(Ruth's POV)I was running to my brother's room to check on him. Hearing that he made it through that hell of a wound is enough to gladden my heart. I don't know if what I did for him was responsible for saving his life, but what's more important is the fact that he's okay now.I wanted to go inside the room, but the guards standing at the door refused to let me in."What are you doing blocking Her Highness? Do you have a death wish?" Amelia scolded them."We're very sorry, Your Highness, but we were instructed not to let you in by His Majesty," one of them replied with his head bowed."Can you open the door? I want to see my brother. I heard he's awake," I said to them.Why would my father instruct them over something like this? Is he still mad at me that I tried to save his life with my blood? At least he's okay now. Isn't that more important than anything?"I'm sorry, Your Highness, but—""Let her in," I heard Ripley say behind me. "I'll take responsibility for it."Wait a damn min
(Ruth's POV)I didn't see him since I shouted at him to leave me alone. I think his pride is more important because he didn't come back to look for me, just because of what I said. It's not as if I'm expecting him either, but I thought he said he was not going to give up on me. I guess all of that was just something to brag about. I quickly dressed up to go and see my brother. I'm not going to let my mother put me in a bad mood again, and I'm not leaving the house just how I want because of what happened throughout yesterday. Not only did I almost put others in danger, but I also almost got my brother killed. "Ruth, are you going to see His Highness?" Amelia asked me, but I'm very sure she's just asking so that she could see him. She seemed more upset and uncomfortable than I was yesterday, but she couldn't say much because she probably thought she didn't have a right to. I moved closer to her with a smile. "Yes, I'm going to see him. Do you want to come with me?" She immediately
(Ruth's POV)I was heading back to my room after getting mad at my mother when I saw the people I least wanted to see: the rest of the Carter brothers. Just looking at their faces as they walked around annoyed me. What are they doing back here? Shouldn't they be at their pack by now?I walked past them, trying to ignore them, but they made their presence known by bowing to me. I was going to just walk away without saying anything, but I couldn't. It was infuriating to see them after finding out exactly what they did to me."I didn't know they allow just anybody to roam about the palace now. I guess they could just invite everyone here," I said sarcastically."Your Highness, we are here on the Alpha King's orders to protect you. That’s why you see us roaming around. Your protection is more important than anything," Asher replied.I moved closer to him, trying to look into his eyes, but he was hiding his face by looking down."Why? Can’t you look at me anymore? Is my face hideous or som
(Ruth's POV)Amelia looked away, like she didn't want to tell me what exactly was going on. She said they were involved with the rogues who wanted to kill me, but now she's not going to say anything about it?"Are you listening to me, Amelia? Tell me what is going on right now," I demanded from her.She immediately stood up, moving back from me. "I'm sorry, Your Highness, but I can't tell you anything else other than to be careful with them. They've already hurt you before, and you know better than to be with them."I couldn’t believe she was refusing to talk to me. "So you're not going to tell me anything?" She shook her head. "I think you should rest, Your Highness. You have a lot of things to do tomorrow. You're going to start your work as a princess officially very soon."What does that mean? Am I going to start wearing dresses and acting gracefully in front of everyone? Shifting should be the most important thing people want to see in a princess, but I don’t even have my wolf an
(Ruth's POV)"And you believed that?" I asked my dad in disbelief. It seems like everything I thought I knew was a lie and nothing more. I can't exactly say I understand my mom if she never told me any of this. She just had to make me suffer for all the injustice she went through."You're not saying anything, Dad. Did you believe everything when they said she tried to kill you and that she cheated? Wait a minute, if you said she was framed, doesn't that mean you believed everything at first?" I questioned him, seeing how silent he was.He nodded. "Words can't express how angry and ashamed of myself I am. Your mother went through a lot during that time, and I was the only person she had. She begged me to believe her, saying it was a conspiracy, but I never did. The evidence was too clear for me to believe it was a lie."I tried to investigate secretly and still found the same evidence. At that moment, I was very angry, and I first rejected her as my mate before everything else started
(Ruth's POV)The way he's looking at me without saying anything says a lot about the kind of person he is—the type who will commit a crime against someone and still blame them for something else in order to cover up the crime. The type of person who doesn't feel remorseful for anything."Seeing how you aren't saying anything, you knew about this, didn't you? You and your brother strived to deceive me the whole time. Pretending you were sorry about everything else was so disgusting," I told him, noticing his silence.I thought he was the only one defending me the other day when I was getting framed and kicked out of the pack. I thought he'd had nothing to do with it and just couldn't do more to defend me, but I was mad at him because he also bullied me many times, like the time he locked me up in a dark room.But thanks to him, during that time, I was able to meet my wolf, who I lost thanks to them again. No wonder he was just pretending to be kind to me when he knew exactly what his f
(Ruth's POV)I quickly dismissed the thought that had just crossed my mind. How could I think that she would do something like that? Amelia is one of the people who cares about me the most. I've seen how sincere and kind she is about her work, and besides, we are friends now. She has no reason to spy on me."What are you thinking about, Your Highness?" Amelia asked, breaking into my thoughts.I immediately turned to her with a smile. "Nothing really. I'm just thinking about how to spend my day without getting bored."She nodded with a smile. "I know a lot of things you can do without getting bored, and you won’t have to leave the palace either, especially now that it’s not safe outside."She's clearly worried about me going outside and getting hurt. I can’t believe I almost thought she was responsible for all the things that are happening to me. Still, I need to find that spy."I’m not actually worried about myself anymore. I would prefer facing my fears and not getting anyone else in
(Asher's POV)Did I just hear her correctly? She’s saying she’s going to reject me when that isn’t what I want at all. I was just trying to tell her the truth about the situation. We are all going to die if she decides to reject all of us, including herself. Why is she so stubborn and refusing to listen? She wasn’t this stubborn in the past. I guess we’ve changed her a lot."I reject your rejection," I replied to her, and her face went red with anger."How dare you! Accept the rejection right now!" she yelled at me.I shook my head, looking at the watch on my hand. "I think I have to go now, Your Highness. You can go inside if you want.""Are you the one giving me commands now?" she asked, her voice laced with irritation."You're getting the wrong idea. There's no way I would want to give you a command. I was just telling you it was the right time, for your own sake."I can't believe I said it like that. She’s probably getting the wrong idea because of what I did. But who would have t
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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