Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Prince의 모든 챕터: 챕터 81 - 챕터 90

Third person's POV Karl read the message twice before the paper crumpled entirely in his fist. He couldn't believe what he was reading. Cassian, that damn assassin, he dared turn his job down. His aura made it clear how furious he was. It made the two attendants standing near the door exchange a glance and quietly decide it was safer to study the floor than to look anywhere near their alpha king. When Karl finally spoke his voice came out low and calm in a way that was somehow worse than shouting would have been. “He returned the payment,” Karl said, more to himself than to anyone listening, turning the crumpled scrap over in his hand as though rereading it might change the words printed there. “The single most reliable name in this entire business, a man who has never once failed to complete a contract in all his years of work, decided that this particular job wasn’t to his liking, and simply walked away from it as though I were some minor lordling he could afford to insult.” He

Nora's POVRafael chose a quiet location for our date. Halfway through the short carriage ride, I noticed this and asked curiously why he’d picked somewhere so remote.“I wanted our first real evening together to be somewhere peaceful,” he said, watching my face carefully in the low light for any sign of how the word ‘first’ had landed. “Somewhere that belonged to neither of our old lives. I thought you deserved that much, at least.”I didn’t argue the point, only turned to look out at the darkening water as the cottage came into view. I understood exactly what he meant even if I wasn’t ready to say so aloud.We soon got to our location and it was a cute but beautiful lit outdoor restaurant. Rafael pulled the chair like a proper gentleman and soon food came.The food was so good that it made me smile on the first bite. Rafael noticed this and just smiled to himself. These little cute acts of mine made him fall even more.Over dinner, we had little conversations about Fiona. Once the p

Elena's POV With Cassian in my home, my life suddenly took an unexpected turn. Harboring the kingdom's most wanted assassin beneath my own roof, while his former employer's hunters combed every inch of the surrounding territory, should by any reasonable measure have felt like a constant state of crisis, and yet it didn't.With Nora's long hours at the office and Rafael's habit of whisking Fiona away for entire afternoons at the park or the lake, the house was usually left for just me, and well Cassian.I kept him confined to my room during the hours the house was fullest, which he bore with far more patience than I'd expected from someone used to open roads and constant movement. But the moment the front door closed, signifying that everyone was out of the house, I would slip upstairs and knock twice on my own door. It was a small signal we'd worked out between us, and then, I would him down to the kitchen where he could finally stretch his legs and breathe air that didn't smell fai

Nora's POVI was just reading Fiona a story when I heard a loud bang that made me shiver."Mommy?" Fiona held my arm, looking startled. I was too but I tried to not show it. I smiled and leaned down, placing a small kiss on her forehead."Don't worry baby, I'm sure there's been an accident somewhere, you stay here, let me go check it out" I said and got up. She walked behind me but I stopped her. "Stay here love, don't open the door for anyone you don't know, okay?" I said and she nodded.I heard another bang and rushes downstairs but just then, the door flew open and I stood in shock as I watched Rafael standing there, looking disoriented."Rafael? What's going on?" I asked with my eyes slightly widened."You're safe" he said and pulled me in a hug while I stood there, confused. "What's going on?" I asked, pushing him off me."Where is Fiona?" He asked instead."She's in the room, she's safe as well. What's going on Rafael?" I asked with my eyes slightly widened."You need to stay h

Third person's POV With the help of Cassian and some of the local Alpha's men, Karl was captured and detained. The Alpha immediately requested for a trial to punish Karl while Rafael was immediately attended to by the best healers,The council chamber hadn't seen a crowd this big in decades. Every seat on the raised tiers was filled. Representatives from packs across the region had traveled fast once word spread of what Karl had tried to do. At the center of the chamber floor, Karl stood in chains between two guards. He'd been stripped of the ceremonial armor he wore into battle. For the first time since anyone in that room had known him, he looked small. Smaller than his reputation.The Council's presiding elder was a stern woman named Beatrix. She'd overseen more trials than anyone alive. She called the proceedings to order with one sharp rap of her gavel. The chamber went silent almost instantly. "We are gathered to determine the truth of the attacks against Lake Pack's territory