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ALPHA KING XALEN~~It couldn’t be.How could it be Evan, of all people? I found it hard to believe that one of the few people I could call my friend has been stabbing me in the back for the past decade. I mean, if Evan was truly the supposed chameleon who has been changing appearances and killing people, he has to be the one who killed Laura.He has to be the one who has been feeding Richard information.Heck, he has to be Richard’s inside man.“It’s impossible. There’s no way we missed that. You can sense lies, Xalen. You can tell when someone is lying to you.” Theo chimed within me, silence seizing the room as Atlas’s words echoed in all our ears.Without thinking twice, I blurted to Atlas, “How sure are you that the person you saw is the real Evan? What if Evan has been killed by the Red Wolf and we failed to find his body? For goddess's sake, how many bodies are we yet to find? Evan could be another victim.”“Or he could be the villain, Xalen.” Of course, Roy had something to s
Alpha Prince Roy’s POV~~Xalen was headed for a mistake.I knew it, and I was sure he knew it too, even though he was desperately pushing that awareness aside, driven by emotions clouding his judgment. As someone who had lost a mate before—and who deeply cared for Flavia and wouldn’t want to be in Xalen’s shoes—I understood his turmoil.In fact, I even stood by his decision, sympathizing with his pain.But as his cousin and someone who could see things from a different angle, I couldn’t support this course of action. I couldn’t stand by while he made what I knew would be the biggest mistake of his life. I had to intervene.I have to stop him from marrying Allison.“But what do we do to help him, Roy?” my wolf sharply pressed as my gaze lingered on Flavia. She was moving the kids to safety, followed by warriors I couldn’t fully trust in this moment.Right now, trust was fragile. Although everyone seemed to be grieving Haylee, I knew better than to let that fog my judgment. That’s wh
ALPHA KING XALEN~~“Hurt me and Haylee dies, King Xalen. If you want her to live on, you have to marry me and crown me today. The choice is yours… or not.”I knew I had always underestimated Allison; this time was no different. Although she had been caught and revealed her true self to everyone in the pack, she still wouldn’t give up.And sadly, I also couldn’t give Haylee up.After searching deep within me, I could tell my mate was still alive, but I couldn’t feel her anywhere near me. She was definitely out of the pack, and I was far behind. Fuck, I was so far behind, and Allison’s words cut straight into my soul, leaving me perplexed and dazed for more than a few minutes.Everyone in the hall had grown quiet. If I couldn’t perceive their fears, I would say they were quiet because my emotions were spiraling, which wasn’t good for a man of my status.“A man of your status? You just cried before the entire pack, Xalen. Status is of no importance,” Theo lashed out at me. “We’ve got
Princess Allison’s POV~~"You are only the version of her that you choose to see."I've always despised old hags like the head of the royal Healer, and right now, "hate" barely scratches the surface of what I feel toward her.I sat on the floor, paralyzed by the burning in my throat, my body trembling from the pain. My hip felt dislocated, a jarring reminder of how King Xalen had thrown me to the ground after his cousin dragged me free from his suffocating grip.Despite my pain, the words of the old hag and other members of the pack kept echoing in my head. I didn’t understand why none of them were buying this. I was Haylee. I looked and smelled like her, so what the hell was going on?This was frustrating, and I could feel tears burning in my eyes as I rubbed my stomach to make sure my baby was fine. While others couldn’t see the bump, I could, and I cared about my baby more than listening to some old woman.But that thought flew out of the window when the loud, anguished cry from
ALPHA KING XALEN~~"Who the hell are you?"Not once during the past few days had I thought that those would be the first words I would say to Haylee in our wedding hall. I had been dreaming about seeing her walk down the aisle with her beautiful smile, hair, body, and everything!She was a literal goddess. My beauty goddess.But I didn’t see my beauty goddess, even though I was staring at her. Even though she had just walked down the aisle to me, side by side with Flavia, whose focus was on Roy, who was standing beside me, ready to get married to his woman.The eagerness to get married flew out the window the second I lashed out at the person standing before me. Yes, she wasn’t Haylee. She was a walking whatever, but not my Haylee.“Xalen–” The woman standing before me called out to me, her voice shaky.She sounded like my Haylee. Somehow, she smelled like my Haylee. However, if she was aiming to look like my Haylee, she got it all wrong. This person looked nothing like my mate, ev
Princess Allison’s POV~~I realized today might not be the best day of my life, the second all excitement fell from the kids' faces, including Jodie, who kept gazing at me strangely, even though she was initially excited to be in the same space as me.Well, as Haylee.My nightmare of a day began when Prince Asher parted his lips and uttered with conviction, “You are ugly. Why is that?”He said those words to my face without blinking, but he sounded genuinely confused. His eyes lingered on me as if this was the first time he was seeing Haylee. Didn’t he call her stepmama or something? It’s not like we all didn’t know Haylee was hideous.“What do you mean, Prince—Asher?” I quickly corrected myself, using the same sweet voice I have heard Haylee use countless times.Asher’s squinted face didn’t change even as he said, “I don’t know. You are Haylee, but you also aren’t her. Haylee doesn’t look like this. She is very beautiful, but you are ugly.”The servant in the room with us tried to