(Aster's POV)It was just too much for me to understand. Why would my father do something like this to her? Why would her mother agree after finding out that we did that to her? He's saying he did this to cover up what we did, but this is so wrong!"Father, is what you're saying the truth? Did you really do that to Ruth? Was she actually innocent in all of this?" Alfred asked him.He sighed, "I'm sorry you had to find out this way, but I tried to warn you all. Do you have any idea how we've been threatened by what you did?""What's that supposed to mean? If we did something, we should pay for it. Why would you make someone else pay for it when she's the victim?" I yelled at my father, which I had never done before.It felt infuriating and annoying. Why were we taking revenge on a girl that didn't do anything to us? Even though I hated her at first, I soon realized she wasn't the kind of person we thought she was.I thought things would get better between us all, and we might be able t
(Ruth's POV)I'm tirelessly dragging myself. I keep running in my head, but the reality is I am dragging myself with so much pain and injury everywhere in my body. I didn't know where I was headed, as my body felt weak and painful.I could hear noises coming towards me, and I thought they were coming back for me. Because I wanted to try and survive before I die, I decided to get up despite all the piercing pain coursing through my body.I didn't want to die in their hands. To be honest, I don't even know where I am going. I don't know why anyone is coming here, and I don't understand what I am doing here either. I just know I have to get away from the people coming after me.I managed to drag myself to a river and stopped there, looking at the water. It looked like it was very deep, and maybe it would be the peaceful death I was looking for. Getting killed by people I didn't know or understand wasn't something I wanted.So, I dragged myself into the river while looking around the plac
(Ruth's POV)Did I just hear what he said correctly? I am looking at the Alpha King and his son, but strangely enough, he's saying he's my biological father. What on earth is going on? Could I be losing my mind?"This isn't real," I said, and my eyes closed.It felt like I was drifting back into the water. Maybe it was too much for me to be delusional and think something big like this would ever happen to me. Do I even deserve such a title?I felt somehow weird while I was in the water. I just stayed in one place without drowning. Strangely enough, I could also move my body. What is going on with me?Is the moon goddess trying to play with my feelings? Why won't I die and go in peace? Since I could move my body, I decided to move towards the land. I started swimming towards the lights until it became too bright for me.Then my eyes fluttered open. This time around, I could actually move my head. I could also see the same ceiling I saw before in my dream. I looked around and saw some g
(Ruth's POV)Is the Prince telling the truth after all? I am his sister, and he's even ready to do a DNA test. He said I wasn't a substitute. How did I end up getting involved with the highest family of all?"This is unbelievable. My mom always told me my father abandoned me and I was a nobody. There's no way I would be your sister. Do you realize who you are?" I said, unable to believe what he said.He looked at me, and I thought he would be mad at me, but instead, he felt sorry for me. That was the look I saw in his eyes; he looked very sad also."I can't believe how much you've been suffering alone, to the extent that you had to be treated like that," he said in a shaky voice.Why does he sound like he's about to cry for what happened to me? Does he really care about me that much?"I don't know what to say. This feels way too good to be true. Since when have I been a princess? Why did the king abandon my mother then?" I asked him harshly.The people around gasped when they heard me
(Ruth's POV)It's been three days since I fully woke up and talked to the King. I've been weak since then, but I have been receiving treatment. I wasn't allowed out of bed, and so many people were coming in and out of my room.I had the royalty treatment, so many people to work for me, people to comb my hair, people to prepare my bath and my clothes, and all that. It felt almost uncomfortable for me because it was the first time I was getting treated like this.The King and Prince come to look at me every day. The prince spends most of his time with me, and I still haven't caught his name yet. They say only most insiders and powerful people know the name of the royal family. They just call them by their title.I asked him to tell me his name, and he refused. His response was, "Call me brother instead. When you get comfortable enough to call me your brother, I'm going to tell you my name."I can't help but think he's very funny and mysterious. He also seems to care about me a lot. He a
Chapter 36(Ruth's POV)Revealing I was a Red wolf in front of everyone must be such a bad thing that they are all in shock, even the prince himself seems to be very much in shock more than the others.I don't know much about red wolves. I have tried to search the internet about them and asked a few people who were talking to me back in school. They all said they didn't know much about the red wolf except that it was a very rare one.The prince turned to look at the people around us, "I want everyone out of this room right now. You all better stay outside and don't dare say anything about this to anyone, or you know what would happen to anyone that says this out."He sounded really mad, and one of the Royal guards following him made sure everyone went out before going out himself. His attention was turned to me again, and I felt so uncomfortable. I was worried that he might punish me for what I said, so I thought of apologizing before he could say anything."I shouldn't have said this
(Ruth's POV)I'm finally getting a tour around the palace. I thought I would be able to get it a few days ago, but I ended up falling sick again, so I wasn't allowed to go out. The prince and King kept coming to look at me, along with that Ripley guy.The prince finally agreed to take me around today. He also said he was going to introduce me to someone who will be helping me from now on. I patiently waited for him after dressing up casually. I need to stop calling him the prince and start calling him my brother if I want to know his name. None of the palace servants are willing to tell me the name of the prince.I was sitting on one of the couches while looking around my room. Since I asked people to be outside instead of in my room, they decided to dispatch everyone. It was a bit uncomfortable having them serve me like I was some sort of important person.But then again, I am the princess according to everyone, and I'm that important. I need to leave behind the mentality that I'm no
(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
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(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