บททั้งหมดของ The Lycan Prince’s Silent Bride: บทที่ 31 - บทที่ 40

Annalise POV Judy’s words were still ringing in my ears long after her hand left my cheek. “.. Who the hell do you think you are?. Disrupting the peace of two kingdoms,” she’d spat, her voice sounded like acid and venom. “Since when did you grow so close to Prince Nathan that he would dare try to pick a fight with Alaric for your head? Wait..” Her lips slowly curled into a sneer sharp enough to draw blood. “Don’t tell me.. Did you whore yourself to Nathan? Did you?” I slowly shook my head in a bid to say No but the slap came before I could even make the first sign with my fingers. The sting bloomed hard across my skin, hot, painful and humiliating. My hand had twitched, mid-air, caught between defiance and defense.. but Maren hadn’t yet translated, hadn’t yet explained. Judy’s palm had been quicker. “When did you get so brave as to speak back at me? Since when did that rubbish play start?” she hissed as she spoke to me, venom dripping with each word. Then her fingers

Alaric’s POV The fire in the hearth burned low and its golden glow spilled gently across the room as the shadows played along the walls, dancing with the faint rhythm of her breathing. Annalise laid fast asleep on the bed, she looked ethereal as strands of her black hair fell loose across her cheek. For a long moment, I said nothing. I simply stood there as I watched her chest rise and fall. ‘Beautiful human, don’t you think?’ Zorrack murmured from the back of my mind. ‘Even asleep, she steals our focus.’ “Correction.. She’s a foolish human , because who in their right mind falls asleep so recklessly that way” I admitted under my breath. ‘Yet, you were watching her and you’re still watching her,’ he teased. ‘And you will still find another excuse to keep looking at her.. how ironic’. I huffed a quiet breath... “Maybe.” She shifted slightly and a quiet sigh escaped her lips. ‘She’s ours.. our human..’ Zorrack said, but before he could complete what I knew he wanted to say I i

Alaric’s POVThe doors of the dining hall slammed behind us with a heavy thud that echoed down the corridor. The moment they closed, I felt something inside me snap quietly and dangerously.My grip around Annalise’s hand tightened.Too tight.She flinched and her steps faltered as she tried to match my pace. Her hand was small… too damn small in my grasp, and the anger simmering in my chest poured into my hold without mercy.‘Alaric.’Zorrack’s warning slipped through me like a low growl.‘If you break her hand, she might hate you more than she already does.’I froze and for a second, everything stopped.. the echo of footsteps, the torchlight flickering on stone walls, the tension boiling beneath my skin.Then, slowly, I released her.Her hand dropped away from mine, and she pulled it toward her chest, massaging her fingers gently, confusion etched across her face.I took a sharp breath and stepped away from her.Too fast.Too harsh.She blinked at the abrupt distance between us with

Alaric’s POVFor a couple of minutes after she stormed out, the gazebo stayed painfully silent.. I didn’t move.I didn’t chase after her.I didn’t even bother to look towards the path she had taken.Instead, I lifted my wine glass and took a long, patient sip.‘Well done,’ Zorrack muttered, with the kind of judgment only an old friend could wield without fear of decapitation. ‘Brilliant even. What was that? Two questions and you made her cry. A new personal record.”I swirled my wine lazily and watched the red liquid stain the sides.“I didn’t make her cry,” I said flatly.Zorrack snorted. ‘Yes. The sky isn’t blue and you aren’t insufferable.,‘You over stepped your boundary and poked her like a wounded cub until she snapped.’My jaw tightened, yet as I spoke my voice stayed cold. “She refused to answer.”‘Because she was scared, you bumbling idiot.’“That’s funny...”‘You’re terrifying our little human!’I clicked my tongue and took another sip and stared at the horizon as though I w

Annalise POVHer words.. they weren’t dismissive, they were understanding and real.I mean most people I know.. cough, cough Judy cough, cough. Would have ripped my eyes out if I said something like this.Instead the queen leaned forward, her eyes warm with a truth she didn’t voice out loud just a whisper for my ears only.“You are not wrong to fear him,” she said quietly. “Power like his… often shadows the man beneath it.”Her gaze softened even further.“But he is not as unfeeling and heartless as he pretends. And not nearly as unobservant as he’d like you to believe.”Something in my chest tightened as memories of his warm cuddle flashed in my head.The Queen reached across the table, placing a warm hand over mine.“You are safe here, Annalise. Truly..”‘Safe…’My throat tightened even though I could make no sound.And in that still, sunlit room… for the first time since entering this palace, something inside me loosened.The fear didn’t vanish.. No, it shifted.Into something else