All Chapters of The Alpha King's Mate: ZORYA'S CURSE: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Are you satisfied now? Fenris’ voice broke through her thoughts. “What do you mean?”Now that you have surrendered to blaming and hating yourself, to every poisonous thought that is not even true, are you satisfied? Fenris snarled as a wave of disappointment flushed through her. “I am a cursed child. My birth killed my mother… and my hands killed that man. Too many people have suffered and died because of me. In the Clearwater forest that night, Selene and Kyla were also hurt and now I have sent Caelum to his death.” A broken sob forced its way through her chest. Who said he was dead? You don’t know that. You are not cursed either, cursed beings do not enjoy second chances. Cursed beings do not get to live the life of a Queen with a powerful King.Fenris said carefully. And as for that man, we killed him, not you, so that cross is also mine to bear. And we killed him because he hurt Kyla. We fight for the truth, for justice and we protect the ones we love, this is who we are now,

“Kyla—”“Shhh!”Maera and Selene chorused at once and Lillia’s gaze darted about the vicinity, exhaling softly in relief when she saw no one present.“It’s alright. Let us talk in the secret room.” Lillia said when she sighted her chamber, and soon the women closed the door behind them.“Elder Greyson is to be considered because he is currently the only person who has ties with a rogue clan.” Lillia spoke louder and clearer this time. She reached for a parchment, and wrote Sharee Vermont. Then, she pinned it above the mask that was pinned above the red door.She picked another parchment and drew a large question mark, but having no appropriate place to pin it, she turned and faced her maidens, holding it in her hand.“However, what motive would he have for taking Sharee? It could be Elder Greyson, and it could be Elder Montclair. But if it isn’t any of them, then we may be looking at a new threat.” She pinned the parchment with the large question mark on a new empty space on the wall,

As Lillia ensured every last piece of her plan was in place, a heavy shroud of darkness hung over the slumbering Kingdom of Wolfsbane, swallowing the distant forests and smothering the jagged silhouettes of the surrounding mountains. With no moon in the sky, it stretched into an endless sheet of black, the stars faint and distant, as though even they had chosen to retreat from the land below.Beneath that thick blanket of darkness, torches burned along the cracked walls of a courtyard, their flames were small, flickering as the wind whispered through the narrow passageways. Their weak light stretched unevenly across the ground, revealing little more than broken cobblestones and the damp stains that had long seeped into them.The courtyard seemed abandoned, collapsed in several sections that exposed the chamber within to the biting cold that warned of the approaching winter, and beyond those small circles of light, the rest of the courtyard disappeared into shadow.The courtyard smelt

Meanwhile... at the banquet.BAM!!! The sudden sound carried through the Great Hall, halting the music so abruptly that the final note of the violin twisted into a sharp, unpleasant screech before collapsing into silence. Elder Montclair had risen halfway from his seat, both palms pressed flat against the table as though anchoring himself, yet nothing about him remained composed, because his shoulders rose and fell with restrained fury, his entire body trembling as his gaze burned into Lillia with unmasked outrage. “How dare you…” he began coldly, his voice thick with indignation. “You political ornament.” Elder Montclair’s insult was deliberate to strip Lillia of her presence and reduce her to something reluctantly bought cheaply rather than powerful, and the moment it settled, the atmosphere seemed to tighten around it, nobles stiffening as the shift in tone turned the banquet from a ceremony to a spectacle. But he was not finished. He straightened up slowly, the curve widenin

“I let you in.”The background music rolled in with silence around the table as all the nobles watched her in surprise. They did not repeat Lillia’s statement. Briar Rose’s eyes went wide, the sharp pair of clear-blue shaking as they also watched Lillia with terror, drifting continuously from the candles before her and back to Lillia, almost as though something consumed her from within but she could not show it. Instead, she shifted uneasily on her seat, swallowing continuously as her jaws clenched tightly All these Lillia noticed, and as she had expected, she smiled. “Oh forgive me, I must have left out the meaning of that statement.” She began softly, parting her palms and stretching them toward a close distance to the lavender candles. Then, she made a pulling gesture that drew the incense it emitted in her direction.Briar Rose stilled, her chest heaving heavily as she watched Lillia.“The incense chases out every evil that may have been conjured to haunt me or may have found m