PHOENIX POV "So, what do we do now? I don't think you are just going to let me leave after all this, so what are you going to give me to have your family back?" Dominic steps back slightly and whispers "So what do you think, at the time it was the best choice to exile him rather than give him the penalty of death for saving the kingdom from what would have been an even bigger massacre but with more human innocent bystanders being killed. War would have started again. Sebastian, I will not keep you from seeing him now that you know he is alive but I still can't allow him full freedom to return to the kingdom or there will be calls for his death as per the law for killing the king at the time." "I have lived with the belief that he was dead along with the rest of my family, I would like the chance to get to know him again and I would like Teresa, Kathleen and Victor to know him..." Sebastian says trying to control his emotions "We have this picnic once a month Dom, why not keep him i
PHOENIX POVOnce Teresa had finished with her checks and everything she needed to do for Scarlett, we decide it would be better to head back to the castle. Dominic gets Maximus to send all of his males besides two back to his territory as he wants a meeting to put his exile and the exceptions he just added into the paperwork.Once at the castle, Josephine and Charlotte went with the children to get them ready for bed, as Teresa, Seraphina and Tina went with Scarlett to get her and the twins settled into the room next to ours, while we went to Dominic's office. We needed to discuss how they had managed to get even two steps into the territory without someone knowing and the alarms going off.We enter the office, and Dominic sits down in his chair at his desk. We all make a semi-circle around the room. Once we are all there, Sebastian closes the door as Dominic starts to speak,"Thank you, Maximus, for coming back with us. We do need to do that paperwork, but first I would like to know
DOMINIC POVMaximus bows toward me and then turns to Sebastian, who opens the door and follows him and his guards out. Once they are gone, I get up from my chair, move to the front of my desk, and lean up against it. I then look at Theodore."I will not punish you for any of this, and we will not keep the schedules in this office either. I do not truly trust Max yet. We will keep the schedules in Seraphina's office. We will have them filed under 'kid's dance lessons' so it looks like it is meant to be there. Of course, I will inform Sera of this so we all know what is happening."I dismiss everyone and then move and sit back at my desk, as I have a little bit more paperwork to do now, thanks to what happened today. I get about halfway through when there is a soft knock on the door; I Look up as Seraphina slowly enters the office."My Lady! Are you okay? Are Scarlett and the twins settled?""I am okay and yes, the twins are settled, and I left Scarlett in Phoenix's hands! But now I wan
UNKNOWN POVI stand at my post just away from the kitchen door in the back garden, my shift is nearly finished, and I am surprised when the King and Queen exit into the back garden and then go into the woods, I am surprised that they are alone. I look around and see that I am alone as well, so I follow them. I listen as the king explains how he knew the rogue leader and what all that was with that female the rogue was talking about.Being of a reasonably high rank, I could always mask my scent to a degree, but after I started selling Royal information, it is something I have been slowly working on over the years so I can nearly cover it completely now; I move into a bush not that far in front of the King but still behind the Queen, as her werewolf's sense of smell might still be able to pick up just a small hint of my scent.I have been holding onto the needle that has my altered sedative in it, as the King makes his way closer to his Queen, I remove the cover from the needle and inse
PHOENIX POV When I woke up after the wonderful time with Scarlett, I did another patrol and then headed to Dominic's office, which is where I am now. Sitting at my desk filling out some paperwork to do with the trouble we are having as more and more rogues try to enter the territory since the picnic. Once they heard that, Maximus managed to enter and get a hold of the queen and two of the princesses.They believe it is a sign that he is getting weaker and can not protect the kingdom like he use to. He might not like doing it anymore like the rest of us but when we catch the next lot of rogues whether they be werewolves or vampires he needs to make a statement again saying that if they enter the territory or kingdom without consent, they will be held accountable.Just as I was thinking this, the door to the office opens and in walks Dominic talking to Sebastian and Theodore, saying just what was thinking."Theo, how many rogues are in the cells?""We have about twenty rogues, sir!""H
PHOENIX POV "I would say getting in touch with King Noah would be the best thing to do to start with because then he has time to take care of whatever he needs to and then travel here if that is what he decides to do. We can then inform him of Dominic's condition when he gets here if he decides to come.""Okay, that sounds good."Seraphina reaches over and picks up the phone, enters Noah's number and puts it on loudspeaker, as it rings. It isn't long before he answers."Hey, Sera! What do I owe the pleasure of you calling me?""Well, we have five rogue werewolves in our cells that we have caught in our territory. We were wondering if you would like to handle their punishment? Or want us to handle it? Which will be done in three days.""Sera? This is something that Dom normally handles. Why are you ringing me instead of him?""Noah, I don't really want to discuss this over the phone and I think the rogues would be better handled as a joint punishment. If you decide to come, I can fill
SCARLETT POVI woke up with Phoenix already gone; I knew he would be as he had an early patrol and then had some paperwork to do in the office about the rogues that have been entering our territory over the last few weeks, as what happened the day of the picnic spreads. I don't know if anyone has noticed but father seems to be really tired lately.I hope he is okay. I must remember to ask either him or Mother what's going on. I stretch out my muscles. I guess Phoenix was a little more intense last night than I realised. I smile as I remember the wonderful encounter with him. He has been like a totally different male since the picnic, but still the Phoenix I love.I get out of bed and go have a shower. Ruth and Cara are fully back now, which is a relief. I was starting to feel really lost without them. I head to the training field for a light workout. Teresa won't allow me to do much heavy training or even shift yet as I am still suffering from small side effects of the silver and I am
SERAPHINA POV I shift and slip my dress back on and wait for Patrick and Ethan to shift and put on their clothes before entering the castle. I first head for the hospital to see Doc Teresa. Once I am at her office, I knock on the door"Hey! Any news yet?" "I have him stable at the moment, but Caleb is very weak, not only from lack of blood but from some sort of poison. It seems to be attacking him. I found a small amount of a strange substance in his blood, it's not silver like Scarlett had so I tested it and it is something I have never seen before, it is unique as if it was made just for him, made just to attack, weaken and then kill Caleb. It will take me a little while to study the substance and then hopefully make an antidote, I just still don't know if I will be able to do it before we lose at least Caleb and then I'm not sure if Dominic will survive losing him." "But didn't you just say they were stable?" "Yes, they both are stable at the moment. I have them on a mix of hum
SCARLETT POVIt took me a long time to come to terms with Phoenix’s death, but if it wasn’t for H and Phoenix’s twins, I would have followed him. As I stand watching my three-year-old daughters Opal and River sleep H comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my waist and my big stomach, placing soft butterfly kisses along the back of my shoulder and up my neck until he gets to my ear and whispers “My princess, what are you thinking about? You are sending waves of sadness along the mate bond” I sigh and lean back into him as I answer, “I was just thinking about when I gave birth to these two and that I wouldn’t have continued on if you weren’t there. You never let me give up and you continued to love me even after we found out that Ruth didn’t survive the severing of the mate bond and that Cara had gone into permanent hibernation, making me a human.” “Scarlett, you were and are more to
H POVI have been watching over Scarlett for the last three weeks since I brought her here from the training field after the fight like I did when she was attacked in King Noah's territory. Everyone has come in at some stage. The King and Queen both come in at random times, both together and on their own, to check and sit with her.Doc Teresa comes in to make sure she is fine medically, giving her fluids and blood so we don't lose her that way, but she is not sure when she will or if she will ever wake up. Doc also confirmed to the King and Queen that Scarlett was indeed pregnant and carrying Phoenix's twins, my vampire didn't like that she was but we agreed that until we could get her to love us more, they would probably be the only thing that will keep her from following him.Tina comes in and sits with her the most. I think she has something she wants to share with her. Tina and Theodore had just left after spending an hour sitting next to her bed. I had just
( This is the start of the Alternative ending, and I will warn you that this chapter starts just over halfway through chapter 140, so yes there is some repeat but what is to follow is what would have happened if H and Wrath had decided not to accept Scarletts offer and had in fact carried out exactly what Scarlett was seeing in her vision. You do not need to read the next 3 chapters, including this one, as the series continues on from chapter 141.)H POVAs soon as Scarlett gets to the edge of the ring of people that are now watching us, I see the moment Phoenix's attention shifts off of me and he looks at her. I take advantage and punch him hard in the ribs, using my vampire for the first time in this fight.I break about four and fracture another two. I also make two cuts on his neck with my second hit, only just nicking his main artery. I could have killed him then, but he still has a little fight in him and I want to see what Scarlett will do now she i
SCARLETT POV I have been with H for seven months and while he had us travelling, he finally introduced me to his vampire Wrath, I managed to convince them to allow me to keep my babies, well at least have him not kill them before they are born. H even allowed me to go with him to one of the towns where I found two beautiful butterfly bracelets. They will expand as they get older so they can always wear them, I had an O engraved on one and an R engraved on the other I found out the day of the fight, the day I gave everything up to save Phoenix’s life, that I was pregnant again. I had just come from seeing Teresa. I was having twin daughters, and I was on my way to tell Phoenix the good news when I heard the commotion of the fight. My labour started not that long ago and H has gone to get the Doctor. No one in this clan knows who I am. They only know what H or Wrath has told them. As far as they know, we are mated lovers, but the babies aren’t his, as I was attacked just before our ma
H POVJust after I move my hand to her throat, I see a couple of the guards take a few steps closer to us, so I pull her tighter to me so I can whisper into her ear"Tell them all to back off and allow us to pass or I will not honour our deal and I will throw you and kill him.""Stand down and allow us to leave!" she says quietlyI knew Mike had to be here somewhere; he like me, had become Phoenix and Scarlett's personal guards, so where ever they went we went too. He takes a couple more steps forward as he says,"But your highness we can't allow him to leave with you...""You can and you must... Now please stand down!"Scarlett surprises me that she answered him without me telling her to. I watch as Mike nods to Scarlett and then to the other guards standing near us. They all step back. I lean my lips onto her shoulder and smile as I whisper,"Good girl, time to go!"I then move us slowly over to the edge of the woods, stop and move the arm I have around her waist, reach around to my
H POV It takes the sedative maker a week to get back to me saying my order will be arriving any day, that he had managed to make a serum that contained silver and wouldn't kill or knock out either a vampire or werewolf, it would just separate the vampire or werewolf from the human. The other good part about it is that it doesn't need to be injected. I can mix it with either his food, drink or even his blood and he wouldn't know the difference. The only problem I have at the moment is how to get just Phoenix to have it and not include Scarlett. A couple of days after I received the silver serum, an opportunity opened up for me to use it. I put half of the silver serum into a water bottle that was exactly the same as Phoenix's. I met up with Phoenix in the training field. I discreetly swap out his bottle and then enjoy a good sparring match with him. By the time we have finished, we are both breathing heavily and exhausted. I scull my water and I watch with a small smile as Phoenix
SCARLETT POVAfter my conversation with my father, I realize he is right. Phoenix would rather fight than let me go willingly. I decide to tell him everything and hopefully, it will give him some time to prepare himself for it. I go to our room, but it is empty. I smile and tap into Ruth's sense of smell and take a deep breath.I follow his scent back to Father's office and then over to Theodore's; I knock lightly on the door and smile as Tina looks up from some of Theodore's paperwork."So he has you doing the things he doesn't like doing, does he?""How do you know he doesn't like doing paperwork?""Because he used to get me to do it when I was old enough to read, write and understand what he needed done. Father was the same." I laugh and she joins me."So, what can I do for you?""Have you seen Nix?""Yeah, he came past a while ago, took something out of a drawer and then left...""Oh, okay, do you know where he was g
PHOENIX POVI felt the moment Scarlett carefully moved out of our bed, Soren was asleep, but I was not. I don't know what got into him. He has never been like that with our butterfly. He didn't even notice the change in her towards the end before he fell asleep, but I did. There is something very important and very serious that she is not telling us.Once she leaves the room, I get up, get dressed, and follow her. It doesn't surprise me when we end up at Dominic's office, as it was where she said she was going before Soren wanted her. I must remember to ask him what that was about once he wakes up again. I watch as Scarlett enters Dominic's office and wait for her to close the door. I move slowly and quietly to the door and just listen.I would give my life if I had to... Scarlett, what's this about?""I.. I.. I've been having a nightmare for about the last week and a half..""And what is this nightmare?""Phoenix is fighting the mystery male that attacked me...""Why would that be a
SCARLETT POVHe goes to answer, but I have had enough. I step back, straighten and hold up my hand as both Ruth and Cara take part control."Phoenix I may be your mate but I am also the Daughter of the Vampire King, so unless you want to have a word with my father about stopping my Royal duties just so that I am not in the company of other males then you take that up with him but know I will not forgive you for that if you do. As for now, Phoenix, you are dismissed! I will complete my Royal duties and meet you back at the castle!!!"I take a couple more steps back from him and yell,"MIKE!"It doesn't take long for Mike to enter the leader's office and bow"Yes, Your Highness?""Please escort Phoenix back to the castle...""What about you, Your Highness?""I still have business to finish here. Dismissed!" I then turn away from both Mike and Phoen