Sleep over

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate

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Chapter 21: sleep over

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That night, Regina stays up late once more, organizing the truly astounding number of parcels she now has in her room.

(Had she truly purchased this many things, she wonders.)

She’s halfway through organizing some of the items on her vanity, when she hears it.

That quiet, muffled whimper, this time all the louder for how acutely her sense are attuned to the sound.

This time, she wastes little time in letting herself through the door (and realizing, then, that while she can lock her side, King Mattel cannot, and wondering what the implications are that the man had crafted a proverbial cage for himself to be locked into).

When she sees the floors and walls, once more, covered in that endless blackness, she can’t help the fear that, again, rushes up inside of her like a dam had broken.

But she cannot leave King Mattel as he is, in whatever pained hell he has trapped himself into-

In the nights I spend in this monstrous form, I beg