The Lycan King's Forbidden Mate

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planned of sleeping late since last night only to be greet

eper into the softness of my pillow but the noise only grew even louder

ns, my mind still sluggish with sleep, still feeling lazily, I for

o'clock in the morning whic

I just want to get

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up, my long black hair falling ove

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lted upright, my heart thumping as the me

enth bir

birthday would be very important and that it woul

espite the chaos outside, my room remained unusually still. My hand hove

in front of a huge mirror, my fingers trembled as I adjusted the lace of my

my reflecti

just as simple as my friends'. I'd neve

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seemed to be admiri

and it's also been four years since Aric has taken me into

e at myself, then tur

every step I make felt it e

taircase, Alpha Aric's boo

only daughter of former Alpha

e. The same pride that made me feel more like an object on disp

u are ready for

ispered t

been waiting for this for years,

e in my throat. The union... The ver

ric, the Alpha's son. A man I have come to love ever since I me

ory of what Aric and

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ad is still turning from hearing about

ot you

t me. I can't marry a man who can't love me back. Besides, I'm

d and loo

something bigger. Your blood, your heritage. You are Walden's only daughter, Foxy you are this

e bound to someone like him, Alaric is cold, dist

d in love with him. It's like I wante

tired to bury the resentment, the weight of the truth wa

tay, I ha

beat erratically as anxiety started to gnawed at me. I could feel the weight

alden Fox's d

ced and my emo

just an o

ing and crossed

o one else would. But the kindness he had once shown me felt like it

le, Fo

e from the dept

e I found the son of Alpha Aric, and the s

n them, only disdain, the same disdain I had seen in

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to be constantly s

an eyebrow, st

are only tolerated because

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have to r

my nails dug in

like I asked f

rled into a

does it? You still belong to the pack. And I st

as if the words were more of a

with a mix of

your father? You know, the o

ather already expects us to honor this arrangement. You a

fists clenched as I met

pack, this was once my father's pack. I don

hink about what's a

ly colder. He stepped forwar

ou or me. This is about

oken threat. I swallowed hard, it felt like the w

ting to water, I tried

I don't k

inside me, "You think I don't realize that if we don't

moment, but then it hardened a

o you still

omehow on the same side.

rely above a whisper, "I don't want

weight of the words I had

that clear every chacne you get. And this marriage, it's not worth it. I know you only

weight of my words had caught him off guard. But then

get to ch

ality before tur

ot if my father, Alp