Chapter Fifty-Five: Your Territory

The ride to the temple was quiet, perhaps because the Alpha uttered nothing, which was fine with me because my stomach remained in knots and my bones still quivered. In my state, I could hold nothing, let alone a conversation.

I did not regret my actions; the memory of him dashing after another woman when I stood before him keeps reaffirming my need to bolster his misery. At this point, it does not matter if he howls my name in pain; as long as it is my name on his lips, then I would gladly set his world on fire.

But it is precisely these thoughts that terrify me; I do not want his life in my hands. I do not wish to bear the responsibility for anyone’s life.

This rejection is a good idea, but I wish I could get Kaisa to agree on the same.

"Say I ask you to behave, to stop thinking of the king as intensely as you are now; how will you react?"

Alpha Rhett asks for the first time since the drive began.

"I will ask you-”

I stop to clear the coarseness in my throat before I continue.

“I wi