The Alpha Kings Special Lunar

adow, reestablishing me within my pack's pulse and sending comforting scents of pine needles and rain throughout the air-my men a

denly passed away too soon, leaving behind an empire without leadership and an orphan who needed caring parents, I took up their roles, becoming ruler myself while taking r

ike an overwhelming tsunami: excitement and relief, c

else capture

vants lined up at the grand courtyard to greet him with reveren

ll, unmoving on

e and frail, she lay there like abandoned rubbish. Tangled hair fell across her face, obscuri

stirred furiously under my skin, restlessness rising to the surface again and again. Clenching my fists t

ist

rged from the palace with arms outstretched, but

n disapproval before falling to my

ds stiffened while

g snarl quickly cut her short. Tension in

vering frame, knowing I had found

y chest, her body barely resisting my touch as I carried her up the grand staircase in my royal esta

r, emitting an aromatic m

ough I hadn't been around much in recent months, my absence had left the r

, and her posture stirred fear within me, somethi

efore opening the first aid

pulled back away from her face and blood sm

cloth and dabbing any deeper cuts with antiseptic.

ld manage to say before her

she could tell the moment was momentous by how her eyes

I inquired, using a

ess." Her gaze flic

a satisfying growl

reating backward and refusing to me

nothing could convince anyone of anything; "No

ence began to wear thin, yet I kept quiet kno

l her presence here

chambers; is she your partner or just another guest?" Alistair smiled pleasan

med unnerve

should know she's an immoral in

y teeth grinding together. Rosalind would never say

her gaze fixed upon the floor while tw

?" my voice aske

es wide and lips parted; no

manded, "please

ed heavil

barely above whisper

es

d hit harder th

st as reality set in: My mate may have

. However, as a ruler, it is my duty not to

coldly, "or offered an explanation. I

ddered but

my thoughts raced, "My mate may be we

my message

l I heard her soft shuffle of feet an

dy as the burdens a

eelings, a thief was

carrying i