The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136: Chapter 136 She Arrived

At the announcement, a collective gasp swept through the banquet hall. Whispers rippled like waves across the crowd. No one had heard any official news about another royal princess, aside from the one who had gone missing.

Sure, there had been whispers just the other day, vague and uncertain, but rumors were easy to dismiss. And most had.

Until now.

But amid the murmurs, Claire stood frozen. Her body trembled violently.

She didn’t know who the Herald was referring to. ’Royal Princess?’ The name meant nothing to her. She didn’t even know anyone named Mila, so she clung to a fragile hope that it was Mila, the niece of the Alpha King, the Herald meant.

But that hope shattered the moment the Alpha King spoke next.

With just a few words, her entire world began to crumble.

When the Alpha King received the mindlink report from the Herald and his Royal Beta that his daughter was waiting at the entrance, he and his mate quietly stepped to the front of the banquet hall to receive her.

At first, the attendees were puzzled to see the royal couple taking such a prominent position. Most assumed they were about to make a formal announcement, and in a way, they weren’t wrong.

Then the Herald’s voice rang out across the now-hushed room:

"Her Highness, the Royal Princess, and the Royal Beta have arrived!"

The bustling banquet hall fell into stunned silence.

Those who had recently spoken with Mila froze, confusion dawning in their eyes. ’If Mila were here... then who was the Royal Princess the Herald just announced?’

A chilling thought flickered through their minds, and the entire hall gasped, heads whipping toward the grand entrance.

But no one reacted more intensely than Claire. Panic surged through her as realization set in. She instinctively took a step back, the urge to flee overwhelming her.

Alpha Zion and Beta Levi weren’t far behind in their shock; both men were reeling, their thoughts racing as everything they thought they knew began to unravel.

’Is the Royal Princess the Herald mentioned... the missing Royal Princess?’ Zion’s mind raced as his eyes locked onto Claire, who was visibly panicking in the corner. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

And in that moment, he knew.

His chest tightened, rising and falling with ragged breaths as a dark shadow passed through his gaze. He remembered everything, all the things he had done to protect Claire, all the choices he made under the belief that she was the Princess.

Most of all, he remembered the moment he chose Claire over his own mate. He had believed he was doing the right thing, that safeguarding Claire in his territory meant preventing disaster. If the Princess were to be harmed under his watch, the Alpha King would’ve demanded blood, and Addison would have been the first to suffer.

But now... now the truth was unraveling right before him.

If Claire wasn’t the missing Royal Princess... then who was she?

And what about everything he had sacrificed? The years of burden he had carried? The punishment Addison had endured?

’Was it all for nothing?’

His thoughts spun wildly, his mind reeling at a thousand miles a second, until the grand entrance doors opened at last.

Gasps echoed across the hall, but Zion heard none of it.

Because in that moment, he was hit by a scent so achingly familiar it made his heart leap to his throat: warm vanilla, creamy milk, and a whisper of cinnamon.

That scent—the one that haunted his dreams, night after night.

The one that only she could stir.

"Addison..." Zion breathed, barely above a whisper, as he pushed his way to the front of the crowd, desperation etched into every step. It was as if the very air he needed to survive stood just ahead of him; she was his breath, his life.

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