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
Audrey’s POVThankfully, the door to the key was not upstairs anymore like Sabrina swore she remembered it. It was situated downstairs along with the other identical doors I saw before we went upstairs. After another minute of her swearing that the room used to be upstairs, we got into the room and she fell on the bed. “I haven’t even started and I am already tired. I wish I could just stay here, get glazed, and sleep off. Tomorrow will always be a new day.” She said into the pillow. “Then why don’t you just do that if that’s what you want??” I asked, standing by the entrance mainly because I still hadn’t figured out how I was going to sit comfortably in the dress“Because it is easier said than done.” She sat up in one try while I was sure I would have struggled in the most embarrassing way possible before I would have been able to get it right. “You are here for appearance sake…or for whatever reason Trudeau had asked you to come. But on the other hand—which is me, I have to be
Audrey’s POV “What the hell was that…” I caught myself going into the room with my hands full after barely being able to open my door alone. Sabrina wasn’t on the bed Like I thought I would meet her.Before I could twist my head around in search of her whereabouts, the door suddenly closed behind me causing me to jump at least half a feet into the air.“You easily get scared like that?” her voice does some calming to my rapidly beating heart. Now I was confident that it wasn’t some ambush…I turned around and the lights went off.“Sabrina‼” I yelled her name, practically screaming at this point. A part of me hoped that the walls of the cabin were as thin as the walls of a motel room so that someone could come and save me from this mess.“Sabrina, you are not the Morningstar, please stop whatever this is and put the light back on.”The light came on after some seconds and her grinning face was revealed.“God I feel so bad.”“You should.” I deadpanned, falling back to the bed. I felt a
Audrey’s POV“Well….are you heading to the main grounds now or are you girls just out for some air?” I choked on a chuckle at the mention of air. It took everything in me not to push it out and make a sound—or rather, an awkward noise that would draw the attention of everyone around me.“Ah—”That’s what it sounded like. Imagine the sound of a mosquito breezing by your ear. Now amplify that sound you hear and compress it into a one-second clip, that was pretty much the sound I made trying to hold by my sudden outburst.I knew there was only one thing to next to save me and that was to cough out the rest of the funny bone. Am I bipolar?The attention I didn’t get before found me now. Sabrina and The beta who had been engaging in a sudden hush chat turned to face me. I knew because I could see both their heads turn at the same time as they watched me with concerned faces. Well, Sabrina looked concerned. The beta looked like she pitied me. I must have been the equivalent of a sick puppy