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29. Outraged.
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2026-10-15 12:35:14
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The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 30. Having a meltdown.
Prince Jasper PovI was losing my freaking mind, slowly and methodically, one sleepless night at a time.It had been weeks now. Weeks of search parties sent out and returned empty-handed, weeks of warriors combing every village within three days' ride of Hollowmoon and coming back with nothing but tired horses and apologetic faces, weeks of waking up at odd hours convinced I'd caught her scent on the air, only to lie there in the dark afterward feeling like a fool for chasing smoke.That was the part that undid me most, if I let myself be honest about it. The scent.I'd catch it at the strangest moments. Crossing the east courtyard at dawn, that soft, warm note threading through the cold morning air before vanishing so completely I'd stop dead in my tracks, turning in a slow circle like a man who'd misplaced his own reflection. Effie Hartwell her name was. Effie's scent shouldn't have carried anywhere near Hollowmoon's northern reaches, let alone followed me through my own waking ho
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 29. Outraged.
Ava Freemon PovI didn't stop shaking until I was halfway back across the Thornwick grounds, toward the quiet wing where Jasper kept his household and where I'd made myself comfortably, permanently at home these past months.I tossed the damn tart aside.Fury did that to me. It always had, ever since I was a girl learning to master it instead of letting it master me, and by the time the familiar doors finally came into view, I'd worked myself into such a state that I very nearly snapped at the warrior posted outside them simply for having the audacity to greet me.An apology. They'd made me apologize.To her of all people!Two kings, two alpha kings, men whose attention half the unmated omegas in this kingdom would have sold a limb for, had looked at me, Ava Freemon, a woman who'd spent months proving herself worthy of a place in this very palace, and made me bow my head to that fat omega. A woman with a backside the size of a small cart and a face that still, infuriatingly, managed
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 28. An apology.
Effie's Pov Ava never got the chance to land another hand on me.Alpha Tobias crossed that marble floor so fast it barely registered as movement at all, one instant still framed in the doorway and the next already between us, his back to me, putting his whole body between Ava and wherever she'd been reaching next. Alpha Knox was a half step behind him, and when he finally spoke again, I understood, with a cold little jolt, why Ava's face had drained of every bit of its color."Say that again." His voice had dropped into something low and utterly dangerous. "Go on. I want to hear you call her that to my face.""Alpha Knox, I—" Ava's composure slipped straight down the middle, all that vicious words from a moment ago gone like it had never existed. "This isn't what it looks like, I only came to bring a tart, I didn't realize she'd be the one answering the—""I watched you raise your hand to her." Alpha Tobias hadn't moved an inch, hadn't raised his voice at all, and somehow that made
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 27. Crazy guests.
Effie Pov Ava held a covered dish in her hand, something that smelled, even through the cloth draped over it, like a honeyed apple tart still warm from an oven. For one disorienting second, standing there with the door handle still cold under my palm, I thought I might actually be imagining her entirely, conjured up out of some old, half-forgotten nightmare about Hollowmoon and everyone in it who'd ever looked at me like I was something to be managed rather than spoken to. Then her smile, the polite, practiced one she must have worn walking up to the door, faltered and died right in front of me, and I knew with sudden, sinking certainty that I wasn't imagining anything at all. "You." The word came out of her flat and disbelieving, the dish nearly slipping from her grip before she caught it again. "It's actually you." Her eyes swept over me, head to toe and back again, taking in my feet, my hastily laced dress, the loose, unbound state of my hair, with the exact same cruelty I r
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 26. Uninvited house guests.
Effie's Pov "Up," Alpha Tobias commanded, already crossing the room toward me before I'd even finished setting my teacup down."I can walk to the bathroom myself," I said, for what had to be the hundredth time since waking up in this palace, though we both already knew exactly how much weight that protest carried by now. "It's not even that far.""I know you can." He bent and slid one arm beneath my knees, the other behind my back, and lifted me off the bed like I weighed nothing at all, the easy strength of it still something I hadn't quite gotten used to. "I'd still rather carry you.""You say that like it's a reasonable answer." I looped my arms around his neck anyway, because fighting him on it had never once worked and my pride had mostly given up trying. "What if I wanted to walk for the sake of it? What if I missed walking?""Then you can miss it for another day or two, until that ankle's finished healing." He carried me through the open bathroom door, steam already curling th
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 25. Thoroughly.
Effie's Pov I woke up squeezed so tightly between two very large, very warm men that for a moment I genuinely couldn't tell whether I wanted it to end.Alpha Tobias had an arm slung heavy across my waist, his face half-buried in my hair meanwhile Alpha Knox had somehow claimed my hand again in his sleep, fingers loosely laced through mine against his chest, his breathing slow and even. It would have been almost sweet, waking up tangled in all that warmth, if my bladder hadn't chosen that exact moment to remind me, rather urgently, that I had to make a beeline towards the bathroom.I tried, very carefully, to wriggle free.It did not go well. Every inch I managed to gain on one side, Alpha Tobias simply tightened his arm without ever fully waking, pulling me back against him like my escape was a problem to be solved in his sleep. I tried the other direction instead, pressing gently against Alpha Knox's chest, and got exactly as far before his hand closed loosely around my wrist."Whe
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