Lahat ng Kabanata ng The mute Alpha king’s chosen mate: Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 120

ALICE POV:I stare at the carriage as it moves farther andfarther away from the palace, away from me, and I realize that this is the first time in a long while Diamond and I are apart.My heart sinks, but I put on a brave face as I wave them all away. I've been smiling all morning but this is the emptiest I have ever felt. Still, I'm comforted by the fact that I'm not there, which means that Diamond would not be harmed by anything. He has nothing to protect with this life, nothing to make split-second decisions for."Let's go inside," Drake says beside me as the carriage rounds a corner and finally disappears. "It's cold out here. You can't stay out for too long."To my surprise, he puts his arm around myshoulders and carefully leads me inside the palace. I suppose it's a pretty sweet gesture, but I still feel like he wouldn't have done anything like this if Diamond was present.I move away from him as soon as we're inside. I'm about to head upstairs to spend the rest of my day cle

ALICE POV:I freeze in my spot, watching as Drake tries to calm himself down. I can almost see all his thoughts wrestling each other in his head. The jealousy, the pain, the desire to still be sane. The hint of insanity is stealing over him though, casting a shadow on his light like an eclipse.Meanwhile, I'm trying to back away from him, rationalizing the things he just said. Sure, he mentioned the Great Leader in the context of being jealous that I met him. That doesn't mean he's the traitor, right? That could mean many things. Maybe he's just tired of being the one who gets left in the palace when important things happen.It's denial. I know it is. But I have to do something to slow him down. Or at least, try to get more details out of him before the worst of it comes."Why do you want to meet the Great Leader?" I ask in a low voice. "Why did you want to come there instead of me?"Drake's eyebrows burrow as he sinks deeper into his thoughts. "I... I am the one who made him possibl

ALICE POV:Anytime now, I tell myself. Anytime now, and I'm going to black out. Drake is going to do whatever he wants to me, and it would be just as he promised. I won't be able to feel a thing. When he's done, I wouldn't even know what he did. I would just know that the life growing inside me would be gone. And that he took it away from me.Anger flashes in my chest, dropping like a bomb in an enclosed space and stealing away all the oxygen. I look at Drake, still too weak to move, watching him tearing off my pants and pushing my shirt up. His movements are urgent, aggressive, but his face tells a different story.There are tears running down his cheeks, flowing down to his chin. I can feel some of them landing on my bare belly as he tries to get me fully exposed. The potion is just starting to kick in but for some reason, it's stalled. He doesn't seem to be too eager to get it to work either. I can feel the hesitation in his touch. He doesn't want to do this.I take deep breaths, t

DIAMOND POV:Time seems to slow down, which is either helpful or horrible. It might mean that I get to save the day with this seemingly significant advantage, or watch my best friend die right in front of me. I can only allow one option.My wrists are still bound by a stubborn handcuff that simply refuses to go, but the monster is already sniffing Carlos. From what I was told, Alice ripped open its face before, and it's still bearing the signs. There are very visible stitches holding its face together, and they're still raw and red and bleeding. Still, that doesn't stop it from opening its mouth and taking a cautious lick of Carlos.My heart stops. I tug at my arms again, and this time, the handcuffs break around my wrists. The silver slashes on my skin and blood flows out, but I rush toward the beast, snatching my gag off my mouth and shifting into my wolf form halfway. The wolf form's power shields all my injuries and heals them temporarily, even though I could feel my energy drain

DIAMOND POV:I'm bleeding almost everywhere. My shoulder still feels raw and strained. My legs are not as strong as I want them to be, and the betrayals have all done numbers on me that I could never explain or process right now.And yet, I find myself charging at the beast with all the courage I can muster, shifting into my wolf form in midair and using my speed to leap. Up, up, up. As far as I can go. Extending my claws far and big, aiming for the unhealed stitches on its face.The beast realizes too late what I'm up to. By the time it raises its own hands to snatch me right out of the air, I'm already landing on its face, letting gravity pull me as I drag my nails along its fragile skin until the only thing I can hear is tearing.A warm gush of pungent blood washes over me. I spit it all out as it gets into my mouth, blinking it away when some of it gets into my eyes.The smell is so terrible, perhaps even more horrible than before, but I don't let it get to me as I land on my four