(Ruth's POV)The whole thing about me having a less official day seems to be a mistake. For the past few days, we've been having official days and I had to dress as the elegant princess for everyone to see if I wanted to go out. I did get my tour around the huge palace with so much land. There was literally everything here. No wonder it's called the palace, there's no other place better than palaces in my opinion. A combination of modern and ancient architecture, there's no better combination. I was awed to see basic and extra things I could only see about rich people from TV. There's even a museum here. I had to learn about the basic etiquette and elegance of a princess. I don't know much since it might take me a long time to learn everything, but I was taught on how to behave in front of everyone. It doesn't mean I shouldn't talk back at anyone that tries to question me. The basic thing is just to act rich and respectful, I'm pretty good at things like that. "Your Highness!" I h
(Ruth's POV)After the meeting with the King, I decided to go to my room and wait for the apology from Alpha Ripley. I saved him from getting punished by the King, so he should be here in no time to apologize to me. I looked at Amelia, who was sitting on a chair peeling oranges.She looked like she was out of it and wasn't concentrating on what she was doing. I even tried calling her, but she wasn't paying attention. I decided to leave her alone at first, thinking maybe she needed some time alone. But I changed my mind and wanted to ask her."Amelia!" I called loudly this time, and she immediately dropped the oranges.She rushed towards me, "Yes, Your Highness... I mean, Ruth?""What were you thinking about? I've been calling you, but you were not listening. Are you okay?" I asked her.She nodded quickly, "I'm completely fine, Your Highness. I just have some things I'm thinking about.""You're never going to stop calling me that, are you? No one is even willing to listen to me in this
The Carter Mansion (Asher's POV)It's been months since we last had chaos in this pack, which I'm not actually excited about considering the fact that we had to kill an innocent person to get peace. After my brother told me the truth about the matter, I couldn't help but realize how evil we were towards Ruth.She was killed because of us, to cover up our crimes, when she was the victim. She did nothing wrong to us, and all we ever did was hurt her. She ended up having to die because of us. I didn't think about it when I accepted for her to die.There might be peace in the pack, but I don't feel at peace at all. It's the same with my brothers. We all feel guilty for what we did to her. We went back to look for help, but there were no traces of her. She was already gone by the time we got there.I didn't believe Aster when he told me she drowned, and I wanted to go and check myself. However, I saw the trails of her blood, and it was the only evidence we had left that we killed an innoc
(Ruth's POV)I've been training hard for the past few days with Ripley. As the king instructed, he has been teaching me, though he's a little distant from me. But he doesn't disrespect me like before, which is quite a good development if you ask me.I wanted to ask him more about what he said about the rogues who were looking for me. I didn't know my blood could do all of those things, yet I've been wasting my blood for so many years. I'm training hard because I don't want to be used as a sacrifice for power-hungry people.He was asked to train me for a week on the basics so I won't suck at the training. Though I've been getting more training at school, I didn't think it would be any different from his. The training he has been giving me is to build my strength even without the presence of my abilities."Your Highness, you've been training so hard for the past few days. I think you should take a rest since your body is still under treatment," Amelia suggested as she brought me some wa
(Aster's POV) We finally arrived to the royal city. It's not our first time coming but it's the dream of so many people to be here. We had to rush here because we needed to confirm Ripley's claims of the princess being his mate. As shameless as we may be, it's good to confirm that there is still hope for us. Though we shouldn't be dreaming of having anything with the princess, considering how high above us she is, we should also consider the fact that we've condemned someone for being below us.Honestly, I don't know what to expect of a princess that hasn't been shown to the world before. We decided to go to the mall to get a few things, as it was one of the main tourist centers apart from the royal palace."Why do you think they are carrying that person away? What happened to her?" Alfred asked me, pointing towards the direction of some men and a young woman rushing a passed-out female away.My wolf reacted somehow, and it felt like I found something missing. But then again, we have
(Aster's POV) Cont'd Ruth is the princess and the red wolf?I can't believe it was so obvious, but we couldn't see it. No wonder the princess wasn't able to see us; it turns out it was the person we thought was dead after all.She didn't see us as she was standing at a distance with another young woman. When I looked at that woman properly, I realized she was the same woman we saw at the mall yesterday. Then the person they were carrying yesterday was Ruth?Ripley was surprised to hear us calling her name; we were all beyond shocked to see her."How do you know the princess's name? I haven't even told you about her," Ripley asked, confused."I see you all recognized my sister," the prince said with a serious face. The smile he had earlier had dropped.Could it be that the prince knows about what happened to her? Does he know how involved we were with her and what exactly made her this way?"Your Highness, what is going on? I don't understand how my brothers already know the princess
(Ruth's POV)I can't believe what I saw at the mall was the truth. I thought I was hallucinating, and it made me pass out according to Amelia. We were supposed to watch a movie, and I ruined it for her. She doesn't get much time to do what she wants, and I'm not sure if she has a day off yet.I was still shaking when I woke up, and I could hardly sleep for the rest of the day. I fell sick the next day, and my brother hadn't come to check on me yet, though someone who I assumed to be the head servant scolded and punished Amelia while I was asleep."Your Highness, I'm so sorry for what happened to you. Are you feeling okay now?" Amelia asked as soon as I opened my eyes.I nodded. "I'm okay, Amelia. You don't have to apologize. It's not even your fault that I decided to go to the mall. This is all on me.""His Majesty and His Highness are very busy with some things, and they don't know what happened to you yet, but I've sent someone to tell them what happened."I shook my head. "You shou
(Ruth's POV)Alexander finally came into my room after I had waited for him impatiently. I even had to tell Amelia to keep watching the screen at the door to see if he was coming. I sat on the couch, trying to ignore him as he entered."Ruth, I need to talk to you," he said while taking a seat beside me.Amelia was sitting on the other side of the room, watching us. I wasn't going to ask her to leave because she basically knew everything already. I had to tell her many of the things they did to me while I was with them, and she comforted me."Good, because I also have a lot of things to talk to you about, but you should go first, Your Highness," I said to him sarcastically.He sighed and shook his head. "I know what you're thinking, but you've got to let me explain the situation to you.""I don't know what the situation is, but from what I can see, you brought in my enemies to confirm if I was telling the truth or not, right? I clearly told you who they were when I was finally able to
Dear Readers,First of all, I want to thank each and every one of you who has supported my book from the very beginning. Your encouragement, love, and feedback have meant the world to me. As much as I had hoped this book would do incredibly well, I understand that sometimes things don’t always go as planned. But that doesn’t take away how much I appreciate your time and investment in my story.With that said, I have exciting news! I’m launching not one, but two new books that I truly hope will capture your hearts:1. Doctor’s Naughty Nights with Brother’s Best Friend – This is the second part of CEO’s Divorced Wife is a Sexy Doctor, and I’m sure it’s going to bring you all the drama, romance, and BDSM you’ve come to enjoy.2. My Brother’s Best Friend is My Hot Mate – A steamy and thrilling ride full of passion and irresistible chemistry. I can’t wait for you to dive into this one!I sincerely hope you’ll support my new books with the same love you’ve shown me so far. Please don’t forge
(RUTH'S POV)A FEW MONTHS LATERIt’s been a few months since everything happened, and I’m finally trying to move on from the past. I thought my father was going to cover up what happened again, like he did with my mother, and pardon his sister, but I was wrong. I confronted him about everything, and he put his sister on trial.She has been stripped of her position as a princess and banished forever. She’s also locked up for the rest of her life due to the harm she has caused others, and for hurting so many people, which was a major part of her judgment. Her wolf has been taken from her, and she’s now wolfless. Her subordinates have also been punished, and everyone else involved in this has received their due. Alpha Morren finally got his punishment from the king for framing my mother and trying to kill my brother and me. He was removed from his position, his wolf was taken away, and he is now a rogue. He’s locked up in a certain place for several years before he can be released. He c
(Ruth's POV)I'm not scared of this situation because I know they won't succeed. I watched as they prepared everything, and they even got a witch who was going to transfer everything for them. They must have been preparing for a very long time. If only they knew that they were going to fail.Meanwhile, my attention went back to my mom, who was terrified. She was even at the point of begging them to use her blood instead because she didn't want anything to happen to her daughter. Then again, she was begging them to leave me alone and not kill me because I didn't do anything wrong."Stop begging them, Mom!" I yelled at her angrily.I was mad at her and them. Why would she keep begging when they obviously wouldn't listen? It was embarrassing for me, and I didn't want her to keep doing it. She stopped begging them and looked at me."My poor daughter. All I have ever brought to your life is pain, and now you are going to suffer because of the decisions I made. I should have just married an
(Ruth's POV)I knew I was going to be listening to another sob story about how unfair life has been to her and how my father had everything easy. She's just insecure and jealous of her brother, nothing more. If she wanted to be Queen so bad, she should have worked harder."Did you just say that about my story?" she questioned me.I nodded. "Your story is stupid and useless. I don't care about all this nonsense you just said, but I'm very sure your father made the best decision not to make you a queen. You don't deserve it at all."Her countenance changed to a serious one. She looked very evil and mad, her face turning red because of what I said. But I wasn't going to stop there. How could she hurt all those people and deceive so many, just because she wanted to rule over everyone?"You are nothing but a power-crazed psycho who should be getting treatment for your obsession. Someone like you can never become the queen with your mentality. You want to kill me just to get enough power to
(Ruth's POV)Why didn’t I think that this would be a trap? I should have been more careful and not led the both of us here to be caught like this. But then again, isn’t this a good thing? If this means I would get an opportunity to see the leader of all this nonsense, then I’m happy that I got caught by them."Now that we managed to get caught by them, what are we going to do to get out of this? Because you really messed up this time, and you didn’t give me time to think," Ripley scolded me.Why is he getting mad at me when the situation is in a good place for us? If we manage to get out of here, we can finally think of how to end him and stop all this nonsense immediately. We will also have to make sure no one else tries this again."You know this was a trap that wasn’t planned by me, but since we entered it, it’s our opportunity to see the leader. Don’t be sulking over this," I replied to him.We stayed in the dark room, and he refused to talk to me anymore. I think he was thinking
(Ripley's POV)She's asking me to kill the only person who might have quality information that would help us find the leader of this organization. I thought she wanted to badly find out who was behind all of this, but now she's asking me to kill him. I'm confused about how she thinks sometimes. I decided to mind link her to talk about this. ‘You don't have much time. We need to get him to say something before the others arrive. Don’t you understand the situation? We can't kill him, even if we want to.’‘Why don't you just give me a few seconds? He is about to give in. You can't ruin this by not trusting what I am about to do. He will confess immediately. He's clearly scared to die, which is why he is running away in the first place,’ she replied.'Are you sure about this? I don't think we are in the situation to be doing all of this.''I'm very sure. Pay attention to him, and you will see how he is. He's very scared, just acting like he's not,' she assured me.Then, I turned my atten
(Ruth's POV)The training was over, and we were already stamped as one of the warriors of the rogue King. We don't even know who that is yet, but we're supposed to work for him. I wouldn’t have been in this situation if I didn’t want to catch who that bastard is, since he’s so interested in me.We were taken to a building that looked a bit modern and had a lot of people there. We were told to choose an apartment in pairs. Ripley and I immediately decided to stay together, and I thought they might refuse since we were of different genders, but they didn’t care.The main thing was that we already got a place to stay so we could do our duties. After all that, they acted like they cared about us earlier. Once we got into the apartment, we checked around to see if there were cameras or anything watching us, and we found out there were indeed cameras installed in the apartment, which was a room with two beds.It had a kitchen counter space and a bathroom. We decided to check the bathroom, w
(Ruth's POV)By asking me to be my former self, why do I feel like he's trying to ask me to become an idiot like I was in the past? I looked at him in confusion. Even if I become an idiot, that doesn't mean they are going to be convinced by that act. They probably have my scent or part of my blood to know that I'm the one. That’s the only way I'm going to get caught. I need to stop that from happening, which is what I'm expecting from him—not becoming an idiot."I don't understand what you're saying. Don’t you see what is going on here? They probably know that I might come into this place, which is why I need to do something. Your brothers are already spying on me. Don’t you think they might have told them about this?" I said to him.He shook his head immediately. "My brothers wouldn’t tell them about something like this. Besides, they don’t even know that we’re out here doing this."I took a breath of relief. "That’s good news then. I’m glad you didn’t tell them anything, since you c
(Ruth's POV)"I'll only let you go on one condition... that is, you have to let someone go with you to protect you, even if you don't want to," he stated.I already knew who he was talking about and why he was asking that as a condition. He knows how much I hate them. I'm sure my father doesn’t know what I've been doing behind his back, and he'll be very surprised—or probably disappointed—when he finds out that I'm not as hateful as I thought I was."I don't mind at all. Just tell whoever it's going to be to compose themselves and not make me angry whenever I'm trying to do something important. I wouldn’t want to have any issues with anyone," I said to him. Since we had already agreed on the fact that I'm going to go out there and find out for myself, I can't keep letting others investigate for me. It’s time for me to go there and use myself as a way to get through to all of them. I have my suspicions, but I'm not going to think too much for now until everything is finalized.I went b