#Chapter 16 You don’t know me?

“You stupid lying asshole.” Waylon growled in William’s mind. “Turn around and claim our mate before I—“

“We aren’t meant to have mates. It’s our damned fate as a royal member, remember?” William cut off his wolf before the threats poured in.

Of course, Waylon knew exactly why William was pushing away their mate.

William’s birth mother was the Alpha king’s one and only fated mate and king Charles loved her with every fiber of his being. It almost killed his father when she died just months after she’d given birth to William. What made it even worse was when the rumors started to spread that Luna Queen Cara herself had been the one to drug her out of pure jealousy.

In the Golden Palace, true love meant nothing. Power was the only thing that mattered which meant the king never did get revenge for his mate. All he was left with was the scars from not being able to protect her. William did not want to become weak like his father because of a mate. He refused. William simply pushed out the images of her brown eyes and forced away the electric feeling he had whenever he was near her.

“I just wonder if we might be lucky with ours, you know.” Waylon said quietly, William didn’t respond.

Doris watched William disappear at the end of the hallway. She kneeled down once she was alone to slowly gather her coins back into the small bag. Her tears blurred her vision until she started to choke from them. Would her humiliation ever end in this palace?

He has no interest in me.

That’s all I wanted.

Wasn’t it?

the pain pulse beneath her hand. Why did his rejection hurt so much? He was a beast, a horrible man. She didn’t want any of

nightmare that wouldn’t release her. His hatred and disgust of her was enough to push him far from her mind. At least she

in the room without a knock, Doris almost stumbled out

cursed silently and asked herself yet again why Melody decided to choose her of all the maids in the castle to be her lady’s maid? Doris made Melody angry by just existing, surely there were other girls in the

last person in this kingdom she wanted to see, but now it seemed it would be unavoidable. Doris only wondered what Melody would do this time to embarrass her in front of him and

William has been waiting for ages for you to serve us! How

and majesty.” Doris curtsied, her eyes anywhere

arms over her chest like a child. Prince

a moment to eat anything more than a snack between her duties. Melody never let her snack around her, she

made the mistake of locking eyes with Prince William for just a moment—he stared at her with a look of pure hatred in his gaze once again. It was like a fire in his blue eyes, no one had ever looked at her like that. The sight startled her, she stumbled a bit

setting down the tray to hold her hand to her chest. “I’m so

the one who got burned. “How

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