Aurora’s POV “That’s the Lycan’s cup?” I asked to be sure I heard well and Travis nodded his head.Why did she hold it like that? I’m sure she knew that wasn’t her cup.Without hesitation, I opened the door and I noticed she hurriedly dropped the cup back on the table.“Are you meant to interrupt us?” Diana questioned.I ignored her, “I want to speak to you, Lycan; it is important.”“Queen Aurora,” Diana yelled and ignored her again.“It is not about our marriage; I’m here as a subject to speak to his lordship,” I said to Tristan, and he looked at me with confusion, “I will appreciate it if Queen Diana can excuse us.”“Lycan,” Diana whined.“Excuse us, I will call you later,” Tristan used his hand to signal Travis to escort Diana out of his room.“What do you wish to speak about?” Tristan sat on the chair and I took the one opposite him.“I do not know which of the packs but one has fallen sick and the disease is spreading, I met a lady when I was locked up and she said she saw a sha
Aurora’s POV I accidentally gasped when Diana began to apply pressure on her personal maid’s neck, “Who is there?” She let go of the maid’s neck.I wasn’t scared of her, I wanted to make myself known to her. Just as I was about to open the door, someone wrapped his hand around my mouth and pulled me away.“Have you gone..” I paused when I saw it was Scott, “Why did you do that?” Scott put his finger on his lips, “Shhhhh,” he held my hand and led me back to my room.When I entered the room, Scott shut the door behind us and Elena was sitting on my bed. The moment she saw me, she ran and engulfed me in a tight hug.“You two are back early,” I was surprised, I thought they wouldn’t be back till like two days.“I found something. I didn’t know if I should continue looking for more information or if I should inform you personally,” Maybe it was just me, but Scott looked worried.“Is anything the matter?” I inquired, he looked way too serious.“Diana, she is married,” I looked at Scott wi
Aurora’s POV Walking around the ballroom, I was filled with nothing but happiness seeing the ballroom arranged just the way I wanted it to be.Tristan opened the door to the ballroom, “What kind of instructions did you give?” He held my wrist and turned me to face him.I pulled my wrist out of his hold, “Can’t you see you are hurting me?”“Why are there a lot of mirrors in the ballroom and all over the kingdom?” Tristan questioned. I smiled internally, Elena and Scott must have been quick with it.I wanted to tell him the truth badly, but I didn’t know if he would believe anything I said at the moment.“The people cannot afford mirrors, so I placed them in every corner of the kingdom, and for the ballroom, I just wanted everyone to admire their beauty as they danced away the night,” I lied, and Tristan scoffed.“Why didn’t you ask me before going ahead with this?” Tristan's face turned red. Anyone could clearly see the way he was holding his anger.Instead of arguing more, I just sai
Aurora’s POV I felt a rush of dizziness hit me when I opened my eyes, “My lady,” Elena rushed to my side. She helped me sit up on the bed and handed me a cup of water.I returned the cup after drinking from it, “What happened?” I questioned. The last thing I remembered was me trying to stand up in Tristan’s room.“My lady, I don’t know, the Lycan brought you here and told me to look after you,” Elena picked up a napkin and used it to wipe my lips, “What did you do?” I looked outside and everywhere was dark. The party must have started, “Has the party started?” I questioned to be sure.“It started not too long ago; you have been out since morning,” Elena said; I removed the cover cloth from my legs and climbed down the bed.I was about to fall when Elena quickly grabbed onto me, “Where are you going?”“Our plan, I can’t just let it flop,” I pushed her away from myself lightly and held the bed to stand on my own.“My lady, you are weak and part of your hair is white,” I already had a
Aurora’s POV “Grandma,” I ran to sit where she was lying with tears all over my face, “Go and get someone,” I raised her head and placed it on my lap.“Grandma, please stay with me,” I tapped her face continuously. Grandma managed to raise her hand, she pointed at the beginning of the stairs. I looked at the stairs and there was no one there, just as I turned my attention to Grandma, I noticed a shadow or maybe it was my imagination.“Grandma, who did this to you!” I questioned and a lone tear left Grandma’s eyes before she closed her eyes.“Grandma!!!” Tristan yelled. I turned to look at him, and I noticed that almost everyone in the family and guests followed behind him.He ran to pick Grandma from my leg, “What happened to her?” Tristan yelled, “Get the physician immediately and take Aurora to her room.” Before I could protest, Tristan ran with Grandma in his arms, “Seal the gate,” Travis ordered, “No one leaves this palace until the Lycan orders it.”Elena helped me stand up fr
Tristan’s POV“Queen Aurora is sleeping,” Travis reported and I nodded my head. I was expecting him to leave my room after reporting, but he stood still, looking at me, “You can ask what you want to ask.”“Why was Lady Aurora’s hair white? I’m sure she has black hair,” Travis questioned. “Don’t let it bother you,” I smile and tap his shoulder, “You look good in brown.”“What?” Travis looked at himself as confusion ran on his face.I smiled at him before he could ask any questions, “Let’s go to the ballroom; the guests have started arriving.”Everything was upside down, my life was going okay but I didn’t think it would change overnight. I didn’t want to marry Diana but even on the day I married her, I could only think of Aurora.My heart kept on asking, “What will Aurora say? What will Aurora do? Will Aurora be angry? What if she harms herself? What if she decided to end our marriage? Aren’t you hurting Aurora?” I knew Aurora wasn’t happy to accept Diana as a co wife but she kept q
Aurora’s POV I waited patiently for Diana to give an answer, “Aurora, I want to speak to you,” Tristan suddenly said.I unconsciously frowned, “Now?” Did he protect Diana or what? “Yes, now,” Tristan snapped, what was his problem? He was acting all nice just a moment ago and now he suddenly shifted.Ever since Grandma fell, maybe it was just me, but there was something about Tristan that changed, and I felt it when he looked at me.Tristan was about to hold my wrist, I moved my hand and I shifted back, Tristan’s eyes soften, he shut his eyes, took a deep breath and open them, “Let me help you to your room,” This time around Tristan’s tone was soft.Something was definitely up with him, I nodded my head. I stretched out my hand, he held my hand and led me out of Grandma’s room to my room.“Are you okay?” I asked when we entered my room and he nodded his head, “What did you want to talk about?” I sat on the bed and Tristan knelt down, he gently removed my shoes from my feets, “Nothin
Aurora’s POV I checked Diana’s room to confirm if she was there and she wasn’t. I went with Elena to the back of the house and just like she said, Diana and her personal maid were there burning something.“Why are we hiding by the corner instead of going to find out what she is burning and why she is burning it?” Elena questioned when I dragged her behind a pillar.“If she was capable of pushing Grandma, don’t you think she would harm us without a second thought?” I questioned.“Ahh,” Elena nodded her head as if just realizing.“What will you do about your skin?” Her personal maid asked and a smile braced her face.“I will heal as fast as possible,” Diana gently patted her personal maid’s face, “Come get me a glass of milk.”“What about the fire?” Diana’s maid pointed at the burning items.“Nobody would come here, and even if they do, they won’t know who lit the fire,” Diana answered and left, and her personal maid followed behind her.“We can…” I paused when I saw Elena was already
Aurora’s POV Mother’s nature of emotional blackmail was still the same; she has always done it, and right now,w, she is still doing it.I was irritated, I wanted to show her that I was better than her at emotional manipulation, “Even better,” I emptied the gallon on my body, “Let us all go to hell.”“Tristan!!!” Mother yelled when she saw I was playing the same game with her.“How can I stop a grieving mother? I should have punished Ava but I felt it would be better if Aurora punished her because she was closer to our child than I was, so how can I stop her?” Tristan supported me, “If I was killed would you sit and watch? Wouldn’t you kill the person too?”“The situation is different, you are a full human, and her child was only a fetus,” Mother whined, “That child wasn’t even formed yet; it was just blood!!”I couldn’t believe what mother had just said, “A fetus? Just blood?” I lit another match out of anger.“Are you going to watch her light us?” Ava yelled and I walked closer to h
Aurora’s POV “They killed your child!!” Diana said when she pulled me inside the nursery and shut the door behind her, “Are you going to keep pretending that nothing happened?”“Stop,” I shook my head as I pleaded.“I can’t stop, if I stop today then I have failed Skylar,” I placed my hands over my ears, “Do you think Skylar would be happy to see you in such a situation?”“Please stop, you are hurting me,” I pleaded with tears streaming down my face.Diana held my hand, she dragged me to the front of the cradle my baby was supposed to be in, “Look at that,” she forced me to look at the cradle but I refused, “Do you see a child there? No, there isn’t, do you know why? Because your child is dead!!! You child isn’t in the world of the living!!!”“No!!!” I covered my ears and screamed, “Please, don’t.”Diana pushed the cradle, she began to scatter the room and I ran after her trying to stop her from doing, “Not my baby’s room please, please.”Diana gripped my hand, “I won’t ask you to be
Tristan’s POV It’s been days and I haven’t done anything. It’s not like I don’t want to do anything, it’s just that I don’t know what to do. Everything was on my neck; it was almost like before when I had Skylar in one hand and Mother in the other. I haven’t gotten the courage to see Aurora, she has been in her room, she wasn’t talking to anyone, she didn’t even want to see anything. I lifted my head from the table when I felt someone tap me on my back, “I have been calling you for ages.” “I’m sorry Diana, I didn’t hear you,” I apologized. I thought by now I would have exposed Diana and kicked her out of this palace but she was here helping me instead. “I know,” Diana sat opposite me, “I wanted to talk to you about Aurora.” “What about her?” I hurriedly asked, “Is she okay? What’s wrong with her?” Diana placed her hand on my hand and I calmed down, “It’s nothing much,” I let out a breath of relief, “I don’t like the fact that everyone is agreeing with her that her child is
Tristan’s POVThe cup fell from my hand and scattered on the floor. Diana hurriedly carried the child from my hand.“You said something I didn’t hear right,” I didn’t even know when I stood up and walked to where Beatrice was kneeling, “Repeat what you said!!!”“I said it was Lady Ava who had asked me to mix pennyroyal and tansy in Queen’s Aurora tea the moment we found out she was pregnant,” Beatrice cried, “I didn’t want to harm another mother because I know the joy of being a mother but just like you have threatened me with my child that was the same way I was threatened with my child, a mother would go to any length to protect her child even if she has to harm someone else.”I scoffed, “Why didn’t you say something when you were given the order?!!! Why didn’t you come to me?!!!”“Everyone knows that Lady Ava is your best friend from childhood; if I had accused her without any evidence, I wouldn’t have seen this day, or would you have believed me?” I laughed out loudly like a madm
Tristan's POV Beatrice stared at me without saying anything and it only made my blood boil, “Don't you feel like talking?” I balled my hand into a tight fist. “If you have already heard it then I believe you don't need any explanation,” Beatrice replied arrogantly. “How dare you speak that way?!!!” Diana yelled, “Do you know who you are speaking to?!” Diana stood to her feet angrily. “I know who I'm speaking to, and that's why I'm speaking with nothing but respect,” Beatrice answered slyly. “Explain the pennyroyal and tansy herb,” I gritted, “Else I will make sure you suffer, you will beg for water, you won't see, you will beg for death and it won't come.” “Even if you fed me to the dogs I still have nothing to explain,” Beatrice said adamantly. “Okay,” I stood up, “Anybody that can give me any information on Beatrice, no her weakness, if anybody can give me her weakness, not only would I free that person from here, I will make sure to give you three acres of land.” “Anyone?”
Tristan's POV “Why are white flags raised on the road to the palace?” I questioned myself and Travis.“Maybe something tragic has happ….” Travis paused when we heard the sound of a bell, “Something tragic has happened.”My mind went blank, “Aurora” was the only name that crossed my blank mind. I didn't want to think of what couldn't or couldn't have happened, so I kicked on the horse to hasten its speed, and everyone rode their horse behind me at the same speed.I didn't wait for the horse to stop; I jumped down and ran into the palace, “Tristan,” Aurora called; she ran and jumped into my arms.I tightened my hold on her, “I'm glad you are Okay, thank you for being okay.”I was surprised to see the way everyone ran outside to meet me with a huge smile on their faces. Their eyes looked swollen, and the most disturbing thing was they were wearing mourning clothes.“What's going on?” I questioned as I pulled away from Aurora. I looked at her; I noticed she wasn't wearing a mourning dre
Aurora's POV We were all in different worlds, they were bowing to their new king while I was in pain, not just physical pain but emotional pain from the supposed death of my husband.Tristan cannot be dead; it's not possible; he just left only a moment ago; I looked around, and I couldn't tell if I became more scared or more relieved when I didn't see Travis around.“My….. My…. Child….” I cried out as I saw blood on the floor, “My…. My…. My… baby…” I didn't want to lose my child, so I bent to the floor and started using my hands to pack the blood together.“Call the physician,” I heard Grandma's voice break behind me, “Take her to the south Wing.”I held my tummy protecting my child as both Diana and Elena carried me to my room in the south Wing. “Aurora, I promise nothing will happen to you,” Diana touched my hair with a small smile on her face. Anyone could see the smile was fake.I shook my head, “Not…not… me… save…. My… child…. please.” Diana's silence told me everything I need
Aurora's POV“Aurora, what's going on? Are you okay?” Diana panicked as she grabbed me to lean on her forgetting we were both hurting and burning.“I…..I…..I”“Blood,” just that one word that left Diana's lips made me look to the floor, “Someone gets the physician now!!” Diana yelled, bringing everyone's attention to us. “What happened to her,” Tristan asked, “What did you do to her!!” He pushed Diana and held onto me, “Why is there blood?” I was weak, but I saw fear on Tristan's face, “Tell the physician to come to the North wing immediately,” Tristan carried me in his arms and ran to the north wing.“I…. I…. Am….. Scared…” I held on to Tristan's shirt tightly as he carefully dropped me on the bed. “You will be fine, I promise, you will be fine,” Tristan held my hand, “Aurora, I know this isn't the time, but I promise I don't know how I got to the garden; I don't know what happened in that garden, please.”“What is the Queen's condition?” The physician entered the room without knoc
Aurora’s POV Everyone was making me lose my damn mind, all of a sudden, Tristan was ignoring me, and Diana was giving me options.“You looked stressed, are you okay?” Grandma asked when I came out of Diana’s room.“Hmmmm,” I paused my lips into a thin line, “What are you doing here?” I changed the topic.“I was just walking around,” I nodded my head because I wasn’t in the mood to chat, “And I saw you and Diana enter her room.”“Oh, we were just talking,” I tried to keep the smile from fading, “Let’s go back to the ballroom.”“Was it Skylar,” I paused when I heard Grandma call that name.I turned to Grandma, “My husband’s dead girlfriend? What about her?” I was genuinely tired, was I going to be given another option!!!“Nothing, I can’t really remember much, but I just remembered that you two look alike; there is a resemblance,” Grandma said, and I nodded my head in relief.I scoffed mentally. Should I be grateful that Diana wiped her memory? “Yes, people do look alike, so there isn'