CHAPTER SIXTEEN

These days, the palace Emilia was getting used to the palace and the daily stroll was helping her map in her head how she was going to make her escape should she decide it was time to leave the place.

It has been five days now since she saw the King last and despite telling herself she didn't miss him, she knew somewhere in her heart that every time Betty walked through that door, she anticipated her saying the King had asked for her that night.

Damn the brute. Damn her body for desiring him.

He knew what he did. There was nothing that can explain it if not one thing; He has charmed her. Yes, only that would explain so many things. That plus the fact that he called them mates.

She knew about the mate bond and how it made the couples unable to stay away from each other. But, she and the brute weren't couples. He hardly even sees her as anything below his fuckmates. He was just buying time and trying to win her heart so that by the time he scored the prize, she would willingly give it t