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[Diana’s POV]“Did you kiss Alpha Zephyr on the night of the private party?” Janus asked Darya.Janus had called Darya to his office, putting an invisibility spell on me. Hiding my overall presence, I watched them. He had asked me to listen to their conversation silently.Darya made a face.“Why are you asking that? I thought you called me here for something important. And why am I standing in this magic circle? What is its purpose?”Darya looked at the magic circle beneath her feet.“This is important because of all the rumors going around the Alpha. As his beta, it’s my duty to keep my alpha’s image clean and I can’t let anyone tarnish it, no one. Not even his close comrades. Especially when having an affair with a colleague is frowned upon in this society. Answer my question, Darya. Did you kiss Alpha Zephyr?”Darya rolled her eyes, folding her hand under her breasts.“Yes, I did. So what — AHH!”Darya cried as visible electric currents passed through her body from the magic circle

[Zephyr’s POV]Diana peered at the mint chocolate cake before her on the dining table.She took the first bite and then the second. But stopped at the third. I sat across the dining table. We had dinner together in silence, like every day. I had instructed Julius to not cook anything that wasn’t to her taste, but everything on the dining table today was of my taste.Diana lowered her head, shadow eclipsing her eyes as she took the third and the fourth bite. I could tell just by looking that she was forcing herself to eat it.‘Julius, why did you prepare this menu today?’ I finally mindlinked him.‘Pardon me, alpha, but today’s menu was personalized by luna herself,’ Julius said and it took me a few seconds to realize my heart had skipped a beat.Why would she prepare my favorite food and then force herself to eat things that she doesn’t like?What is this? A new way of showing her rebel?It would have been a sweet revenge, but for whatever reasons I didn’t want her to be uncomfortabl

[Diana’s POV]Janus said that his wounds were none of my concerns. Yet why did he wear my wounds like adornment on himself? If healing him is not my business, then why did he help me heal?Why did he love me, never even expecting to be loved back?Why was all my pain his all this time, but his pain masked behind his smiles?Why was I so blind in my darkness that I never saw behind his radiating light, he was actually… burning violently?I could only wish to heal his unhealed wounds. But I knew better than anyone else that he’d never show them to me. Those wounds were on his soul and no matter how sincerely I applied ointments on his skin, I knew I would never reach him as deeply as he had ingrained himself in me.All I wanted to do was hug him and tell him that everything would be ok. But then again, I didn’t know if anything would ever be ok.How strong should a person be to have gone through so much yet smile and live like there’s no tomorrow?I wanted to be the most important to

[Zephyr’s POV] The war had begun with the annexation of all the vital spots in the Wenos pack. My men had either killed or captivated most of their high rank government officials. The war had been going on for a month now. As long as the public cooperated with us, I had ordered my men to not hurt them or deprive them of basic living needs. That was until they cooperated and did as we said, which most didn’t, so hundreds of civilians died every day. Meanwhile, soldiers were giving their lives on the fronts where the two militaries clashed. The count was never accurate in real time. My gammas, the Uriko twins, had handled our army efficiently on the battlefield and executed our war strategy with exceptional deftness. There had been several attempts of outsiders trying to enter the Pretis palace, but Vera and Janus took care of all of them. “Their preparations for the war aren’t as strong as they made it look before it started. Given how confident they were, the results don’t show,

[Zephyr’s POV]We had conquered the capital. The only and the most important place that was left to be conquered was the Wenos palace.It took us a week to penetrate through their hidden attacks and strong military resistance to get to this point.Wenos pack wasn’t monetarily strong enough to afford a security around their palace like I had done around the Pretis palace. I know Kazeal was backing them, but he wasn’t stupid enough to give them such apparent support. To create layers of protective mana barriers around an enormous area like a palace, the permit and wizards were required from either Gloratia or Goredom. Because of my heavy influence in Goredom, they couldn’t have gotten a permit from Goredom’s royal family. This was public knowledge. Which left them with no choice but Gloratia, where Saint’s influence was much more than any other place. A permit from Gloratia’s royal family would mean a direct permit from the Saint.Kaz was fighting his own dilemmas and conflicts. So he