The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Alina's POV:

Everyone was shocked by Sylvia's yelp. Rufus approached me with a frosty expression and grasped my wrist tightly. "What's in your hand? Show me!"

Pain lanced through my hand. I swallowed the fear that threatened to overwhelm me and curled my fingers more firmly around the object I was holding. If Rufus saw it, he would kill me.

That was the general course of action in the imperial palace. If anyone hurt Sylvia, that person would meet a miserable end.

I wasn't afraid before, but now even my father was on Sylvia's side, and no one would speak in my defense.

Rufus was so enraged that he tightened his grip. Finally, I felt my fingers go numb and the razor blade I'd hidden between them clattered to the ground.

Upon hearing the sound of the blade hitting the ground, everyone turned in my direction.

My father was furious. "Alina! What are you doing?"

My body involuntarily began shaking. Ever since I was a child, I would get frightened when my father became stern with me. Now, it was a well-established habit that I couldn't break.

blade from the ground, his body

my lower lip and didn't answer him. I believed his question was ridiculous. If I truly wanted to kill Sylvia, why would I wait till now? My father was so agitated that he wasn't thinking straight. It was certainly looking like the witch was correct. Sylvia was his favorite

was just

my hand away. Then he walked to

almost went insane with jealousy

Sylvia hadn't entered our lives, perhaps I would be the one Rufus tended to

glared fiercely at the

was so terrified that she hid herself behind him and didn't even look up

What a coward.

second he had stepped foot into the banquet hall, he had been constantly attending to this woman's every need, worried that she might be unhappy.

at it simultaneously. Even the people who always stood by my side had left me. What was left for me to be nostalgic about in this world? I would

alone, putting distance between us. Everyone was gathered

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was stained with Sylvia's blood, into my pocket and clasped the

the gemstone out to check it after the blood on my hand had