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ALPHA KING XALEN~~“My King. My Prince.”Wyatt called out to Roy and me before we could go our separate ways. His breath was short and his heart was thumping loudly. “Is there a problem?” I queried, immediately switching from the annoying cousin to the Alpha King that Wyatt had come to seek. Roy switched as well, despite his desire to start searching for Flavia’s wedding gift and he breathed, “Please, no bad news right now.”However, Wyatt went ahead to say, “It’s bad. It’s terrible, in fact.” “Cut to the chase, Wyatt.” I uttered with a deep frown, creating lines on my forehead. My Gamma asked Roy and me to enter my car with him so we could have some privacy. As soon as we were settled in the car, Wyatt chimed, “We found a dead body while clearing the site you chose for the field that will be used for the howling ritual after the Queen has been crowned.”My brows furrowed as my eyes cut from Wyatt to run and then back to Wyatt again, tension knotting in my chest. The site for
ALPHA KING XALEN~~In the next three days, I would be married and completely mated to the woman who would also become my Mate, Luna, and Queen.Saying I was happy would be an understatement. I was overjoyed, even though I knew we still had so many obstacles to overcome. I was eagerly waiting for the day to come, but somehow, I felt sad.That sadness was mixed with anxiety, and it felt so raw. I couldn’t explain it, even though I had been trying since it hit me yesterday.“It feels like Haylee’s feelings,” Theo said to me while I sat outside the changing room where Roy was trying on suits for the wedding.Before Theo made it known, I already suspected that those were Haylee’s feelings, but it was strange. I mean, she has been happy lately. She smiles more and has been hanging out with Flavia as always.The duo had been preparing for our big day just like Roy and I, and since they couldn’t get their dresses yesterday, they also went dress shopping. I was certain they would be in one
HAYLEE~~Gladys took her time before she started giving a detailed explanation about the Crimson Curse. I thought reading was all I needed to understand the curse and red wolves. But I was so wrong.“When the curse was uttered, it separated families in the sense that even though red wolves can’t birth red wolves, they remain family,” Gladys began, but of course, Flavia and I were still confused.Fortunately, Gladys asked us to sit. In that moment, I couldn’t think about returning to the palace to eat with the kids and Xalen, and I didn’t see Flavia considering returning to Roy either. We were both locked in this very moment.“Every time a female red wolf gets pregnant or a male red wolf impregnates another female, whether red or not, another female wolf somewhere also gets pregnant,” Gladys voiced. “In reality, the genes that are meant to be passed to the newly created red wolf baby in the womb will be passed to the baby of the random female wolf who also conceived around the same
HAYLEE~~“I don't have many details right now, but I promise to tell you everything when I do,” Kaylee proceeded with those words. “But be careful, Haylee.”That was one warning I couldn't brush aside even after I left the room, with Flavia walking beside me. I was lost in thought, but before we could make it out of the healers' building, we ran into Gladys.Gladys's eyes widened, relief glinting in her eyes.She then breathed, “I was on my way to find you in the palace, Queen Haylee.” I didn't miss the small bow of her head after she said those words.I would have told her to wait until coronation before calling me queen or bowing like that, but curiosity got the best of me, and I chimed, “Why is that?”Her eyes shifted around the hallway, and even though there was no one around, she urged Flavia and me to follow her to a private healing ward. Gladys didn’t start talking until she closed the door behind us.“Do you remember the paragraph about the Crimson curse and crimson sacrifi
HAYLEE~~I didn’t know what to expect, even though I hurried to Flavia’s former room, which had become my meeting ground with the two members of my twisted family. Although I considered the fact that Kaylee remembered something from our childhood and decided to tell me about it, I didn’t have any questions that she could answer.Like I once mentioned, Aradia was the only one who could answer the new set of questions that had been surging within me, and she had made herself unavailable.Yet, I didn’t let that stop me from entering Flavia’s old room, with Flavia right behind me, of course.Even though Kaylee specifically asked to meet me alone, Flavia wouldn’t let me see her alone. The kids were with Xalen and Roy, and we promised to make it back before breakfast time. So, whatever Kaylee had to say, she had better say it quickly.“Yeah, we still have to find the perfect wedding dress,” Liya grumbled within me, even though a part of us had forgiven Kaylee.Before I could respond to W
HAYLEE~~The soft, warm glow of dawn seeped through the curtains, casting a gentle streak of gold across the room and my face, but it was nothing compared to the golden, soft, and warm smile on my face as my eyes fluttered open. My eyes felt heavy but strangely light at the same time, like I was drifting in a dream I never wanted to wake from.The only time I felt like this was whenever I saw Aradia in my sleep, but that wasn’t what happened throughout the night. My face heated up as my mind drifted to the long, intimate, and sweetly sweaty night that Xalen and I had behind closed doors.Gosh! I was so in love with him.I lay there, breathing in his scent, which was tinted with mine. My fingers lightly traced the lines of his jaw, still trembling from everything that happened last night and through the night.“Not to forget the weight of that sparkling gem,” Liya cooed within me, her excitement pumping in my veins.“I agree,” I chuckled to my wolf, a rush of gratitude and undying l
Princess Allison’s POV~~The kids' scream brought me downstairs, but what I saw brought me nothing but heartache.My heart shouldn’t be aching because the person I had genuine feelings for was Jose, right? But why did my heart skip a million and one beats when I saw Alpha King Xalen holding a ring in front of Haylee while on his knee?Heck, why shouldn’t my heart, my soul, and my body ache? Everything I should be getting and enjoying was happening right before my eyes, but I wasn’t on the receiving end. I wasn’t the girl who was getting crowned in five days, nor the girl wearing a ring that meant forever.I was just the girl who was pregnant with the child of a psycho. I was a psycho, too, to be fair. I was the girl standing behind a pillar, watching her dream life get snatched—or more like handed—to another girl who had done nothing to deserve it.What sacrifices had she made? None!I was the girl who gave up everything for this life!“You are spiraling. Return to the room, Allie,
HAYLEE~~Seeing Flavia, who had spent the whole day brooding over Roy's reluctance to get married to her and make their bond legal, happy brought a big, bright smile to my face. She was a good person, and she deserved all the happiness in the world.I held on to Jodie tightly, my eyes lingering on the couple while Sophia and Asher screamed to celebrate the proposal.I mean, who would have thought?After the kind of day we both had?I believed the day couldn’t get any better as I whispered, my voice shaky, “This calls for celebration. What would you like to eat, Flavia? I will personally prepare dinner for you tonight.”With eyes brimming with immeasurable joy, Flavia gazed at me, lips parting but only to close. Her eyes fell to the beautiful, glinting ring Roy had placed on her finger as she tried to speak again, but just like her previous attempt, words escaped her.“You know what?” I uttered, saving her from another futile attempt to speak while her body shook visibly, “I will ju
ALPHA KING XALEN~~For Haylee, I was ready to go all the way.For the woman who had helped me understand life better and given rhythm to my once-dead heart, I was more than ready to perform every ritual across every culture just to make her the happiest woman alive… and make her mine for the rest of our lives.However, Roy seemed to have caught the flu, which changed my brain chemistry. The love flu, and he had decided to compete with me. Not necessarily a competition, but I would like to think it was because it made everything we had been up to all day more fun.And I could use some fun in my life, knowing this was the calm before the storm.As we stepped into the palace, Roy’s voice echoed in my mind, breaking through my thoughts, soft and earnest, as he begged to be the first to propose, just like the humans. “If you go first, Flavia’s hurt will grow, and I don’t want that.”Clearly, he wanted to make up for what happened with his mate earlier this morning.“Huh, we got the bett