The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 77: wedding preparations .By the time the three of them’s conversation is over, it is nearing midnight, and Regina is quite exhausted. She just barely manages to stumble to her room, where she heads immediately for one trunk in particular.After that, all Regina has the energy to do, is to change into her nightgown and dig up her sleeping mask from the bottom of her trunk.She glances at the closed door separating her and Mattel’s bedroom with a bitten lip.** Mattel is stretched along his bed, a book open in his lap, when he hears the separating door open.He looks up, and watches as it swings slowly, carefully, slender fingers visible where they’re wrapped around the edge of the door. And then, Regina’s eyes, peering at him from behind the door, before her shoulders, and half her torso comes into view.Regina stands in the doorway without moving further inside, wearing an expression so hesitant - so unsure - that it nearly breaks Mattel’
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 78: fight of feelings .By morning’s time, the official declaration has been spread: that King Mattel and his newly found mate, Regina are to be aligned in a marriage with Regina becoming the new Luna and Queen of the Western kingdom. All such official news and ceremony had originally been postponed in Regina’s runaway , until the she could arrive; said arrival, in turn, had been delayed because Mattel had wasted time to find her and then finally she was brought back. Which led to princess Jana and Prince Damian coming too.But now that Regina have arrived, and she has decided to stay, it is, apparently, enough for King Mattel to move forward with all the grand fanfare that would ordinarily accompany such a union. Given that Jana and Damian’s military - and, therefore, political - strength is nearly peerless in all the land, King Mattel is only thrilled to continue the original plans. And then Princess Jana and Prince Damian had only permit
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 79: paradox of atmospheres .The next several days pass in an odd, suspended paradox of atmospheres.There is Jana, who is very visibly attempting not to murder the Alpha King Mattel in cold blood. As it is, she becomes almost terrifyingly charming in the days to follow, and it is not without a small cluster of servants and admirers that she is tailed by, at all times. Nearly the entire castle, it seems, has fallen irrevocably in love with the wealthy princess from the East-lands, and Jana wields her beauty and charisma like a weapon.Each time she and King Mattel come within the vicinity of one another, her expression turns into something chillingly beautiful, and in turn, Mattel’s lips begin to stretch into wider and wider smiles.Regina spends the time catching up with both Jana and Damien before they leave, though not without the marked edge of tension that still lingers between she and Jana. But the thing about people who have come to be
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 80: propriety be damned.Mattel is in the middle of conversing with a nobleman from one of his kingdom’s prominent families, when abruptly, the man pauses in his tale. He turns, and is---- spellbound.Regina stands before him, a figure sublime in the pale blue fabric and golden threads she wears, cheeks rosy as she bites her lower lip with a bashfulness that makes something in Mattel’s chest heave. Under the glittering, dazzling lights of the crystal chandeliers, surrounded by a room full of extravagant nobles dressed in silks and laden with enough diamonds to fund several wars, Regina - who wears no jewels but for the small, barely visible diamonds on her ears - somehow shines brighter than any gem or star Mattel has ever seen. Mattel’s eyes are unable to tear away from the vision that Regina is, like a midsummer’s dream come to life by some hazy miracle.Regina shifts, hand nervously tracing the embroidery along her side. She seems entir
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 81: enemies strike again .From across the dancefloor, Jana pauses with a flute of champagne halfway to her lips. Having grown tired after a set of several songs, she and Damian had retired to the sidelines, seeking to mingle and enjoy the refreshments offered at the ball. She looks to the dancefloor, where she sees Regina be dipped dramatically down by her intended, a shriek of giddy laughter escaping her lips, a joy so potent written on her features that it’s almost painful to watch.She hasn’t heard such- happiness from either one of them. Not so unrestrained, and loud.Damian places a gentle hand on her lower back, grounding her, and Jana’s eyes burn. “They look happy, she is happy,” Damian murmurs in her ear, and with a sigh, Jana leans back against his chest. Together, the two of them watch their old time friend with his mate dance in the middle of the crowd, the effervescent joy radiating from his features making them glow brighter
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 82: Devil in pink .“And?” Mattel prompts, sweeping into the room with a stormy expression that borders on fury. “What have you gleaned from the vermin’s mind?”Damian looks up. “Hired from the southern’s territory, though not by them directly. That is not to say, that it could not have been them orchestrating it from behind, without having gotten theirselves visibly involved.”Mattel drops into the seat across from him.“It seems significant,” Damian continues, “That you and your kingdom have had such pervading issues, despite my own kingdom not having had any such attempts.”Moreover, it is not a well hidden secret that there had been envoys traveling from the eastern kingdom to the western kingdom ; it would have been easily accessible information to expect that Prince Damian would be present in the castle.The targets had remained, nonetheless, Lord Aloha King Mattel and his intended who he had just gotten back.But whatever said significa
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 83: Rapidly darkening horizons .Princess Jana is not a woman to be trifled with.Particularly so when she is on a mission to find the exact shade of ivory.As it were, even Regina and Mattel’s daily - private - reading sessions in the orchard have been rendered no longer sacred, for the blazing storm that is Jana, planning a wedding, comes upon them in full force out in the open. As of late, it has begun to take Mattel more and more of his tenuous self control to avoid accidentally unleashing his shadows in unconscious self-defense, each time he sees the determined and steely glint in Jana’s eyes as she bears down upon them.Jana descends on them with fire in her eyes and color swatches in her hands. “You two,” She announces, startling Regina from where she’d been napping peacefully on the grass, her head cushioned in Mattel’s lap. Mattel frowns. With Regina’s growing nightmares, the daytime naps had been one of the few instances in which s
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 84: Impending tirade .The night before their wedding day, the Eastern Kingdom throws the grandest, most lavish celebration of all: a masquerade ball. Regina had never been to one, before.In where she had grown up, everything was about preeminence in association with their famed bloodline; anything that would at all conceal their identities would be diametrically opposed to what her mother and her step father deemed as the one and only importance of such events. But Mattel had read to Regina a book, once, about a masked ball, and since then, she has been fascinated with the idea.(And what is Mattel to do, but to make the arrangements, when he catches Regina re-reading the passage on the masquerade with wide eyes?)For the first time in a long time, however, Regina enters the grand ballroom alone, as Mattel had been called away to briefly attend to some matters. It makes her strangely nervous, as though attending her first ball in the Weste