Mated To The Alpha King (Raven and Ethan) novel Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Raven’s POV

Iran out of there as fast as my feet could carry me. I didn’t stop until I reached my room and slammed the door behind me. Only then di rushing out. Het, angry, helpless team. They shing my eyes and burned down my cheeks as teollapsed to the floor.

1 pressed my back against the cold wall, sliding down until I was conlad into myself, trying to contain the storm inside me. But it was useless. Everythin I’d been holding back came crashing down.

How did I end up here?

My life wasn’t perfect before, but it wasn’t like this. Not this cruel Not this broken.

all changed the moment I discovered Alpha Ethan was my mate

He didn’t know. That’s what made it worse. He never knew I was the one fated to him. I felt the bond spark that first day I met him, but he didn’t r maybe he ignored it. Perhaps he was already too deep into whatever connection he had with her

Olivia.

My half–sister

My curse.

I don’t know what lies she whispered into his ear, but she had him wrapped around her finger before I could say a word. Before I could claim what was mine by destiny.

And now…

Now he was mated to her.

Mated to the one person who had hated me from the day I was born. The one who always got what she wanted, regardless of who she had to destroy to get it

I could live with being overlooked. I could survive the sting of being unseen by my mate. I could’ve even endured the pain of watching him with her, day after day, pretending it didn’t tear me apart.

But this?

swas too much.

This

Being accused of witchcraft?

Being blackmailed into becoming his sex slave?

That wasn’t pain anymore. That was torment.

er laugh through my tears. How ipnic. All this time, I was mad at him for choosing her…and now he had chosen me but in the worst

ilet out a dry,

, bitter

possible way.

Not as his mate.

Not as his Luna.

But as a body.

A possession

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Apunishment.

He said the Council would decide my late if I didn’t comply. He said the rumors wis too loud to ignore, and that vimants had th offered me away out by offering myself to him

My skin crawled at the thought.

Tshould hate him.

I should tothe him for what he said. For how he looked at me like I was both his salvation and his course

But the truth was far uglier

Even as sather–broken, humiliated, betrayed my body still ached for him.

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Even now, I waited him to touch ine.

I wanted to feel his hands on my skin, his lips against mine, his voice whispering things only a mate should say.

Even though I knew it wouldn’t be gentle.

Even though I knew it wouldn’t be love.

Even though I knew it would never be what I truly wanted from him.

And that made me hate myself even more.

I had always thought the mate bond was supposed to be sacred. A force of nature. A gift from the Moon Goddess

But mine had turned into a curse the moment fate decided to tie me to a man who now belonged to my sister.

And maybe it wasn’t even fate.

Maybe Olivia found a way to twist it.

She always found a way

I used to think she just hated me because I was the illegitimate one, the reminder of our father’s mistake. But now I saw it clearly–Olivia didn’t just hate

She envied me.

She must’ve known something. She must’ve suspected Ethan was meant for me. And she couldn’t let that happen. So she claimed him first. Bound herself to him before he could feel what I felt.

s left holding the pieces of a life I never got to live.

Now I was!

And the only man who could’ve protected me… was the one threatening to destroy me.

I stood up shakily and walked to the mirror, My reflection was a mess–swollen eyes, trembling lips, hair tangled from my frantic escape. I barely recognized the girl staring back at me.

“You’re not weak,” I whispered.

But the lie tasted bitter on my tongue,

Because if I wasn’t weak, why did I still want him!

Why did I still dream of him!

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Even now, as he prepared to th

Just to pretend, for one moment,

me to him in the most degrading way, part of me wanted to go willingly–just to be near him. Just to feel his wannth- that I was wanted

I dropped my head, tears sliding down again.

“I didn’t think it would turn out like this,” I whispered

No, I really didn’t

When Hound out than was my mate, I thought it was a mistake. I thought the Goddess was playing a cruel joke.

But then I hoped

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I hoped maybe maybe things would turn around. That somehow, he’d realize the truth. That he’d choose me, not because he had to, but because he wanted to

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