess herself. My breath trembled as I placed both hands over my belly, palms flat, as though I might feel something stir beneath the surface. But there was nothing yet, only the soft thudding of my own heart and the faint memory of theirs.A strange warmth blossomed inside me. For the first time in what felt like lifetimes, I wasn’t terrified of what was inside me. I wasn’t ashamed. I wasn’t broken. I was full of life, of ne

  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty Three

    Zoraya (Darya)I stared at them.The room had fallen oddly quiet. Too quiet. The walls seemed to hold their breath just like I had.“Twins,” the healer said again, his voice soft and laced with a kind of reverence I didn’t understand.My mouth parted slightly, but no words came. My heart was pounding, thumping against my ribcage like a frightened creature desperate to escape. My gaze flicked down to my belly, then back up to the faces around me.Twins?I didn’t… I didn’t know what that meant. Not really.Two babies?Was that even possible?I looked to Queen Melody instinctively, my eyes wide with confusion and fear. She must have seen the blankness in my stare, the absence of understanding in my silence, because her expression softened immediately.She leaned closer and brushed a lock of my hair back from my face with a tender touch. “Darya,” she said gently, her voice as calming as the warm sunlight that spilled through the window beside us, “do you understand what they mean?”I s

  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty Two

    MelodyThe warmth that flooded my chest when she said her name…..Darya was unlike anything I had ever felt before. It was as if a dam within me had finally broken, releasing a tide of grief, love, and hope that I had kept locked away for far too long.“Da… Da… ya,” she had said, her voice small, yet steady with purpose.A silent tear rolled down my face. The tears was not from sorrow, but from the overwhelming joy of watching my daughter claim herself again. Not Zoraya, the name forced upon her like chains. But Darya, her true name, the name I whispered through sobs the night Estrella took her from me.I held her face in my hands, unable to stop the tears from falling.“You’re doing so well, my sweet girl,” I whispered.Her eyes lit up, and she leaned into my embrace like a blossom finally reaching toward the sun after years buried in shade. At that moment, she didn’t have to say anything more. I could feel it…the tiny shift in her spirit, the way she was starting to believe.Beli

  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty One

    MelodyThe candlelight flickered softly in my chamber, throwing dancing shadows against the tall windows as I sat at my writing desk, a quill in hand but no ink spilled upon the page. The letter I had begun hours ago remained blank. Not a single word would come.My thoughts refused to still. They paced like caged wolves behind my eyes, relentless, and restlessly.Elena.Her name echoed in my head more times than I could count. Her image haunted me like a memory I had hoped to forget but could never truly bury. The moment I saw her step out of Zoraya’s room again, it was as if every warning bell in my soul had begun to scream. There was something twisted, something broken, lurking behind those silver eyes that looked so similar to Estrella’s…. it made my blood run cold.Estrella.Even now, I could barely whisper my sister’s name without rage clawing its way up my throat. She had taken my child. She had stolen a piece of my soul and twisted it into something unrecognizable. That

  • Pregnant And Rejected; His Exclusive Mate    Sixty

    Elena’s POV“I didn’t do anything! I swear. Please, listen to me!”My voice echoed off the tall marble walls of the palace hall as the guards seized my arms and began dragging me forward. Their faces remained stony, unaffected by my pleas. One of them, taller and broader than the rest, tightened his grip when I tried to dig my heels into the floor.“You’ve got the wrong person!” I insisted, breath coming in shallow bursts as panic clawed at my throat. “I want to speak to Prince Giovanni! Please, let me speak to him!”No one listened. Not the courtiers who passed with startled glances, nor the servants who lowered their eyes, clearly instructed to stay silent. I was alone. Utterly, terrifyingly alone.The palace I had once seen as a symbol of opportunity now twisted before my eyes into a labyrinth of betrayal. The same corridors I’d wandered through with calculated ease had become the route to my punishment.How could this happen? How had they found out?I didn’t even have the time to

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