All Chapters of The Lycan king's Forbidden Obssesion: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

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Chapter 41: Serena's nightmare

We walked to my room together, and his hand stayed in mine the whole way. The guards bowed their heads as we passed, the torches wavered as light breeze flowed through the hallway, and the shadows danced on the walls. Alejandro stopped at my door, and he looked at me for a long moment. I thought he might say something, but he did not. He just squeezed my hand, let go, and turned to walk away. I watched his back as he walked away, and his footsteps echoed in the hallway. Then I took a deep breath, went inside, and I closed the door behind me, and I lay down on the bed. The sheets were cool against my skin, and the fire was low, and the room was quiet. I closed my eyes, and I listened to the sound of my own breathing, as I waited for sleep to come. It came faster than I expected, and with it came the nightmares. The dream came without warning, and it swallowed me whol

Chapter 42: The morning after the nightmare

The morning light was pale and grey when I opened my eyes.The fire had died completely, the room was cold, and my body was stiff from lying in the same position for too long. I did not remember falling asleep, and I did not remember Alejandro leaving.I actually thought he had left, but I was wrong. He had not left.He was sitting in the chair across from the bed, and his golden eyes were watching me, and his hands were wrapped around a cup of tea. His hair was messy, and his shirt was rumpled, and there were dark circles under his eyes that had not been there before.He looked very tired. More tired than I had ever seen him."You are staring," I said. My voice came out cracked, due to the shouting last night.Alejandro did not smile. He just stood up, walked to the bed, and he handed me the cup of tea. The warmth seeped into my cold fingers, and I held it tightly, as I breathed in the steam."I did not want to leave," he said as he walked back to the chair. "But I thought you might

Chapter 43: The confession

Alejandro noticed I was still shaking. The tea was gone, and the morning light had grown brighter, but my body had not stopped trembling, because the thoughts of the nightmare still clung to my skin like frost, and I could not shake it off no matter how hard I tried. Alejandro watched me with those golden eyes, and I could see the worry painted all over his face. The dark circles under his eyes looked deeper than before, and his hair was still messy from the night, and he looked like he had aged years in just a few hours. "You need to warm up," he said. "You are still cold." I looked down at my hands, and they were pale, and my fingers were trembling. He was right. The nightmare had left something behind, a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature of the room. "I will prepare a bath," he said. He stood up and walked to the door. "Stay here."

Chapter 44: The healing begins

The days after the confession passed differently than the ones before. I noticed small things that I had never noticed before. I noticed the way the morning light turned the snow on the windowsill into something that looked like diamonds, the way the tea tasted different depending on which servant brewed it, and the way the guards outside my door shifted their weight from one foot to the other when they thought no one was watching. I had spent so much of my life hiding, making myself small, and not noticing anything because noticing meant being present, and being present meant being vulnerable. But I was tired of hiding. I started keeping a small notebook on the table beside my bed. Every morning, I wrote down one thing I was grateful for. Some days it was the warmth of the fire, and other days it was the taste of honey in my tea. Once, it was simply the fact that I had woken up without

Chapter 45: Camila's betrayal

Serena's POV The morning started like any other, but then, the shouting started.I woke to the pale grey light filtering through the window, and I lay in bed for a few moments, listening to the silence. Alejandro was gone, called away to deal with some matter I did not ask about, but the warmth of his body still lingered on the sheets beside me.I dressed slowly, and I walked to the table, and I ate my breakfast without waiting for permission. The bread was warm, and the tea was sweet, and I thought about how far I had come.I remembered the girl who had first arrived at this castle, trembling and afraid, unsure of who to trust or how to survive. I had been so lost back then, and so broken by everything I had lost. The ring on my finger caught the light as I reached for the cup of tea. I still could not believe it was real sometimes, that I was allowed to have something so precious, or that someone had given it to me without expecting anything in return. I twisted it around my finge

Chapter 46: Camila's betrayal pt 2

Serena's POV Camila did not deny it. She lifted her chin, and her grey eyes met his, and she spoke without fear. "I did it to save others," she said. "There are humans in the southern territories who have no idea what is coming for them. They deserve to know, and they deserve a chance to fight." "You betrayed this castle," Alejandro said coldly. The room went silent, and even the fire seemed to hold its breath. I could hear my own heartbeat, pounding loud and fast in my chest, and I could see the guards exchanging glances, and the nobles whispering behind their hands. Camila did not flinch. She knelt on the cold stone floor with her hands bound and her wrists bleeding, and she looked at Alejandro like she was not afraid of him. "I betrayed a castle full of monsters," she said. "And I am not sorry for that. I am sorry that I got caught, and I am sorry th

Chapter 47: The turning point pt 1

Serena's POV I stayed against the door for what felt like hours, but it was probably only minutes. The silence in the castle pressed down on me, heavy and cold, and I could not shake the image of Camila's face from my mind. The way she had looked at me, and the way she had smiled even as they dragged her away. Then it hit me, that I had not said goodbye. I had not held her one last time. I had not told her that I would find her, that I would bring her back, and that I would not let her disappear into the frozen waste without knowing that someone cared. I pushed myself off the door, and I ran. The door slammed behind me, and I was running as fast as I could. My bare feet were cold against the stone floor of the hallway, but I did not care. I did not care about anything except catching up to Camila, before they dragged her out i

Chapter 48: The turning point pt 2

Serena's POV I knew I had to go back inside, because the cold was seeping into my skin fast. So I turned, and I started walking toward the castle gates. And then I saw him. Alejandro was standing in the snow, with his golden eyes fixed on me, and his dark coat blending into the shadows. His face was pale, and his jaw was tight, and he looked like he had been standing there for a long time. "Serena," he said. I stopped walking. "I tried to find you," he said. "I looked for you after you left, and I wanted to explain." "There is nothing to explain," I cut him off. "There is," he said. "I did not want to do it. I really did not want to exile her, but I had no choice." I laughed, and the sound was bitter and cold. "There is always a choice," I said. "You chose the law, you c

Chapter 49: The first lesson

Serena's POV Ramona closed the door behind me, and the sound of it clicking shut echoed in the small room. She walked to the chair by the fire, and she sat down slowly, like her bones were tired, and like she had been carrying the weight of this castle for longer than anyone could remember. I stood in the middle of the room, with my arms wrapped around myself, still shivering from the cold that had seeped into my bones. I had not bothered to change out of my thin shirt, and the warmth of the fire was just beginning to reach me. "Sit," Ramona said. I nodded and sat down. The chair was hard beneath me, and the wood was cold through my thin trousers. I shifted, trying to find a comfortable position, but there was none. My body was still shaking from the cold, and my mind was still spinning with everything that had happened. Ramona watched me, patient and s

Chapter 50: The watching pt 1

Serena's POV Ramona's words stayed with me long after I left her chambers that night. I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, and I turned them over and over in my mind like stones in my palm. "Start by watching, start by listening, and pay attention to the people around him." I thought about Felipe, sitting in his chambers, plotting his next move. I thought about Alejandro, on his throne, blind to all the danger closing in around him. And I thought about myself, sitting in the shadows, invisible to everyone who walked past. I had spent my whole life being invisible. I had made myself small, quiet, and unnoticeable. It had been my shield, my armor, and my way of surviving. But now I realized that invisibility was not just a shield, it was also a weapon. I could not sleep that night, so I walked through the halls, with my bare feet silent on the cold stone floor. The castle wa

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