NovelEnglishChapter Eighteen
| felt Freya's grip on my arm the moment we were out of sight.
“Cwith me,” she says, her voice was raspy and barely audible, almost like she spent so much of her days in
silence; she had forgotten how to speak right. | let her leadinto an empty room, and she locked the door.
My heart pounded. Should | be afraid of her? There was something about her that was indeed different.
“Why are we here?” | questioned
“I want to talk to you,” she said, her voice a little bolder now. “There are a few things you need to know about
being the Alpha’s mate.” She said, and | nodded, ready to do anything to be in her good books. Her mate didn’t
seem to like me, maybe things could change if | gave her the right impression.
She lifted her veil and let it fall over her hair. | held in a gasp. Her face was scarred; that was why she was in a
veil, why she had left no skin exposed; she was hiding the scars. | should have suspected this when | saw her
standing behind Alpha Slade, her head down, but of course I didn’t. | expected the Luria Queen to be a fierce
wolf, a figure to be looked up to.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHer face had claw marks, marking what must have once been a beautiful face. Her deep green eyes were empty
and void; | could almost see the pain in them. There was this strange emotion building up in my chest-pity,
That's what it was. So many questions cinto my mind: how was it possible that the Luna Queen had been
left to be abused by Alpha Slade?
It must have been him; there was no doubt about it, and how did a woman so strong end up like this?
‘Broken’ that was the word my mother had used earlier. Did anyone know about this? Did Thane know?
“I recognize that look in your eyes,” the woman said. “Not many have seenunveiled, but the few that did
had exactly that slook in their eyes, and | hated it.”
“I'm sorry..."
“You don’t have to be; you aren't at fault, nor were you the cause of this. My mate did this to me, not you.”
“How...” | trailed off; | was lost of words.
“I am alive, | survived, and | will continue to survive, but there are things | had to do to assure that I'll remain
safe. These scars were all due to my carelessness, and he never failed to correct me. The sooner | learned, the
better it becfor me.”
“You are his mate; he had no right to treat you this way,” | said to her, but those words coming fromsounded
hypocritical. | knew firsthand what mates could do to their partner.
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Chapter Eighteen
I had been mated to Ryker, and he had hurtso badly.
“No. | am not his mate.” Freya says, “I am ‘his’. When you think of it this way, it is easier to bear the hurt, but
when you believe you are entitled to something as a ‘mate’ or ‘partner’, then it would only get worse.”
“Thane did nothing?” | asked silently, the question had been on my mind..
“Alpha Thane is very much like his father. Do you know his father admires him, even though he still views him as
a threat. He is the only man who has risen to the level of being considered a threat to the Alpha King.”
My mind never left the words, ‘Alpha Thane is very much like his father’. How could Thane let all this happen to
his own mother?
It didn’t make sense; | knew | would rather die than see my mother hurt. But | should have known Thane was
different; he was cold and heartless. | knew that before now, yet
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“I am not here to question fate; if you were chosen as his mate, then so be it, but this, this you should know. You
dare not disrespect him, you dare not talk back to him, worst in public, you dare not expose your private matters
to anyone, not even close friends or relatives, you do as
bear you are told, and lastly, if you discover him with another woman, you make no move, you the pain knowing
that you failed, and so he has to find satisfaction somewhere else.”
The pity | had felt for the woinan immediately vanished.
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