Trudeau’s POVGuillemette raised his hand last minute. “I volunteer for this tribute.” His voice is so crisp and clear, the utter shock it brings to the half-witted morons on the other end of the table was why I orchestrated this meeting in the first place. “Guill—” “Eh eh” He swung his finger majestically at the elder who tried to attempt ‘talking sense into him’. The same who also happened to be his uncle and got to this position only because Guillemette put in a good word for him aside from his qualifications to be here. Now that it was for Guillemette to stand in his place of opposition, he suddenly thinks it's not right for the man not to serve his purpose. He still had that face on. The one that said, “You don’t know what you are saying”.“It is Gamma for you, Elder Pedro.” He shut down his uncle with such a command, that I began to not recognize the man seated before me.Elder Pedro’s face got stuck in a pause. I bet he was trying to understand how he became so little in fr
Audrey’s POVI knew something was happening today. Trudeau had vaguely mentioned something about a festival earlier in the day while he ranted about a meeting he had called last minute and was regretting.I stayed in my room like I did on the few days I wasn’t busy in the garden. Today especially, he had asked me not to visit the garden so I could prepare for the evening event. It was going to be my ever first official appearance. I thought about my various clothing choices, all of which were clothes I got from staying with Blue Lotus. I picked out a blue dress. It was the sky’s color after a nice shower of rain, the faintest color of velvet that you could imagine.I stared at the dress laid vertically across my bed and I thought to myself what else would I need to add to it to make it appear pieced together?Most time passed as the evening drew closer.I heard the doorbell ring loudly inside the house. It was the first time since my stay here that I found out that there was some sort
Audrey’s POV She only stares briefly at me before replying, “Yes and no.”“Context??” I asked desperately, forgetting every caution in the wind behind me as we walked further into the alpha’s house. “I can never get over how beautiful this place is…” She commented while unzipping the clothes bag. “Unto more pressing matters, this is the dress he got for you…It's beautiful, isn’t it??” Cynthia asked while raising it in the air. I studied her to see if she was being serious ignoring the question I asked or if it was a harmless oversight. After a few seconds of me just staring into her face she held up a sophisticated-looking white flowy dress. It looked like it was made up of laid-back fur until I touched it and realized it was all design. “Woah…” Just to be sure, I touched it again. It was a smooth material designed in a fashion that made it appear a lot like laid-back fur. But so far, from touch, I could tell it was cotton.“That’s so much detail on a dress I would be wearing to
Audrey’s POVTime was of the essence and right now, we didn’t have a lot of it to waste. “Okay. If you say so. Let’s get you ready. Bedroom?” “Sure…” I muttered quietly, gathering the rest of the cloth bag and heading to the room. “Hey…” Sabrina called out to me. “Yeah?” I turned around halfway to meet her gaze. She shrugged before waving me off. “Don’t worry I will it myself.” I smiled and thanked her even though I had no idea what exactly it was that she needed to get and I wasn’t bothered. With a mind preoccupied with thoughts, I wasn’t sure I could let out or hang out in the same room with someone I potentially didn’t trust as I did the first few days I arrived here. I was first to get into the master bedroom, turning on the brighter lights that soon overshadowed the dim orange light bulbs sealed into the wall. They weren’t bright enough to illuminate the whole room, but just enough to keep it from being completely dark. When Sabrina came in, she turned off the light. I did
Trudeau’s POVThe meeting ended a minute ago with my head still held high as I couldn’t be challenged with my demands by any of the council members. I walked out to the back of the building where a small sit-by bench sat. I needed some time to catch up with myself. The shade above my head was a fig tree I can recall being there all of my life.All of a a sudden, I am nine years old again thinking about running away from the loneliness caused by waiting for my father behind the council building because he was having some meeting and insisted on me coming. It was part of the useless things I was forced to do as his heir. Even though I wasn’t allowed inside the building because I was too young, he wouldn’t let me hang out around kids my age. Instead, I would be forced to listen to a muffled version of his voice yelling ‘I will stand!`.I knew very few things about my father before he died and one thing that was the most stand-off-ish trait of his was his stubbornness and unwillingness to
Audrey’s POVWhen Sabrina had said she wasn’t done, I didn’t quite get what she meant and honestly, I was glad I didn’t ask because the surprise would be the reason why my jaw was currently hanging on the clean wooden board of my room.“I know It's cheating using magic to get what you want but you need to understand that you look like a beautiful garden right now.” I stare at her through the mirror looking at her with wide eyes.“Are you kidding me??” I took my eyes away from hers and looked down at the dress again.“Sabrina this is fucking amazing!” I tried to reach for the dress but something made me stop. It suddenly felt like I was wearing a delicate masterpiece. The actual real flowers that Cynthia had brought in had an amazing selection of yellow, red, and green. But placing it on the white dress with the help of fusion magic… was beyond words.“Can I touch it??” I asked her through the mirror as she stood behind me because I was way too nervous to turn in the dress to make sure
Audrey’s POV“All I hear is unwanted attention.”“Well, you kind of signed up for it the moment you became the Alpha’s breeder.” “Oh...” Once again, I recalled who I was. The drive ended some five minutes after our little conversation. The car drove to a halt, leaving my heart beating in my throat. I stared out of the window like the air was made of poison. The road split ahead into two different paths, one leading to the left through the trees and the other which seemed like a more paved path with the way the trees were properly aligned in a single file on both sides of the path creating a perfect comfort canopy from the stars of the night. Sabrina moved forward, clinging to the chair in front of her as she faced Felix. “Felix, can we get to the front of the guest house? I don’t want the attention her dress is going to get her now since it hasn’t properly begun.” “Sure.” He started the car again and slowly backed into the lane, driving through the short snake path, and before
Cassandra’s POV“You are right…the breeder is here.” I stared directly at her before stepping away from the entrance of the car so that Phil could step out too. The shaman had predicted that Trudeau would bring his breeder to the festival but I disagreed.The Trudeau I knew, along with the kind of pride he exuded, he wasn’t going to let that happen.Phil gave me a look that screamed ‘I told you so’.“He didn’t tell any of us that she was going to be here.” I felt the need to say to him because I was the beta and I felt at least I would have an idea best on the kind of move he would make.“I tell you, Trudeau might not be fit for the post of Alpha after all,” Phil said in a voice not bold enough.My mood immediately turned sinister. “Don’t you ever say that again?”“I said what I said—”“You are still attached to past glory. We are way better with Trudeau than we were with his father. He’s a tad bit more considerate and he doesn’t throw on casual genocide just because a particular grou