Bride Of The Shadowed Alpha

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ith gratitude. "I know this isn't something you want

I finish my food? Or is there someone else you want me t

head. "No, that's all," he replied, tu

ence, broken only by the faint clinking of

clothes beside her plate before rising from her seat. "Thank you, U

er a kind smile. "Good nigh

g softly down the palace hallways as she made her way back to her chambe

ring at the ceiling. Does he really expect m

Emperor that lingered in her mind. His piercing gaze, the way his presence

rrow," she muttered to herself, pulling the blankets over her. "If Uncle i

sleep claim her once more, even if her thoughts

finished her meal and turned to her fat

, and instead of shouting at her or punishing her, you let it slide, again. I've always known you don't like me." She cl

ter, his expression calm but tired. He wasn't surprised by her outbur

he respect we enjoy, is because she allowed me to take the throne after her parents passed. That doesn't mean I won't speak up when she's wrong, which is why I've told her to meet the Emperor tomorrow and apologize for her actions

she said bitterly. "If Mother were alive, she'd have supported me. She wouldn't let Nyxoria walk all over

efore speaking. "You have me, Nasaria," he said quietly but firmly. "But she has no one else. Have you forgotten that?" King Vyr's

e turned and left the table, his

ion between them. Nasa sat alone in the silence, her anger simmering as her father's words replayed in her mind. For

thing you do is for me, then why do I feel so alone? s