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Forty-Five

Author: Amber Rose
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-25 12:51:58

MONICA.

“Right now?” I splutter in disbelief, watching August shrink right before my eyes with embarrassment. “Do you know what time it is? Does Roman know what time it is?”

“We do,” August just says, but he just stays at the door.

Padma, my new handmaiden, is also staring at him with mild annoyance. Sabine, who I thought would manage to sleep through this all, is also waiting for the reason.

If two of their kind already finds this hard to swallow and obey, then you know it’s an unreasonable request.

“He needs you in his room to discuss something,” August just repeats. “It’s very urgent. I can assure you that.”

The first thing that comes to mind is sex. Yes, that’s embarrassing to admit. But a part of me gets excited until I mentally kick myself. The only thing I should be getting excited about is getting out of here.

“Can you at least tell me what he wants to discuss?” I ask, not bothering to get out of bed. “I don’t like being left in the dark.”

“I’m not allowed to tell you.” He shi
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  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Fifty-Three

    MONICA.I stare at Roman, considering a lie. It’s on the edge of my lips too. But he stops me by saying, “You’re still being watched. All the more now that you’re here. You thin I’m going to relax after you managed to get out of your room twice?”“I just needed to go,” I whisper.“Needed,” he notes. “Now you don’t want to go.”I swallow hard. Why does that have some truth in it? Ever since I got here, all I thought about was getting out. But since last night, I haven’t given it a single thought.Taking a deep breath, I finally give up on the lie and just meet Roman’s cold gray eyes. “How did you know about Hyden?” I gulp down my nerves. “Do you know what he said?”“Padma talks to August, and August talks to me.” He shrugs. “I don’t need to know. It’s what happened last night, from the attack. The poison in my body.”“I’m so sorry,” I blurt out, swallowing another mouthful of wine. “I didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to talk to him….”Roman doesn’t speak for a while. He’s angry, I can

  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Fifty-Two

    MONICA.My nerves are killing me.I stare at myself in the mirror, wondering if I look ridiculous with my red silk nightgown with a matching robe. There’s probably nothing else for us to do there but sleep, and yet Padma has put some makeup on me.Would Roman think that I’m trying to make a move on him?I shake my head, trying to step away from the mirror. Yet I find myself unable to. It’s as though I’m waiting for my appearance to change. I don’t even know what I want it to change into.At last, Padma seems to notice. “Lady Monica? Are you alright?”“Yeah,” I say absently, biting my lip as I finally peel my eyes off my reflection. “Should we head out now?”“Yes,” she says. “The King should be back to his chambers now. He’s been released a couple of hours ago. I think I told you this?”She did. But somehow I forgot about that tiny piece of important information. In other words, I’m losing my goddamn mind.“You know, we can always delay. I can tell them that you’re not ready for that y

  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Fifty-One

    MONICA.Panic, as thick and persistent as a pillar of smoke, fills the air. As though the blood isn’t confirmation enough that something is going incredibly wrong, Janus’s face also goes deathly pale seeing Roman that way.“August!” Janus screams, and instantly the whole wing comes alive.August rushes inside, muttering to himself while fiddling with the tubes and electrodes attached to Roman.I feel useless. So many things are happening around me, and here I am just watching it all happen.“Tell me what I need to do,” I tell August.“His foot,” he pants. “Take it off the elevation pillow. I thought leaving it there with the antidote in him would hasten the effect, but I guess it traveled to his bloodstream faster.”Nodding, I go on to take Roman’s foot off the angled pillow. But as soon as my hands make contact with his bare, blackened skin, something strange happens.A blackout sweeps over me, but this time, it’s different. It’a more intense.The pain in my head feels like it’s goi

  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Fifty

    MONICA.The next events are a blur. It feels like I got transported out of my body and now I'm just going through the motions.The soldier is quick. He leads Padma and I to a different wing in the palace, this one lined with so many guards that it looks like a procession. I'm only half aware of things now, and the only time I become aware of Corrin's presence is when he speaks."I knew it!" he hisses, jabbing a finger in my direction. "She's a bad omen, a sign of misfortune! Since she showed up, more and more attacks have been happening! She shouldn't be allowed near the King!”"Elder, please, that's not helping the situation at all," Padma tries to tell him.But Corrin is stubborn. He tries to push past me to get to the room with double doors first, but someone stops him.It's August."Please, Monica needs to see Roman," he says. "Roman would want her around.”"But this is all her fault!" Corrin insists.August just ignores him, taking my hand and pulling me inside the room. I can he

  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Forty-Nine

    MONICA.“You’re very quiet today,” Padma observes as she runs a golden comb through my hair. “Did the King say something bad to you last night?”I open my mouth to answer, but I close it again. Sabine is over there fixing my clothes after my bath, and I’m just not sure she would be able to handle what I could tell Padma. Besides, I’m not sure if this kind of talk is allowed among them.“We did talk about things,” I just say. “I’m just not sure if it’s okay to share them.”“And that’s fine,” Padma assures me, smiling. “We don’t need to know.” A little giggle escapes her lips. “So… how is he as a lover?”“Padma!” Sabine hisses. “You’re talking to the future Luna Queen, not some other maid in the quarters!”Padma’s face goes red with embarrassment. “I only meant, you know, how he is as someone who’s in love with our Luna.”I put a hand on hers. “It’s fine. I understand what you mean. There’s nothing bad to discuss over here. Roman has been extremely… generous to me. He’s been nice and ge

  • His Regret: The Alpha King Wants Me Now   Forty-Eight

    ROMAN.“So… what happened last night?”August keeps his back turned to me as we get our weapons ready, but I can feel his curiosity from this distance. We’re supposed to be focused on the clearing out the northern area where the attack happened, but I guess conversation is just a natural part of that.And surprisingly, like a fucking teenage boy after losing his virginity, I blush.I don’t know what the hell is happening to me.I haven’t been able to sleep last night. I tossed and turned in bed, worried that I’d been too rough with Monica. Well, I do know for sure that she enjoyed it, given the way she clenched around me, pulled me deeper, and basically just made me own her.Still, that doesn’t change the fact that I wasn’t trying to be that rough with her.But I was angry. Furious. I hated that she always wanted to escape.“I taught her a lesson.” Even my words sound pretentiously tough. “It’s not good that she always finds a way to get out of her room. I told you how she stole your

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