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The Mate Games An old forgotten story
ALTHEAI don’t move at first. Her voice is steady now, no trace of madness or fear. Only a sharp edge, honed by years of silence. A voice I think I would have liked, once. Trusted. But now, it’s something I can barely understand.I walk forward slowly, watching her face for cracks, waiting for the shift—the return of trembling hands or broken speech. But it doesn’t come.She’s still in her nightgown, but it hangs off her frame differently now. Not like it swallows her, but like it fits. Like she chose it. Her eyes meet mine, clear, focused, cold.I sit.She watches me for a long breath, then leans back slightly in her chair, one hand resting on the window sill. Outside, the early morning is painting the sky in gold and gray.“You want the truth,” she says. “Then you have to understand where it all began.”I nod, but she doesn’t look at me again. Her gaze stays outside, like she’s watching something only she can see.“There was a time,” she begins, “when this court was whole. When the
The Mate Games Finally, the truth
ALTHEAShe’s been pretending this whole time.My breath catches again, but this time for an entirely different reason.I stare down at the book in my hands—still turned the way it fell, still wrong on the outside but right on the inside. The edges are soft, the spine worn. The pages smell faintly of lavender and something older, something like dust and memory.I don’t know how long I sit like this.My fingers frozen around the cover. My heart hammering.She’s not mad. Not broken. Not lost.She’s hiding.But hiding from who? From what?Her voice echoes in my mind now—not the wild, trembling one from moments ago, but the one that slipped through, sharp as glass.“She tricked him. Told him he was cursed. But it was all her. HER.”Who? Who was she talking about?The king?The fake queen?Or someone else?I rise slowly, the book still pressed to my chest. My legs feel shaky, like they’ve been asked to hold more weight than they can bear. I place the book back on the table, trying not to le
The Mate Games She’s been pretending
ALTHEAMy breath catches.I don’t move, not right away. His words still echo in my head, and I can’t shake them off.“She has the answers.”Asher’s grip had gone slack the moment he said it. His hand dropped from my wrist like all the strength in his body had fled at once, and just like that, he was unconscious again. Pale. Still.But not gone.I stand by his bedside a little longer, watching the slow rise and fall of his chest, the way a faint line creases his brow even in sleep. He looks… younger like this. Less haunted.It doesn’t help the way my chest twists.I should go.I finally take a step back, my feet dragging as I leave the room and close the door quietly behind me. The corridor is colder than I remember. The air stings. My thoughts are all jumbled, pulling in too many directions at once.He killed my mother.But he’s not the monster I wanted him to be.And now I can’t decide what hurts more, that I believed he was. Or that he might not be.My steps echo down the hallway as
The Mate Games She’ll tell you everything
ASHERDarkness drags me under.It’s heavy and sticky, like oil clinging to my skin, my thoughts, my lungs. I can’t breathe right, can’t move. And I don’t know where I am, only that I’m not alone.The dream doesn’t feel like a dream. It’s more like being pulled through a memory I didn’t ask to remember. One I didn’t even know I had.I see trees first. Tall and endless, the kind that stretch up so far the light barely breaks through. I’m running through them, my paws brushing across dried leaves, my breath fogging the cold air. There’s a laugh beside me—sharp and wild, full of joy. I know that voice.“Come on, Ash!”It’s Cale.My cousin. My… brother in everything but blood. I haven’t thought about him in years, and now here he is, racing beside me in the shape of a jet-black wolf, our paws thudding in sync.I forgot how close we used to be.The scene shifts.We’re younger now. Human. Small limbs, big grins, both of us sitting on the kitchen counter while Martha huffs and mutters under h
The Mate Games You killed my mother
ALTHEAI don’t remember leaving the hallway.I don’t remember how I made it down the winding corridor, or when my legs even started moving again. All I know is that I’ve been walking aimlessly, blindly, since I heard her say it.Elise.Her voice is still in my head, looping again and again like a curse I can’t shake. “I did it. I poisoned him.”My stomach churns every time I think about it. About her face. The way she stood there with her chin raised like she wasn’t ashamed. Like she hadn’t just destroyed the one person who thought she was the best option for him.And goddess, I thought she loved him.All this time, I thought she was the better one. Sweeter. Softer. The girl that deserved him because I… didn’t. I let myself believe that she was harmless. That maybe Asher had found some peace in her. That maybe despite the war between us, it wouldn’t matter because someone like her would never think to betray him.But now I know better.She was never innocent. She was never harmless. S
The Mate Games Powerless to stop me
ASHERDarkness clings to me like a second skin.My head feels heavy, my limbs weighed down by something thicker than sleep. I try to lift my hand, but it barely twitches. A groan escapes my throat as my eyes flutter open to a blurry ceiling. The air smells strange, too clean, too quiet. There’s a ringing in my ears, a dull throb pulsing at the base of my skull. I blink again, and this time, the blur sharpens into stone walls and flickering candlelight.Where the hell am I?The last thing I remember is standing on the stage, the weight of the crown pressing on me like always, the crowd stretching out before me, faceless and loud. I remember speaking. I remember saying her name. Elise. Then… nothing. Just a sudden, sharp wave of dizziness, like the floor tilted beneath me, and the world slipped sideways.And now I’m here.My body aches as I shift slightly, a sharp coldness biting into my wrist. I glance down and feel my breath hitch, metal cuffs, thick and iron, tight around both wrists
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