Chapter 86 Between The Crown And His Lips

SERAPHINA

“I love you,” he confessed, crushing his blips /bto mine but my world titled

His lips pressed softly against mine, not demanding, not rough. Just…warm. Gentle. As if he was afraid I might shatter in his arms. My eyes widened but I could not move. All I could feel was his lips on mine, the heat of him, the way his fingers cradled the back of my neck, the tenderness of that single moment, it stole the breath from my lungs and left my heart pounding so loud I could barely hear anything else.

There was no force. No roughness. Just heat and ban /baching tenderness that wrapped around my bones blike /bsilk set on fire.

My heart mmed against my ribs, each beat louder bthan /bthest.

Every part of me stilled except my wolf, bwhich /bmoved without thought closer to his wolf, caught in his gentlemand. His kiss wasn’t wild. It wasn’t demanding..

It was hot.

It was beautiful

It was also my first kiss.

The moment that truth sank in my breath hitched sharply.

I stumbled bback/b, the cool air hitting my kissed lips like ba /bp. His violet eyes were steady, unreadable, but mine–mine were wide, stunned, terrified.

I didn’t speak, I could not speak.

I could not blink. I turned on instinct,

My feet pounded against the forest floor as I ran, branches wing at my arms, my breathing shallow and burning. My bface /bwas flushed red and breathing wild just like bmy /bheart beat bas /bI didn’t stop until the outline of the Academy appeared through

Without stopping. I ran inside the Academy and then all the way bto /bbmy dormitory /bbroom/b. Once I was binside/b, I mmed the door shat belund bme /bband /bsat on the floor with my hand over bmy /blips.

“Wha…what did he “I gasped to myself, my limbs cold and shaking

love confessun edited in my ears again and again on repeat, bmaking /bit hard bfor /bme to breathe bproperly /bas bthat /bconfession was followed by the memory of the first kiss that he stole from bme /b

“il den tam dass me…” mynts grew weak with the realization. My hugers touched my trembling lips, still bhot /bband /bwet, still remembering han

Bly madi huokoil at for silently as I found toyself staring at her “Phing “I whispered,

Ikas

Mana konkad back at me, and be the Best une I saw tax shaken. This all happened den to. Konan’s wolf.

I chucted no bthat /baui numediacly kekod away topa kure, atrast of young wething that I would got handle.

Sabowli jon og: Friam ile dosar atal sai ko itu wandse m?car ve kamoligde stily tell our mug fars

you boman’s per a ectod workings chechest sightly at my shishes,

Phai hall too far a‘ je i gernd wine wo man abang. “Ma kabroad sur bles /bdie afect mejm the helmy andy the nt the logerne side theute My seinen M, 1 canon oed any feeling a bug.

Chapter 86 Between The Crown And His Lips

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The weight of his lips still lingered on mine like a phantom touch. No matter how many times I blinked, how bmany /bbreaths I took, it wouldn’t leave me. That kiss was unexpected, overwhelming, perfect in a way I wasn’t ready for, kept looping in my mind like a haunting melody I couldn’t stop humming.

And Ryker.—

His hands on bmy /bwaist. His question and the craziness shing in his eyes when they locked with mine as if I was his. possession, it all unsettled me.

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bturned /bon my side, fists clenching beneath the thin nket.

So much bhad /bhappened in a single day, too much. My disguise felt thinner than ever, cracking beneath the weight of emotions I wasn’t allowed to bfeel /b

If this continued bthen /b1 was bdoomed/b.

Ronan. Ryker.

I bhad /bto do something before it was toote.

By the btime /bthe first hints of dawn crept in, I hadn’t slept a single minute. I was so distracted that I had nned to take a shower before everyone woke up but now it was toote. I just had to wipe myself off for the day. Thankfully, I was alone in

bthe /broom.

Just as bthat /bthought bcrossed /bmy mind, my eyes drifted to a bed other than mine.

Empty. Cold. Untouched.

Ronan’s

1 sat up slowly, the silence of the room pressing against my skin. He had been staying in the healers wing due to his back binjury /bbut…

My hand subconsciously clenched on the nket band /bmy heartbeat quickened. “I have to bdo /bsomething.” I said to myself.

Later that morning, when the others gathered on the training grounds, my eyes were on the Alpha instructors passing by. Shortly the person I had been waiting for came into view.

1 quietly slipped from the group, b“/bbAlpha /bbGideon/bb,” /bI called, jogging closer to him.

“Alpha Seth,” he stopped.

I stepped closer and bowed my head slightly. “bAlpha /bGideon, I have a request”

His sharp eyes scanned me, unblinking. “bSpeak/b.”

I lifted my chin and after a pause I stated, “I would like to be transferred to banother /broun

He didn’t respond immediately. The silence stretched.

Then, a slow lift of bhis /bbbrow/b. “Any reason?”

Ronan’s kiss and love confession returned to my bmind /bbas /bI murmured. “I bam /bafraid to lose myself as the race proceeds. I Just..” bmy /bvoice bstuck /bin my throat for a moment as I whispered…want to protect bmy /bheart. I wanted to say I wanted to protect bmy /bdicunt but I bsaid/b. “Myself”

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