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"Malrik."
His silver eyes locked on her, narrowed and calculating. Whatever warmth they'd once held had long since turned to ice.
"Avelyn," he said flatly. "What are you doing here?"
Her voice cracked, but she forced the words out. "Why her?"
Selina's laughter drifted through the air like poison-soft, seductive, and cruel.
"Because unlike you," she sneered, "I don't hide in the shadows."
Avelyn's jaw clenched, but before she could speak, Malrik stepped forward, his voice low and merciless.
"You're weak and unworthy to be my mate and rule by my side," he said, his voice cold enough to freeze bone.
"Which is why I therefore reject you as my mate."
The words struck like a blade to the heart.
He turned from her-dismissed her like nothing.
And before the crowd, he declared:
"I have taken a new mate. A stronger, more worthy woman. Her name is Selina Voss."
The cheers rose. The village rejoiced.
And no one saw Avelyn's pain.
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But Avelyn was never powerless.
She was patient.
Dangerously so.
When the world cast her aside, she didn't beg.
She vanished-into the shadows.
Into herself.
Into a quiet rage waiting for the right moment.
But fate had other plans.
It led her to the palace of the one man feared across kingdoms-
Vampire King Kaelen Varyn.
He was ruthless. Unyielding. Sinfully untouchable.
And he didn't look at her like the rest.
He saw her.
He wanted her-not as a pawn, but as his queen.
And when the mate bond snapped into place?
It wasn't just fate.
It was war.
With enemies circling, past wounds reopening, and truths clawing their way to the surface, Avelyn must choose:
Forgive those who broke her...
Or burn everything they ever loved.
One thing is certain-
The girl they left behind is gone.
And the hidden queen is ready to rise.
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