Semua Bab Trading Places: My Fate With the Beast King: Bab 1 - Bab 8

After we made our choice, we turned and told Dad.He looked at me with worry. "The Beast King favors beauty. If Amber goes, he might dote on her for her looks. If you go…"I knew exactly what he was worried about. He had thought the same way in the previous life.In the previous life, Amber was given to Theron. She caught his notice for a while, but lost it because she never learned how to win him over. In the end, she died in the palace, and our family paid the price."Dad, don't worry. I won't let you down," I told him.He saw the resolve in my eyes and finally sighed. "Very well. If this is your choice, there is little I can do. Just promise me… you'll live through it!"Once the decision was made, Amber and I went our separate ways.She looked back at the capital one last time, then surrendered herself to the beastfolk envoys and was taken to the breeding quarters.Meanwhile, I climbed into a carriage headed for Theron's territory.After the war, Theron had built a new pala

Theron didn't tire easily. The night felt endless, and his desire was unrelenting. The beast in him was far beyond what I was ready for.My body betrayed me with its instinctive responses, yet none of it warmed my heart.If the beastfolk hadn't conquered the human world, I would never have been thrown into the breeding quarters in my last life or learned the tricks that kept me alive there.Disgust churned within me, but I let my cheeks flush and turned my face away. When he reached for me again, I gave in, letting soft moans slip past my lips.Heat thickened the air until the chamber turned hazy with it.I looped my arms around his neck, pulling him closer, my gaze flickering as I bit my lower lip.Theron reveled in that sultry look. He didn't stop until deep into the night.When at last he had the attendants prepare a bath, he lifted me into the warm tub and washed me himself.Sleep pulled me under soon after, and he didn't send me away. Instead, he let me rest in his own bed

The queen's crown brought me power across the palace in a single night.Theron clung to me more by the day, and the only quiet I had was when he went to the council. I used those hours to rekindle old ties in the capital and had them deliver my words.At last, I had eyes and ears in the breeding quarters.When Clara brought me the news, I finally let out a long sigh of relief, and my eyes filled with tears.With fox musk masking her scent, Amber kept the beastmen at bay. She went so far as to scar her own face, stripping away her beauty.They treated her like a laborer, but none dared lay a hand on her, and she survived.What I dreaded most was seeing her forced into the life I had suffered, carrying one beast cub after another until there was nothing left of her.A human who carried a beast cub paid for it with her body, and the damage could never be undone. That was how I lost my life before. This time, every move I made was to keep Amber from becoming a womb on a chain.Ambe

Two months drifted by with Theron sinking deeper into the spell of my desire.By the time the uprising raised its banners over the capital and then over the palace itself, he was still lost in the dream I spun for him.He kneeled at my feet, clutching my ankles and kissing them as if I were salvation.In his eyes, every inch of me was irresistible. In truth, the drug had ravaged me. I was all bones and shadow, a scarecrow draped in silk.Just then, Amber and Carson burst through the doors of the Evendale Wing and caught sight of us as we were.Amber signaled the guards, who tore Theron off me and drove him to his knees with a few brutal kicks.In this life and the last, both our lives had been ruined by Theron. Of course, we hated him.He rolled and crawled toward me like a dog, mind empty of everything but the need to be near me. It was only when I splashed him with the antidote that his eyes finally cleared up."Darling, what's going on?" he asked, confusion clouding his face