로그인Avaline Cross was an unlucky werewolf. Lost her parents in a battle where they had bravely saved the sons of the Alpha King, Dion and Alistar, Avaline was sent to work as a slave in the Alpha house as a condition for living with them instead of being shipped to foster institutions. Years passed as Avaline developed a crush on both boys, Dion and Alistar and followed them everywhere,trying her best to impress them despite being a maid. Only for the brothers to treat her worse than a servant and shower all their attention on Solaya leaving Avaline aggrieved. Avaline and Solaya never saw eye to eye and on her 18th birthday, Avaline found out that she was mates to both Dion and Alistar but the brothers didn't take it well. They kept treating her poorly and Avaline was holding on to the moment when they would realize their errors and choose her like how it goes in the romance books she reads. Solaya was unlucky, she was sold out to marry Lycan King Zirael, a heartless man that was feared by all supernatural and hated werewolves. The brothers tried to switch the brides and give Avaline to Zirael instead but it wasn't possible. Avaline was burned alive by her two mates, Dion and Alistar after she was framed for attempting to kill Solaya, their reason for love. Dying on the stake, her last memories were seeing Aida try to pull her off from the fire while the rest kept jeering and laughing Aida was five and the only one who cared about her. Avaline made a wish, if she had a second chance, she would never waste it on those useless Alphas, and would choose to be a sacrifice for Lycan Alpha Zirael of the Hidden Haven.
더 보기Chapter 54ZIRAELIt was, I recognized, a more elaborate lie than her earlier attempts, constructed with enough plausible detail to withstand casual scrutiny. But it was still a lie, and I felt the recognition of that fact settle uncomfortably alongside the genuine tenderness building in my chest as I watched her fight to maintain her composure despite the fever still visibly wracking her body."Very well," I said finally, choosing, as I had chosen once already during our journey home, to extend patience rather than force a confrontation she clearly wasn't ready to survive. "I will not call for a healer, if that is truly your wish. But I would ask that you allow me to remain, at least until the worst of this passes. I would not feel right leaving you alone in this state, regardless of whatever explanation you've offered for its cause."Something in her expression softened at that, genuine surprise flickering across her features as though she hadn't qu
Chapter 53ZIRAELI had not intended to visit Avaline's quarters that night. My original purpose had been considerably more mundane — a matter of scheduling, a message I meant to have delivered regarding the following week's diplomatic correspondence, one that could easily have waited until morning had some restless instinct not pulled me toward her wing of the palace instead of my own study.I had learned, over my long centuries of rule, to trust such instincts rather than dismiss them as idle whim. They had served me well in matters of war and politics alike, warning me of danger before conscious thought could catch up to whatever my senses had already registered. I did not yet understand why that same instinct had begun attaching itself so persistently to Avaline, but I had stopped questioning it somewhere during our journey home from Nightwood, content simply to follow where it led.It led me, that particular evening, to the corridor outside her r
Chapter 52AVALINEI counted the remaining pills for the third time that morning, as though recounting might somehow conjure more from the small, dwindling collection hidden inside the lining of my second dress. Seven left. Seven doses, and no clear way to obtain more before they ran out entirely.I had known this day was coming. Elder Mira had given me a year's supply before I left Nightwood, but a year's supply, I had learned, meant something different once I began accounting for the days I'd taken double doses during moments of particular panic, the handful of pills lost when one bottle had cracked during our journey and spilled half its contents into the dirt before I could gather them back up. What should have lasted considerably longer had instead worn down to almost nothing within the span of a few short weeks, and I had been too consumed by the business of simply surviving each day to notice how quickly the supply had thinned until it was nearly too late t
Chapter 51LUCERION"I promise," I said. "And I do not make promises to children lightly, Aida. I have lived a very long time, and I have learned that promises made carelessly cause more damage than honesty ever could. So understand that when I tell you this is your home now, permanently, without conditions attached, I mean it entirely."She studied me a moment longer, as though testing the sincerity behind my words, and I let her look, understanding that trust, for someone who had been taught so thoroughly to expect its betrayal, could not simply be demanded but had to be earned through patient, consistent proof."Why?" she asked finally. "Why do you want us here? We're not anything special. Mummy's just a servant, and I'm not even really her daughter, not by blood."The question struck me harder than I expected, and I felt something fierce and protective rise in my chest at the casual, practiced way she dismissed her own worth, clearly repeating so






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