The Alpha King’s Mistake by BlackFlame
Chapter 87 They K*issed
Harper Alizah Grace’s POV
Standing near at the food court, I watched all of the guesses around the place. Some of them were just serious, but most of them have the smile on their faces. Some of them were glancing on my direction, some of them were completely ignoring me.
I let out a sigh and grab some drinks on the table beside me, I can’t deny the fact that I’m getting bored right now. Nothing has been changed, I’m not still found of this kind of event. I chuckled at that thought, I just realized, my life is boring without someone else in my life.
When my father, and the whole pack members died, I learned to stand on my own feet. Having the thoughts that I can live without the help of others. Trusting is very h*ard for me to do after all the things I witnessed and experienced.
Taking a d*eep breath, I looked around again. I saw Amanda, happily dancing with his husband on the dance floor. She deserves the life she had right now, I’m happy for her. She’s the first person who I trusted, I told to her my secret. And I’m glad that she never broke my trust, not even once.
my vision went to Zandea, she’s hugging her mate. It seems like they were talking about something else, they looked happy together. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, why I’m thinking about all of this. But maybe… maybe I’m a little upset.
When I’m upset, I couldn’t help myself from thinking different things just to avert my mind to think what really upset me. Another sigh escaped from my lips, I dropped carefully the wine glass on the table and started to move my feet.
I wasn’t paying attention to my way when I bump into someone, “Oh, I’m sorry.” I quickly apologized as I looked on the person I bumped. Oh, this is Amanda’s brother. Archie Cernellian, the royal knight commander.
“It’s just fine queen.” He said, seriousness was visible in his voice. Is this man don’t know how to smile?
“Oh great, I’ll go ahead now then.” I answered. I was about to walk but he stopped me.
“Hold on, queen. Someone wanted to meet you,” he said and pointed the person behind him. I glanced whom he referring too. I saw a man, probably at the age of mid-fifties. Who is this? I can sense a strong power surrounding him.
“Please leave us,” he commanded to the royal knight commander. Archie nodded his head, but before he took his leave, he mouthed something to me.
“He’s the head council.” Oh, I see. I nodded at him. I watched him leave before looking on the man who’s looking at me intently.
I walked closer to him and plastered a smile.
“Good evening, I hope you having fun here.” I said politely. He just stared and nodded, “Yes I am, indeed. May I have a moment with you, alone, Queen?” Why I can hear mocking in his voice as he mentioned about the word queen? I set aside that thought in my mind and nodded.
“Sure, please follow me.” He nodded his head as well as he followed me. We went into the terrace where we can see the moon, the bright moon from above.
“May I know your full name, queen?” He asked me so I looked up him. I know that he knew my name, but he wanted to hear it from me, personally. I smiled, “I’m Harper Alizah Grace Larkspur, Sir.” I introduced myself. He stared at me again, oddly, I can’t read his mind. There’s a tall and huge wall surrounding his mind, preventing anyone to read it.
“Larkspur, somewhat familiar to me,” he narrowed down his eyes like he was remembering something. “Anyway, maybe I’m wrong.” He continued and put his hand on the railings of the terrace.
“To give you some knowledge about me, I’m George Radwell,” he looked at me. “I guess, you’ve got some idea who I am.” I nodded my head.
“Yes, I do. You’re the leader of the council, a grand duke.” I answered as I glanced on the scenery in front of us.
“Impressively, you got it right.” I nodded once again.
“I won’t waste your time anymore, I wanted to ask you directly,” seriousness was visible in his voice so I looked at him.
“Sure, please ask right away.” I calmly replied as I looked directly in his eyes.
“Who are you? I know that you’re not a simple person, not even a human. So, tell me, who are you?” I can’t deny that I’m shocked, I don’t expect him to ask that. Or even noticed that I’m not a human. But no, I won’t give anyone of them a satisfaction by knowing who I am.
“I believe we got some misunderstanding here, Mr. Radwell. I understand why you’re doubting my identity here for being the king’s mate, and the queen of werewolves,” I started. “But believe me, I don’t know too why I was mated to the werewolf king knowing that I’m just a human. To be honest here, there’s nothing wrong about being a human.” I stated, half-lie and half-truth.
I know very well that I’m not a human, nor a werewolf, or a vampire o witch. I’m all of them, a tribrid.
“I see, you won’t admit it. But that’s not the reason why I wanted to talk to you,” I blinked. Really? Then what is it?
“You have my attention, Mr. Radwell.” I said in serious tone. He chuckled d*eeply, “You’re serious yet calm now, let me see if you will be this calm after what I will going to said.” Sound so challenging, I murmured sarcastically in my mind.
“Do you love your mate?” what? Why is he asking me that?
“Of course, I do.” I answered. I won’t be here if I don’t love him, I won’t forgive him if I don’t love him. His grin widened.
“I see, you love him without knowing who really he is, and his real intention.” That caught my attention, his real intention? I know that he hated me at first but he regretted it.
“What do you mean?” I asked him. He chuckled darkly and smirked, “I know that you know what I mean.”
“Believe it or not, I don’t”I answered back. He shook his head and averted his gaze on me, “My daughter was right on how clueless you are.” My brow furrowed. Why don’t he just tell me what he wanted to say?
“I was impressed by him, he’s indeed wise.” What is he talking about? He looked at me again and smirked, “Did he ever said his reason to you? Why he searched for you after rejecting you five years ago?” he asked me. No, he didn’t. All he said was he regretted everything bad he did to me. I bit my inner bottom lip. I can’t find a right word to say.
“I guess, he didn’t. Then let me tell the reason why.” I gritted my teeth and closed my palm tightly.
“Please do tell.” I’m forcing myself to remain calm right now but d*eep inside I was starting to panic. I thought everything will be fine, that this event will end peacefully, but I guess I’m wrong. Event like this won’t end as what I expected.
Memories flashed back in my mind, five years ago. The celebration of the coronation of the king, the moment when my own mate rejected and exiled me. Is everything in the past will be the same today? Is history will repeat itself?
“He needed to mark you so that he can keep his throne.” He stated. Needed me to keep his throne, I see. He chuckled when he saw my expression, “You seriously thought that he looked for you to reclaimed you because he regretted rejecting you?” That’s what I thought because that’s what he said.
I remained silent.
“You probably thinking that I was just lying but no, I still remember how c*oc*ky and confident he is when he told to us that he can make you fall for him.” He continued. I lower down my gaze. This is what I’m afraid of.
“And he’s right, he managed to hold you in his hand.” I closed my fist even more.
“You’re too tense, not calm anymore?” I took a d*eep breath and looked at him.
“Why are you telling this to me?” I asked him. He chuckled, “You’re asking me that? You, a human can’t be our queen.” I thought that he thinks that I’m not a human? Is that only a wild guess? Just like what I thought.
“Then why the council wanted him to find and mark me?” I asked him.
“About that? A big mistake, if we know that you’re just a human, we should not let him to find you.” I laughed lifelessly. Dang, I found this hilarious.
“Alright, I got your point. But what is the point of telling me all of this?” I challenged him. He smirked and whispered in my ear.
“You don’t deserve him or the title, my daughter should.” I laughed again sarcastically and move away from him. Keriza Radwell deserves him and the throne.
“He loves her not you. He’s just using you.” I looked seriously at him.
“How will you prove that?” he smirked.
“Simply, hold my hand.” I stared his hand which he extends.
“Why would I?” I asked. He gave me a meaningful look, “Just do it if you wanted the truth.” I took a d*eep breath and obey what he said. As soon I t*ouched his hand, I felt a little dizzy as if some force was pulling me. I closed my eyes tightly and when I open it, I heard some voices.
“Tell us, how will you do that?” One of the men in the place as my mate who’s standing in front of them. From this vision, I know what ability he used. The Past Ability, an ability where you can show into someone what happened in the past.
“Are you questioning my abilities?” he snapped on the man who asked.
“No, your majesty.” He quickly said and lower down his head.
“Give me three to five years to find her, then everything will be alright.” One of the men raised his hand.
“Isn’t too much? Three to five years is a lot of time,” Some of them agreed, but he just smirked.
“A person who don’t want to be seen is h*ard to find. And besides I’m enjoying my time without her, a weak person like her is not worth it for my time.” I closed my hand tightly. Is that how he talked behind me a few years ago? Not worth it for his time yet he still spends time to find me.
“Do as what you please, your majesty.” He nodded proudly.
“I’ll take my leave now, don’t waste my time just to bug me about this matter. If I found her, it will be just easy to manipulate her.” I bit my bottom lip to suppress my emotion. So, what Mr. Radwell telling to me was right.
“I have one question,” This time, it was Mr. Radwell asked him.
“Yes?”
“What if you’ll fall for her?” He raised an eyebrow.
“Not possible to happen, I won’t ever fall for her.” As he said that, the illusion faded. He won’t ever fall for me, does that mean he just pretended? I looked down, not able to say something.
“I just told you what you need to know. Just be honest here, you’re just fooling yourself if you think he genuinely love you. He doesn’t know how to love, and they don’t call him the cruelest werewolf king for nothing.”
When he said that, he tapped my shoulder and took his leave. I was left there alone, confused, and lost. Right, he’s not the Alpha king for nothing. I looked up the sky, do I deserve all of this pain and h*ardship?
“Harper? What are you doing here alone?” I heard Amanda asked me. I looked at her and smiled, “Yeah, just fine. I’ll just go in the comfort room.” I excused myself.
“I’ll go with you,” she said worriedly. I shook my head, “No worries, I can go with myself. Please go ahead and enjoy this event.” I declined her offer. She nodded in understanding.
“Alright, I’ll just wait you to come back then?” I nodded too and started walking away.
I was walking slowly in the hallway, just looking down. Thinking about what will happen next, and what is the truth. Did he ever love me or he’s just pretending? I’m not shock anymore if he’s just pretending but it hurts.
I’m angry with him, but more to myself because I trusted him. I stopped walking when I heard a faint noise, I looked up to see what is it. I was a little caught off guard when I saw my mate and Keriza talking. They were still away from me so I can’t understand well what they were talking about.
I remained into the place I was standing at, having two thoughts if I’ll approach them or not. I was afraid to hear their conversation, to hear another heart-breaking truth.
My world stopped from spinning from the next scene I witnessed. They….
They K*issed.