Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 200: The Miserables Project

[JIHOON]

Calindra had been weary for the past few days since the appearance of Yanna and the fact that she had agreed to be in the dungeon. It was the only thing that Jihoon had been beating himself up about.

He wasn’t sure why Yanna was back and as much as it was tempting to think that she had come in peace, he knew her to be a spiteful woman when angry and he knew she wouldn’t come back unless she had something in her mind.

He had gone through the stories he had heard over the years about Yanna and how she would have run the pack and frankly, it scared him.

He wondered how he had been so blinded that he had easily said yes to some of the absurd community bills that the woman had suggested.

He hadn’t been careful and now his karma was back staring at him in the form of the woman he had once fought to avenge.

Oh, but Jihoon felt stupid.

"Is Daehyun back?" Jihoon said to one of his warriors who was standing guard at the door. It had been two days since he had sent Daehyun to spread word about Yanna being back but he hadn’t heard anything.

It was almost like the realm didn’t hear anything about the truth he had sent Daehyun to spread — the new truth and that wasn’t what he had expected. It wasn’t the normal reaction for a realm that had fought tooth and nail for the woman to get her justice.

"Not yet, alpha," The warrior responded and Jihoon just nodded sadly.

He had a feeling that no one was aware of the truth and that raised so many questions. Jihoon wondered if Daehyun had been roped up in the Incayon wars but that was impossible given that Incayon had already declared war on Calindra.

They wouldn’t attack that easily and that too one man who would probably not drag the pack down. The best way to take down Calindra was to come after Jihoon and it was one truth that Jihoon was not sure he wanted to face.

Sitting there in his office, Jihoon thought of the news he had heard of the wars in Incayon.

The king had really gone through with his intention to ruin Rania. He had sent warriors to Incayon that they had been demanded of, but the temptation to go save his Luna was intense, especially after hearing Rania confirm his fears.

He hadn’t been delusional and Yanna had actually been telling the truth. The only problem right now, was how to go about his day without thinking of Kim Rania. It was insane that his thoughts were filled with the woman he had once wanted to kill.

Now that the king had ordered her death, Jihoon wanted to fight for her. Oh, but he was a hopeless man in so many ways at the moment.

’Maybe Yanna will have answers, right?’ Jihoon said to himself, clearly not liking what he was feeling and hearing. The realm was at war with one woman, a woman who had no army and only had a brother. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

She was in danger in so many ways, because even if Chang Wook would be able to protect her for a while, soon enough the army would overpower them and they would have to surrender.

The king wanted Rania and her brother dead or alive which wasn’t comforting. And so as Jihoon walked out of his office, careful not to seem suspicious and think that he was worried for the or something, he hoped that he would get what he was seeking with Yanna.

Maybe then she would know what he needed the most, right?

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The Calindra dungeons were dark and lonely, not to mention so cold that anyone who stayed in there would be fighting for their lives every time of the day. The deeper Jihoon walked in, the more he wondered how people had survived in here.

This place was a literal version of hell. It looked like the worst place to be and for a moment there Jihoon felt bad for his former luna. He hoped she was okay and hoped that she didn’t mean to be the cruel pitiful bitch that she had shown back as.

But then there was no telling with Yanna. That woman was so many things that were wrong with the society and if they were careful they would be mourning a whole kingdom.

"Explain yourself," Jioon said to Yanna who was in the dungeon.

He had reached her and could see how she was shivering. She looked like she was having a hard time there and he understood because no matter what angle he tried to look at this he couldn’t help but feel bad for her.

Maybe it was because she was formerly linked to him but surely long bonds didn’t look like that right? There had to be a way out of this, a way to make things right without them feeling like they were fighting a lost cause.

But would that happen with what had already begun in Obren?

The king had gone bonkers, the warriors were out on their own, the kingdom was mourning on its own and the realm was watching Obren make a fool of itself. And now as Calindra stood tall, there were a lot of questions that he needed answered.

Questions that only Yanna Petrova would be able to answer.

"Why, you don’t seem to believe me anyways," Yanna said nonchalantly like she had been expecting him to be here like this.

She knew the truth was one that even she wasn’t ready to face while sober, and as Jihoon stood here before her, with so many questions evident on his face, Yanna knew that maybe she hadn’t lost yet.

Maybe she could find a way to make this work for her. She had sworn to avenge herself against Rania and she wasn’t planning on failing.

Kim Rania had stabbed her and undone so much that she had worked for and wild as that may have been, Yanna was going to make sure that Rania felt her pain too.

She was going to make sure that Kim Rania had no choice but to surrender to her; she didn’t care if she had to be the one person that Jihoon had never seen. Yanna had made her choice.

"Why are you here?" Jihoon asked her again, like he was hoping that Yanna would tell him the truth, but then that was an expensive bargain.

Yanna had survived a lot of things so a dungeon didn’t mean shit to her, if anything she didn’t mind being here while the world outside burned because as long as tragedy befell Kim Rania, she would be fine.

It didn’t matter what happened to her or with her. The only prayer she always had was to see Kim Rania suffering and she would have it, one way or the other.

"To make Rania miserable," Yanna said earnestly, the spite in her voice for the woman who had bested her more than once so evident. She hated Rania and if she would get a trophy for hating Rania, then she would have long collected hundreds of them.

That was how much her spite had gotten a little too deeper than was possible to the common eye.

"And you expect to do that, how? She doesn’t care what you or anyone does with Calindra."