All Chapters of The Alpha's Villainess: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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Chapter Fifty-One

“How...? How is that even possible?” Alistair asked.His aggression and anger were slowly thawing as he processed what I told him, learning something I was sure he never expected to hear.“I-I don’t know,” I quickly answered. “One moment I was eating a snack in my kitchen, the next moment I was dead and waking up as Scarlett.”“And... what? She’s in there? You’re both... there?”“Yes. Now we are.”“What do you mean ‘now’? She wasn’t before?”“She woke up four days ago. Before that, she was in a coma or... something. I really don’t know. She was drowning in the lake back in Easthaven and that’s when I took her place. I had no idea she was going to eventually wake up. Honestly, I thought she’d died.”“So... these past few weeks... the person I’ve actually been talking to....”“Was me,” I finished, feeling like a weight was being lifted. “Me, Natalie. It was me who ran away from Easthaven after trying to help Aurora. Me who saved you in the forest from the rogues, and it was me who was c

Chapter Fifty-Two

I sat on the couch, legs curled up into my chest as I stared at the unlit fireplace in front of me. Memorising the stones... the smudges of charcoal... the way the cracks split in different directions... doing anything I could to stay busy... to not fall asleep.To not let my head keep bobbing down.......To stop my eyes closing for a few seconds at a time.......To not let my thoughts get carried away, noticing how the stones reminded me of the tavern and that one time Hazel had told me about...........About...................A..b.....................And, suddenly, I wasn’t sitting on the couch anymore. No... I was by the front door with something held tightly in my hand... standing in the exact spot one would wait if trying to surprise someone...I didn’t get a chance to properly process what was going on before the door then opened.“Hello...?” Alistair’s voice called out.Scarlett instantly moved. The second he stepped into the living room, she lunged herself forward, aiming a

Chapter Fifty-Three

The entire forest around us grew quiet, almost as if nature itself was responding to the loss. No one spoke a word. No one moved a muscle. Just stunned silence filled the air.Was I meant to say something? To offer words of sympathy? I was probably the last person he wanted to hear from, the face I wore a reminder of who stole his father from him.Instinctively, I’d raised a hand to touch his shoulder in support, but I quickly recalled it before he noticed. This wasn’t about me or what I could offer him. There was nothing I could do to make this situation any easier for him.Nevertheless, the news hit me hard too. I’d tried so hard to, not only warn Thaddeus that this might happen, but to save him too. Yet somehow, despite my best efforts, it had still been partially my fault that it ended this way.Thaddeus was the first person to look at me like I wasn’t Scarlett. Without even needing to explain anything, he’d given me a chance. He’d seen the good in me when everyone else only saw

Chapter Fifty-Four

“...And, so, she clicked her shoes together, spoke the magic words, and when she woke up, she was back home with her family. Like nothing had ever happened and it was all just a dream. The end,” I finished.I’d been telling the story to Alistair for a long time. Long enough that I noticed his breathing become even, a sign that he might have fallen asleep. I’d kept going despite this, continuing to speak until the end, but now I wondered if he really had drifted off.I leaned in closer, inspecting his face for any sign that he might still be awake. He seemed so peaceful as he laid there, the lines from stress having relaxed. He looked so... innocent. Like he wasn’t someone capable of killing a person with his bare hands, or able to order thousands of people into doing whatever he wanted.“Why didn’t the good magical Luna simply not kill the bad one? Why did she need the wolfless girl to do it for her?” he then asked, making me jump back into my armchair.Immediately, my heart began raci

Chapter Fifty-Five

Somehow, I’d adopted a grumpy stray cat.But instead of a cat, it was a wolf... and instead of a wolf, it was actually the Alpha King.Two weeks went by since the initial night Alistair showed up on my doorstep. And, just like a stray cat you feed once, he kept showing up regularly ever since then. At first, he went back to pretending like he wasn’t interested in coming inside, but it only took a few days for him to give that act up. Soon, it just became the normal routine.I’d wake up around midnight and find him already on the porch waiting. He never knocked, but I think that was because he was worried about accidentally waking up Scarlett instead. He’d make me a fire, and we would just talk for a few hours. Sometimes I’d tell him a story, just a movie or book I’d read back in my world, and sometimes he slept here. The palace was always busy, and I think he liked having somewhere he could go to get away from it all. Even if that was just for a few hours.I also learnt a little about

Chapter Fifty-Six

Scarlett shuddered in anticipation, enjoying herself as she waited for that moment he would kiss her. She didn’t really care for him. That much was obvious. This entire act of hers was for her own entertainment. Just to see if he would do it. Something for her to laugh at later and use against me.The whole time this was happening, I kept screaming inside, pleading with the void that held me captive, but it never relented. I was held in place, unable to do anything except spectate.He trailed his face along her cheek, his hot breath warming her skin as he continued to move upwards...And as he finally came to a stop at her ear, it was then that his grip on her tightened. More forceful. Almost as if he were trapping her in place.Scarlett gasped, not expecting the sudden violent strength, but Alistair spoke over her. A voice so dark that even I flinched from hearing it.“...Fuck off, Scarlett.”With that, he pushed her away.At being caught, Scarlett began to laugh, having nothing else

Chapter Fifty-Seven

“No... I saw you... I saw you just two days ago...,” I whispered, my head starting to feel light again.If Alistair wasn’t still holding my arms, my legs might have given out completely. It didn’t feel like I’d been gone for that long, so how could this have happened?“Where did you go? Scarlett said she couldn’t reach you.”“Uhh... I–I don’t know. I was in a fog somewhere... just waiting...,” I answered.“Was it Scarlett’s fault? Did she do something? If she lied to me, I swear—”“—No, no it wasn’t her. For once. It was....”My voice trailed off as I remembered the void holding me captive. I didn’t know how to describe what it was. The way it trapped me, yet also didn’t exist. Nothing existed.I didn’t exist.I wasn’t meant to be here.“Natalie?” he asked when I started spacing out.I snapped back to reality. “Yeah. I’m here.”I looked up at him and studied his face closer, seeing just how upset he seemed to be. In the two weeks we’d spent getting to know each other, had I really had

Chapter Fifty-Eight

“What’s going on here? Alistair, you told me that Scarlett has been missing since the battle,” Aurora said slowly. “When they dragged Liam’s dead body in here, you swore to me that you didn’t know where she went. Is this why you’ve been sneaking away so much recently? Do you have any idea how worried Victor and I have been about you?”“Aurora... calm down,” Alistair started, realising this was already escalating very quickly. “This isn’t what it looks like. She’s not who you think she is.”He lowered us off his shoulder and grabbed our arm tightly, preventing Scarlett from running off.“Alistair, my love, don’t lie to her,” Scarlett chimed in, playfully hitting his chest. “Aurora knows who I am, silly. We go way back.”Aurora’s eyes immediately filled with rage, a wind materialising from nowhere that started to gust around the room we were standing in. It slammed the doors closed one by one, trapping us inside with her. A sight that sent a chill of deep fear through me.*‘What is wron

Chapter Fifty-Nine

I was dead... — Scarlett was dead.But if she was there... then who the hell was I?I lifted my arms up in front of me, immediately recognising the limbs I found there. Ones I’d lived with for twenty-five years, complete with even that tiny scar I’d gotten after falling off the swing as a child. It was all there, exactly as I last remembered it. Every freckle, blemish, and hair.This was my body. My original body.My human body.It was no wonder my vision felt blurry. I was seeing through the eyes of a completely normal person again. No more wolf. No more enhanced healing or senses.No more...—“Get away from her,” a deep voice growled from the dark corner.—...matebond.I flinched and took a step away from Scarlett’s body, his voice triggering a gut instinct inside me to run. I might not be a werewolf anymore, capable of recognising his aura, but I could nevertheless sense just how much danger I was in by being here.Alistair stood up from the chair he’d been silently sitting in and s

Chapter Sixty

My eyes flew open at the sound of large doors abruptly opening.“It’s me! I’m awake!” I yelled, my heart racing.Where was I? What was going on?I frantically looked around the room, and it all slowly came back to me.I was in the palace, back in my original body. There wasn’t any danger. It was only Alistair who entered, returning just as he said he would. He was in the process of taking off his jacket but had stopped midway to stare at my outburst.All those weeks living with Scarlett in my head had taken a toll on me mentally. Like I was terrified I was going to wake up and find myself in a new location, potentially seconds away from someone trying to kill us.I brushed the hair away from my face and tried to control my breathing. It was going to take time to get used to being alone again.“I’m sorry. Did I startle you?” he asked, continuing to move again.“No... no, I’m fine.” I took a deep breath in to calm myself, then laid back down. “...What time is it? How long was I asleep?”

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