Todos os capítulos de THE ALPHA KING'S SUBSTITUTE BRIDE: Capítulo 71 - Capítulo 80

ANNA'S POVWe stopped in our tracks, Alpha Lartes' voice the catalyst to our stopping.I gave Xavier a sideways glance as I sought insight from him on what to do.I had no clue what to do. My heart raced wildly and it was so loud that it was impossible for me to hear myself think or figure out what I had to do. Even though I knew I was supposed to act calm, I could not.I believed so much in coincidences. Especially the ones that carried a bad omen with them. This had become part of me when I had seen a vulture hovering in the sky when I was a little girl. The large bird had caught my attention for reasons I did not understand and I had not stopped looking at it, totally ignoring my friends whom I was playing with. The next day, my mum died. And when I had found her cold, greying still body, I remembered instantly the vulture I had seen the day before.Meeting Alpha Lartes on the same day I was to meet with my new comrades for the first time was a bad omen preparing me for the sorrow

ANNA'S POVI understood what Xavier was doing and I needed no prodding from him to join him.And so I forced myself to start laughing with him too."I knew it! You just wanted to prank your uncle," I said so as not to let him be the only one to be laughing even though he deserved it. After all, he single-handedly landed us in this mess.Alpha Lartes was watching us as if we had lost our minds. He looked from one of us to the other.He was an intelligent man and he could smell suspicion from afar. And everything that was happening smelled so suspicious."Sorry Your Highness, it had only been a prank. Sorry if you felt offended by any of it," I said to the Alpha as I tried to make sure I remained in his good graces.But it seems there was nothing we would say that would make the Aloha feel any better and I wondered if the damage Xavier had done with his words would affect him.I looked at Xavier and I sent him a silent threat with my eyes.If the Alpha did not forgive us, Xavier had him

XAVIER'S POVShe looked tired and I wondered whether her brothers were causing her trouble again. Those two boys were quite a handful for her.I watched as she came out to sell to a customer. I could not hear what they were saying as my head and ears were filled with the many sounds of the marketplace but I could guess they were bargaining.They took a while going back and forth and I watched as she journeyed from calmness to craziness.I had guessed she was going to go crazy on the man when I saw her start to tap her hand against the table. That had always been my cue to know that her temper was going to flare very soon."Fuck off!" I read her lips when she had sent the man away. He probably must have bargained way below the cost price and had ticked off her fragile temper.Today was the first time I had set my eyes on Abigail ever since she had come to the palace and tried to rat me out to my uncle. I had still not gotten over that incident."Are we moving along or is there somethin

XAVIER'S POVMy heart dropped when I could not see her where I had asked her to stay. It had taken a while for me to make sure that our followers had given up their chase. Even after they left, I walked in circles as I kept my eyes on them to make sure they were not coming back. And when I came back, she was nowhere to be found."Anna?" I called out hoping to hear her annoying voice answer but all I got was silence. I looked around me, maybe she was planning a jump scare because she was full of surprises.I searched every corner of the building where I felt like someone could hide but everywhere was very empty.I was lost for words.I wondered what could have possibly happened. She wouldn't run off because she was excited to come. Or was this just part of her plan?No, I had to push away all my thoughts, maybe something happened. Maybe the goons had taken her away.I was tempted to scream her name but I did not want to draw any attention to myself that would end up reaching my uncle's

XAVIER'S POVMy blood went cold when I heard the voice speaking.I looked for her with my eyes but I could not see her."The same woman whom you were with when we were being slaughtered like rams is the same woman you have the guts to bring to our midst! You have no respect for the lives that were lost for your pathetic cause!" The voice said again."Mind your tongue, Abigail. Lest you lose it today," Peter warned Abigail.The people started to murmur as they tried to understand what was going on. I watched as they paved the way for Abigail who had been standing at the back of the room to come forward and speak her mind."I shall not be threatened to keep quiet with the truth by men who are too blind to see that they are risking their lives for someone who doesn't care about theirs, neither is he worth the sacrifice," Abigail said in that voice of hers that I had always thought was too much for her little frame.She finally made it to the front of the room and I was blessed to look at