JOHANNA.
One of the maids offered me a seat before the mirror so she could dress up my hair. I was almost late, and I'm sure the king will be ready by now. He had told me that he had a surprise for me and wouldn't tell me what it was until we reached the resort. I was so curious to know what the surprise was all about. Today is my twenty-fifth birthday, and he celebrated it in the palace for me, but this time, he insisted that we must leave the palace because of the surprise. The maid was done, and I stood to get some clothes from the wardrobe. “The Lycan King ordered this. You will have to put it on.'' The maid drew my attention. I wasn't close to the wardrobe yet, I quickly hurried to the package, loosened it, and it happened to be a blue royal gown. “It was brought this morning…” she added and bowed to me. My lips stretched apart into a slight smile. King Ramsey won't stop amazing me. He wouldn't have ordered another cloth when I had lots of them here that I would even get confused about the one to put on. “Breakfast is ready. Lycan King requests for Luna's presence….” An announcement came from the doorpost. I scoffed and dropped the gown. “I should have it on after having breakfast, right?” I asked the maid, and she shook her head. “Do you mean that I will go from there and won't come back to my room?” she nodded with a bow. I understand. Five years of marriage with the Lycan King, and it seems like we are just starting today. Years ago, my parents sold me out to the Lycan King because of the debt my father owed him. I didn't have a say since my mother threatened to throw me out of the house if I refused to stay with the king. Rumour had it that the King is a beast and would tear anyone that crosses his path apart. Despite reminding my parents of that, they insisted, especially my mother and sister…..they persuaded me, and the palace guards dragged me into the palace. My father explained that it was per their agreement and that I would be his property forever in replacement of the debt. I sobbed on my father's feet in the presence of the King, pleading to work my ass out and make sure to clear the debt instead of being with the King, but it was all on a deaf ear. He didn't have a rethink and left me to be with the King. I sat on the floor, staring at the King who stared back at me, grinning like he had found prey. I counted myself as dead and wished not to breathe again….but he shocked me. I didn't believe it at first that the King lifted me into his arms into his room, washed me up himself, and dressed me up. On that same day, he crowned me his Luna, and I became his Luna officially and not as a commodity. King Ramsey treated me like the Queen that I am, and I blessed the day my father handed me out to him. But one thing was missing in our marriage—I was still unable to bear him an heir despite how I prayed to the moon goddess. I've met the doctors several times, yet nothing was done. The King had assured me that I would soon be a mother, or we could adopt a child for the sake of his throne….but I was bothered. My parents would curse me several times…my sister talked ill of me. They called me barren and cursed Luna, who can't conceive a child. My mother threatened to kick me out if the King threw me out because I couldn't conceive a child. Today isn't just my birthday, but also my ovulation. I would make love to the King tonight, and I hope it would yield something positive this time. “Good to go!!!” The maid tapped my cheek, and I chuckled. “The King must be waiting for you—” I nodded and walked out of the room slowly to the dining area. The king was seated but wasn't eating yet. “I took your time….” I sat beside him and took the fork. “You didn't have to get me another gown, but I love it. Thank you…” “Anything for my Luna—” he licked his lips and caressed my cheek. “You're twenty-five today….” “Yeah!!” I tasted the meal. “I'm f*cking curious here…” He winked at me, and we focused on the meal. He was done with his meal before me and stood up. “I forgot my wristwatch in your wardrobe yesterday. I'll go get it, and I hope you'll be done before I return…” I laughed. A slow eater like me might not be done before he returns, and he knows that. At times, it takes me minutes to finish a plate of food, especially when it's hot, and that's why he insists that I start eating before him when we are going out. As today is my birthday, my family is supposed to celebrate it with me, but they won't agree to come over if I invite them. For four years, they kept insisting that they would celebrate it with me when I was able to conceive, and because of that, the king ordered that I shouldn't invite them over again. For more than ten minutes, the King was yet to return to the dining. “Isn't it just his wristwatch? I'm done with my meal already…” I cleaned my lips and stood. I had to go check what was holding him there, but at that moment, I began hearing his footsteps. It was slow and cold and unusual of him. The King I know calls me out from a distance before he comes closer. “Is everything okay?” I mumbled and stepped out of the dining chair. He came face to face with me. There was no atom of a smile on his face. Looking at his right hand, he was holding a card of medicine. “My King….” I whispered as he came closer. He dropped the card of medicine on the dining table, his gaze fixated on me and his face contorted. “Didn't you find your wristwatch?” I inquired since I didn't see it on his wrist. He shifted the card towards me, shut his eyes for some time, and then opened it. “What is a contraceptive drug doing in your wardrobe?” My pupils dilated. Did I hear him say a contraceptive drug?JOHANNA. King Ramsey stepped closer to me, his eyes dazzling while his brows arched. I've never seen his facial expression that way. It seemed like he was about to chop off my head. I swallowed hard, my right hand on the table, clenched. How did a contraceptive end up in my wardrobe? Who brought it in there? I've never seen it for once, although I know that such a drug exists. “My King!!” “You've not responded to my question, Anna. What is a contraceptive doing in your wardrobe?” he asked again. This time, I stepped a bit back from him. “Are you dumb because I saw it?” I shook my head. "I am speechless because such a thing has never existed in my life… I mean,” I scratched my head. “This is my first time seeing a contraceptive. I can't tell how it got into my room when I've never seen it. And, wasn't it there last night when you dropped the watch?” I exhaled a deep breath. This is one thing I've never imagined. Who must have dropped it there? I am not sick either, so I'm taki
KING RAMSEY. As I watched the doctor, my heart had already sank into my belly. I wouldn't want to hear the news that would make me hate my Luna whom I had loved from the first day I set my eyes on her. It would be better if she was just barren without a reason than if it was a result of taking a contraceptive. Anna was right that the drug wasn't in her wardrobe last night. When I dropped my wristwatch, there was nothing like this in her wardrobe, but seeing it now, how will I believe that she is innocent of it when it's in her room? The camera footage of her room for a month now was even wiped off and that was kinda suspicious…..but there's no way I will think she's innocent when there's all proof that she's been taking it. I believe that she forgot to hide it as usual, which made me see it. But why would Anna do such a thing if she was truly taking it? Didn't she love me because her father forced her to stay with me in exchange for his debt? Was she planning to run away someday?
JOHANNA. Which female wishes to be demoted from Luna to a slave over something you know nothing about? Isn't it better to keep being in my father's house and be treated like a servant there instead of being a Luna for five years and then becoming a slave—not even a servant? I was taken out of my room and stripped of the royal gown I was having on. Although I didn't leave the palace building, the room I was in this time was like hell. The female servants were all occupying the room, how shameful it is to share that sort of room with the maids that once served me. None of them could come near me, I was isolated, and the mockeries from them were too much for me to endure. “I will leave this palace if the King still won't come to his senses. I didn't do that, and he wouldn't let me look into it and prove my innocence….” I muttered and sat on the floor. Throughout the night, I wept like never before. My eyes didn't shut a bit. For some time, I thought about going to see the King
JOHANNA. “Ouch! What's this heavy on my arm?” I struggled to open my eyes despite how heavy it seemed. I swirled my neck to the side to see an enormous figure lying beside me. “Didn't I pay for a room alone? How come I spent it with someone?” Slowly, I opened my eyes, but the sight of him beside me made my lips drop open. It was an illusion. I just wished he was on my side, so I shut my eyes again and laid back, waiting for about a minute before I opened them again. He was still there, lying beside me and sleeping peacefully. “What on earth happened?” My gaze fixed on his face. “Did he find me? Never! He must have been drunk as well... but why? He doesn't drink.'' I slowly pulled out my arm and hurried up from the floor. I was completely naked. “Shit! He f*cked me!” My pupils dilated while I searched around for my clothes. His leg was on it, so I had to carefully take them without waking him, and then I had them on. My heart was racing. I wouldn't want him to wake up and see me
KING RAMSEY.“Don't tell me stories. Just bring Anna to me.” my voice thundered as I faced the guards. They were on their knees, quivering like it would solve the issue on the ground. “What is the essence of having you all here when you can't protect the Palace? What is the use to pay you monthly?” My face turned red, teeth gritting.Behind me was my beta. I don't even know what to say to him for not being cautious as always. How would they—the whole of them be at work - and Johanna vanished in a twinkle of an eye? I've sent them to search the whole Pack, thereby ordering the Gammas to block the boundaries, yet that didn't work.My fist tightened around my staff. Why? Why would she leave? Where is she now? Who did she go to? I couldn't answer any of these questions…..and I didn't care to know. All I wanted was to see Anna in the palace, even if she would patrol around as a slave.Did she leave to be with his lover out there, or did she just run away? Johanna is my property, even if sh
JOHANNA.The hall was filled with the masses. They were all celebrating the return of their Princess. Was I truly the Princess? How long did the slave master know of me being the Princess and kept it to himself? Why and how did I get lost after my birth?There are tons of questions that I need an answer to, and so I hope the ceremony ends anytime soon so I can meet my father. I was motherless since no one was talking about their Luna here.“Your Highness!!!!” I was startled by a feminine voice from behind. When I turned, I met a maid who bowed to me. “Do I owe you anything?”“You have to get dressed and join the ceremony. They are all waiting for the Heiress to show up,” she explained.I looked at myself. The Heiress? This still seems like a movie. What about the family that trained me up, how did they manage to get me? Now I see the reason they hated and despised me. They mistreated me because I wasn't their biological daughter. But why would they take me in if they knew they wouldn
JOHANNA.I was battling with my eyes that almost shut. Tiredness swam all over my body. I had trekked to this clan, and it wasn't fun any longer like it was when I was still in the woods. The moment I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer, my father cleared his throat—my eyes snapped open.He was standing before the crowd, gripping his royal staff. “I think it's time to declare the most important part of this ceremony….”I adjusted on my seat, eyes glued to my father to hear what he had to say, which was the most important part of the ceremony.“Years back, a week after the Supreme Heiress disappeared and none of the guards could find her, I made a declaration—a vow to anyone that would bring her back to me.”The weakness in my body subsided. My eyes narrowed while I was all ears to hear what he had in store for us.“I declared that whoever found the Supreme Heiress amongst the men of this Pack would be married to the Heiress and would be the next Supreme King….”My heart stopped pump
KING RAMSEY.Facing the moon, I crossed my hands backwards. Last night, I spent my night in a tavern, drunk, and I couldn't continue that way. Tonight seemed to be the worst and longest night for me. It was 1 a.m., yet I was unable to shut my eyes.The thought of Anna flooded my mind. Where is she exactly? Hope she's safe even after escaping. Even if she has been cheating on me and has run to her lover, she needs to be well, at least, until I find her.One thing I'm certain of is that no matter how long it takes, I will surely get her back to this palace. Seeing her daily, even if she was a slave, will ease my mind and make me concentrate.I've gotten no good news from the guards and my Beta. I have no clue about Anna and the slave master—but all I focused on was Anna. If she had done all that in five years of living with me, then she must pay for making my heart bleed and wasting my time. But if she is innocent, then she must take back her position while her sister would be my consor