“Why did you poison yourself?” Maximus asked the same question when Rania didn’t answer him. “Why did you do that? If you want to kill me, you can use different method to make me consume the poison.”


    He knew.


    Rania was not sure how he knew the way she registered poison on him, but then it didn’t matter anymore. She swatted his hand away. She sat down and red at him.


    “Don’t… touch… me.” Rania gritted her words, because it was not easy for her to speak. Her throat was closing in again on her. The same reaction that she always had whenever her emotions overwhelmed her.


    Rania was hyperventting. She hated this feeling, and even more because Maximus was so close with her. He was angry, and frustrated, Rania could tell that.


    “Tell me why did you poison yourself?” Maximus grabbed her shoulders, he tried to be gentle with him, but at this point, he had to admit that gentleness was not in his bone. “Did you… really want to be with me?”


    That was why Rania told him when she said she stopped giving him poison. She wanted to be with him. Was that the truth?


    The fact that she consciously harmed herself when she harmed him changed the whole thing in Maximus’s


    eyes.


    Did she… really want him?


    “Tell me, Rania. Do you really want me?” Maximus stared into her eyes, but she shook her head. She pressed her lips tightly, as her hatred was palpable. “Please… tell me that you want me…”


    Rania opened her mouth, she tried to force her voice out, even though it was so hard for her, but finally she managed.


    “I… want you…” Maximus’s gaze softened, but then Rania continued. “…Dead.”


    She wanted him dead. That was how much she hated him.


    “Go…. die…” Rania enunciate every word with difficulty, but her gaze ryed her emotions better. The pain and the suffering that she had to endure would be forever etched in her soul.


    She had been abandoned before, but she thought she could get something different from her mate. She thought, Maximus would be different.


    But once again, the universe proved her wrong. Maximus was only one of those people, who didn’t believe her. He was part of those people, who abandoned her. That was him…


    “No, you don’t want me to die…” Maximus cupped her face. “You will not hurt yourself if you really want me to die.”


    Rania grabbed his hands and then scratched him. Her nails embedded so deeply inside his skin, but the king didn’t even flinch.


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    He epted it. He would take all the pain that she wanted to inflict on him, because he deserved it.


    “Hurt me, ruin me, but I will never let you go again, Rania.”


    Maximus kissed her forehead gently, despite Rania’s attempt to hurt him.


    “Let me go… I want to leave…”


    This ce was suffocating. She didn’t want to be here… this was the same feeling that Rania felt when she was under Caden’s thumb.


    However, this time ten times worse than that.


    ***


    The problem with Barlukan kingdom was on halt, because they lost so many warriors due to poison that was instigated by Caden.


    Not to mention with the civil war that brew from the south of the kingdom. This war was led by alpha Winter.


    “He said we kill his son, Caden. Did you?” Den asked Maximus. The southern packs had fortified themselves securely, thus it was hard to gather information from there.


    Based on that, only now they could get the information about the death of Caden.


    “No,” Maximus replied. He was irritated because someone had taken away Caden from his clutch, but even more when he learned Caden had been killed.


    He wanted to be the one, who did that. He was going to make it so painful for him for what he had done to Rania. It was a pity, he let his chance to do so slip away from his fingers.


    “Then, who had killed him? Someone had fabricated the story and put the me on you.” Den was fuming. The public was not on their side ever since Maximus was on his killing spree phase.


    The only thing that kept them in check was only because they feared the king, so they didn’t run their mouth carelessly.


    But, fear wouldn’tst for long. They needed to take control of the situation here, or else they would be attacked from all direction.


    “Killian,” Maximus said calmly. It was so rare for him to be this peaceful.


    And it was because, he could stay with Rania during the night. She had been very exhausted, since she had been throwing a tantrum for a whole day, therefore during the night, her energy had depleted and Maximus could sleep next to her without her trying to kill him.


    “Killian?” Eiten raised his brows. “How do you know that?”


    “He tried to kill ric during the attack.” Maximus nced at Den. “He wanted to raise in rank, and killing Caden will secure him a position as the alpha from the ck Stone pack. Tell your spy to watch closely the interaction between Killian and Winter.”


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    Den was surprised with the order, but he was more than willing to do the job. Maximus was always astute with his surroundings. He was good with things like this.


    “Where are you going?” Eiten asked when Maximus stood up to leave the room.


    “I miss Rania.” Maximus said bluntly.


    “Did she already stop trying to kill you?” Eiten raised his brows. That would be a progress.


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    And with that Maximus left his beta and gamma.


    Only when he left Den spoke disdainfully. “He should stop ying with her. I know she is bad news for him since the beginning.”


    “Can you drop that already?” Eiten narrowed his eyes. “You are still on it? No matter how much you hate her, she is still Max’s mate, respect that.”


    AD