The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 46: on the runaway .*REGINA*Of course Regina ran.I mean what would you do if everything you were believing in had been upended in one day, your entire chance of living possibly destroyed?Regina wasn’t going to stay in the castle longer just to be treated as a vessel for the king’s child.What she didn’t do when she was living with her step father, she was going to do this now.Run away.Luckily Regina had prepared for this eventuality. She knew that living in the castle would only be temporary.She had thought of running away then because the king didn’t recognize as his mate. But then decided to discard the idea after he began treating her like an egg.But now she had realized not all men can be trusted.And he must have been spoiling her so he could get what he wants. She locked the door to her own room and threw away the beautiful robe she had on, the gold jewelries, and all the things she was wearing which was doused with the king’s s
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 47: a difficult decision .Regina sat in the back of the horse’s cart, straightening up as soon as they got close to the border dividing the human world and the werewolf territory.They were at Penn Station precisely. Regina looked at the driver and knew she had a difficult decision to make.She could just maybe, do away with the driver. After all she didn’t want to be seen, and the driver could be easily identified from by the same securities that she didn’t want to identify her, but Regina really didn’t want to do anything messy like, you know, killing people. She was an omega, not a butcher. So Regina made a few quick calculations in her head, about 13,000 different horses in the king’s kingdom, 14% of horse drivers were old men who didn’t have any other source of living and this guy had a fairly common name, adding in casual misunderstandings which would make all old drivers seem the same, maybe it might be more difficult to find this g
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 48: morning sickness and signs .*Regina* Being with Felix was…. nice. There was no other word for it.Regina’s mother and Felix had met when her mum was just 21, fresh out of college and still wet behind the ears. In her position as a junior accountant, her mother was required to travel to different countries to understand the way other banking systems worked and also work with the branches of Boroff & Sons in other countries. Felix was a midlevel banker at a competitor’s firm and their relationship had begun with a playful rivalry. Her mother had told her that being with Felix was good, Felix was unfailingly kind and considerate and her mum had felt her heart open up. But her mother knew she was a werewolf omega and she couldn’t trust Felix or anyone with that secret. So as her mother moved further up in the company, she took a position with less international travel and told Felix that “what was happening between wasn’t going to work
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 49: a cause of no return .Later that night, Felix and Regina wrapped themselves in individual pockets of perfect silence as they boarded the taxi to the Gallileo Galilei planetarium. The building was made of a sparkled sphere embedded with a hundreds of flickering white lights, surrounded by a wheel of glass that glittered black at night.In the planetarium, while Regina and Felix stood, hands barely touching in awe at the beauty of the starry night, Regina mused sadly that it wasn’t necessarily the submissiveness or even the shame of being an omega that hurt the most, it was that she had lost the right to make choices. The moment she discovered what they had been planning in the palace. Heck, she was the one with the baby but apparently she would have no say in this.Betas and Nulls (those without any designation) could choose their lovers, find someone who met their constellation of requirements and settle down. And there’s something magi
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 50: Mask of truth or lies .Mattel shook his head in disgust, it’s only been a month, he thought, I’m not even in the hospital yet.After that overwrought paragraph, the author wrote:If you have any tips or information, call the number 917-334-3456 “This is a disaster”, Mattel muttered, he cursed Maura involvement in this case.He could have brought Damien with him on this search but he was busy with the attackers that were trying to infiltrate his kingdom.And so the article was a disaster. But it worked.Tips poured in over phone and email, along with letters from other alphas and betas expressing condolences for his pain. Mattel had to open a spreadsheet to track all the data he got.On Friday, a black car with tinted windows drove up and stopped in front of Mattel’s house.“Hello,” the man introduced himself in a cool, unemotional voice, “I’m Agent Smith, an OCS representative sent to help assist you in this case”. The man wore a black
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 51: a fear to be caged .Regina flipped through the pages of the newspaper in growing horror. She had never slept with a teacher to get good grades. She hadn’t even known, until puberty that she was an omega. She didn’t know anything about werewolves existing until her mother told her. She grew up living in the human world until they went back to werewolf territories and her mother married her stinking step father.So what was this article talking about trying to diminish her reputation like this? “You believe this?” Regina asked him incredulously.Felix looked preternaturally calm, “It explains a lot Regina . Like how you’ve been wearing long sleeve shirts in this warm 18 degrees (Celsius) weather. Because you’re hiding your Korsakoff’s gland that marks you as a mated omega. And of course, you’ve been ill, bonding sickness. And when you kissed me, that made you sick too right? Is all of this just a game to you, Regina?” Felix asked quietly
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 52: never enough .Regina looked at the skyscrapers that dotted the sky, listening to the blares and beeps of traffic from her hotel in Montevido. Well, 5 star hotel, because Regina enjoyed the little things. Hotel Sofitel Montevido was a wonder and a beauty. Outside, the casual observer was overwhelmed by the slightly gothic architecture, the smooth white walls, and the innumerable painted glass windows. Sitting in this bed, with its Egyptian cotton high thread count sheets, and looking at the artistically slanted roof, Regina could almost imagine that the last month had been a nightmare; that she was still in the human world with her mum, back in the lap of luxury where she belonged. She could tell herself that she was in Uruguay for a business trip to bring some new clients into the firm. If she closed her eyes and tried, she could almost ignore the noxious scent of omega that wafted from her skin, overpowering the gallons of alpha spray
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 53: desire for freedom.As Felix spoke, Mattel held onto every word, filling in the cracks in his picture of Regina.And for the first time ever, Mattel felt a stutter in his chest. It took him a second to realize what that feeling was.Alphas did not grow up feeling very insecure. As a child he had been groomed to believe that as an alpha from one of the richest, most respectable families in the royal family, he was on the top of the world. He carried himself with an arrogance that was almost palpable to the cursory observer. If you had ever asked him about whether his omega would like him before this fiasco, he would have scoffed.“My omega will be grateful to be with me. He or she will worship the ground I stand upon,” Mattel would have stated.But obviously that was not true. Regina didn’t even want him.What had Regina seen in Felix, Mattel wondered, that she did not see in me?He knew Felix was not smarter than him. He certainly wasn’t