The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 21: sleep over .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

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 22: transfer of emotions .Mattel’s never slept so well in the twenty nine years he’s been alive, as he does now.Born with the curse of being permitted to command all those wraiths, terrors and horrors that haunt the minds of men,Mattel had learned, early on, that being able to command something did not mean the same thing as being immune to those same terrors.Most nights, ever since he’d manifested his curse side effects as a young child, he’d found his dreamless sleep plagued by the same terrible things that he can command unto others.As he’d explained to Regina, these shadows cannot kill him the way he can kill others with them. But that does not change the fact that, each night, he nearly dreads sleep with the anticipation of an endless, all-consuming despair.Even if the terrors don’t visit him every night, the nights when he is given the brief reprieve, he spends trembling in fear, anyway, teeth grit and back ramrod straight, bracing

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 25: power of a pretty face .Except, Regina doesn’t quite let the matter rest.The next morning, with much effort, she manages to rise early enough to follow Mattel to his practice match with Lionel.She reaches the courtyard just in time to see Mattel narrowly avoid being skewered by the sharp end of Lionel’s sword, and can’t help the quiet squeak that flits from her lips at the near-miss.Mattel’s eyes snap to her, having just noticed her presence.Lionel seizes the opportunity to slam the butt end of his sword into Mattel’s side, sending him clattering to the floor.“Alpha!”Regina doesn’t think that she’s ever run so fast in her life as when she flits to Mattel’s crumpled side, worry pounding in her chest. “Are you alright?”Mattel, where he’s sitting on the ground in the middle of sending a particularly scathing look in Lionel’s direction, turns his incredulous gaze to Regina, next.Regina, who’s gingerly grasping his arm and trying (unhel

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 27: who’s the fraud? .“Have you seen? The king’s obsessed with the new girl.” A maid called Emma gossiped to her fellow maid as the two of them were together in the pantry.“Yeah turns out Annalise isn’t his favorite anymore.” The other maid replied her friend as they giggled in disdain at the fall of the obnoxious blonde girl.“After all the ‘oh the king is my mate’..” Emma said imitating Annalise’s words as she rolled her eyes at the ending of her sentence scoffing. “Yet he isn’t her mate, she’s just nothing to him.”“But then why was the king treating her well then?.” Emma’s friend inquired confused as she stopped in the middle of their cleaning to ask. “I mean, all the others girls who have being brought to King Mattel, they’ve left in one way or the another other in great harm except Annalise.”Emma shrugged. “Who knows? Maybe that was why the king thought that she was his mate? Or his possible mate because she was the one who survived th

The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 29: consent first .“King Mattel! You reek and you look like you're ready to snap someone's neck. for whatever reason, this is clearly not like your usual ruts and you should definitely not be anywhere but home! And Maria did go somewhere today but she’s back! She came back like an hour ago."“What?.”Lionel is saying something to him but whatever it is he can't hear it over the sound of blood rushing in his ears.Mattel drops the sword he was using to train on the floor as he immediately runs on his heels heading to Maria’s part of the castle.She was the only one who was fit to help him with this.The only one who had enough knowledge about his ruts.You would expect a cursed man to at least have a peaceful moment in his life. Every part of him doesn’t have to be cursed but no!Even his ruts are different from normal alphas own.At least, according to what the royal healers have been saying about him ever since he was old enough to have ruts.