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Chapter 8

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Liora’s P.O.V.

His what?

My heart almost stopped, making it hard to breathe. For a second, I thought I had misheard him. My calculated old man couldn’t be that reckless. How could he say that?

Me, and the lycan king’s mate?

Impossible!

My pulse thundered so loud as I stared at Alpha Magnus, trying to guess whether it was another trap of his twisted games. He must have planned ahead before popping that question.

However, at this critical moment, my mind picked up its service and replayed all the stories I had heard about the king's brutality. The horrifying tales about the girls who didn’t survive the night when they failed to please him.

And in my case, I was just a mute maid, the most unimpressive one he must have seen. It was indeed questionable how I survived a night with that ruthless king.

Alpha Magnus felt suspicious and voiced that absurd possibility, stirring something deep in my chest. Hearing those words, ‘mate and me,’ in the same sentence with ‘king’ fluttered my heart.

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