Chapter 79Olivia's POV It wasn't hard for me to make up my mind. Finding out I was pregnant was not part of the things that I had imagined myself doing at this moment. When I saw the tears in Augustus's eyes beside my bed, I was moved too. I knew that I had made the right choice, even though I had seen flashes of a trauma that I didn't know about. “Good morning Sunshine” Augustus said as he placed a hand on my belly. “Good morning” I said calmly and shifted into his arms so he could cuddle me. “How's everyone doing in there this morning?” He asked my belly and I could have sworn that I felt something turn in my belly. “Oh stop it!” I said and laughed, he chuckled too, his chest bouncing me up and down as he laughed. “We need to announce it to the kingdom that the Queen is now with an heir” he said to me and I could see the sheer joy and pride in his eyes. My heart was warm and Elvira was more calm than I had known her to be since we became one. “Announce it? The kingdom is cur
Chapter 80Olivia's POV It couldn't be. Alpha Nelson was Annalise's mate. There was no way he could be Tina's mate now and that even happened because I knew that the golden moon pack was a long way off from here. There was no way she could have met him here in the Lycan Kingdom. “Where is he?” I demanded, my senses flaring. “He is not here your majesty, I met him some weeks ago when I went to pick up the royal fabrics for your sheets. We wanted you to have a warm welcome", she said, her voice barely audible. Augustus must have noticed my tone because he stepped in front of me and held my hands. I figured my tone might not have been carrying the message I meant, but I didn't want Annalise to think that I had a part in her mate finding another mate. “Congratulations Tina. Do invite him, I want to talk to him. Alexander, make sure that happens smoothly, I'm aware that pack is not really on good terms with any of its neighboring packs” he said changing the topic as he put his hand o
Chapter 81Olivia's POV It was hard to believe that this was the same people I had put my life on the line for. It didn't make any sense, the anger on their faces was too much to have just stemmed from the last situation alone. The men were vile, and the women avoided eye contact with me. “We have consulted the witches, and they told us that our Queen isn't just an impostor, she is also wolfless! Her sister told us the truth, her own family wants nothing to do with her because of how controlling and wicked she is, we do not want her anymore as our Queen!” Someone from the crowd of angry mobs outside the palace gates screamed at us. I flinched, and tried to move back, but I bumped into Augustus, he was standing right behind me and his hands immediately moved to my waist and steadied me. Even his presence was not enough to shield me from the words that were being hauled at me. These people wanted Ariel. “Don't go anywhere, I will handle this” he whispered in my ears. “You have tur
Chapter 82Augustus's POV I was livid. I found it highly disrespectful that my councilmen had grown so bold to now instigate disrespect against me. Apparently, The Brandons had spoken to only one councilman. One that I was yet to figure out even though I had my suspicions. “Your Ma…"“Save it! I am not your king!” I bellowed at the men. They were stunned, I was sure that they had not been expecting that outburst, seeing that I had tolerated a lot of their excesses in the last few months. “Here are the documents, my king.” Alexander said and placed some brown files in front of me. It was the not so pleasant surprise that I had prepared for them so that they could see how stupid they were for even thinking of being disloyal to me. “I believe that I have been far lenient with you men and for that reason, it has bred disrespect in your hearts, the one you have been expressing vividly to me in the last few months. Before now, I used to pride myself in having the wisest councilmen on th
Chapter 83Olivia's POV There was an unease that I felt, my stomach has not been settled for a few hours and the only thing I had eaten was the scrambled eggs Tina had brought for me. I got up, not minding the pain and found my way to Elana. She was not surprised to see me and I wondered why. “Elana, you don't seem surprised to see me?” I asked her and she smiled. “I knew you were coming to me already” she said and got up to hug me briefly. Her body immediately tensed when she hugged me and I could feel the shiver run right through her. “What is it?” I asked her. “There's something wrong. Your fetus is not okay. He is deeply troubled” she said and immediately placed her hands on my belly. Her lips began to move, chanting some strange words that I had never heard about before. There was a stirring in my belly and I held my stomach, sitting slowly to stifle the brunt of the pain. I held her hands and held her gaze, but the pain began to subside, and I could feel rest in my soul.
Chapter 84Olivia's POV When I woke up, I was back in the room. My back still ached from the fall and Elana was seated beside me, holding my hands. Her hands were sweaty, and her face was tensed, easing out when she saw that I was regaining consciousness. “What happened?” I managed to ask, my head banging against my skull. “I don't know yet. We have to go somewhere else to find out the cause of this, but one thing I'm sure is that someone has been going to that place. A book only acts that way if it has already been bound to someone else. It rejected you both, your union is something that it was meant to work against” Elana said, and I tried to sit up. Augustus was on the chair, he wasn't awake yet, and I could see that his head had been bandaged. I got up and immediately made my way to him, cradling him in my arms as he stirred in his unconsciousness. “He was awake for a few minutes before you. He lost consciousness shortly after. He will be fine, it's nothing serious. I just di
Chapter 85Olivia's POV “Your family wants you back? How am I sure that you will keep track of time and come back on time?” Augustus asked me, his eyes were sincere and worried. He didn't want me to go, I knew. The last three weeks I had spent just have been so traumatizing that he doesn't want to go through it again, but, I didn't have a choice. Something was wrong and they wanted me home urgently. I looked at Elana, hoping she might have an idea of what I was going to meet. Since she had not been invited, I doubted she would be given clearance to come in with me. So I was on my own. “I will keep track of time. You know I have to do this. I can't turn my back now. I don't even know why they want to see me yet.” I argued but Augustus shook his head. “Let me come with you this time” he begged, and I felt that uneasy feeling back at the pit of my stomach. “She will keep track of time. As her guardian, I have a connection with her, even if she is not here. You will be able to reach
Chapter 86Olivia's POV His eyes searched all over mine like he was looking for something. I didn't know what kind of truth he was supposed to tell me, but whatever it was, I had a huge feeling that I would not like it. “Augustus, we have to talk” I said, and his shoulders were immediately tensed. “What did they tell you? I am not a bad person” he immediately said, and I felt like that was too sharp for someone who I would naturally have thought was not hiding anything from me.“Augustus? Is there something you think I need to know?” I asked him, and he ran a hand through his hair in frustration. “Look, I was a different person at the time and I didn't know how else to behave. I didn't mean to hurt anyone, even then," he said, and I got really curious, what exactly was he talking about. “What do you mean, Augustus?” I asked him, calmly, not wanting to scare him off by being angry. “They didn't tell you?” He said and wiped his eyes in surprise. “No, I was only told that you woul
Chapter 104Augustus's POV “I am only going to ask you one more time, Alpha Brandon, where is Olivia? Where is my wife?” I bellowed at the two figures in front of me. They were both shivering and looked like they had not expected this to happen even though I wondered why. Nile had given them up so easily, and I knew they would have noticed that. “We don't know, we swear. We won't be foolish to lie to you” Alpha Brandon responded, but I knew immediately that he was lying. I slapped him squarely across the face, pissed off that he thought I was someone he could mess around with.“Oh please, let my poor husband go. Nile lied to you. We did go to him, but he refused to let her come with us, we wanted to contact you, but we didn't want you to think that we had anything to do with it” the Luna said as the tears rolled down her eyes, but I didn't care. They were lying and everyone in this room knew it. I pulled out a dagger from my waist band and brandished it in front of the two old peop
Chapter 103Olivia's POVMy breath caught in my throat, he was definitely the last person that I had expected to see here. He was supposed to be dead, I saw his body with his face chewed up. Augustus had been so heartbroken with the whole thing. I was so confused. A lot was not making sense to me right now. “Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I would be that cheap to kill, did you?” He asked, his teeth glistening in the hot afternoon sun. I was so angry, each movement of his aggravating me. “How…how could you do this to him?” I asked, my emotions pouring into every word I said. “Do this to whom? The same man who threw me in jail because of you? I have been with that sick bastard for several lifetimes and each time, he has discarded me because of some woman he kept hoping would be you” he said, the anger evident in his voice as I had never heard him use that tone before. He had always been so sweet to me, I wondered what had changed and how he had become so bitter with a man
Chapter 102Olivia's POV “Father” I asked, not believing my eyes. The last thing I remembered was Nile dragging me out to the forest and telling me that he was going to leave me to be feasted upon by wild animals. He had injected me with something that immediately made me feel sleepy. Now, opening my eyes I was shocked to find myself in a place that I knew too much. It was my former pack, a place that I had run away from, disgraced and hurt. The one place that I never wanted to go back to. How had this happened? I asked myself. “Don't you dare call him that!” I heard my fake mother's voice and realized that these people were not my friends, they didn't love me. They are my enemies. I had to start seeing them in that light. “Well, I won't. To think that I forgot and bestowed such honor on the two of you” I snapped at him and Alpha Brandon slapped me. I felt the metallic taste of blood in my mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood. “You are still arrogant? After you had us thrown ou
Chapter 101Augustus's POV I crawled my way up the hill, making sure that none of my movements made more sounds than a whisper. The plan had to work, I needed to be sure that Elana had not been right about her suspicion, I didn't know what I would do to Nile if I found out that he had anything to do with the disappearance of my wife. Wife. The word sounded in my eyes. Olivia wasn't just my mate bound to me by the moon goddess, she was also my wife, bound to me by the laws of the kingdom in front of everyone we ruled over. It was different now, and I realized that I could not let her leave me. No matter how great I thought her being away for now, I knew her place was right beside me. Even all those lifetimes ago, she had captured my heart in ways that I didn't think was possible and every time I had to go back to Ariel, all that had consumed my mind at the end of the day was the explosive time I had with the other woman. The same man I now had a chance to be with after 999 lifetime
Chapter 100Elana's POV I could have sworn that Olivia was back in the palace. It was only when I got to Augustus's office that I realized that it was his guest that had the same scent with Olivia. It wasn't entirely hers, it was mixed with his also, meaning that this man must have been in the same place with Olivia within the last twenty-four hours. “My king, I would like us to speak privately” I said after I told him that I could scent Olivia. “Give me a few minutes” he said, and I went out to wait for him to finish with his guest. One that I suddenly didn't trust anymore. I knew that Augustus wasn't one to condone any form of evil, it was shocking that he was there drinking with a man that should clearly not be trusted. I had barely finished my train of thoughts when the door opened and Augustus came out with the strange man. They shook hands and the man gave me a respectful bow before leaving, I tried my best to smile, but I knew that I probably looked ridiculous. As soon as
Chapter 99Augustus's POV Even though it had been a week since Olivia disappeared from my life, the pain only increased with every passing second. I thought I knew where she had gone, she mentioned going to the human settlement but, I have combed every town and city in the last week and not even one person had seen her. "Your majesty” I heard Elana's quiet voice interrupting my thoughts, I had no desire to see or speak to anyone. "Elana" I said quietly, not even bothering to face her. “She reached out to me. I don't know, but she is in some sort of danger. I was cut off before I could get anything else” she said, and I immediately turned, my ears ready to listen to anything else that would point us in the right direction. “Why didn't she reach out to me?” I asked, a stab of jealousy piercing my heart. “I'm sure she only reached out to me because our connection is more shared. Technically, I am her guardian wolf.” She explained and I nodded my head. “What did you see? What did s
Chapter 98Olivia's POV “Oh, you thought I would not be able to find out your real identity?” He asked me when he saw how stunned I was. The food immediately lost its taste and turned to sand in my mouth. I was devastated and the only thing I wanted to do now was to run. The one thing I couldn't afford to do right now. “I…I… Am not Olivia or whatever you say her name is” I managed to say, my voice sounding alien even to me. He laughed, loudly, then got up and went to the mini bar behind his chair to pull out a bottle of raw alcohol. “You see, I had my doubts when I saw you. King Augustus has been on my radar for a while and I kept racking my brain on how to get him to notice me. When I saw you, I had my doubts but today, after seeing the way you have cleaned up nicely, I know without a doubt that you are queen Olivia of the Lycan Kingdom” he said, his voice increasing in pitch and tempo with every word. “I am not her. I am simply Freya, a young servant that was dumped by her lover
Chapter 97Olivia's POV The next time I gained consciousness, I was in a different room. My hands were no longer bound and the room had more ventilation than the previous one that I had been in. I struggled to get up, my body was weak from lack of food and the pregnancy that was tearing my insides with the need for food. Just then, there was a rustling of keys at the door and I quickly laid back down, pretending to be asleep. A middle-aged woman made her way into the room, she didn't even bother to look at me before setting the plate roughly on the floor, some of its contents spilling out of the plate. “I know you are awake, I saw you when you were running back to lie down on your bed. You better wake up and eat, the Alpha would soon send for you” she said and left the room before I could get a word out. Her words had stunned me, I laid there for some time before the rumbling of my stomach pushed me from the bed. I made my way to the plate, each step making me dizzier than I was.
Chapter 96Augustus's POV I couldn't shake off the gnawing feeling in my chest that something had happened to Olivia. Every moment had me feeling guilty, and I could have sworn that I heard her calling out to me this morning in my sleep. Ever since she left, which was now exactly 24 hours ago, I had imagined hearing her call me or her sweet scent welcoming me back to our chambers after a long day out there. My life felt empty, and I wished that I had not said anything to her about Ariel, instead, I had just told her the truth. “Your Majesty, you sent for me?” Elana said, I had not let her have a moment of rest since yesterday, she had done all she could to link with Olivia, but she was too far, beyond our reach. “Have you had any luck yet?” I asked, even though I already knew what the answer would be. “Not yet your majesty” she said and even though I already knew what the answer would be, my heart broke into a thousand pieces for the umpteenth time that day. “Fine.” I said grumpi