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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE

Author: Abby Gale
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-01 19:49:04

Celeste’s pov

I did it until my hands blistered, my shoulders burned and sweat poured down my face. But I kept swinging until the weapons master finally called a halt.

"She will not survive a real fight," he said to Lyra. "But at least she might not immediately die either."

"That's good enough." Lyra gestured for me to follow. "Come. We have work to do."

She led me to a planning room where maps covered every surface. Troop positions, supply routes, terrain features. It was overwhelming.

"Show me where Kael will position his forces," Lyra commanded. "Based on what you know of his tactics."

I studied the maps trying to remember everything I had observed. "He favors high ground. Places where he can see the entire battlefield. Here." I pointed to a ridge overlooking the forest edge. "He will want command of this position."

"What about the shadow creatures?"

"They move independently. They do not follow standard formations but they respond to fear. So wherever your soldiers are most frighte
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  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE

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  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR

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  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE

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  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO

    Celeste's povWe rode through the night without stopping.The horses were lathered with sweat by the time we reached Shadowfang's gates, their sides heaving, but none of us cared. The message had been clear: Kael was fading fast, asking for us, holding on through sheer will alone.I had not expected to care. After everything he had done, all the pain and horror and madness, I thought I would feel nothing but relief when he finally died. But as we thundered through the castle corridors toward the healing wing, my chest felt tight and my throat burned with unshed tears.Maybe it was because I remembered who he used to be. Or maybe it was because some part of me still loved the ghost of the boy I had known before the darkness consumed him.The healing room was dimly lit, the air thick with the scent of herbs and rot—decay, corruption, death approaching on silent feet. Kael lay in the center bed, barely recognizable. The shadow corruption had consumed most of his body, leaving his skin mo

  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE

    Celeste's povThree days later, Moonstone's throne room looked almost normal.We'd worked tirelessly to cleanse the last traces of corruption. Lyra's light magic purged the lingering darkness from the stones. Servants scrubbed blood and ash from the floors. Workers repaired damaged walls and replaced shattered windows.It would never be what it was—too much had happened, too many had died. But it could be something new. Something better.Now, the room filled with people which consisted of moonstone nobles who'd survived, representatives from Shadowfang, common folk who'd fought through the darkness and even Mira, cleaned and fed and beginning to look human again, stood near the front.I stood before the throne, refusing to sit in it. That felt presumptuous and wrong. I wasn't a queen. Heck! I wasn't even sure I deserved to be a regent.But someone had to lead. Someone had to help these people rebuild.Lord Whitmore stepped forward, carrying a silver circlet—simple, elegant, not the he

  • The alpha king's slave mate   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY

    Celeste's povThe castle's collapse stopped as suddenly as it began.We stood in the courtyard, gasping for breath, watching as the corruption drained from the stone like poison being leeched from a wound. The writhing shadows retreated, the twisted architecture straightened, and slowly—painfully—Moonstone Castle began to resemble itself again."It's over," Mira whispered beside me, her voice hollow with exhaustion. "She's really gone."I couldn't speak but only stare at my hands—still stained with Mother's black blood, still trembling from the weight of the sword I'd driven through her back.I'd killed her. My own mother. And the worst part?I felt relieved."Celeste." Lyra's hand on my shoulder pulled me back from the edge of whatever dark place my mind was spiraling toward. "Look."People were emerging from the castle. Servants, guards and nobles all moving slowly with uncertainly, like they'd just woken from a nightmare. The thralls—freed from Selene's control—stood blinking in th

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