Healing Slowly But Surely By R. Joseph novel Chapter 255

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Firstly: that I was deceiving myself, plain and simple! And I couldn’t help but think that maybe… just maybe there was no cure for the Moonveil draught, especially since it is not even a common elixir to begin with.

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“Several years ago, love,” he replied coldly, “but please do not ask me why he did it. I’ve always asked myself that and could never ever think of the right answer.”

Deciding that I didn’t want to listen to any more of this absurd nonsense, I threw my hands into the air and snapped; “Yes, people may do that but I cannot! I cannot marry you for some stupid sick reasons, most especially for a wolf that is as good as nonexistent!”

Then silence. He didn’t speak another word and neither did I. Instead, I spent the next four

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minutes and twenty two seconds- I know because I counted- watching the floor, memorising its ugly designs and calming my raging heartbeat.

“Why?”

It felt as though I was breathing through my eyes and not my mouth.

He drawled; “You do not wish to wed me?”

I didn’t miss the way he frowned when I cut him off. And I especially did not miss the way his nostrils flared ever so slightly before he turned and looked away.

“I’d love to take my leave now.”

And God, I do not know why I was this shaken over a man that I never knew about. I do not know why my mood felt as though it had

plummeted for a man who up until seconds ago, I thought was dead.

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“No, really think about it. Do not jump into refusing me because you might end up changing your mind later on… and that will be a shame.” @

“Or lycan.” I agreed sternly.

He nodded; “Also, you seem to be getting something wrong. I never told you that your

father was dead.”

“No, what?”

“With you.” He said quickly- a little too quickly.

Or maybe that wasn’t the case. Maybe I was just so uninformed, I probably look like a naive brat right now.

He snickered; “Or lycan.”

I froze, and goddess, in that moment, it felt as though my tongue had suddenly been glued to the roof of my mouth.

“And isn’t that the same pack that you intend to

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rule?” I breathed out after a moment but he

simply shrugged, his voice low as he answered with a detached;

I frowned. “No.”

‘t know whether to cry or to laugh. Whether believe the things I was hearing. Goddess, I didn’t know if I could speak right now without feeling the tears stinging at the corners of my

eyes.

“I do not think that what you propose will be of any help to me, seeing as my brother, Gavin, has already tasked himself with helping me search for antidotes of the Moonveil draught elixir…” I began to say but stopped when he smiled at me, a flicker of amusement crossing his features as he

himself crossed his arms over his chest.

“No problem.”

“I know it isn’t.” He replied, causing my heart to plummet so fast, I almost thought it was

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impossible. However, before I could respond to that, he dragged in a deep breath and asked; “You’ve never asked me anything about your father. Why?”

“Okay.”

I cocked my eyebrows at him as I turned around to face him, my heart hammering against my chest as I muttered; “I hope it is.”

Just as expected, when I lifted my gaze to meet Darius’ gaze again, I noticed that he was already looking at me in a way that I found nerve-wrecking.

“But… you’re not my sister,” He hissed lowly, causing me to roll my eyes as I spat;

“And if he’s not dead, how are you on the throne?”

“And people marry their cousins!”

My first instinct was to shake my head and that was exactly what I did. I whispered; “No.”

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“Does it not sound weird to you?!” I snapped,

unable to help the way my voice rose a few notches. “You’re like my brother. You’re the only paternal family I know of, and yet you think marrying me is the way out of this situation?”

“Okay.”

Why?

“Okay.”

“Exactly what you hear.”

I chewed on my bottom lip as I took a quick step backward, but as I moved, I couldn’t help but feel slightly jittery.

Something about that amusement gleaming in his eyes unsettled me and told me everything that I think I ought to know about my situation, which

was:

When he looked back at me seconds later, he

seemed… fine. Not angry. Hell, he’d adorned his

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usual look of indifference back on.

“No, I do not wish to rule. However, I do wish to know who my father was before his death but I do not wish to wed you all in the name of resurrecting my dead wolf.”

And heaven help me. As soon as I heard that, it felt as though a heavy boulder had just settled at the base of my stomach, making me nauseous. I frowned; “What do you mean?”

Okay again? What the fuck is it with this guy and the word ‘okay?’

“He’s deposed. No one knows for sure or has any idea where he is. All I know is that a couple of years ago, he disappeared without a trace… and from what I was told, he did it because he wanted

1. Because he was tired of the burdensome responsibility of being Alpha and head of the dark knights.” He explained, and truth be told, I didn’t know how to respond to that.

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hear his question before responding. I murmured;

“Yes.”

My body trembled slightly and a shuddering breath escaped my lips. However, as if noticing my sudden unease, his eyes softened as he continued; “Do you not care to know who he was? Do you not know that the people of his pack now think that you may be fit to rule them?”

I breathed out a sigh of relief and turned away, but just as I was about to walk out, his voice had me halting in my tracks again. He said; “If you’re certain that the antidote he’s searching for right now is exactly what you need to get your wolf back, then fine.”

Because he was still watching me in that predator stalking its prey kind of way. He was looking at me so intently, one would think he was waiting for me to have a misstep or something. His swirling purple eyes raked from my head to the

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tips of my boots, and then he muttered;

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