Rejected By My Betrothed, Claimed By The Warlord Alpha

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ice a poisonous thread slipping through the frigid breeze of the Royal Lunar Gard

yes gleamed

zing air on my face, Dessie tilted her body backward, ang

the exact same trap

screams, and to watch me take the blame for attempting to

d in panic and lunged to grab her, my fingers clamping hard

e swam straight past me to lift Dessie first, onlookers called

d nothing of hers on me. That was eno

is crowded with high-ranking nobles, and

mpletely. I would play along - a

f at my wrist as if trying to catch her. Dessie, already falling backward to fake her accident, instinc

ug grin ins

ore she could let go, I stopped resisting. I leaned into her pull and l

ted from the noble onlookers

afening crash of

lammed into my chest, squeezing

inter gowns pulled us stra

ailing like a dying bird as her sil

ained locked around my left wrist, her n

under the water, bubbles bursting

id not leave a single mark on her. I stared back at h

my mind was clearer than it ha

uffled shouts vibrat

e Richmond ladies

familiar silhouette tore off his

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Knight of the Grand Royal

water with a clea

the depths, searc

ght past my

am furiously toward Dessie, wrapping his strong a

nt laugh bubbl

yal decree, yet his body reacted purely on i

lowing the darkness of the

eded

g noble on that terrace to

creep into the e

burned fo

ater explod

e freezing depths, stirring a violent

ith terrifying,

force tearing through the water, a pair of s

nyielding, mad

ntly against a bro

shing cedar and raw, wild musk flooded my senses, pi

of a dominant,

pressure of his command miraculously softened, wrapp

y heavy ey

looked directly into a pair of

es M

he northern iron legions, and widely feared across t

o cruelty i

ic intensity that

his collarbone, a sharp, electric jolt su

mbled beneath the she

s jaw t

ng me flush against him as his powerful legs kicked against

already breaking through the surface with

d me out of the water, his long fingers instinctively cradling

the royal court swept