wedding preparations

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate

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Chapter 77: wedding preparations

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By the time the three of them’s conversation is over, it is nearing midnight, and Regina is quite exhausted. She just barely manages to stumble to her room, where she heads immediately for one trunk in particular.

After that, all Regina has the energy to do, is to change into her nightgown and dig up her sleeping mask from the bottom of her trunk.

She glances at the closed door separating her and Mattel’s bedroom with a bitten lip.

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Mattel is stretched along his bed, a book open in his lap, when he hears the separating door open.

He looks up, and watches as it swings slowly, carefully, slender fingers visible where they’re wrapped around the edge of the door.

And then, Regina’s eyes, peering at him from behind the door, before her shoulders, and half her torso comes into view.

Regina stands in the doorway without moving further inside, wearing an expression so hesitant - so unsure - that it nearly breaks Mattel’