Mated To The Cruel Prince novel Chapter 491

Chapter 491: The One He Trusted

Islinda left him. It was not the first. Everyone that he even felt the tiniest of affection for either betrayed or abandoned him.

Aldric shouldn’t have felt this way, but a deep hollowness gnawed at his chest. He knew it was the mate bond causing the ache. This was what he dreaded—the moment he surrendered himself completely to a female. Yet, fate was wicked and had tethered him to a human, whose life would flicker out in the blink of an eye, leaving him to wander this realm alone. Not that he expected to live long, anyway.

Perhaps, this was nature’s way of restoring balance. He was too powerful and they had to limit him through his mate. Damn it! Who were they kidding? This was the punishment from the gods above? The gods had bestowed Islinda upon him as a mate, not out of love or fate, but as a means of punishment.

Aldric was not a follower of any gods their people believed in and worshiped. If anything he looked down at them and found their worshippers’ devotion laughable. Where were the said gods when his mother was captured by the dark Faeries? Why were the said gods when his fate was altered? Where were the gods when his mother died? Why did they take the only thing that mattered to him?

He had loved his mother even though she despised his existence and blamed him for her misfortune. She had not been in her right mind. He had understood that and loved her even when she cursed him with his hidden name and shattered his mind. Where were the damned gods?

Yes, this was it. A divine punishment for his arrogance and mockery. As Aldric pondered this, bitterness welled up within him, fueled by the sense of cosmic injustice that seemed to dictate his fate. Congratulations, the gods won this time.

Islinda had departed, leaving Aldric alone. With her absence, Aldric found himself devoid of any remaining motivation to combat Issac and Maxi. He remained in a defeated state, kneeling with his head slumped, resigned to their hold over him. Not that he could put up much fight anyway. He could feel the iron poison making its way to his heart. He was weakened and possibly dying.

Perhaps dying wasn’t so bad. Except he would be paying for his crime in the netherworld. No, that was too soon. But then, the peace that washed over him was too sweet to let go.

"Aldric...." Maxi called his name, kneeling now in front of him with eyes full of concern. She clasped his face with both hands, saying something, but he couldn’t hear her because her words sounded distant. Distorted. However, the panic in her eyes was obvious.

Aldric was a little touched yet thrilled seeing the desperation in her eyes. She betrayed him so she deserved to suffer a little bit but he was glad to know that Maxi did not hate him. In the end, it seems his beloved Maximus was the only person at his side in the end. Hence with a foolish smile, Aldric succumbed to the darkness and it embraced him with open arms. So peaceful.

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Aldric was startled awake when he felt a sharp sting across his cheek, waking up to stare into Maxi’s annoyed blue eyes.

"Hello, sleeping beast. You scared me there for a second." She grinned at him before turning to someone saying, "Good work, he’s alive."

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