The alpha king's slave mate
“Calm down, Celeste. It was a joke.”
A joke.
It took every shred of control in me not to expose him right there. Not to scream the truth—that I wasn’t pregnant because he poisoned me, slipped contraceptives into my tea each morning like I was livestock he wanted barren. That for months, I had been playing him, pretending to sip, pretending to swallow.
Three months into this marriage, I had caught him in the act but didn't let him know. I had seen the herbs, recognized the bitter tang in the tea. I had started pretending. I had made myself vomit when forced to drink, even taken antidotes in secret.
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