Chapter 58
Casey’s POV
What Hardy told me before didn’t fit well with me. Initially, I
thought that this man just wasn’t good enough for Zora. Besides, I had a feel that the Dark Lord was very controlling of Zora. This was a hard situation.
“You must let her go,” I eventually told Hardy, but he firmly shook his head as he squeezed his nose.
“Of all people, you should’ve known that it won’t happen, Casey,” he firmly told me, but I just bowed my head.
“I just want some peace, Hardy,” I still insisted to him.
“Easy for you to say that. You didn’t fight for her because you’ve already got someone in your hand. You already replaced her with Lori,” he told me blatantly.
His words truly struck my nerve.
“Don’t you dare to speak of things that you don’t get or have no idea about! While the mating bond gave you the drive, I truly loved Zora. She’s my best friend, my confidante, and my soul! I wasn’t the one who gave her up. In fact, I frankly would have sacrificed my life for her. Although I fought against those damn Northerners with every power I had, she was the one who wanted to leave. Besides, she had asked me to let her go so many times. It was her who sacrificed her freedom for me. Don’t you ever fucking tell me about my feelings for my wife! You know nothing about it, Hardy. Where was that stupid mating bond when we were young? Where
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was it when both Zora and I fell in love and made a plan for our lives? Everything was going well until that damned party!” I
wholeheartedly told him as I tried my best to fight back my own tears from falling.
No matter how many times I had told myself that I was fine with Zora in the north, I actually wasn’t. But I was happy to know that she was very excited there. Although it hurt my heart, I was satisfied because I knew that she was doing just fine.
“I’m not telling you to let it go because I’m different from you. I’m telling you to let her go because I’ve sensed that she’s got something serious with the Dark Lord. I have doubts that she’ll choose you, Hardy. I know it’ll just break your heart. Zora is tough and determined, which was different from me. If she had met you before I met Lori, I’m sure that she would’ve rejected you and risked herself being a weak she–wolf,” I told him my truth based on my guesses.
Meanwhile, Hardy just looked stunned as he looked at me as if I made a mistake by saying something wrong.
“The Hands had taken everything from me. I can’t let them take my fated mate too. I’ll do my best to bring her back from the north,” the man told me as he sat down.
“That’s why we have to work together, Casey. I don’t want to force your region under me,” he continued, but I just smiled this time.
“You’ve already separated my region into two regions. I’m no longer mad. After all, they chose to follow you. But the problem is that you trying to force the rest of us to help with your cause is totally unacceptable. My refusal to fight doesn’t truly mean that I‘ m weak, Hardy. I just want peace. I try my best to maintain this peace so that I can live in it,” I told him firmly as he slowly nodded.
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“I’m a desperate man for love, Casey. I’ve got everything either to gain or to lose. It’ll be very good if you join my cause. After all, we’ll get all the benefits from it. The most important thing is to be free from the Hands. Three days ago, a village in the west that shared a border with the south was attacked because those wolves wanted to be freed from the high taxes that the Dark Lord had imposed on them through his council. That village managed to survive by farming. There isn’t any kind of development happening in that village. Not only that, there aren’t any social infrastructures to help them to develop in order to gain more money either. Yet, they’re forced to pay taxes every month. That’s why I have to make my hospitals be available for their injured wolves. That’s just one of the many people that this so–called Dark Lord beast is oppressing. As for Zora, let me tell you, it’s easy for her to be charmed by his captor. It’s very normal. Darius is all she sees right now. With the Dark Lord showing her some affection, it makes her think that she‘ s safe and loved there. Besides, she’s heartbroken after her relationship. It makes her think that Darius is the best option for her. She still doesn’t know that I’m her mate. So, it’s probably because she doesn’t realize that there’s someone out there who’s fated to be with her,” Hardy explained lengthily before he sighed and then looked at me with eyes filled with tears that almost came out of his eyes.
“Indeed, I made a mistake by moving too slow. But, please, Casey. I need your help right now. I want my mate back. My wolf, Rex, hasn’t rested ever since both of us looked at her for the first time. Please. You’ve already found your fated mate. You know how it feels. As for the north, I can share the region with you when we’ve already defeated it. Please, Casey,” the man kept pleading with me, but I didn’t know how to respond to this desperate man.
While I could see how desperate he was and his point of view, Zora seemed to set her eyes on something good in the north. Somehow, I felt that it would be wrong to bring her back into this.
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“I do know that you’re caring for Zora, but I’ll never hurt her.
Instead, I’ll love and respect her until the day I die,” he continued as he pleaded with me.
“Have you told Darius’s Hands that Zora is your fated mate? I guess that’ll be much wiser compared to attacking him,” I suggested this to him, but he just laughed it off.
“That man is greedy. I’ve discovered that he’s got himself a harem of lovers. There are over hundreds of them. He loves collecting she–wolves, Casey. There’s no way that he gives her back,” he firmly told me, which I knew very well.
I hesitated whether Zora had problems with it or not. It seemed that making her share with Lori had made her numb. I couldn’t help but feel ashamed of how badly my weakness had ruined her. After all, that woman never liked sharing at all. Zora was the type who got envious and possessive of what she had. Knowing what happened in the north to her truly made me heartbroken.
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