The Forced Maiden For The Cursed Alpha King by Josephine Ivy

Chapter 35

XANDER’S POV:

She was choking. And I believed she was faking it.

Shock zapped through me, reducing the sound around me to a high pitched ringing noise.

She wasn’t faking it. And get I stood by, unable to do anything.

The memories came rushing in, before I could have the chance to control them or keep them at bay. Images of Katherine filled my mind. The same thing had happened to Katherine. She was in danger, and I…

Guilt consumed me. I watched Caldan lift Sabrina up, he didn’t bother to hide the biting remark in his tone as he said: Your majesty, how can you she’s choking. And you think she’s pretending.

My lips moved, and I was unaware of the words I said.

That was uncalled for.

Really? That was all I had to say?

I was unable to help Katherine. And now with Sabrina, I completely froze up. Heartless? That can’t be farther from the truth. It was all too familiar.

Katherine died because of me. And the same was about to happen to Sabrina had Caldan not stepped in.

I turned on my heel and walked out of the room, unable to remain there any second longer. Guilt. Helplessness. Shame. The emotions rose inside of me, mixing together in an uncomfortable concoction.

Katherine

She was my mate, and I began to recall, all the memories came rushing like a heavy flood. No matter how many decades it had. been, I’m yet to recover from the loss of her. I loved her, more than I loved my own life.

its cold claws and squeezed. Time has yet to dull the pain of her passing. The pain of knowing that I was the reason she died.

vividly remember how it had happened. She was choking, her eyes watering and turning red. She grabbed onto my arm, unable to breathe, unable to say a single

dismay, it ended up

from her eyes. Her veins turn black from her neck down to her arms, till all the veins in her body were a pitch black. My name the last word on her lips before I lost

interest in

would be responsible for killing another woman I care about scares me. My deepest rooted fear that not even Nifra

soft fragrant blooms. The scent helped calm down my nerves, but just a

I couldn’t deny the tiny voice at the back of my mind that

said no. That’s not

again. The search didn’t last long. At the end of the day. I will not be mated again, or so I had convinced myself those decades ago. What’s the point in searching for a cure if I will never have to use my bite on a mate ever again? I abandoned the search and resigned myself to

with it petals of cherry blossom and

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panic that was permanently etched into her gaze. The

searching for a cure again.

a few minutes spent in the garden to calm myself down, I decided it was time to head back inside the palace. I wondered how Sabrina was doing.

Nifra called

me and paused a few feet away. “What’s the matter?” I asked,

I brushed it off and a few flower

“What h

I asked. She should be fine how, Caldan took care of her. “Is she…dead?”

hear the silent “with Caldan” at the end of her sentence. I grit my teeth

Thank the

there anything

was poisoned, your

flared. “Poisoned?!”