Chapter b185 /b

    Cassain pov

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    That girl. That foolish, stupid girl. How could she do that? She was the one who lured the king’s mate into the forbidden room.

    I hadn’t wanted to believe it, but the moment the maid spoke her name, I did.

    I believed it without hesitation.

    And it was clear why. She was obsessed with the king, everyone knew it. She wanted him, wanted to be his queen, and she never bothered to hide it. Whenever we met, she would talk endlessly about him, how handsome he was, how she would do anything to be his mate, his queen. She spoke like I wasn’t even there, like I didn’t matter, even though I was supposed to be her mate.

    But the truth was, I didn’t care. She stirred nothing in me. Her face, her personality, none of it caught my attention. So I ignored her words, the way I ignored her entirely. Even when others asked when I’d finally mark her, when I’d make her my wife officially, I had no intention of doing so.

    Why would I? If she didn’t want me as her mate, then why should I force it? Rejecting her seemed pointless, so I left things as they were and carried on with my life, serving the king, while turning away from her desperate, fragile attempts to catch his eye.

    But when the king found his mate, she became worse, more reckless.

    She disrespected Nyssa right in front of him, sent countless messages asking about the king, even begged toe to the packhouse. And when I ignored those too, she showed up anyway, despite the king’s clear order never to step foot there again.

    She hadn’t listened.

    And now… now she had gone this far?

    Watching her stare at me in shock, eyes wide, it was clear she still hadn’t grasped the weight of her actions, hadn’t realized that this time, she might actually die for what she had done.

    Even I… even I, the king’s beta, didn’t dare cross that line and mess with the forbidden room.

    “Y–you… Cassain, what are you doing here?” E asked, her voice trembling as she stared at me. But judging from her expression and the flicker of fear in her eyes, it was obvious she already knew why I was here, she had been caught.

    “What am I doing here?” I repeated her words with a mocking chuckle and stepped further into the room, making the maid who had been on the ground flinch and quickly move aside. I closed the distance to E, who looked up at me, body trembling.

    “Are you seriously asking me that, E? You know what you did, so don’t y dumb with me!” I roared, my aura thickening bthe /broom, suffocating everything. She flinched, her eyes widening even more. She didn’t moveb, /bshe couldn’t.

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    She only sat there, frozen, shocked at seeing me this way. I rarely got angry. I was a man who smiled despite everything, and I had never lost my temper at E but this time… this time, she had gone too far.

    Even then, she didn’t look guilty, just scared. She quickly raised her shaky hands as if to create space between ollius. /li/ol

    “C–Cassain, why are you angry? I don’t understand what I did… why are you screaming at me? W–we haven’t seen each other in a while, and now you are-”

    Her words cut off as my re hardened. Before she could react, I reached up and pulled her toward me, tightening my hold. She whimpered, shocked beyond belief, as I yelled,

    “Don’t y with me, E! Do you think I don’t know what you did? How could you do that to the king’s mate? How could you hire someone to lure her into the forbidden room?”

    Her mouth dropped open in shock, then fear, as she stammered,

    “Y–you knew-”

    But the next second, she caught herself before speaking.

    “What are you saying, Cassain? Lure who? I don’t understand! Let me go. How could you juste here and start screaming at me without exining the situation?”

    She snapped at me, her expression shifting in an instant, her eyes stabbing daggers at me.

    My mouth opened in shock at her words, a soft scoff slipping out as I stared at her.

    This girl… even now, she was still like this.

    There wasn’t even a trace of remorse in her eyes. Even though she had clearly done this to harm Nyssa, everyone knew that if the king found her in the forbidden room, she would die, she still acted this way.

    “You are really something, E. Worse than I thought,” I spat out in disdain, tightening my grip around her wrist. She winced; it was obvious I was close to breaking it.

    “You’re not even a bit sorry for what you did? Do you know you might die because of this?! Do you realize the gravity of what you’ve done?!”

    For a brief moment, she froze, a tremble of fear flickering in her eyes but the next second, her face twisted in anger as she tried to yank her hand away from me.

    “Are you crazy, Cassain?! You’re hurting me! Let go! I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

    That was when I lost it.

    My eyes shed a deeper shade, the air thickened with intense pressure, my aura surging toward her.

    Almost immediately, she felt it. The crushing weight of it pressed down on her. I released her hand, and a scream tore from her throat as she fell to the ground, clutching her chest in pain. She spat out a mouthful of blood, her body trembling but I didn’t react. I didn’t care.

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    “Do you think I’m an idiot, E? Know who you stand before. I am the king’s beta. I will not tolerate any disrespect from you.”

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    spat the words out, and a sharp gasp escaped her as I towered over her. Her head shot up to meet mine, eyes wide with terror, blood smeared across her shirt, her chest heaving rapidly.

    Fear but this time, it was because of me. Not the usual arrogant expression she usually wore. She finally understood… this wasn’t a joke.

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