บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha Prince’s Unwanted Plus-Size Mate: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

The damp chill of the packhouse basements had always settled into my bones, but tonight, the cold felt absolute.I sat on the edge of my narrow cot, staring at the raw purple bruises forming around my wrist where Cassian had grabbed me to keep me from falling when the bond snapped. The grand gala hummed three floors above my head, the muffled thud of drums and laughter bleeding through the stone ceiling. Up there, they were drinking to the future Luna.Down here, I was packing my life into a single leather satchel.I didn't bring clothes to make me look delicate; I packed three sturdy woolen tunics, my personal charcoal sketching pencils, and the heavy brass compass my father had left me before he died on the northern front. My hands were steady. The agonizing tear in my chest—the raw, bleeding phantom wound left by the shattered mate bond—was still there, pulsing with every heartbeat. But beneath the pain, something cold and sharp had taken root.The door to my quarters creaked open

The shock of seeing my own hand-drawn tactical blueprints inside Julian’s private lockbox hung heavily in the warm air of the carriage."You've been watching me for two years?" I repeated, my hand resting flat over the yellowed parchment. "While I was sitting in a basement being treated like an unwanted ghost, you were studying my work?""A true commander studies power wherever it hides," Julian replied, his voice calm and unbothered by his own admission. He leaned forward, resting his forearms on his knees, bringing his face dangerously close to mine. "Cassian saw an oversized she-wolf who didn't fit his vain little standards. I saw a brilliant mind keeping a weak pack alive against three hostile borders. I don't care about court etiquette, Clara. I care about strength. And you are the strongest thing Bloodmoon ever possessed."The heat in his eyes was blinding. My face flushed, my chest rising and falling in quick, uneven breaths as his praise sank into my skin. For years, I had bee