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Bella"What was the meaning of that?" Theorone’s voice bled from the corridor as he walked his way towards my chambers.I didn’t say anything at first because I had nothing to say, and I was also sure that instead of thanking me, he was going to ask me why I had done that.“I mainly helped you, and you are supposed to be thanking me,” I whispered to him. “If not for me—” I continued, my voice tightening, “people would have wanted to crucify you. I saw what you did, and everybody saw with their own eyes as well. You didn’t want to send the soldiers and warriors to go and find your brother because you didn’t want to punish him… because he is your blood.”I added, my chest rising and falling as the weight of it pressed harder against me.My words seemed to have taken him off guard, as he didn’t believe that someone would have noticed why he hesitated earlier.“I don't know what you are talking about,” he said in a deep voice, as if that was enough to explain what he had done earlier.“I

BellaTheorone was a beast. I kept reminding myself that as I walked back to my chambers after my encounter with him. He was a beast whom I couldn't mess with. And even if I was daring to mess with him, I needed to be extremely careful around it—around him, around the power that clung to his very presence like a shadow that refused to loosen its grip.“Have you thought through what you told him?" A voice whispered in my head, low and intrusive, like it had been waiting for the perfect moment to strike. I wondered whether it was my wolf, but recalling that my wolf always recedes back each time I shifted, I knew that she had gone back to sleep—silent, distant, unreachable. So it could only be my own voice in my head that was asking me, questioning me, judging me."Of course I have thought what I told him through,” I told myself, almost defensively, as I recalled how Theorone had left me at the rooftop in anger. The memory clung stubbornly, replaying in fragments—the tension in his jaw,

BellaThe door flew open once more and this time, instead of Theorone who I had expected, it was Kathy who showed up.I had thought that Theorone had realized his wrong in what he had said and had returned to apologize and bring me out of the dungeon.But to my shock, it wasn't him I had seen but instead… her.Standing there like she owned the place.Like she had been waiting for this moment all along.For a second, I said nothing.I only stared at her.Taking in the way her lips curled, the satisfaction dancing in her eyes, the pride in the way she held her head high—as though my fall was her greatest achievement.“Well…” she dragged out slowly, stepping into the cell without permission, her heels echoing against the cold stone floor. “Look at you.”Her gaze swept over me, slow… deliberate… insulting.“From standing beside the king… to rotting in a cage.”She clicked her tongue softly, shaking her head as though she pitied me.But there was no pity there.Only cruelty.I remained sil

TheoreonThe sound of the chains still echoed in my head long after I left the dungeon.Cold, final and necessary because I had needed to remind Bella of her place in my pack. Being my mate was already making her believe that j wouldn't kill her and also the fact that she seems different from the woman of years ago.That was what I told myself as I walked down the dimly lit corridor, my steps steady, unhurried—just as a king’s should be. There was no hesitation in my stride, no sign of the storm that had begun to stir beneath my skin.She needed to be reminded.Of her place.Of the consequences of defiance to who I was.And yet, my jaw tightened as I pushed open the doors to my chambers. I wasn't sure whether what u was doing was rught or not. Or wether this was going to guarantee that she would be scared of me and therefore not wat to leave me.Something felt off.The moment I stepped inside my chambers, the air shifted—not physically, but internally. A low, restless unease settled d

TheoroneI stood silently as I watched Theorone, trying to realize the meaning of what he had just said and how much audacity it had taken him to say that.Of all people to say it to, it happened to be me? How dare him?“And who is this mate of yours? How dare you lead rogues past my border without going through the officially recognized method of stepping into a pack? I heard that your father crowned you as his alpha. Is this the behavior from you, an alpha?”I asked as I stared at him, my gaze not faltering as I did.I didn’t know what made me abhor it the most—the fact that he had dared come here to request for Bella or the fact that I didn’t want her to go, not even a step away.“That's one heck of a lecture you have just provided me with, alright, Lycan King,” he whispered, staring at me as though I had done something wrong before his eyes.I could see the mocking glint in his eyes to know that he didn’t care about what I had said, especially concerning the right track to communi