Her Unwanted Mate On The Throne
Chapter 114

Chapter 114

Chapter 114 You came for me.

His warmth enveloped her whole. She had never in her life felt more safe or relieved from a single touch.It was like all of her fear had melted out of her the second she felt him touch her. Doris had never knownwhat it was like to have someone to make her feel that way.

William lifted Doris into his arms and held her tighter than anyone had ever held her. His strong armsrefused to let her go as her feet dangled off the ground. It was like a dream she didn’t want to wake upfrom. How strange that he once was the reason for all of her nightmares. Now he was the only thing shewanted to see at night when she closed her eyes.

“I thought I lost you.” William whispered against her ear. She didn’t need her wolf to tell her how sheshould be feeling—for once Doris allowed herself to feel everything towards him. All the relief and painand love that tried to pull her under and drown her until she was nothing. It was all worth it to hear hisvoice and how much he yearned for her as much as she did for him.

It felt like a decade had passed as well as no time at all. She knew from one touch that she was all hethought about since he left her. Even if he never admitted it to her face, she knew it was true. How couldit not be?

“You came for me.” Was all Doris could say. William pulled away for the first time and set her down infront of him just so he could look at her more clearly. His blue eyes were almost blinding to her tiredheart.

“Of course I came for you.” He said as he gripped her waist. Doris caught sight of his appearance andalmost fainted with how much blood covered him. She had little doubts that it all belonged to people thathad stood in his way. His shirt was tom down the middle and she realized he hadn’t changed into hiswolf. He came for her with a vengeance that he fulfilled with his barehands. Every inch of her tingled at

the thought. She could almost see him on a battlefield in her mind. All the rage that must have pouredfrom him, she was sorry to have missed it.

“Did they hurt you?” William asked through his teeth. Doris glanced at the door he had ripped off thehinges and saw blood smeared across the walls. She briefly wondered if Joseph was part of thatmassacre and a sad part of her throbbed. Even with what he had done to her, she wouldn’t have wantedhis lift to end that way. No one deserved that.

“No. They just put me in dark places, but I’m okay for the most part.” Doris said.

A flash of anger still touched his features. She wished she could wipe it away with a single caress.

“What happened? I heard part of what they were planning just a few hours ago. I had no idea it wasgoing to happen.” Doris said quietly. She was too afraid to step out into the hallway and potentially seebody parts and faces that belonged to people she barely knew. Even if she had only spoken with themfor seconds, it would have haunted her to see it.

“Enzo thought it was best to wait at the camp until we were set to meet here, but I thought we should goearly in case you were already here.” William narrowed his eyes, but not at her. “I convinced him to goand halfway here we had gotten ambushed by hundreds of rogues. It was like an army had come out ofno where.”

“An army? They must have been planning this much longer than I thought… How did you manage to getfree?”

“I tore through a line of them and came straight here.” William grumbled. His hands tightened on herbody as if he was afraid she would disappear any minute if he didn’t hold on tight to her. Doris leanedagainst him as if she felt the same.

His head snapped towards the door, he motioned for her to stay silent and she clamped her lips shut onthe question that tried to escape. Voices broke out in panicked shouts as they discovered the mess thatWilliam left for them. His grip tightened on her hand as he forced her back towards an opposite door.

“It might have guards outside it—” Doris warned. William stopped to think.

“We’ll have to go out through one of the windows.” He hissed and led her behind some of the benches.There was a low window that she didn’t think would open easily. William gripped the frame and forced itup with a nasty creak that was surely heard by the guards outside the room.

William gripped Doris’s waist and lifted her up through the hole effortlessly. She fell lightly into a pile ofsnow but the impact still tore through her ankles. She bit her lip until it almost bled just to keep in all ofher screams. She couldn’t help but wonder when her body would finally give up on her. Any second nowshe could fall apart and she was certain she wouldn’t be able to get back up again.

William fell beside her an instant later. He took one look at her face and grabbed her

cheeks to look at him. “What is it?”

“I—my ankles. When I fell in the hole, I think I twisted them.”

A dark look flickered over William’s face. She swallowed her fear and remembered the man that held herface in his grasp. He could easily snap her neck without a single thought, but he held her so softly as ifshe was a delicate flower.

William stood and lifted her into his arms as if she was a bride. Doris normally would have objected, buteven she knew that was an unwise decision. He carried her through the snow and peered around everycorner before he headed straight for the trees. They only had seconds before it was discovered she wasgone. 2

Seconds before a new layer of war was unleashed. It was only a matter of when.

William didn’t lose his breath once as he hurried through the trees. She didn’t dare to ask where theywere going, she only trusted that he knew exactly where they should go. The further from the church, thebetter. Joseph had mentioned that hundreds of guards were watching the place, she only wondered howmany William had torn through himself before he found her. Still, hundreds more could still be waiting.

His boots crunched through the snow as Doris gripped onto him tighter. Every turn he made wascalculated and sure. It wasn’t until she saw a small curve in a rock wall that she knew where they weregoing. “A cave?” Doris whispered.

William nodded once but said nothing until they were inside. He set her down gently and went to start afire without a second to waste. He worked so determinedly and quietly, she was almost afraid to disturbhim. Once the fire ignited, she felt something flicker inside her too.

Doris reached out her arms for him as the warmth caressed her skin. She could have groaned from thefeeling alone. It was like her own version of heaven to feel her bones defrost. Soon she would be able tofeel her toes again, she hoped. She’d almost forgotten how cold she had gotten until her body melted offthe ice.

William glanced down at her arms with raised brows. Was he going to make her spell it out for him?

“Come here,” Doris whispered. His shadow danced across the cave wall as he stepped around theflames to get to her. He kneeled down in front of her and Doris couldn’t stand another second of hishands not on her. “Closer.” 3 –

William removed his jacket and laid it across her lap. “You should get some rest.” He said before hestood and walked across the cave as if her eyes hadn’t been begging him to touch her. Doris felt a smallheat burn out inside her and she knew she should swallow the feeling and sleep—but she couldn’t.

How could he stand to be near her without feeling the same way? He always told her to sleep when heknew there was more they wanted between them. He always tried to brush her off when he knew he

should be the one to warm her with his body. 1

Doris stood on her shaky legs and took a deep breath. She crossed the cave in three hurtful steps. Whenhe turned, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips against his own to finally claimwhat was rightfully hers.