Right after the Princess said that sentence, Cory curled his lips into a victory smile. In his mind, the Princess may appear to be cold and indifferent to him, but deep inside she actually liked him. That’s why she asked for the proof with a straight face.Girls, especially proud girls, they were always reluctant to admit that they actually liked someone. That’s what made them extraordinarily tempting and delicious.“Come to meet me at the kingdom’s garden tonight,” he said to the Princess with a satisfactory smile, and then rose to his feet and excused himself.After leaving the hotel, he drove directly back to the kingdom’s mansion. Lennie was partying upstairs with some of her friends. Cory went straight downstairs to the basement where he held Nyla.To prove Princess Lyra was his second chance mate, he would have to accept Elena’s rejection first. Right now, Elena was far away at the rogues, but he was sure that he could get it done through Nyla. Though the poor wolf had never ope
Right at that moment Cory spoke out his rejection, Nyla’s color started to fade. Her translucent figure became thinner and thinner every second. In the end, she was basically invisible. Cory crawled up from the floor and cried, looking inside the cage. He knew Nyla’s life was hung on a thread, but he could never release her. He had just found out he was so deeply in love with Elena. Reject or not, he could never leave her. Without her company, he couldn’t survive in this cold and cruel world. He could never be a whole person.“Nyla,” he cried, lifting up the cage from the floor, “Please tell her I didn’t mean to reject her. Please tell her I didn’t mean what I’ve just said. I was just confused. I didn’t mean it! Please don’t accept the rejection, please. Please stay with me. Please tell L I am sorry.”Nyla didn’t reply. In fact, she couldn’t even hear him. To peel her off from her human part was so inhuman and against nature. She lost all her senses a long time ago. She was just para
When Jasper’s phone call came in, Cory was still crying in the basement.Elena’s acceptance reached him at the very second he finished his rejection. He begged and implored Nyla to speak with him, to reverse that rejection, but there was no use. Nyla didn’t even move in the cage.He laid on the floor and cried, and had never felt so helpless before. But when he picked up the phone, his voice sounded normal to Jasper.“What’s up?” he asked in a raspy voice, lying on the floor, with tears still on his cheeks.Jasper was supervising some workers to deliver the furniture Lennie ordered for the wedding venue. He panicked when he saw the news that popped out on the phone screen and instantly called Cory.“Did you read the news?” He asked nervously, speculating whether his king had found out this horrifying fact or not.Cory frowned. He noticed there was something wrong in Jasper’s voice. He quickly sat up from the floor.“What news?” he asked.Jasper swallowed uneasily. He hated to be the p
The moment Lennie showed up at the door, Cory felt panic. In recent days he was so preoccupied by the sudden appearance of his big brother and the mysterious Princess Lyra. He almost forgot that he still had a bride to take care of. And Lennie wasn’t exactly an easy-going person. His mind went blank for a second, and then he quickly put on a so-called charming smile. “Lennie, you are talking with me! I am so sorry about … everything,” he said, walking towards the cold-eyed dragon princess. Lennie snorted. She put contempt in her voice to show how much she despised her faithless future husband. “I am not talking with you. I am talking with the true inheritor of this kingdom,” she said, eyes glancing through Ragnar again, “Just a little reminder to both of you. I am marrying the legitimate king of this kingdom, not a fickle-minded bastard like you.”Cory’s face changed after hearing that. He stopped in the middle of the room, staring at Lennie with shock and fury. He had always ass
The moment Elena heard that voice, she knew it was Lennie. She would never forget the voice of the woman who put her through the ordeal. And she hadn’t even a clue why Lennie was here. She exchanged a look with her parents, and then decided to answer the door. Lennie had already known who she truly was anyway and, she had been seeking an opportunity to confront that shrewd dragon princess.“Go back to your room,” she mouthed to her parents, and then walked towards the door.Once her parents got inside the bedroom, Elena pulled open the door and then saw Lennie standing outside, smiling at her. “Hi, sweetie,” she said with an intimate, sweet tone, “I’ve been thinking of you all the time since the last time we parted.”Elena curled her lips too. She could play this phony game if that’s what Lennie wanted. “I’ve been thinking of you too,” she said, “It’s such a shame that a smart princess like you has to marry a scumbag as her husband.”Lennie’s eyes turned cold, but she didn’t drop
As the ambulance drove off, the forest stayed without any change. Elena then knew it was the end of this heartbreaking trip. She stood in the dark forest and watched that ambulance leaving her eyeshot, and had already figured out what happened next. Ragnar woke up in the hospital and accepted Lennie’s help to become the Rogue Alpha to get his revenge. On her first day at Rogues, Ragnar once told her a friend of his lent Ethan to him to manage the rogue’s city. Now Elena finally knew that that friend was Lennie, and Lennie and Ragnar had already known each other long before she even knew Ragnar’s existence. It was so cruel and so harsh. Still, Elena felt glad that Lennie showed up and saved Ragnar’s life. She helped him to survive. “What’s now?” She turned around and looked at Lennie and asked. She knew there must be a very good reason for Lennie to take her here to review Ragnar’s past. Lennie wore back that hearty but fake smile. She said, “That mark really helped sharpen your b
Ragnar was on the very verge of losing it. Every cell in his body was in a huge fury, roaring, burning to bite the old king’s head off, to shred him into pieces, and to burn him into ashes. He wanted his blood on the scene, and wanted the whole world to know what a despicable cowardice their respectable king was. But he couldn’t do it. He couldn’t afford to lose it right now. Lennie made it very clear that if he didn’t play along with the king, she would harm Elena and her wolf. And if he attacked the old king in front of the whole country and failed, the king would have the perfect excuse to lock him up and execute him. He couldn’t just hand the victory to the old wolf like that. He must wait for the perfect opportunity to kill that old dog once and for all. “Just stay patient…” Throughout the whole night, he kept telling himself and Raven so. Inside his head, where no one could see, his eyes were bleeding blood, but in front of that curious, overenthusiastic crowd, he ha
The moment Elena heard that question, she felt her head explode. Her breath had already stopped the second he knelt in front of her. She couldn’t believe this was happening and his eyes looked so genuine and happy. He was meant to ask her to marry him, not just playing a trick to make her happy, or doing a smarmy act. She felt her heartbeats first stop and then it started to pound wildly. The whole world went into silence. Even those hungry media held their breaths, watching nervously and waiting for her answer. Elena even heard Nyla whimpering in her head, begging for her to say “Yes”. Only that it was impossible. Nyla was still in a coma. But Elena knew she should say “Yes”. And she wanted to say “Yes” because she really, really, liked him. She knew that he was the one she was going to spend the rest of her life with, and she would never forgive herself if she let go of him. Hence, she said that word, first with a little hesitation, but then a genuine happy smile on her face. “Y