Lahat ng Kabanata ng OFFERED TO THE LYCAN KING : Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

KAII stayed with Alina for several hours, thinking of what I was going to say to her when she woke up. My face was still bruised from all of the slaps. I was surprised that Lily did not make a comment on them because I saw her eyeing my face. I guess she understood what happened between us and did not want to make the situation worse for me by talking about it. After I decided that I was genuinely confused about what I was going to say to her when she woke up, I decided to do something different. I was going to go and meet the man that is going to take my throne.I stormed through the palace halls, my mind filled with disbelief. My cousin Jaime, of all people, was the one they had chosen to replace me. I had sacrificed everything for this throne, and now it was slipping through my fingers. I was not going to do all of that in vain. I had sacrificed my entire life training to be an alpha. Ever since I was young, they had always trained me on what it was going to be like to be a great

ALINAI wanted to leave. Every inch of me screamed to get out of this place, to escape the web of lies and manipulation that had trapped me. But Maria and Nina had told me there was a lockdown in the pack. No one was allowed to leave or enter because of the dangers that had been going on in the pack. Kai had gotten my necklace back. He got it the same day that I asked him to get it for me, and I could not even be thankful to him because he was the reason why I had lost it. Instead whenever I saw him, I was filled with a burning rage.I felt trapped, like a caged animal, and the fact that Kai had orchestrated all of this made my blood boil. Every time he came to my room, trying to talk, trying to explain, I shut him out. It didn’t matter what he had to say. Nothing could undo what he had done. The fact that he thought that he was going to be able to sway me was what stunned me the most. His audacity was alarming. Earlier today, he had come with flowers, of all things, as if that would

KAI The next few days were hard. I could barely think straight. The whiskey I had been drowning myself in had done little to numb the pain. It had worked before. Whenever I was in pain and resorted to taking alcohol, it worked like magic to take the pain away. But this time was just too much for alcohol to the magic on. I had tried too many times to drown myself in it, but all I was doing was destroying myself because numbing the pain was not the solution to all of this. Alina wasn’t listening, the council had completely turned their backs on me, and everything I had worked for was falling apart. I felt lost, like I was standing on the edge of a cliff, with no way to pull myself back. Nothing in my life was going well and the worst thing was that there was no one I could blame for this. Whenever I felt the urge to find the root of my problems, all I could do was look at myself in the mirror because I was the root cause of everything. I’d wanted to talk to her, to make her see reaso

ALINA I stared at myself in the mirror, barely recognizing the woman looking back at me. My hair was pulled back, my face carefully made up, and the dress I wore felt heavy with the weight of expectations and decisions I wasn’t even sure I believed in. It was surreal, but here I was, getting ready for a wedding. Again. I almost could not believe this was my life. It was almost as if I was a spectator in it, because I simply could not believe all of this. Two weddings in one month. It almost felt like a sick joke. Like I was watching myself from the third person point. I let out a shaky breath, my gaze drifting down to my stomach. My hands automatically pressed against the slight bulge there, a reminder of the child growing inside me. What would my baby think of me if they knew I had resorted to something so petty? That I was going through with a wedding, not out of love, but out of spite. Out of anger. My heart twisted as I thought about it. I was sure it was not going to affect th

ALINA The wedding was over, but the night wasn’t. An after-party had been arranged, and as much as I wanted to retreat to my room and cry my eyes out for the rest of the night, I forced myself to stay. Jaime insisted on introducing me to everyone, his arm draped possessively around my waist as he guided me from guest to guest. I smiled politely, and nodded at the appropriate moments, but inside, there was a gaping hole in my chest. A void I couldn’t seem to fill, no matter how much I tried to convince myself to want to stay here just for a few hours before everyone retreated back to their beds.We mingled with Jaime’s friends, most of whom I hadn’t met before. They were polite enough, but it was clear they didn’t know what to make of me. I was going to be the new Luna. That came with a lot of respect they were showing me, but I could tell that none of them truly liked me. Like I was never going to belong here with them, as a werewolf while they were all royal lycans. I could see the