[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha":3,"chapter-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-106":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marked By The Mad King Alpha",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1732087,2214,"Chapter 106 A Gaping Empty Wound","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-106",106,"\u003Cp>Phoebe’s POV\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body went rigid when Reginald’s gaze fixed on me. I swallowed hard, the motion painful. I shouldn’t have returned to this room. I should’ve remained in the omega quarters, found some way to escape this pack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or... figured out how to end this pregnancy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t want Kevin’s child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every thought of him twisted my stomach into knots. The idea that his blood ran through what grew inside me made me sick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re pregnant.\" Reginald spun me around, his stare boring into me. \"If you’re carrying a child, it’s Kevin’s.\" Not a question. A cold fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t read Reginald’s thoughts about my condition, but danger radiated from him in waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, let me leave. I won’t be trouble for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shook my head frantically. \"I’ll stay quiet, do whatever you demand.\" The words tasted like ash—begging for my life just like I’d done with Kevin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This crushing weight pressed against my chest. Here I was, repeating the same desperate plea, only to a different monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I barely knew Reginald, but the whispers painted him the same as Kevin. Another predator who took what he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, I’ll do anything—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agony tore through my belly before I could finish. Instinct made me look down. Reginald’s hand had punched through me, claws buried deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perfect. Now die,\" he snarled, his voice stripped of any warmth. No hesitation. No mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, the baby and I were threats to eliminate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t let his plans crumble, not after everything he’d sacrificed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reginald had murdered Kevin to leave Alpha Sterling without an heir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if Sterling discovered I carried Kevin’s child, everything would change. The old alpha would pour everything into raising that baby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not happening.\" Reginald yanked his hand free. I collapsed, blood pooling beneath me from the gaping wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body convulsed, fighting to heal itself before surrendering to the inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood filled the air with its metallic stench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Reginald faced cleanup duty before anyone stumbled onto his mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consciousness came and went like tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes I’d surface in someone’s arms. The identity remained fuzzy, but comfort mixed with profound sadness in those moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other times, a woman’s gentle voice drifted over me as soft hands tended my wounds. Her words blurred together, meaningless sounds I couldn’t grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there were the lonely stretches. Cold seeped into my bones, exhaustion weighed me down, but the hollow ache inside overshadowed everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t tell if the nightmares or this empty reality tortured me more. Time became meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How long had I been trapped like this? And why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Memory stirred, but something deep inside warned me away. Some horror lurked there that I wasn’t ready to face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when awareness returned this time, it held. A man stepped into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our eyes locked. Those electric blue depths that haunted even my dreams. Everything crashed back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pain. The helplessness. My devastating loss... my baby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Phoebe,\" Perry whispered my name like a prayer. Shock flickered across his features seeing me truly awake. Before, I’d been too weak to maintain consciousness, but alertness sharpened my gaze now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A month had crawled by since the attack. So much had shifted in that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was back in my own bedroom after repairs were completed. Perry stayed here whenever kingdom business didn’t demand his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re awake.\" Perry mindlinked the warrior outside to fetch Marcela for an examination. He moved toward the bed where I continued staring at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of my wounds had sealed over. Marcela had explained how close I’d come to dying. My body couldn’t handle much more trauma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One more critical injury would finish me. They had to treat me like spun glass now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perry had pressed Marcela for detailed instructions on my care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s when he learned the devastating truth—pregnancy would be nearly impossible for me now. My damaged body made carrying a child extremely dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only would I likely die, but any baby probably wouldn’t survive to term either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcela had looked stricken delivering this news, knowing how crucial heirs were to royalty. Especially for Perry, the last of his bloodline after eliminating his own family for the throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Perry had simply ordered her silence. Not even his beta or gamma could know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was his punishment for failing me and our first child, he’d bear it. He carried many regrets, but this one would follow him to the grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, drink some water,\" Perry offered, extending a glass. \"I’ll help you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slapped his hand away and shoved the glass. It shattered against the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>",765,"2026-06-06T16:11:22.572Z",1,"novelbin.me","ec2c7dc5ee238552ead7cec73a4f76cd75a75ce5815a943222ff327dea962efb","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-107","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-105",302,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-cover.jpg"]