“Miss, the store sold out all the new designs,” Hannah rushed to tell me.“Hmm, that’s good.”A few hours later, she came again.“Miss, Alpha Adelard has asked to see you.”“Ah, I am busy. Tell my father I will see him later.”A while later, this time, it was Sylvia who came in.“Perse, what are you working on so diligently?”“Ah, I am organizing my affairs.”The Alpha King was no help. How could there be a monarch so useless? Even when Koa told him that the Black Wolves pack would be seceding, he laughed, his face red with alcohol and then he said that it was impossible. I told him that Cassius was also thinking of seceding so if he joined hands with the dissenter of the Black Wolves pack, things would get tricky. All he had to say to that was that once Cassius returned, he would be put in the dungeons.To say Koa was pissed would be an understatement. His eyes had darkened and he had growled at his father with a voice that had the Alpha King sobering up in a minute but no matter wha
KOA’S POVI got a tip-off that Randal was in danger. That, coupled with the fact that there was a secession plot at play made me anxious.‘Are you worried about Randal?’ Anakin asked. ‘He may be your brother but he is still a strange child. Will it not be good for you if he died?’‘Shut up.’Randal was indeed a weird child. As a child of the Luna Queen, I did not believe that he was altogether good. How could he be good when his parents were both evil? There was no side that could have given him any redeeming qualities and he was a child that was no different from a stalker. There were days when I would think an assassin had broken into my home but it would turn out to be that rat quietly observing me. I used to think he was doing it for his mother, acting as one of her spies but it occurred to me later on that the rat was obsessed with me in a way that made my skin crawl.‘You want to save such a rat,’ Anakin said. ‘It is good to do this for Deimos but remember that Randal belongs to
I applauded my foresight. Even if it was not something that I knew from my past, it was something I knew from being around Cassius for so long. He was up to something and it was not something small. I was lucky to have realized what evil he was brewing before it finally exploded.“Miss, we have sent another shipment of the Deimos Flower.” It was something I thought I would get a lot of money and fame for but when the time came, I gave it out. My father had mobilized all his warriors and I had to take care of them. The kingdom had been thrown into chaos as I expected but it was something much more than even I had expected. Not only did the dissenters of the Black Wolves pack turn against the monarchy, but the wolves under Randal’s command had also forsaken the monarchy.“How much do we have left?” I asked the man in charge of the flower’s production.“We planted a whole field of if so we have a lot left. Thankfully, you had the foresight to plant it when you did. As you said, it has t
“You are all set.” Sylvia took a step back to admire the work she had done on me.I looked into the mirror and the woman in front of me was objectively beautiful but I could not bring myself to care much. I could not bring myself to care about a lot of things. My mind was reeling and although the kingdom was jubilating, I felt hollow inside. The rebel leader of the Black Wolves pack had met his end, the rest were being rounded up as fast as possible. Everyone was celebrating the victories and anticipating when the Alpha King’s troops would return.“You are going to dazzle today as always!” The girls surrounding me who helped put me in this fancy dress beamed at me.The atmosphere everywhere in the kingdom was bright. The mood was refreshing. Everyone laughed at things that did not even deserve to be smiled about like they were compensating for the days we were too scared to laugh.“Right. I think this will sell out soon, also.” Dead inside but alive outside, I was still the biggest mo
“What do you mean I never wrote to you!?” Things got heated between us in no time. “I wrote to you every week. There were nights when I could not sleep, not because I was physically injured but because of the silence from your end. Even when you were not responding and my wolf was too embarrassed to keep sending letters into a void, I still wrote to you. You are the one who never responded!”“You never wrote to me. Even when you did not write to me, I wrote to you but you never responded. I had to stop when it became clear that you abandoned me!” I shouted at him. “I thought you had found a belle in Black Wolves and could no longer be bothered with me!”There were even days when I feared he had found his mate in the Black Wolves pack and he did not know how to break the news to me. There were also days I thought he had been using me and that he had found no more uses for me. I thought all kinds of things, mourned his death when there was no news of him for a while and celebrated when
In the banquet hall which the Alpha King had prepared to welcome the warriors, Randal dropped a bombshell that ricocheted throughout the hall. He would not be the first prince to give up his title especially when there were other princes and he wanted to avoid a battle of succession but no one expected him to do this, especially not his mother.“Haha, the prince is tired,” the Luna Queen shouted over him. “Where are the servants? Come and help him settle in.”“Your Majesty, we are still in the middle of the welcoming ceremony,” Randal spoke to his mother with steel in his tone. Really, where did the Randal I knew go to? This one was too cold, too detached to be the same man that left just a couple of months ago. “Please, maintain decorum.”“Boy, you better get your wits about you.” The Luna Queen lost all semblance of falsities. “You were born a prince and you must take your duties seriously. How can you even think of throwing them away?”“I have an obligation to Deimos that is why I
“No, no!” I screamed, fighting the iron grip on my biceps. “No, you have to believe me. I never – Cass, please, you have to believe me!” I screamed, looking at my mate.I heard a whoosh. My heart went into free fall before my world went still. He didn’t believe me. I looked around at all the eyes fixated on me. No one did. No one believed me. The silence in the room rang in my ears. It was loud. Deafening.“Cass, I – I would never –“ The silence still rang in my ears. My voice sounded like it belonged to another woman. It couldn’t have been mine. “I would never poison April.” The silence shattered with the glass in my mate’s palm.“You dare – How dare you speak her name?” My mate hissed at me. His red eyes glowed in the dimly lit hall. They brimmed with hatred.“Cass –“ I looked around a second time. I did not want to believe it. How could I? How could I believe that everyone turned their backs on me when I needed them the most?“You will address me as Alpha Cassius Raven.” He stepped
“Goddess, no!” I swatted at the blinding white light filling my vision.“Miss Persephone, please calm down!” A muffled voice sounded in my ringing ears. Pins pricked all parts of my skin, making me moan in pain. “Miss–“ The voice calling out my name faded as darkness embraced me.“Anastacia,” an ethereal voice wrapped around me in the darkness.Anastacia.It was my middle name which no one addressed me by except my aunt who died over a decade ago. It was what my mother called me before she died but my father preferred Persephone, a name fitting for a bringer of death to his beloved mate.“Is she awake?”“Miss Persephone?” Blinding white light filled my vision again. My eyes opened to see what the afterlife had waiting for me. It was dark, quiet, mournful, and somewhat angst-ridden.“Where – Where am I?” I looked around me, turning back to the white light. I flinched when I realized the ‘white light’ was actually Doctor Lorenzo’s salty white hair. “Ha, did he get you too?” Light floode