Yorick:
"No, I’m not going to marry her," I said to my mother aggressively.
They had dragged here to the hall to marry to Oriana. The minute I arrived and looked at her face, I lost it.
I started to scream and throw a tantrum.
My mother had to drag to the side, to the basent where the ringleaders were supposed to work, to have a word with .
"Just go with it. Right now, there are too many people against you. There is too much evidence against you," my mother said, her fingers tightening around my biceps.
"No," I said, freeing myself from her. "I told you, I am not doing it." I warned her not to force .
"You have lost your mind, Yorick. These people will eat you alive," my mother complained.
I shook my head again.
"No. You already said it. You know I have a mate," I said to my mother, watching her clench her jaw at .
"And you hid her from . If you had told you had a mate, I would have gotten you both out in ti."
My mother grunted, as if she expected to believe her. She would have been the first one to send Clentine to the North to make her disappear.
"And by the way, that mate of yours, she is not coming back. And guess what? Who is there in the North? Who left for the North with her?" my mother asked.
I frowned at her.
"That headmaster’s son, he has been missing too. So you better believe that maybe they never went to the North."
As soon as my mother said that, I crinkled my eyebrows, waiting for her to explain her vague comnt.
"You think you were the only one we were going to get out of the academy? That headmaster’s son was on the list too, and with him was Clentine. So you better believe she was never sent to the North. She disappeared, and then the headmaster hid his son too. So they are probably sowhere far away living a happy life together. They are not coming back," my mother hissed.
I started to feel like my throat was closing.
"That is not possible. I am mates with her. She cannot just leave without breaking the mate bond with ," I tried to explain.
My mother slapped her forehead with her hand.
"She does not even know you are going to survive. For all she knows, you will be sent to the North with the last mission and you will die there. Just like how it was intended to be for the rest."
As my mother said those words, I felt terrible.
Did Clentine seriously just walk out on because she has her man now?
"That is what I am telling you," my mother said, noticing I was zoned out.
"She is gone, but you are here. You need to do everything to survive, and right now your life is in danger if you do not accept the marriage with that cunning little piece of shit upstairs."
My mother explained, but I could not stop thinking about Clentine.
"Stop worrying about her," my mother said, as if she had already noticed what was on my mind. "You will have plenty of ti to think about her if you use your brain and we get you out of here."
I clenched my jaw.
If Clentine had truly left , then I needed to make sure I got out of here and found her.
"Don’t be stupid and die for soone who has left you. And even if you do not believe , why would you want to die for a sin you did not commit?" my mother asked, reminding that if I did not agree to marry and mark Oriana, they would kill .
I clicked my tongue, then stretched my neck, staring at my mother, who was watching my face with excitent.
"You wanted to have my mate, my fated mate, in front of you, did you not?" I asked my mother, whose smile started to fade.
"How about a chosen mate?" I asked her, and she gave it so thought.
"Might work?" was all she said.
I nodded my head.
"Oriana desperately wanted a husband, Mother. She had been the reason I could not be with Clentine. By the ti I was busy trying to win Clentine’s heart, she had ruined everything for . So how about I finally give her what she deserves? An alpha mate," I said to my mother whose smile started to widen.
"Let’s show her who she picked," I said to my mother, and my smile reached my eyes, mirroring hers.
"Now that is my son. Never leave anyone unpunished who hurt you," my mother said, reminding of my childhood, when she used to tell that again and again.
I finally realized I should have punished Oriana when I had ti.
Well, it was not too late.
I would give her everything, just to show her she had picked a hell for herself.
"So let’s go then. Let’s mark her," my mother said. As she started to walk ahead of , I followed her silently. This ti, I was at ease.
We walked straight up to the hall, and I noticed how everyone was staring at with disbelief in their eyes.
They looked unhappy with . I did not know what hurt more.
The fact that Oriana had played things so well against and caused to be seen as a monster in front of everyone.
Or the fact that the people I had stayed with actually believed her words.
Part of began to wonder if they were so keen to believe it because they realized it would cut out of the competition they had going on with winning Clentine. It could be both.
As I reached the hall, I was asked to stand next to Oriana. She instantly started to shiver and hug herself.
She continued to act this way. Her so-called family, the sa people she claid had killed her father, were here too.
She did not seem to rember she had accused them of sothing like that.
Her stepmother stepped forward to hug her when she panicked.
It all happened in front of .So people from the Red Squad mouthed cuss words at , judging .
But it was the way Haiden and Troy kept glancing at that hurt most.
"Oriana is going out on a mission today. But before that mission, we have decided that she will be getting marked by her mate," the headmaster said, making roll my eyes secretly.
It was clever of him, though. He saved his son, and now he got rid of from ever intervening in his son and his daughter-in-law’s life.
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