Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Mate Sacrificed Me and I Awakened Divine Blood: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

(Willow's POV)The moment I tore his lie apart, Aurel went deathly pale."Ridiculous! This is absolutely ridiculous!"I swear I never did anything like that!"But no one in the Sea God's Temple answered him. Everyone was still reeling after Morwenna named him as her killer.Aurel's chest heaved. He looked around the hall, and finally he pointed at me."This human comes out of nowhere, uses a few dark tricks to stir up trouble here, and now a spirit is accusing me? For all we know, she faked that whole vision with witchcraft!"Then he put on the act of a grieving older brother. "I watched Morwenna grow up. She's my little sister. No one wanted the best for her more than I did! How could I ever kill her?!"He said it like he was tearing out his own heart, and it won over most of the people there. Some of them were even nodding along, turning their hostile stares back on me."Prince Aurel has a point. How can anyone take a human's word for it?""Wasn't her adoptive mother a witch? There's

(Willow's POV)When I finished speaking, the whole Sea God's Temple fell silent.The King's gaze dropped to my chest.He understood better than anyone what this heart meant to the North Atlantic royal family.For countless ages, the wisdom, power, and fortune the royal family had drawn from this heart had become part of their very blood. It was the foundation of the North Atlantic's place among the world's most powerful races.Once it was returned, all of that would weaken drastically. The power to see the future and the power to heal would disappear. The royal family's judgment would grow dull. Even Poseidon's protection might start to waver!But the ancient pact was carved beneath the throne and written into the coronation oath of every King of the North Atlantic.No one could break a pact made with the gods.So he spoke slowly. "I can give the heart back to you, but on one condition."I will grant you succession rights in the North Atlantic through a royal marriage pact. Willow Dell

(Willow's POV)News of Morwenna's return from the dead spread throughout the North Atlantic palace. When the Sea Queen arrived, she could barely hold herself together. She held Morwenna and cried for a long time while the King stood beside them, his eyes red with emotion.What was supposed to be the wedding feast turned into a different kind of banquet.The palace announced it was in honor of the princess's safe return.I spent the whole day resting in the side hall with Arthur and Lily.For the first time in all these years, I felt whole.Half asleep, I heard footsteps stop outside the door, followed by Callum's voice. "She's still resting. Don't disturb her."Another voice answered him, low and familiar. "I need to talk to her.""She doesn't want to see you," Callum said, his tone turning cold. "Fiera, you saw it yourself. She took back her heart. She may not be the 'lowly human' you keep calling her at all. She's anything but ordinary, and right now what she needs is rest."The two

(Willow's POV)Fiera shoved me into his car without caring one bit what I had to say about it.The moment the locks clicked, his scent filled the closed-in space.He buckled my seat belt with quick, practiced hands, then went around to the driver's side and started the engine. The sports car let out a low roar and shot forward."Fiera, are you crazy? Let me out!"He ignored me and pressed the gas pedal almost to the floor.When we got to his house, he dragged me out of the car, hauled me all the way into the living room, and dumped me on the couch.I landed on the soft leather. Before I could push myself up, he was already leaning over me, one hand braced on the back of the couch beside my head, his deep mismatched eyes locked on mine."Aren't you supposed to be strong?" he mocked. "You sent a rogue wolf flying. So why are you so weak in front of me?"I was too furious to let that go, so I shoved at his chest!The instant my palm touched him, a surge of power rushed from my chest, down

(Willow's POV)Callum brought me home, and a doctor came to examine me.Once all my wounds were bandaged, my mind felt clearer than it ever had.All those years spent running through snowstorms. Being hunted through the border market. The flash of the blade on the altar...Scene after scene played out in my mind.I decided that once I healed, I would go to the statue of the Moon Goddess and formally reject my mate bond.I couldn't let Arthur live the way I'd been living, always in fear.So I quietly said my last goodbye to Fiera, deep inside.Loving him that deeply had been too painful.It had started when I was 15 and first dreamed of that face. It had lasted all the way to our reunion after five years apart, when he still thought the worst of me and said the cruelest things.For all those years, I had poured every bit of my passion and strength into loving him, like a moth drawn to a flame that could only burn me.Now the fire had finally gone out.Maybe, for me, that was a kind of r