All Chapters of The Lycan Prince’s Silent Bride: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Annalise’s POVI always imagined stepping into a ballroom would feel like slipping into a fairytale.Spoiler alert.. it didn’t.The moment the gilded doors swung open, I realized fairytales forgot one tiny detail.. the part where every pair of eyes turn on you like knives. Hundreds of them..The chandeliers above glimmered like frozen stars, painting the marble floor with rivers of light. Silk gowns moved like waves, and the air was thick with perfume.. floral, smoky, and, beneath it all, something sharp and feral. Lycan.And me? I wasn’t a princess in a storybook. I was a prey wandering into the lions’ den. Or, more accurately, the lycans’ den.I wanted to laugh, really. My dear husband had shoved me into a gown stitched to perfection, dripping with midnight-blue silk and silver thread, the kind of thing that screamed look at her, she belongs. Except that my trembling hands clutched the gown too tightly, wrinkling the perfect illusion before it even began.‘Relax, Annalise,’ I told

Nathan’s POVA single clap was heard. Then another.And within a few seconds, the ballroom erupted into thunderous merriment, voices echoing like crashing waves against marble walls. I watched them.. Alaric and Annalise move in sync across the polished floor. The way she looked at him, made something sharp twist inside me. That should have been me. She should have been mine.I grew up with her.. With Annalise, with Dahlia. Dahlia was always loud, always performing, desperate for attention that wasn’t hers. But Annalise? She was the quiet one. The one who stayed behind the curtains, unnoticed, except by me. I saw her. I always saw her. And I.. fool that I was.. waited.I thought time would wait with me as well.But just when I found the courage to tell her, Dahlia told me Annalise had been sent away. “To learn how to communicate. How to act normal,” she said, her voice sweet and uninterested in our conversation.Normal?. As if Annalise had ever needed fixing..And then the main point