Her Unwanted Mate On The Throne novel Chapter 16

#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?

Doris clenched her chest and felt 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 his affection—so why was she crying? Doris furiously wiped her tears away and picked up the last of her coins before she headed to her room.

It must have been because of the mark he’d left on her, it was making her heart feel strange towards him when her head knew better. This was nothing more than a nightmare that wouldn’t release her. His hatred and disgust of her was enough to push him far from her mind. At least she knew he wouldn’t try to call on her now. She wondered what he would do if he saw his mark on her neck, would he be horrified at himself that he marked a maid like her?

Doris had barely gotten to lay down for five minutes before another maid showed up at her door. The girl popped her head in the room without a knock, Doris almost stumbled out of bed. “Lady Melody asked you to serve her and Prince William for dinner tonight, Doris. You’d better hurry before she gets mad.”

Doris 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 palace she liked enough not to glare at all day. Perhaps she only wanted someone she was allowed to yell at, that must have been it.

Prince William was 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 make her torture worse.