Lahat ng Kabanata ng Crowned In Vengeance: Kabanata 171 - Kabanata 180

Frost's POV "Hi." I waved at her.I was trying so hard to draw in my breath slowly. But they came in shaky, and at the same time, I fought so hard to not show how nervous I had been.Rya leaned against the doorframe. Her hair was a mess, but there was a way it just... showed off a beauty in her that words couldn't explain. She was dressed in a free satin gown—a nightwear preferably. It had its cleavage well exposed to display that smooth and colorful skin of her. For a moment, I suspected she could feel me coming and already prepared for me.If she did, then she won, because I stood there, ogling like her like a helplessly lost man. "Well?" She broke the silence between us, and that was the moment my view of her became... normal. "You want to come in or you just want to stand there staring?""I'm sorry," I lowered my head. Shame descended on me. I could only hold back my smile and walk into the room. I let out that hanging breath in my throat as soon as I stepped in. My eyes scann

Rya's POVI had just stepped into the pack house, when Lia's excited voice cut through the silence, disrupting my train of thoughts. "Ha! Thank the heavens you've returned. We need to talk," she said to me, bridging the distance between us with some kind of urgency in her feet. Initially, I took it as just her usual excitement for even the most minute things. But this was different. Her face was squeezed, pale, no smiles or that usual ecstatic expression seated on her face. She pulled me by the arm, with a tight grip that made me shiver in fear that my bones would be crushed. She pulled me to the side, away from the guards that followed behind me. "Calm the hell down, Lia!" I squealed the words, only not too loudly for another to hear. Once we stopped and reached her supposed destination, I regained my breath. I scanned that open space before asking her, "What is going on? Why so... feisty?"She breathed, trying to gather her words. "For the zillionth time, the people are talkin

Frost's POV In our moments of reflection, we agreed on one thing—to fight the enemies till the end. We weighed each man and woman on our scale of loyalty and devotion. Some were found wanting, and some others ticked the boxes. I remember that I and Rya held hands together, still under the moon's ethereal glow, and in the calmness of the night. We peered into each other's eyes, our hearts and souls transparent to ourselves. We chose never to lose. We decided to fight fire, but not with fire.We thought it best to expose the conspirators, one after the other, to build the pack back to what it always was. And by morning, we started off strongly from the hooks. I was well dressed. I asked the maids to be specific and intentional in my looks for that morning's council meeting. And staring into the mirror when they were done, my confidence tripled. I walked into the council room majestically—back straightened, chin up, eyes bright and wide, staring at each man until I arrived at my sea

Frost's POV I took a stroll down the garden just after Darius left. Every step I took followed his gravelly voice echoed in my ears, his words of wisdom that left a terrifying sting in my chest which I couldn't endure.I hadn't gone so far when my eyes shifted over to the garden. And there she was—the very core of my thoughts pushing through her limits as though fragility and fatigue was an abomination to her. I stood closely to watch her forms. She had perfected the last move I had shown her, and had added another trick, somewhat a maneuver to make it appear even more enticing. All these she did with a broken body. I was still certain that her full strength had not returned, but she was a walking embodiment of tenacity. A few minutes later, she halted in her tracks, and leaned over to catch her breath. I broke off the shadow with a smile seated on my face, my footsteps calm, but intentionally loud for her to turn in my direction. "You did great today," I cut the silence between

Rya's POVI had just walked a few steps away from the door before I met Lia. In her usual nature, she was lurking around, patiently waiting for me. As soon as she set eyes on me, she fidgeted, but caught herself almost instantly and gave out a heavy breath."Gods! That meeting took forever,""Is there a problem, Lia? You seem... tensed," my face slightly squeezed as I asked her. I observed her circular pacing on the ground—the way she threw her hands in the air at intervals, the way she breathed like exhaustion had kicked in, and the way sweat drops were beaded all over her face. "The servant who spread the rumours of the.... mate bond between you and Frost has gone missing," Lia managed to speak through her shaky breathing. "So that's how they know about the mate bond" I whispered to myself, a wave of realization washing over me at the spot. As much as the situation seemed... tensed, I could much definitely laugh my entire bowels out. It finally dawned on me how everyone was ju