CROSSING THE BORDER novel Chapter 43

Maximus watched the expression on Rania’s face when she walked into the dining hall, and her eyes found her father. She was stunned, and then fear came into her beautiful eyes before it turned into a rage.

She was visibly trembling, but it happened because she was angry. Yet, Maximus remembered how she trembled beneath him.

“Rania…” Alaric stood up, he called his daughter intimately, as if he really longed for his daughter. “I am glad to see you again.”

He walked towards Rania with long strides, while she took two steps back, as if she wanted to run away from

him.

But, he was faster, and within a second, he already pulled her into his embrace, hugged her tightly, and buried his face against her shoulder.

“I really missed you.” That was the word that Alaric let Maximus to hear, but then he followed with a low voice, which sounded like a threat. “Behave.”

Rania hated it when his words still had a strong effect on her. Her body was stiffened, and she couldn’t even muster the strength to push him away.

This was not the Black Stone pack, and she could deny him. She should be able to tell Maximus about everything. Alaric was here, Maximus would be able to tell whether she was lying or not. She could clear her

name.

‘No one will believe you.‘

That was what her father, Killian, Caden and many other people who had bullied her and made her life in shamble had said.

And somehow, those simple lines would echo in her head whenever she was trying to say something. Like a spell that tied her tongue, rendered her unable to speak what was in her mind.

On the other hand, when Alaric felt Rania wouldn’t make a scene, he released her. Her body had turned rigid, she became even quieter than usual. Something that didn’t go unnoticed by Maximus

The lunch went well, but Maximus saw Rania didn’t say much, she kept staring at her food, and ate whatever her father gave her.

“Here, you like this. This is your favorite.” Alaric put a piece of meat into her plate.

“How do you know that’s her favorite?” Maximus asked, he looked amused with the way Alaric tried to strike a conversation with his daughter.

They were sitting next to each other, while Maximus was sitting on the head of the table.

“She is my daughter, of course, I know.” If it was not the king, who had asked the question, Alaric would have scoffed derisively.

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But the thing that Alaric didn’t know, but Maximus did was the fact that Rania lost her sense of taste since five

years ago.

That meat might be her favorite before, but for five years and Alaric didn’t even know that Rania lost her taste buds, it was something worth to be questioned about.

Yet, Maximus didn’t reveal any of that, and by the end of it, he excused himself to give the two of them some alone time that he had promised Alaric before.

Rania widened her eyes, as if she was asking her father what he was doing, and Alaric’s expression turned very serious, cruel even.

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