“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.

"Come on, just one more." Kaldric whispered softly, bringing the spoon to my lips.


I smiled as I accepted it despite being full.


Ever since I fell ill, Kaldric has never left my side. He cooks for me, feeds me, and even goes as far as bathing me.


His care for me is one that has been rare all throughout my life and one that has made me fall deeper for him.


Thankfully, the healer who he had called to check up on me only said I might be suffering from an infection.'


I can't even imagine what would have happened if he were to find out that I had no wolf.


"You know I'm feeling better now, right?"


Kaldric set the plate down and smiled. "Are you complaining of my services to you?"


"Never. It's just that you haven't left my side for days, and I don't want to be a…"


"Stop. You will never be a burden to me, princess, and I prefer being by your side than dealing with pack disputes."


Chapter 18 - Corrupt.