Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 49 Valentin's eyes were still dark when | arrived at his office. His jaw was clenched as he pushed the rotary phone on his desk towards me. He said nothing as | picked it up and held the receiver to my ear. | ducked my eyes down, away from his white- hot gaze. "Hello?" | mumbled. "Well?!" Victoria said. "I can't believe it's taken me this long to call you post Mateball. Part of me was hoping you'd be enjoying mated bliss." "Oh," I rubbed my eyes. "No, sorry." Victoria sighed. "What happened?" "Well," | huffed. No doubt she was going to be disappointed.

"I felt the pull of a fated mate," | said. "But then, when | found him, he ~ uh ~ rejected me." "Rejected?!" Victoria squeaked. "Oh, Gods above, | am so sorry, my love." "Yeah," | dropped my hand in my lap to fiddle with the hem of my shirt. "It kind of sucked. Really hurt, actually." "Could you break it back?" Victoria went on. | opened my mouth ---- to answer but she cut me off. "Well, you're here so I'd assume so. | froze. "What do you mean?" "The bond of a fated mate is very strong magik, Zora," she explained.

"When one mate reject it, the other mate must reject it back or else the magik that makes us wolves will be sucked away by the bond. It could've drained you dry. Killed you." Well, add Thorne to my list of future husbands who tried to kill me. It was looking like Valentin was the only one without murder on his mind. 1 Further reasons to court him, my wolf chimed in. | ignored her but then remembered that she existed now. "Oh!" | said to Victoria. "That reminds me. My wolf. She presented." "That makes sense," my mother mused.

"She probably had to present to allow you to have the strength to break the bond. This is great news!" "Yeah," | mumbled. "I was beginning to think she wasn't going to show up." "My wolf swished her tail. I've always been here, | ignored her again. ---- "Me as well," Victoria chuckled. "But back to this fated mate bond, who was it that you had been fated to?" | groaned. "Does it really matter? My wolf showed up and I'm still alive so | don't really need a mate anymore, do I?" | wondered what Victoria would do if she knew it was Thorne, her own Knight, who'd wound up fated to me.

Fated and then rejected, that was. Would she punish him? Kick him out of the royal court? | shivered in morbid curiosity. The last thing | needed was have another target on my back. "That's true," Victoria said through the phone. "But remember what | said about your second gift, Zora. It was prophesized to only be unlocked by the accepting of a fated mate bond." "How does that even work now?" | asked. "Now that | rejected my fated mate bond? Do | get another chance?" | knew the answer was in some way, yes.

Given that I'd almost made out with Maximus in the locker room showers had Valentin not showed up. | glanced up at the aforementioned professor and saw his eyes were still dark with some form of bitter jealousy. | averted my eyes back to my lap. There was also whatever that was going on over there. Victoria sighed. "In many cases, no," she said. | blinked in confusion. "Some wolves do get a second chance in the form of ---- a chosen mate. | wonder if that is what the prophecy brought forth your five suitors for." "Five?" | frowned. "But you only mentioned four. Valentin. Maximus.

Thorne and Kairos." | almost could hear Victoria fidgeting through the phone. "Yes, but the prophecy mentioned five suitors," she said. "I didn't tell you until now because we haven't been able to identify the fifth. There is no other High Alpha pack."