(Ripley's POV)This bastard wants me to trust him after what he just did? How can he be part of these people and still work for the King? I should have known since I saw him—I shouldn’t have let him come down from the trap. Maybe we would have used him as a way to catch the others."What the hell is this bastard trying to do? You were part of them all along?" Aster questioned, getting ready to attack him."I can’t believe I’m in this stupid situation because of your stubbornness. You should have listened to us when we told you we weren’t trying to hurt you," Cairo fired at Ruth.Ruth scoffed, "I didn’t ask you to come for me. I would have been in the school if you didn’t interrupt our journey. You can just leave me alone right now if you’re so scared!"I saw how angry she was getting, and it wasn’t going to be a good idea for her to shift at this time. I could see her eyes changing color as I looked at her, though I am very shocked. It seemed to be a good sign because there was nothin
(Ruth's POV)My heart was still beating very fast from all that happened earlier. I can't believe we almost got ambushed and taken away by the dangerous rogues. To be honest, I couldn't hide my fear anymore because it was the first time I was experiencing something so bad.I thought what I experienced in the past would make nothing surprise me, but I was wrong. Since I have never been to war myself before, I cannot exactly say that I have seen the worst. But then again, I have seen the worst life could offer me.We walked through the woods, finding our way toward the school, and we were able to make it there on time. I didn't know what to say as the others walked ahead of me while Olive and I were behind them. Ripley was injured from all of this; he sacrificed himself and got injured in place of his brother.I saw how that happened, and he was too angry to realize it in time. He wanted to attack Olive first. I wish they had just listened to me when I asked them to trust him. It just d
(Ruth's POV)I couldn't take it anymore. I left the clinic because my anger was too much for me to bear. How dare they try to control me and tell me what to do after what they made me go through? They are just subjects who are supposed to protect me. Their lives should not matter, especially because of the kind of people they are."Ruth! Where are you going?" I heard Aster call me, but I didn't turn around to look at him.Instead, I was pulled back when someone finally caught up with me. I looked back to see who pulled me, and it was Olive. At the same time, Aster just arrived after running."What do you want?" I asked him harshly.Aster sighed. "Can you just help our brother this one time? You said he taught you everything you know about self-defense. He has done a lot more than we have for you. He hasn't hurt you like we did. You have no reason to hate him.""What the hell do you think you're doing? You don't talk to the princess like that!" Olive fired at him, ready to attack.I co
(Ruth's POV)I don't like the way they are looking at me. They keep looking at me like I'm the bad person here when I only did some help for them. I decided not to reply to them and just walked away, but one of them pulled me back while the other one went inside."Where the hell do you think you're going? I just asked you what you did to my brother!" It was Cairo shouting at me.He was always looking for an opportunity to yell at me or insult me. I just know he doesn't like me, and he's only trying to be nice to me because of my status."I didn't do anything to him, but I have no time to explain to you. Even if I did, what can you possibly do about that?" I said, knowing obviously that he can't do anything to me."What? Are you acting arrogant because you think nothing is going to happen if you hurt our brother?" He sounded like he couldn't believe me.I nodded. "I'm doing this because I know you can't do anything. What can you possibly do about it? Go to war with the royal family?"I
(Ripley's POV)The students are finally graduating from this training, and I'm glad they learned a lot. It was tough for me to come out because I was asked to rest and given time off for the entire training left. It wasn't because I needed more time to recuperate, but I just used that as an opportunity to do some investigation.Ever since I left the clinic, I haven't been able to talk much with my brothers because I was busy doing a lot of things. So, I reported to His Royal Highness, the prince, about the attack on his sister.He promised he was going to come to the school to pick his sister up with his father. Personally, I didn't know how important she was to them until now. Even though they haven't met her in years, the King and the prince cared about her more than anything.It wouldn't be right for anyone to get on her bad side, which is probably the one that my brothers and I are on. I've heard them arguing about the princess while I was still trying to recover. I still needed t
(Ruth's POV)I can't believe I got to experience the prestigious training of the Royal Academy. My father also told me I would be able to finish my studies here, especially now that I have this experience. I'm very happy to know that things went well despite all the obstacles.At least I'm not going to see those people again, for now. I don't know what plans my father has for them or what they're planning to do. I just hope they don't come near me again. The fact that I haven't stopped thinking about them for a while is annoying.Then again, I can't blame myself. Thanks to the disrespect they give me, despite knowing I was a princess, they still don't think I'm someone worthy of being respected. I plan to give them a surprise today. We're all supposed to do some kind of combat with others to conclude the training.Everyone is preparing, and we don't know who we are going to get paired up with. The most important thing for me right now is to not disappoint the King. My brother is also
(Ruth's POV)The whole procession of welcoming the King and Prince took a long time. Everyone lined up as the King's carriage passed by. I was just standing with the rest of the students, and they were waving at everyone.I made eye contact with them, and they just smiled at me, while some delusional students thought the King and Prince were smiling at them. I also saw the Carter brothers standing on the other side of the road, and they were busy staring at me."What the hell is wrong with those bastards? Why can't they take their eyes off you?" Amelia gritted her teeth. "If only I can be paired with one of them, maybe I can beat the hell out of them or kick them in the guts."I almost laughed because of how Amelia was reacting. It wasn't that serious, but she seemed very angry that they kept looking at me."Those people are not the kind of people you fight with. I'm not saying this because of your strength or anything, but they are very cunning and evil. I don't think you want to hav
(Ruth's POV)"You're going to wish you never said that to me." I muttered with a smirk while positioning myself to fight her. She didn't look pleased that I didn't care about her ambitions. Did she think that was enough to push me away from this match? It's not even a competition actually. It's just a friendly combat to show off our skills. "I'm going to win this no matter what." She said again and I just felt like shutting her up. She was talking too much. Is she trying to distract me with her talks so she can win this? Is she not confident in her skills or what? Why the sudden fear seeing someone as weak as me?"Get ready students in three, two, one and start!" We both launched an attack at each other, we were coming with the same skill, and we ended up kicking each other. We both fell and got up at the same time. It was a tough fight as I tried to block all her attacks. It didn't matter if I win or not. The main thing is that we can both emerge winners for the duration of the
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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