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TWENTY-SEVEN: The System
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This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-SEVEN: The System
MINTHEThe System* * *Pierre is standing right in front of me. His broad shoulders block the dim light from the window behind him, his jaw set in that hard, rigid line.His blue eyes are wide, dark with an intense, raw emotion that I haven’t seen in him for months. He is staring down at me, his breathing heavy and uneven, his chest rising and falling beneath my hands.He heard everything. Every single word I just muttered to myself in the dark hallway.“Minthe,” I pull my hands back from his chest immediately, stepping back a foot, my posture completely still, my expression dead and hollow. I don’t say anything. I just look at him, waiting for the lecture, waiting for him to accuse me of sneaking out or breaking the lockdown.But the look on his face isn’t angry. It’s completely broken. He looks at me with a profound, tragic misunderstanding as if my cold, practical summary of my miscalculations was actually a heartbroken confession of unrequited love.“I heard everything,
This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-SIX: Pierre
MINTHEEscape* * *“Hades sent a teenager to do his dirty work? And you’re his nephew?”“Nephew, messenger, whatever helps you sleep at night, noble lady,” he says, leaning casually against the rough wood of my wardrobe. The playful, bratty demeanor vanishes in a split second, “Uncle Hades doesn’t care about labels. He cares about results. And right now, the result is that you don’t need to worry about escaping this trash pack anymore. The Alpha King is already at the border gates. He says he’s giving you a week to get out.”“A week,” I mutter.Seven days.Before I can even process the timeline, a bright, translucent blue light flashes a violent crimson directly across my field of vision. The system’s digital interface pops up with a low, metallic chime that makes my temples throb.[BOND INITIALIZED. SYNC AT 10%.][HOST AND TARGET ALLY CANNOT EXCEED A 30-METER RADIUS UNTIL SYNC REACHES 100%.][PENALTY FOR VIOLATION: IMMEDIATE INSTANCE TERMINATION.]I stare through the glowing red t
This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-FIVE: The Alpha King's What?
MINTHEThe Alpha King’s What?* * *Pierre steps into the room first, his broad shoulders blocking the morning light. His blue eyes are hard, his jaw set in that cold line that used to make me feel secure and now just makes me feel sick. Right behind him, holding onto the sleeve of his heavy leather coat, is Lyria.She is wearing her soft white cloak, her eyes wide and glistening with a carefully cultivated, tragic innocence. But my gaze drops instantly to her throat.Resting against her collarbone is the silver necklace. My necklace. The one I snapped off my own neck and threw into her palm last night. She is wearing it like a trophy, a silent, mocking declaration of her victory.“Minthe,” Pierre says, his voice flat, leaving no room for negotiation. He looks around the cold room, his eyes lingering on the messy bed before fixing on me. “The rogue wolf escaped from the clinic last night. The pack is under full lockdown. I’m here to ask you one last time—did you have anything to do w
This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-FOUR: Death
MINTHEDeath* * *I stare at the glowing letters, then at the smug expression on the brat’s face. All this time . . . he wasn’t a separate person. He had simply shifted back into his human form the moment the doctor left him alone.“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I whisper, my voice flat. “I risked a broken neck for a teenager with an attitude problem.”“Hey, I didn’t ask you to jump out of a window onto my spine,” he retorts, crossing his arms over his chest.Before I can hit him with a comeback, the heavy thud of boots echoes from the hallway outside the clinic doors. The sound is rhythmic, heavy, and closing in fast. The guards are returning.“Shit,” I hiss, grabbing the kid by the front of his oversized shirt and dragging him down into the shadows between the examination table and a tall metal supply cabinet. “Shut up and don’t breathe.”“What are you doing?” he mutters, his voice muffled against my shoulder as I press him against the wall. “You’re weirdly aggressive for a noble la
This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-THREE: The Rogue Wolf
MINTHEThe Rogue Wolf* * *Fate is a lazy writer, and I am the idiot who spent three years trying to proofread its worst draft.The rough, knotted linen of my bedsheets digs into the palms of my hands, the friction burning through my skin as I slide over the iron edge of the balcony.The wind coming off the northern peaks hits me, tearing through my thin cotton undergarments and chilling the sweat on my ribs.My heavy velvet skirt is gone, discarded on the floor of my locked bedroom. I am dangling from the side of the west wing, looking down into a darkness that smells of frozen dirt and dead pine needles.In every trashy manhwa I read back in my modern apartment, the transmigrated heroine makes a rope ladder out of her bedding and drops to the ground with the effortless grace of a trained gymnast.The narrative always makes it look simple. They slip into the night, find a rogue prince, and start their glorious revenge arc.They don’t tell you about the way the sheets stretch under y
This Time, I Choose The Alpha King Male Lead TWENTY-TWO: Escape Plan
MINTHEEscape Plan* * * Pierre looks at the wolf, then at me, then at the wolf again. Something is working behind his eyes—the calculation of a man who wants to be angry but is trying to find the version of this that makes sense.“What were you doing at the border, Minthe,” he says again. “At midnight. With a bag packed, and Cobalt.”The room is listening. Every person in it is listening.I think, very clearly, about the honest answer. I was leaving. I’ve been waiting for the right window to leave for a week and I finally decided tonight was it, so I saddled a horse and packed one bag and rode for the service gate, and I would be halfway to the capital right now if I hadn’t stopped for a wolf that your System apparently decided was my responsibility.I think about saying that.I think about what happens after I say that—Pierre’s face, the conversation that follows, the particular look of a man who feels abandoned deciding to do something about it before I can finish leaving.I thin
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