Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 86: Not Another Day

[RANIA]

"Oh, but you leave me very few options, Rani," the person said and Kim Rania let out a scoff. She had worked so hard to get to this point, and if this person were to go on and ruin it, then all her sacrifices would be for nothing.

"I don’t think your friend Jihoon will appreciate that, Han Seong," Rania said to the healer who had once healed her on the damned mission to Drarun barely a month ago.

She had always wanted to thank him, but the act that he had left before she woke up, was proof that he knew what he was doing, He was trying to make the boundaries clear as Rania had told him, but it seemed like he just couldn’t stay away whenever it came to Rania and her incessant pains.

"Well, if I tell him the truth, I’m willing to bet he would come for you," Han Seong said and Rania looked at him skeptically like she believed what Han Seong was saying. She didn’t want anyone’s help, and much less the psycho who was after her. She wanted to do this on her own.

"Fine, fine you win. Don’t tell him, I don’t need him hounding me. I’ll accept your help, but when we make it to Obren, promise you must stay neutral, that way everyone assumes you just came to the luna trial to seek justice for the Calindra luna too," Rania said to Han.

He just looked at her, like he was considering something else. He didn’t want Rania to get hurt, and he also did that to push her. He knew so well that if he did push Kim Rania, then he would be hurt and that would ruin not just him, but Rania herself.

This was all a risk that he wasn’t willing to take.

Maybe if he went with Rania to the Obren palace, then everything would be okay.

Maybe then, life would stop being unbearable for the woman on the streets of Obren.

"That’s more like it," Han Seong said, before he decided to look at Rania’s slowly healed wounds.

She was a crazy one for real and for not fighting back.

Han wanted to ask Rania about so many things, but he knew it was already hard on her. He knew Rania had tried to cut links with everyone who was on her side, and everyone who knew the truth about that day and even the truth that Rania was never going to willingly indulge the crown in.

"You should have at least tried to fight back, Rani," Han stated and Rania just sighed.

"This is why I said no one was to follow me. I wanted to do it, besides, the voices in my head won’t let me sleep anyway. I need the pain to be gone, but I can’t even do that because the only way to make it all go away, is to go to him, and I can’t.

"I didn’t want him, at least not now. He ruined me and my going to him would just prove to everyone that he broke me first. I can’t give him that power, not now," Rania said defeatedly. She hated the feeling and wanted it to end.

Maybe that was also why she was determined to make sure she never made it out of the Obren palace alive. She wanted them to execute her, because it would be easier than having to live with the horrors for more years. She was tired of it, and spent.

"Fine, I won’t ask again. Get some rest, and don’t give me shit about Obren. I already agreed not to bug you the whole way there. Just rest for four hours, Rani. I need to heal your body, please," Han said to Rania who figured it was pointless to fight him.

He had always been there for her even when he didn’t have to and she wasn’t going to take his kindness for granted.

Sighing, Rania put aside the bowl that Han had given her food in and decided to rest. She knew there was no point in fighting him, besides, Han was right.

Rania wasn’t going to be welcomed warmly in the palace and she needed to have some energy there, for when people tried shit with her.

Several hours later, Rania was healed and she had gotten enough rest, Han was sleeping, and the whole of Obren was already aware of the hastened trial.

All the plans to push Rania to get to the Luna trial were abandoned, because there was no point in pushing her when she was already headed there. They had no reason to attack Incayon too, because the person they wanted was already gone and was so close to cutting links with that place.

"Where are we?" Rania asked as she looked at Han who was still sleeping. Everything was suddenly different and Rania was horrified by the new reality. She was no longer on the road that led to obren, instead, she was in one of the chargers in the royal palace, carefully tucked under the sheets.

Beside her, was Han, though he was resting on a chair there. It all seemed so surreal that for a moment, Rania thought she had finally overcome all her struggles and had managed to make things right.

But she knew it wasn’t that fast, unless she had traveled through time, a phenomenon that was too far-fetched in their time anyway.

"The palace, but you already know that," Han said and Rania facepalmed.

"Why?"

"Because you were too tired and if you were to get some rest, you needed a comfy place. Kill me if you want, but you slept soundly for the first time in two months, Rani" Han said as he sat upon the seat, wiping his eyes like he wanted to see her clearly.

"But—"

"No buts. I know you walked the roads on foot because you wanted them to throw things at you and let out their anger. But if someone does that I will have their heads on a platter, royal or not.

"So, you still wanna fight me, or are we going to sleep till dinner time?" Han asked Rania who considered her options. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Her trial was nearing and fast. She felt like a bull being fattened before slaughter, but then wasn’t what she had been doing to herself over the past few weeks anyway?

"Someone’s at the door," Rania said to Han who was thinking she was pulling his leg.

However two more knocks later, and Han was convinced that there really was someone at the door. So he got up, since he didn’t want anyone to be frightened by Kim Rania. The woman could make the world feel bad for being a good place.

"Clothes for the Incayon alpha," a maid at the door said to Han and just took them, before telling the servant to leave. He didn’t want to see Rania glaring at the woman for no reason.

"Tell the royal messenger that my trial should begin tomorrow," Rania shouted and the aid servant gasped before disappearing.

"Oh, Rani?" Han said, when he turned to Rania who had gone back to pretending to be asleep.

"What."

"It’s the day of the trial."

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Twenty-five hours."