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"An eye for an eye," I told myself every night as I dreamed of his death. He was the monster who had ruined my life, the devil in every nightmare.
But now, he stands before me, alive, no longer cursed, and all I can feel is the heat of his gaze, stripping me bare. I wanted to end him... but now, it feels like he's already ended me.”

In the Kingdom of Rivera,  Kaden, the ruthless crowned alpha Prince, lay cursed in eternal slumber. Lily, a servant girl with a hidden past, arrived on a mission of vengeance, seeking to kill the monster who slaughtered her family and destroyed her colony. But when she touched him, the curse was broken. Instead of death, Kaden offered her a shocking proposal: become his mate and bear his heirs. Now, Lily is bound to her enemy, torn between the desire that burns within her and the revenge that fuels her soul. Will she succumb to the darkness that haunts them both, or will her thirst for vengeance consume him... and herself?

The Cursed Prince’s Bride

The dungeon reeked of iron, damp soil and faeces, the air thick with the ghosts of people who had lived here and died there.

But Lily did not flinch. Didn't even move.

She sat bound in the cage, wrists rubbed raw where the ropes bit into her skin, ankles shackled to the iron loops bolted into the floor. Blood had dried in form of dark fluid upon her temple, her lip split and swollen. There were strands of hair clung to her skin, which was damp from the heat of her own breath.

And so in the heat of it, her lips curved upwards to reveal a smile,

He hated it more than the sting of his own wounds, more than the burn he felt in his muscles, more than the roiling sickness in his gut. It was the kind of smile that a queen might wear upon the scaffold, with her spine straight, head held high, looking down upon the executioner with amusement rather than fear.

Chapter 51