Chapter 135 A Decision Between Two Kings
ROYCE.
‘He raped me.’
I frown, trying to push those words away.
There are many things I’d thought I could be
used of but not that…
‘He forcefully marked me!’
‘He did this to me!’
I ce my head in my hands, trying to calm
the pain that ws at my chest.
How is she doing? I know he’s done
something to her, and what hurts the
fucking most is she is having to go through
this. 1
Is she conscious inside of her mind?
Is she hearing what she’s saying? For her
sake, I hope not, because this is just going to
make her feel even worse…
Fuck, I need to save her! Instead, I’m sitting in this prison…
Are they really mates, or is he ying some sort of sick game with her?
I have never wanted to kill someone before
as much as I do now, and I don’t care that he’s my brother. I don’t care for his fucking reasonings, but
what I do care about is the fucking twisted games he’s fucking ying with Sk!
If he wants to hurt me, then he should fucking target me, not her.
My aura surges, mming against the almost invisible barrier, my powers making the barrier spells
around me change from a bluey hue to orange. There are severalyers of spells put on the room and
around me. I just hope Aleric is secure because the fact he has Apophis on his side is worrying
enough.
The temptation to fucking tear this barrier down is rising.
I don’t know why I’m fucking sitting here
when she needs me!
“Calm down Royce.” Raihana’s voicees. as my lightning sizzles and crackles around me, bathing
the dark room in white and blue.
My eyes snap up to her, zing with burning rage as she approaches from the dark hall that leads off
from this prison cell.
“Do not tell me to calm down. Leave me
alone. I don’t want to disrespect you, so
please leave.” My voice is cold as I try not to re at the woman’s distorted frame past
the barriers.
She’s Sk’s cousin, and I know she’s
trying to help.
My anger is only rising, and I am unable to
keep it under control.
Calm down, Royce.
“I’m sorry Royce. I know it’s hard… but we
will figure out a way.”
I scoff. “I can figure out a way. These spells
won’t hold me. If I want to leave, I will.”
“Royce, this isn’t like you, I assum-‘
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“Forgive me, but you don’t know me. I may be a patient person, but when I reach my
limits… I’ve never cared for rules. I do what I
feel is right, and when it involves Sk… I’m ready to raise hell. Leave.”
Mymand swirls around me and I can see her struggling. Although she’s a hybrid, I
still have an effect on her but she’s also a
powerful witch as she stands there ring at me defiantly, refusing to budge despite the
effect it has on her.
Her being half-witch doesn’t help either.
“I get hot-headedness… I have been around
Alpha males all my life, but it’splicated. Try to understand, Royce. It’splicated. What Sky said
has only made matters harder
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“Think what you will, I’m giving you all
another twelve hours to find a solution, or I will walk out of here. There are not enough
witches on this to keep me here.” I say coldly.
I don’t know how strong they are, but I am ready to put my all into breaking free if I need to. Nothing
can keep me from her, and I will destroy Aleric.
“We are trying. Don’t you think we want her safe too? Royce, please-”
“Raihana, please. Leave me be.” I say with
finality.
“Alright. I like the fucking disy of Alpha male testosterone, but tone that shit down.
The entire building is fucking about to have
a ckout and I don’t want Aleric to use that shit to his advantage in any fucking way.” Leo’s voice
comes before he emerges into the open. 3
He’s dressed all in ck and blends in well.
“Leo,” Raihana seems relieved.
“Raihana, let me cross the barrier,” Leo
asks.
Raihana nods, and she begins whispering a
spell. Her eyes glimmer as a huge wave of power swirls around her and a small
opening appears in the middle, which Leo.
steps through.
“Keep watch and let me know if someone
approaches. Witches are fucking sneaky. Leo mutters to her quietly.
“Understood, don’t take long.” She says,
turning her back on us.
I now nce up at him, trying to control my emotions, but it’s proving difficult. The anger within me is
ready to break free and I’m barely managing to keep a hold on it.
And to think I was the one who was always
in control…
You make me lose control, Love.
“How is she?” I ask, ncing at my watch.
It’s nine in the morning but it feels like a lot more time has passed.
“She’s the same, demanding Aleric be freed
and how she needs him. He’s done
something to her. No one is buying that bullshit and I’m here to pick your brains.”
“And I appreciate it, but I’m not going to sit
here and not do anything. I need to be out there figuring this out and helping.” I reply, trying to calm
myself.
Leo tilts his head and sighs. “Yeah, I know, and I’m afraid I did try to see if we can sneak you out… but
the spell isn’t,so strong that the witches would buy it. They’d detect a body double the moment they see
that shit. Which leaves us only with one fucking option.”
“I see.” Not that I need to sneak out. I’m
ready to leave with a bang if I have to.
“I’ll cut to the chase. Is there anything that we can go on, or anything you think can help us with this?
Any chance of Aleric and
Sk being together at some point where they may have been caught on camera? ITêxt ? N?velDrama.Org.
know she couldn’t stand him but was there any proof of this?” He asks, taking out a packet of
cigarettes. 9
“Right now, I have my men looking through the academy surveince to see if there were
times that they were together on academy grounds and perhaps had an unpleasant
exchange. But she really fucking misses a lot of school. To prove that their rtionship is not what they
are portraying their rtionship to be right now,” Leo says as he lights a cigarette and offers me one.
I shake my head, refusing it as I frown, trying to think.
“Not really, I know he’s been at her ce a couple of times…” I trail off, remembering the blood I had
tested. 3
Wait – what if that serum he was working on is somehow contributing to controlling her? 1
“What is it?” Leo asks, clearly having heard the change in my heartbeat.
“A while back, Sk said she had a hot drink
he gave her in his office. She felt extremely tired after, and he dropped her home. I felt something was
off and I took a blood
sample. I tested it and it did include traces of
something that Aleric has been working on… but as far as I know, it never did anything… or nothing
that I knew of and deemed it unimportant because it was a failed
experiment.”1
“Or so you thought…. Is it even possible to make a serum or some shit to control someone?” Leo
murmurs more to himself
than me.
“I don’t know… but if Apophis is involved…”
“True, and Apophis is known as the master
of hypnotism ording to legend. Maybe Aleric did inject her with something. They were alone when
you found them yesterday, after what went down, correct?” Leo asks,
frowning. 2
“Correct…” I reply. A thought is wing at
my mind and I’ve been trying to squash it. Do you think they’re really mates, or it’s just an act?”
He’s quiet for a second and I already have my answer before he speaks.
“I’m afraid they are. Kiara sensed they were telling the truth regarding that point,” he admits quietly.
“Hmm.”
“She still chose you. Stop fucking
wallowing.”
I give him a pointed look. “I’m not… I just….”
She did choose him first… 4
She slept with him… 2
The poisonous sliver of doubt is fucking with
my head.
“So, do you want that blood sample? I still
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have some left.” I reply.
He looks at me sharply.
“Oh yeah? That really would help a little, even if we can’t figure it out, it would at
least help as proof that he tried something,”
Leo says.
I nod. “The Westwood boys and Ahren were
there the day I took the blood sample. They’ve seen us together, although we
weren’t together at the time.”.
“Ah yeah, the day you two were mucking about, right?” He says mockingly.
“You’re finding this pretty amusing, aren’t you?” I reply sarcastically before I shake my
head.
“Of course, I fucking do, Mr fucking golden boy ain’t so fucking innocent as he acts.”
“I don’t act like anything,” I say pointedly.
Despite that, I feel a tad lighter.
“Can you two kings stop messing around
and just hurry up, you know I’m not meant. to let anyone in there,” Raihana says. 1
“Yeah, I know. We will figure this shit out…
but I don’t think you being here helps.” Leo
muses.
“Wow, really?” I remark, cocking a brow. “I wouldn’t never have thought that. Thanks
for enlightening me.” 3
Leo smirks. “I think I prefer the pissed-off, Royce.” He says.
“Good, because I’m not going to calm down until she’s back to herself… Besides, I don’t
n to sneak out, I’m the Sris King, with an entire army behind me. If the witches
want war, I’m ready to give it to them. But I’ll be a gentleman and take them on single- handedly. Every
minute wasted is a minute more that Aleric has to plot his next move.” I say as our eyes meet. “I’d like
to see who tries to stop me. My girl needs me, and I
won’t abandon her.” 1
“Understood, loud and clear… You helped
me when I needed it the most and now, I’ll help you… and believe it or not, I don’t go by
rules either.” Leo says with a small smirk. “I
make my own.”
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“Good to know. I think we can continue this
conversation elsewhere.”
“Then that’s an agreement made, Alpha to Alpha,” Leo says, turning and scanning the
area.
“King to King,” I reply.
“I’m not the king.”
“Ah yeah, the future king… still counts, congrattions,” I say.
“Nothing to congratte me about… Sounds like a fucking shitshow waiting to give me a fucking
headache.” Leo says, circling the
small confined area. 2
“Understandable.”
“So, are we going all out, or are we sneaking
out?” He asks with a cold smirk.
I smirk. “Well, I don’t think there is a way to
get out of here without being noticed, so why bother lying low?”
“Sounds fair, oh and here’s Sk’s phone.”
He tosses it at me, and I cock a brow. ”
Maybe there’s something from your brother
on it. I know better than to check through her phone.” 1
I look down at the phone. Sk’s phone…. I’m d he gave it to me because there’s some pretty
explicit stuff on this. 2
“Smart move,” I say, pocketing the device. ” There was actually a time he tapped into my phone and
was able to divert messages. I’ll fill you in on the way out and I’ll go through everything on here.”
“Good. So care to break this cage?” he asks, as he takes out a small device. “I mean, I
have backup if we fucking need it.”
“What are you doing, Leo?” Raihana asks
sharply as she now looks at both of us.
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Look, Aleric’s been behaving weirdly. Chris
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just mind-linked.” She says, approaching the prison created with enchantments. What are you-”
“The right thing, even if it isn’t the fucking easiest thing to do,” Leo responds. “You should focus on
Aleric.”
Raihana sighs “Yeah, wait, I’ll bring down
the shield- AHHHH!”
Her sudden scream of agony startles both Leo and I as she falls to her knees hard.
“Raihana?” Leo asks, as her aura swirls around her. Her head looks up at us, and I can see her eyes
are glowing orange as she lets out another earth-shattering scream.
My stomach plummets as dread envelops
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That was the sound of a she-wolf who… 6
“Chris. Where’s Chris!” Leo shouts, mming his fist into the barrier. ” Raihana!” 4
Summoning my power, I channel it all
toward the centre of the barrier where it had parted to allow Leo in. Figuring it’ll be the weakest, a roar
of concentration escapes me as I feel the sheer power hammering back at me before it begins to
tremble.
A broken sob leaves Raihana, she’s
trembling as she chants a spell and opens a portal and she pulls someone from inside.
“NO!” She screams as she hugs the body just as I manage to shatter the barrier.
Leo runs to Raihana the moment the barrier
is brought down.
“We’ll get help! We’ll…” Leo trails off as he
stares at the body in her arms, 2
The blinding light from my powers fades away, and I stare at the lifeless body in her
arms.
Chris.
He’s dead. 39
Her voice is haunted and hollow as she slowly looks up at Leo with zing eyes.
“He’s gone,” she whispers as a single tear spills from her eye. “He’s left me…” 12
My stomach twists as Leo’s eyes meet mine.
Aleric. I’m going to fucking kill you!
“Chris…” It’s thest thing I hear before she
breaks into anguished sobs as I run from the
room, ready to kill. 34