“All I ever wanted was you, Kaldric. You were the only thing I have ever desired, and at the end of it all, I couldn't get you.” My tears rolled furiously from my eyes as I finally accepted my defeat.

Kaldric took a careful step towards me, as if afraid to trigger me. “Alvira, don't. Put the gun down.” 

I brought the gun to my head, stopping him in his tracks. “You only told me you love me because of my heart, right?”

His eyes flicker in regret, and I knew my answer.

“Princess, please…”

I smiled. He hasn't called me that for so long. It's a shame I always have to be pushed to the edge to get what I want.

I look directly in his eyes as I mutter my final words, “No one will ever love you as much as I did, Kaldric. And now, no one hates you as much as I do.”

‘Bam!’

After catching her ex-boyfriend cheating on her, Alvira decides to accept a two hundred million deal, and all she has to do is take the place of the Axton family daughter and get married to Kaldric Verlith.

However, Alvira quickly finds herself falling in love with Kaldric, a man she shouldn't want, but her growing desire for him makes her turn her back on the money and the people who had hired her, and unfortunately, it was a decision she soon regrets when the man she loves turns against her.

Cursed by the moon for being a creature that shouldn't exist, Kaldric never expected to have a mate. She was everything he didn't know he needed, and for the first time in his life, he believed someone actually loved him for who he was until he found out that it was all a lie.

The marriage. The bond. Her love. Everything became a lie to him, pushing him to become the monster everyone already believed him to be, and when he finds out that the heart he needs to break his curse beats in the chest of the woman he loves, Kaldric will be forced to make a decision—either live with his curse or end it by ripping the heart of the woman he claims to now hate.

"Why do you hate me, Mom?" I asked my mother, who was busy applying makeup, to go attend a social gathering.


She glances at me through her mirror and sighs, "I don't hate you, Alvira. I just don't have any use for you. I don't care about you."


That hurt. Even though I usually frame indifference when it comes to my mother, hearing that she has no use for me hurts more than it should.


"Then why did you bring me into this world when you have no use for me?" 


She scoffed, "As if I had a choice. According to the doctors, aborting you was too risky. They claimed I could lose my life in the process, and I just wasn't ready to risk it." She rubbed her red lip gloss on her lips, and the bright color really did suit her.


Chapter 16 - Father-Figure