Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 187

Chapter 187

Maximus

After Zora had left his room, Maximus had resigned to sulk for the rest of the weekend.

His future with Zora was looking bleak and grey. He couldn’t have her unless she had all of her fated mates. Furthermore, if he was selfish and kept her, he’d wind up killing them both. within two years. Nothing was working out for him and he thought he deserved the right to sulk in his misery.

us was

Then, Sunday evening, there was a banging on his door. He groaned and dragged himself out of bed only to have the person barge into his room as lie was getting to his feet. M about to murder the person when he saw Zora’s bright red hair. His murder su then, he was met with confusion.

“What are you doing?” he said, stern yet soft.

“I read the tombs,” Zora said, quickly. “I read them and I think you’re crazy if you’re going to let me just allow you to break our bond and shorten your life.”

Maximus had never been so confused. “Tombs? What are you talking about?”

Zora furrowed her brow. “You haven’t read the tomb?”

“What fucking tomb?” Maximus cried. “I knew that because my parents told me.”

“Parents?” Zora balked. Then her face dropped. “Elena Wolfham.‘

“Elena Wolfham?” Max said. “What about my grandmother?”

”

Zora said nothing. She slunk over to the bed where Maximus was still sitting and sat on it. She gave him a look before she sighed.

“Have you ever met your grandmother?”

“Briefly,” Maximus replied. “She died young.”

Zora nodded. “Do you know much about her?”

“I don’t understand the sudden interest in my family line-”

“Max,” Zora pleaded. It tugged at all of the bits of his heart that ached for her. Her turned his head to look at her. She offered him a weak smile then ducked her head and continued.

“I went to the library today,” she said. “To research multiple fated mates. Luckily for me, the librarian had just come across a tomb. It detailed all known wolves with multiple mates and their…outcomes.”

“What does this have to do with my grandmother?” Maximus pressed.

“She was in there,” Zora said, quietly. “Your grandmother had multiple fated mates.”

Maximus sunk in on himself as he began to process it. Then he shook his head. “She couldn’t have,” he protested. “I never met anyone other than my grandfather. Hell, I don’t even think he was her fated mate.”

“The tomb said he was,” Zora said. “They didn’t know they were fated mates until they broke out of the vampire’s grasps. Then, they realized their bond was one of fated mates. It was then that your grandmother’s second bond showed itself. Apparently, the guy was a dickhead. So, she broke her bond with him. It’s why she died earlier than most wolves. Because of her broken bond.”

Maximus couldn’t bring himself to say anything He sat there, in silence next grandmother had two fated mates. Something so rare and so powerful had line not once, but twice. And it’d killed his grandmother.

His

family

He pinched the bridge of his nose and ducked his head between his knees. A shudder of a breath came out of his mouth. Then he sat back up and looked at his own fated mate.

Her curly red hair was frizzing out of it’s braid much more than when he’d seen her thye evening prior. There was a cut on her lip that was from when Kairos had let the dummy tackle her in training. Her green–gold eyes were shinning brightly at him.

She looked beautiful.

“If I break our bond,” he said, slowly. “I’ll die sooner than you. Than, everyone else.‘

Zora nodded, lip tugged between her teeth. Maximus ran a hand over his head. His hair was getting long. He’d need to buzz it again soon. He looked back at Zora.

“If that means I won’t hurt you,” Max said, slowly. “Then I’d do it a thousand times over.”

Zora immediately scowled. “That was not what I wanted you to say.”

“What did you fucking want me to say!” Maximus threw his hand up. “That I’d let both of us die in two years because fucking Lunerly is too much of a cunt to accept his fated mate? Fuck, no.”

Zora rose up onto her feet. “So you’re going to force us to live without a bond that is so central to our very beings?”

“To keep you alive? Yes.” Maximus hissed. He stood up as well, leering over Zora. He felt his nostrils flare slightly. “There’s not much I wouldn’t do to keep you alive. If shortening my life keeps you here as long as you should be, then that’s that.”

“You’re being irrational,” Zora growled.

“The only one being irrational is you,” Maximus threw back. There was a beat of the two glaring each other down. Then Max spoke again.

“Lunerly has very clearly told you that he doesn’t want you,” He said, voice low and trying to be soft despite the cutting way he spoke. “Thorne already broke the bond and Kairos has tried to kill you more times than I can count.” He shook his head.

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