Todos os capítulos de The Alpha King’s Mate Is An Ancient: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

Ishtar woke with a gasp that tore violently from her chest.Her body jerked upright as though dragged from drowning, lungs burning, and heart hammering so hard, she thought it might split her ribs apart. Cold sweat slicked her skin, as her fingers clawed at silk sheets, breath coming in ragged, broken pulls.The cliff—yes… she’d fallen off. She felt the wind. Felt Poppy’s claws digging into her flesh. She remembered Pete, and how he just stood and watched.My baby.Ishtar wrapped her abdomen, as she curled inward instinctively, a strangled sound escaping her throat. Panic surged through her in a brutal wave as she waited for the pain, for the tearing agony, and the hollow, dead silence that followed as she fell.But nothing came.Instead, there was a steady warmth beneath her palms. She sucked in a sharp breath, and finally looked down. Her stomach was flat. Unmarked. There was no blood. No pain.Her chest rose and fell beneath fabric far too soft to belong to the forest or the cliff.

The gala dragged on in a blur. By then, the heavy silence had lifted, replaced by lively music that soon filled the hall with laughter, and little by little, the noise grew again. However, it never changed the assessing and scrutinizing eyes fixed on Lillia. After she sat, the herald continued, calling family after family, who would come forward with gifts to pay respects. Amid the celebration, music and dance filling the room with melody and colour, Regaleon stood abruptly. Without a word or as much as a glance in her direction, he turned and walked away, dark silk brushing the obsidian steps as though she were no more than a necessary engagement he needed to get over. The effect was immediate. Whispers rose beneath the music, Lillia felt them before she heard them. The shift in attention, the sharp increase in scrutiny. A foreign bride abandoned at her own joining celebration. During this time, it was clear to Lillia that their initial very respectable smi