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The First Queen Returns

Author: F.Flora
last update publish date: 2026-09-20 21:38:07

SELENA’S POV

The chamber disappeared into darkness.

I could hear Hope breathing beside me, fast and frightened, while Ian's hand found mine in the darkness. His fingers closed around mine so tightly that I could feel the tension running through his body.

Then the woman spoke again.

"I have waited a very long time for you."

A pale light appeared beneath her feet.

It spread slowly across the stone floor until her face became visible.

She looked older than the woman wearing the crown, but there wa
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    SELENA POVThe voice coming from the crown was mine.I knew its trembling breath, the slight catch at the end of each word. It sounded exactly like me.And I had ordered Ian to kill our daughter.“No,” I whispered.Ian stood between me and the broken crown, his shoulders tense.“Selena, listen to me. That recording could have been altered.”“But it sounds like me.”“That doesn't mean it tells the truth.”I stared at him. “You knew?”His jaw tightened.“Did you know I gave you that order?”He looked away.The silence hurt more than his confession about Mira.“You knew,” I repeated.“I heard you say it.”“And you never told me?”“I couldn't.”“You couldn't, or you didn't want to?”He turned back to me. “You were already breaking apart. Every time you remembered something, the darkness grew stronger. I thought keeping that memory from you would keep you alive.”I laughed, but there was no humor in it.“You keep calling it protection. First Mira, then me. How many people did you decide to

  • THE SLAVE THAT STOLE THE ALPHA'S HEART.   THE VOICE BETWEEN US

    SELENA POV“Why did you let Father kill me?”Mira's voice came from the crown.I couldn't breathe.Ian moved toward me, but I stepped back so quickly that his hand fell between us.“Don't.”He stopped.The pain in his eyes almost broke me. Almost. But all I could hear was our daughter's voice, asking a question neither of us had been brave enough to answer.“Mira?” My voice trembled. “Sweetheart, is that really you?”The silver crown pulsed.“Mother?”My knees nearly gave way.Ian caught my arm before I hit the floor. I clutched his wrist, hating how naturally my body still reached for him when everything inside me wanted to run.“Let me go.”“Selena, you're shaking.”“Because our daughter is speaking to me from a crown, Ian! Because you just told me you killed her!”His grip loosened immediately.I should have walked away. I should have hated him enough to never let him touch me again.Instead, I stared at the hand that had once held mine through every nightmare, remembering how safe

  • THE SLAVE THAT STOLE THE ALPHA'S HEART.   THE MAN I SHOULD HATE

    SELENA’S POV “I did, Selena. But I wasn't trying to save her from the darkness. I was trying to save her from you.” For several seconds, I couldn't hear anything except the sound of my own breathing. Ian stood before me, his face drained of colour. He wasn't trying to defend himself anymore. He wasn't even asking me to understand. He had finally given me the truth, and somehow, that hurt more than another lie would have. “From me?” I whispered. He nodded once. I stepped backward, shaking my head. “Mira was our daughter.” Pain crossed his face at the word our. “I know.” “You knew who she was, and you still killed her?” His lips parted, but no answer came. I slapped him. The sound echoed through the chamber. Ian didn't move. He accepted the blow without looking away from me, and that only made my anger worse. “Say something!” I cried. “Tell me I misunderstood. Tell me there was something you couldn't explain. Anything!” “I can't change what happened.” “No, you can't.” My

  • THE SLAVE THAT STOLE THE ALPHA'S HEART.   The Sin I Cannot Remember

    SELENA'S POV “Ian, look at me.” He stood across from me, his face pale beneath the silver light spilling from the broken crown. I had asked him the same question three times, but each time, he looked away before answering. “What happened to Mira?” His jaw tightened. “Selena, you don't remember everything that night.” “Then help me remember.” He shook his head. “Some memories are better left buried.” I stared at him, unable to believe he had just said that. “Don't you dare decide what I can handle. Not when it concerns our daughter.” The word daughter seemed to wound him. His eyes closed briefly, and when he opened them again, I saw a pain that made my anger falter. But only for a moment. I had spent too long chasing fragments of the past. Every person I trusted seemed to know something I didn't. The ancient Queen had hidden the truth. The crown had shown me pieces of my former life. Now Ian stood before me, carrying a secret that had followed us across lifetimes. I couldn

  • THE SLAVE THAT STOLE THE ALPHA'S HEART.   The Man I Still Wanted

    SELENA'S POV“You buried our daughter once, Ian. This time, I'll make you watch her die.”The voice inside Ian's body made my blood run cold.He dropped to his knees, clutching his chest as black veins spread beneath his skin.I rushed toward him.“Ian!”“Stay back!” he shouted.I froze.His eyes lifted to mine, filled with a fear I had never seen in him before.“Please, Selena. Don't come near me.”The plea hurt more than his command.I wanted to hold him. I wanted to believe the man I loved would never deliberately harm our child. But Mira's accusation kept echoing in my head.You held me while I died.I couldn't forget those words.“Did you kill her?” I asked.Ian squeezed his eyes shut.“I don't remember.”“Look at me and tell me you wouldn't have done it willingly.”He opened his eyes.“I can't promise you something about a life I don't remember. But I can promise you this: if that thing inside me tries to hurt you, I will fight it until I have nothing left.”“And Mira?”His lips

  • THE SLAVE THAT STOLE THE ALPHA'S HEART.   The Daughter We Buried

    SELENA’S POV“Mother, why did you let Father kill me?”The child's voice shattered the silence.I stared at the little hand reaching through the broken crown. It was covered in blood, and the black mark on its palm matched the one spreading across Ian's chest.My daughter.The words refused to make sense.“I never had a child,” I whispered.The girl withdrew her hand.“You forgot me.”Ian fell forward with a strangled cry. I caught his shoulders as the black veins crept toward his face.“Selena, don't answer her!” he gasped.The child laughed.“Father still doesn't remember what he did.”The crown split wider.A small girl crawled out of the broken metal and landed on the stone floor. She looked about six years old, with silver eyes, dark curls, and a thin scar beneath her left ear.I had seen that scar before.It was on my own skin.I touched the spot beneath my ear. My fingers came away trembling.“What's your name?” I asked.The girl's expression hardened.“You gave me a name befor

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