In Kugon pack where werewolves were divided into the upper and lower class, It was another year for twenty-year-old Mavi to find her mate on her pack's new moon festival again. Mischievous as she was, she took a dare from her friends to sneak into the palace, and she got caught by the alpha himself who also turned out to be her mate. He rejected her on the spot, though, because he had a girlfriend who was going to become his Luna… Except he didn't know the connection he had with Mavi, he ran deeper beyond just a mate bond. They had both escaped death together years ago, and this made them shadow kissed so their connection couldn't be severed just like that. Henceforth, it became their goal to find a way to end it because Mavi thought he was a proud and pompous jerk while he saw her as just a lower-class who couldn't be his mate… Besides, he had a girlfriend. Right? Detest brewed between these two shadow-kissed souls, and the more time they spent together, the more the connection only deepened beyond their control. So what exactly did this soulful connection hold for them in the days to come? Also, what secrets were going to be unfolded as time passed?
view more気付けば水面が目の前に迫っていた。
そして次の瞬間――
ドボーンッ!!
激しい水音と共に私は冷たい水の中にいた。
(く、苦しい……!!)
長いドレスの裾が足に絡まって水の中で足をうまく動かせない。水を飲みこまない様に口を閉じるには限界がある。
(だ、誰か……っ!!)
その時、誰かの腕が伸びて来て私の右腕を掴んできた。そして勢いよく水の中から引き上げられ、自分の身体が地面に横たえられるのを感じた。太陽の眩しい光が目に刺さる。呼吸をするにも、ヒュ~ヒュ~と喉笛がなり、空気が少しも吸い込めない。まるで水の中で溺れているかの様だ。
「ユリア様! しっかりして下さい!」
誰かの声が遠くで聞こえた瞬間。
ドンッ!!
胸に激しい衝撃が走った途端、激しく咳き込んでしまった。
「ゴホッ! ゴホッ!」
咳と同時に大量の水が口から流れ出てきて、途端に呼吸が楽になる。
良かった……私、これで助かるかもしれない……。
「ユリア様!? 大丈夫ですか!?」
太陽を背に誰かが私に声をかけてくる。
……誰……? それに……ユリア様って……一体……?
そして私は意識を失った——
****次に目を覚ました時はベッドの上だった。フカフカのマットレスに手触りの良い寝具。黄金色に輝く天井……。え? 黄金色……?
「!!」
慌ててガバッと起き上がった拍子にパサリと長いストロベリーブロンドの髪が顔にかかる。
「え……? これが私の髪……?」
何故だろう? 非常に違和感がある。本当にこの髪は私の髪なのだろか? でも髪だけでこんなに違和感を抱くなら……。
「顔……そうよ、顔を確認しなくちゃ」
ベッドから降りて丁度足元に揃えてあった室内履きに履き替える。……シルバーの色に金糸で刺繍された薔薇模様の室内履き。どう見ても自分の趣味とは程遠い。
「鏡……鏡は無いの……?」
部屋の中を見渡すと趣味の悪い装飾に頭が痛くなってくる。赤色の壁紙には薔薇模様が描かれている。床に敷き詰められた毛足の長いカーペットは趣味の悪い紫。部屋に置かれた衣装棚は黄金色に輝いている。大きな掃き出し窓の深紅のドレープカーテンも落ち着かない。
「こんな部屋が……自分の部屋とは到底思えないわ……」
溜息をついて、右側を向いたときに、大きな姿見が壁に掛けてあることに気が付いた。
「あった! 鏡だわっ!」
急いで駆け寄り、鏡を覗いて驚いた。紫色のやや釣り目の大きな瞳。かなりの美人ではあるが、性格はきつそうに見える。
「……誰よ、これ……」
サテン生地の身体のラインを強調するかのようなナイトドレスも落ち着かない。これではまるで……。
「相当な悪女に見えるじゃないの……」
ぽつりと呟いたとき、突然扉が開かれた。部屋の中に入って来たのは年若いメイドだった。そして私と視線が合う。
良かった! この部屋に入って来たということは、私について良く知っているはずだ。「あの、少しお聞きしたいことが……」
話しかけると、途端にメイドの顔が青ざめる。そして——
「も、申し訳ございませんでしたっ!」
突然頭を下げて来たのだ。しかも何故か彼女はガタガタと小刻みに震えている。
「あ、あの……何故頭を……」
言いかけた時、メイドが大声で謝罪してきた。
「どうぞお許し下さい! まさかユリア様がお目覚めになっているとは知らず、ノックもせずに勝手にお部屋に入ってしまった無礼をどうかお許し下さい!」
メイドは涙声で訴えてくる。
え? 何故彼女はこんなにも私を見て怯えているのだろうか? いや、それよりもまずは彼女を落ち着かせなくては……これではまともに話も出来ない。
「大丈夫です。私はちっとも怒ってなどいませんから。どうか落ち着いて下さい」
「ユリア様がそのような言葉遣いをされるなんて……!」
ますます怯えさせてしまった。
「あーっ! とにかくもう! 本当に怒っていないから落ち着きなさいよ!」
少々乱暴な口調で大きな声をあげると、少しだけメイドが落ち着きを取り戻した。
「そ、それでこそ……いつものユリア様です……」
「そう、それよ」
「それ……とは一体何のことでしょう?」
首を傾げるメイドに尋ねた。
「ユリアって誰のことかしら? ついでにここは……何所なの?」
すると私の言葉にメイドは目を見開き、突然身体を翻した。
「た、大変! メイド長~!!」
「あ! ちょっと待ってよ!」
私の質問に答えず、メイドは部屋から走り去ってしまった――
CHAPTER 4“You still have to tell me why I should pack my bags and follow you, Alpha Armand. Are you arresting me, or am I getting beheaded for what I did? There has to be a reason because I can't blindly follow you” Mavi insisted.She didn't know where she got the guts from or why she was acting stubborn toward the alpha of the pack but she had started already and she couldn't be on the losing end. Not to a man who looked down on her just because she was an orphan or from the lower class.Alpha Armand watched her silently for a while and when he saw the glare in her eyes, he knew she wouldn't follow him unless he explained what was happening to her.That made him chuckle to himself because ever since he became alpha, everyone said yes to whatever he said. Mavi was the first person to question his order and that amazed him. No wonder she was shadow-kissed with him because maybe she was the only one in the pack who had the audacity.“Are you acting oblivious or do you want me to say it
CHAPTER 3Alpha Armand rushed over to the palace warlock's quarters and he banged on the door as loud as he could to wake him up at once."Draven. I need to talk to you so open this door at once. It's urgent" He yelled in the dark and the door swung open at once. A man who looked his age watched him with sleepy eyes and alpha Armand frowned at him."We could have this conversation when it's dawn. Does it have to be now, alpha?" Draven asked his friend and alpha who was now scowling at him."Something happened and I think I will lose my mind if I wait until the sun is out. I just hope you have a solution," He retorted and Draven opened the door wider so alpha Armand made his way inside."So what happened that's made you lose your mind?" Draven asked him as they both sat opposite each other and alpha Armand ran his hand through his hair. He looked anxious and it made Draven wonder what happened."I met this girl who snuck into my room tonight while the festival was going on. I found out
CHAPTER 2Still feeling confused and shocked about what just happened, alpha Armand remained in the same spot. He kept on staring at the window Mavi went through while his guards remained behind him, waiting for his next instruction on what to do. He couldn't figure it out, he didn't even know why but he felt like he knew Mavi right from the moment their eyes met after seeing her walk out of his closet while he was going into his room. He felt like he had met her before.she had spiked his curiosity and now, he found himself wanting to know more about her.As he stood in that same spot, with the thought of Mavi running through his mind nonstop, about why she was his mate when she was just a lower class, why she thought she had the right to reject him as her mate too and how she dared to sneak into his room, he heard footsteps behind him and he knew it was his beta, Enzo immediately."What happened here? Why did you call for the guards so quickly?" Enzo asked him and he turned around
CHAPTER 1Twisting open the latch to the window, Mavi made her way into the room with a lot of struggle and she rolled on the floor after landing with a thud.Quickly, she stood up and dusted off the imaginary dirt she got on her clothes then she arranged her blonde hair back in place and began to look around."What the…" she was speechless.She had never been here before. She had never even stepped foot into the palace but she recognized this place, this particular room that she was standing inside at the moment. She always saw this room in her dreams right from when she clocked sixteen but she never paid any mind to it. Never did she think she would be seeing it in actual reality, she never even thought the room would be real.It was their pack's new moon festival and she had taken a dare from her friends to sneak into the palace without getting caught.People like her weren't allowed into the palace. She was a part of the lower class of their pack and except she was a palace work
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