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.

dull the pain of her passing. The pain of knowing that I was the reason

could 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 word. As my mate, my bite was supposed to heal her. It

my dismay, it ended up

ever forgive myself for that. Watching the life drain 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 her forever. My bite was lethal, I had come

I lost every interest in

woman I care about scares me. My deepest rooted fear that

their soft fragrant blooms. The scent helped calm

tiny voice at the back of my mind that asked if I have started to care for her. To the point of

no. That’s not the

thing I would want is to kill anyone 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

petals of cherry blossom and the sweet perfume of roses. I closed my eyes, and Sabrina’s

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panic that was permanently etched into her gaze. The sight of her choking. scared and crying.

to start searching

minutes spent in the garden to calm myself down, I decided it was time to head back inside the palace. I

called

turned to face her. She ran up to me and paused a

it off and a few flower petals fell

“What h

I asked. She should be fine how, Caldan took care of her.

care right now,” I could hear the silent “with Caldan”

not dead. Thank the goddess. That’s all that matters.

there anything else?”

She was…she was

flared. “Poisoned?!”