(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
(Ruth's POV)ROYAL ACADEMY It's finally time for me to go to the training with Amelia. I also have to be reminded that this is when I am going to see the people I do not want to see the most, but I don't care anymore. I'm not going to act like I know them or something.I'm going to try my best to ignore them and not let them get to me. This is the only way I can help myself. I don't want them to see me as the weak girl they were hurting before. I'm going to show a different side of me.I already said goodbye to my brother and father before leaving. I decided not to waste time and leave immediately so I wouldn't have second thoughts about going there."Ruth, are you sure you're okay hiding your identity? You can always tell everyone who you are so that no one will dare bully you," Amelia asked me.I shook my head in disapproval. "I'm not going to tell anyone about my identity yet. Don't you know I'm the weakest person you'll probably find there? If I announce myself now, I'll probably
(Ruth's POV)I never thought I would be coming face to face with Asher as soon as possible. I thought I was so ready to face them, I guess I've deceived myself for long enough. However, I'm not going to let him see my weakness. He moved closer to me, "Are you okay?"What's this? Is he genuinely asking if I'm okay or he's just doing his job? The fact that he moved closer to me made me so angry. I couldn't hold my anger in, I didn't want him touching me either. I moved back from him, "I'm fine, there's no need to ask."The girl looked from me to Asher. I'm just as confused as she is. Even if he was asked to protect me, why is making it so obvious for others to see. This is why I didn't want them. They're only doing this because I'm the princess now and they can't bully me. Do they think this is going to make me forget everything they did to me? Especially not after I almost died. "Why are you defending her? Is she your girlfriend or something?" The girl said confidently. He moved c
(Ruth's POV)I was in a bad mood for the next few hours. I didn't want to run into any more of them. I just wanted to be far away from them, without having them appear in front of me in guise of protecting me. What's there to protect if they're my biggest fear?"Ruth, are you okay? I got us some energy drinks from the vending machine." Amelia said, appearing in front of me with two cans of drinks in her hand. I didn't notice she went to get drinks because I was too focused on myself. Looking up at her, I couldn't help but feel bad that I was being selfish. She was trying to make me happy when it wasn't even her fault that I got mad. I took it from her, "Thanks a lot. But you know you don't have to do this if you don't want to. I'm not going to force you into doing what you don't want."She shook her head, taking a seat beside me. "I'm not doing this to please you as the princess. I'm doing this as a friend, don't you understand?"I realized I just offended her with my words. I shoul
(Ruth's POV)Your Highness? They are actually respecting me right now? The arrogant and proud Alphas who wanted nothing to do with someone like me now respect me? I can't believe the way the world changes so fast. Who would have thought they would be in a situation like this? The thought of seeing them again didn't occur to me since I was mad at seeing just one of them. But now that I see them, I feel nothing but hate and resentment. I only want to see them suffer just like I did. I don't want to be the bigger person and forgive them just like that. I lost my abilities and became basically useless thanks to them. The hurt me so much and still framed me when they should be begging for my forgiveness everyday. Memories flooded my head, I felt a rush of headache overcome me. I didn't want to show my weakness in front of them. It would only make me look vulnerable and stupid, it's also going to give them an opportunity to try and hurt me again. I said I would prevent something like t
(Ripley's POV)She didn't run away. I watched her from afar as she stood there with her personal servant, but she didn't run away like the others. This was a test, and no one knew. Most of the students here are new, and some have been here before. Those who have been here before know we give tests every year, but it's always different.Since they've never had the same tests before, they didn't know if this one was a test or not. The gunshot and everything else were planned. The person who came to shout was also planned. This was suggested by me because I wanted to see if the students would defend the school or run away.Only the princess and a few other people stood by. I was surprised because I thought she would run away like the others. Let's just say I did this mainly to see what her reaction would be. The king asked me to train her properly, and it's also my responsibility since my brothers need help—practically useless.I should have known from the moment I met her that something
(Ruth's POV)"I can't believe they actually made that a test for everyone. Does it even make sense? Shouldn't they at least have told everyone about the test beforehand? What do they expect everyone to do at a moment like that? I almost ran away too!" I complained as we made our way to our assigned rooms.We were already done with the orientation. I made sure to confront Ripley properly. Something within me just kept telling me that he actually started all of this. He must have been the one to give them an idea of something like this, or else they wouldn't have done it.Amelia smiled at me, "It's called a surprise test for a reason. Everyone needs to be prepared for times like this. Life is not always sweet, you know. Besides, they did this for everyone. I'm very sure of it.""It's so annoying that they did something like that. I always heard this school was the best in the world. What on earth is this?" I replied, refusing to believe they did that for the good of everyone.Amelia lau
(Ruth's POV)I was desperately waiting for someone to say something or interrupt us, but no one came. Am I going to reveal myself to her just because she has some power to know who I am? She could be wrong. What if I'm not even the princess at all? What if I just came here on scholarship and she's saying it now?Alicia grabbed Andrea. It seemed like she was the only one having it hard to believe that I was a princess. This seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to reveal myself, but I'm not going to do this just because of her."Are you saying she's the princess? But there's no princess. We haven't even heard of anyone. I mean, there were rumors that the king had another child, but we've never met or heard that they announced her. What makes you think this girl is the princess?" Alicia was whispering to Andrea, but I could clearly hear it.Andrea shook her head. "Don't you trust me when I say something? You know my visions are never wrong. There's probably a reason the royal family
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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