The queen spoke softly. Her voice was too low, almost only for the king beside her to hear. She was trying to make the king realize the possibility of his successor being in danger. And in her nature as the mother, Queen Eula did not want to stay idle. And this was the only way she could think of for the moment. The king chose her to be his mate, but they did not go through the formalities of being mated. She is not marked either. But since Eula already had a mate when she got involved with Borasco in a complicated relationship, and this truth was unknown to everyone else in the kingdom, she made use of the mark that she already got from her true mate and covered it with a dark ink tribal-designed tattoo. And made everyone else mistake it as the King’s mark on her since no one except Borasco, Eula, and her late mate knew about being the lady claimed already. As for Borasco, being the most relied-on adviser to the former King of the Lycans, Borasco had also maintained a dignified re
King Borasco scoffed. "Then I suggest you do your best. I will give you all night to find my heir to the throne, or that would be one against all of your kind's youngs under my watch!" The king stated firmly. "Your Majesty, we need more than overnight to find the Crown Prince. Because before we can locate him, we will have to break through that barrier that conceals his exact location," Priestess Aquila explained calmly. "I don't care how you do it or what you have to go through to find him. I need to hear you found him by breakfast tomorrow morning. Now, leave!" King Borasco had never trusted any of the mages. He always thinks they are using spells and doing trickery to mock him for his lack of ability to do as they could, rubbing the truth that he still needs their powers to do things like finding his missing son. Eula did not say anything against the King's orders, but she thought about seeing the High priestess later that night when the King would no longer want her presence
“Do you know where he is right now?” Queen Eula asked warily. Priestess Aquila sighed and smiled, but she shook her head. The priestess looked like she had something more to say, so Queen Eula did not say anything. Eula waited patiently. The queen also considered the possibility of the priestess in front of her, weighing the thoughts of whether to share the information or not. Eula was hoping Aquila would still tell her, not as a Queen but as a mother worried for her son’s life and safety. To the Queen’s relief, her patience paid up.“I can tell Prince Mauricio is alive, but I cannot find his exact location at this very moment. All I can say for sure is that he is surrounded by coldness, but not like the ice-cold kind of cold. It’s more of a night-cold temperature,” Priestess answered gently with her eyes closed as if by doing so, she would see Prince Mauricio more clearly than when she had her eyes wide open. “Is he injured?” Eula asked without a thought. “Even if he was injured,
While Queen Eula and Priestess Aquila were doing what they could to help Prince Mauricio return alive from a realm unknown to the High Priestess, Lexy felt bothered, and she woke up from her sleep. Unaware of what was happening, not even the realm she had subconsciously created to give Mauricio a chance to redeem himself from all the wicked ways he had used to live all these years, Lexy did not understand why she was feeling bothered and inexplicably uneasy. "Ethan…?" Lexy called out softly as soon as she woke up. Lexy looked around with only her eyes moving, blinking, and getting used as if her eyelids had turned numb from a long sleep. She had to do some eye exercises. It was dark, but her heightened sense of hearing sent the data to her brain of where the direction of the table clock that kept tick-tocking every second. 12:09"Babe," Ethan whispered in a raspy voice. "How do you feel?"Ethan also felt Lexy waking up. And considering she had her meal before evening, Ethan thought
"Mauricio!" Queen Eula cried pitifully when she saw her son. It was as if the Crown Prince knew someone would come to speak to him before his whole body, well except for his heart, turned into a cold craving of a human form, that he tried his best to delay or fight the creeping sensation of coldness from his feet up to his face. Just as the lady with the told to be the last Royal Prince of the Lycan, his heart kept beating even though the cold in his body had passed his chest up to his neck already. Mauricio was surprised to see his mother, the Queen, come to see him. "Mother…" Mauricio spoke with so much difficulty."My son, I asked helped from the HIgh Priestess Aquila to find you," Queen Eula hurriedly explained. "All I can do to help you is remind you to be yourself. I know you admire and look up to your father being feared by everyone around him as a King, but I am also aware that there are things you did not fully agree with his ways of ruthlessness when you were younger. It
“Good morning, mate….” “Mmmmmm…” Lexy murmured in response to the very first greeting that woke her up the next day. But realizing who was greeting her, Lexy shrank more to feel the warmth of his embrace. Lexy knew it was Aldric by the way he addressed her, but it was Ethan’s human form scooping her from behind; it made her feel the two were one with her at the moment. “How do you feel?” Lexy asked in her thoughts as she was too comfy to be bothered talking. “Hmmmm? What do you mean?” Aldric asked with confusion. “You’ve been out for a while….” Lexy answered gently. “I missed you….”“Ahhhh… I was feeling a bit bothered last night, so I went to investigate,” Aldric answered. Lexy frowned. She recalled the reason she woke up in her sleep in the middle of the previous night. “Funny…” She murmured. “What is funny?” Aldric asked. “I was also feeling bothered in my sleep and woke up last night. I just thought I was hungry, but even until now, I am feeling this indescribable disturba
“I don’t want that throne, that is why I am not even thinking about going after whoever is seated on it right now,” Aldric answered. “But if they are going to chase us and rob our peace from us, we have to put them where they are supposed to stand before us.”“I agree,” Ethan also added. “Someone told me, this battle is already blessed by the Moon Goddess in favor of us. So, victory is just waiting for us to be claimed.”“Who told you that?” Lexy asked. She looked up to meet Ethan’s gaze. Her mien sported amazement to hear victory was like a promised one already. “Someone very special. Special to me, and special to you as well,” Ethan spoke ambiguously again. “Who? Tell me…” Lexy insisted. “My soon-to-be mother-in-law.”Lexy paused and moved her head back a little as if letting her brain process the words that her ears just received. She blinked her eyes. “Are you… getting… married?” she asked with hesitation. Lexy could not even believe the words were slipping out of her mouth.
“Damn it! Just one more time, and I will turn this car into your worst nightmare!” Aquila groaned angrily. Lisbon curtly nodded his head as his expression of apology. He was inwardly nagging at himself about why he couldn’t do what he used to feel confident about. For heaven’s sake, it was just driving his very own car, yet he could not make it smooth and properly, especially now that priestess Aquila was the one sitting on his passenger’s seat. But to the Alpha’s disbelief, he had seemed to be driving like a newbie. First, he was checking if the lady was comfortable when he missed seeing the speed hump as they passed by a school zone area. Then, he almost ran at the red light, so he had to step on the brake so suddenly with his right arm swinging to the passenger’s side in aim to protect the priestess. Now, it was the third time when he had to turn the steering wheel abruptly to avoid a wild animal crossing the street when they were about to pass through the thick woods that served
Soon after, Eula became ill. But she refused to recuperate and claimed she wished nature to take her as soon as possible, so she could join her son in the afterlife. As per Eula’s request, they did not insist she get treated but Aquila stood right by her side to make sure she did not suffer so much pain before she took her last breath. When Eula died, a vision appeared to Lexy saying that since Mauricio died without descendants, Borasco would soon be reborn to live a life he was promised by the Moon Goddess. It made Ethan and Lexy feel relieved to realize that fate had been guiding them all along. Things seemed to happen for their reason. Every dot found its lines and connected every event to realize whatever message they were brought forth. Aquila and Lisbon remained in the Kingdom to serve the King and Queen who promised to take over the throne officially when Lexy finishes her studies. And they now have a family of their own with triplets of two girls and one boy. They realized
The young couple did not dally. While the rest of the graduates were heading to restaurants with their family and loved ones to celebrate their graduations, Ethan and Lexy were heading to the hospital to see the obstetrician who assisted her during her first pregnancy more than two years ago. A doctor Freya Smith had introduced to them. “Babe, why didn’t we know if you are pregnant like Axel had said?” Ethan asked in disbelief as he drove the car to Doctor Naomi Vitto’s clinic. “I might have been so preoccupied with my studies that I did not seem to feel anything weird,” Lexy answered weakly. “I’m so sorry, Babe. But have you noticed anything new about me? I mean you have seen how tough it was for me, for us, when I have Axel, right?” Ethan fell into deep thought when he stopped at a red light and waited for the light to turn green. “If I am to compare what I thought I noticed new about you to what I have seen you’ve been through while having your first trimester with Axel, I can’
“Congratulations, babe!” “Congratulations, babe! Yay!!!! We made it!” Marlyn yelled excitedly as he embraced and lifted Lexy joyfully, only to sheepishly smile and apologized when he heard a growling man not so far away. Marlyn graduated from their four-year degree courses earlier than Lexy, but their friendship grew deeper as the years went by. Even if Marlyn was now practicing his profession by being the local vet in their town, he did not cut ties with Lexy, and with the Roberts family. He was there at every event that was celebrated in the Roberts family’s lives. Even that day Lexy met her parents after being in a coma state and after the wars which they had won against the rogues and the vampires. It turned out Alona was in the kitchen, not because she was preparing food, but because she had to let the Blacks know that the young couple had shown up and that the Blacks should come over to the Roberts to settle things as they have excitedly planned while waiting for Lexy and Eth
The family of three almost forgot that there was someone else beside them standing and with a mixture of an awkward and warm smile sporting his face, he sure looked like he did not mind being left behind. Ethan could feel the exact same emotion Lexy had in her heart so the man, as well as his lycan, knew their girl was just so caught up between the overwhelming joy of reuniting with her parents and the unspeakable relief that they were finally back from the land of the in-between. “Oh, what are we doing here at the door?” Alona asked while sniffling and chuckling. “We are also being so mean to our guest over here,” she added while wiping the tears on her face and fanned it with her hands as if drying her wet in tears face and smiled at Ethan kindly. “Lexy, sweetie….” the mother spoke gently to remind her daughter that she came with someone and the young lady seemed to have forgotten. Lexy let go of her embrace of her parents and stepped back to stand with Ethan. She clasped her hand
“I will also do my best to only let your tears fall out of joy in this lifetime and to the next. It might be challenging, but I will deal with it. I know I have so much to learn about being a man to a woman, a husband to a wife, a son to parents, or a father to a son or a daughter, or both and more, but I promise you, Alexandra Roberts Black, that with all my heart and soul, human and Lycan, every breath and every moment of my life, I will only love you and everyone you love. Your friends will be my friends, whoever you claim as your family will be mine to cherish and protect as well,” Ethan kneeled before Lexy who was now smiling and crying at the same time, nodding and sniffing, eyes blurred but floating in cloud nine because she could feel from every fiber of her being how sincere, true and utterly heartfelt were Ethan’s words. Lexy swallowed her spit, cleared her throat, and took a few big and deep breaths to calm herself. “You make me so happy….” Lexy said after a sniff. “So, v
Lexy felt excited to hear Ethan say they were about to see her parents. She did not avoid his offered bite of food from the tray he carried all the way up to their bedroom from the kitchen downstairs. Lexy did not let the man feed her alone, she also picked the spoon on the side of the tray and fed him. “I’d love to wake up with you like this every morning,” Ethan said with a beaming smile on his face as he wiped the smear of food on the side of Lexy’s lips. “Thank you, babe….”While Ethan was staying with Lexy to have their breakfast, Aldric told the two that he will be busy checking the surroundings on his own. It was a way for Aldric to keep in touch with the rest of the lycans in the palace to keep an eye on various things that he sees fit to give his attention to. He would raise his mind link barrier for his human not to get bothered with anything unnecessary and attend to their girl and mate. “Nah, I want a different way of expressing gratitude. But since we are going to see m
“Do you think it was a good idea?” Lexy asked as they luxuriate in the romantic privacy of their home. The couple found a very lovely spot in the forest overlooking the palace within the realm of the Lycan Kingdom. They both gave in to the idea of how they wanted the house built and they even made the house all by themselves as they both did not want their lovely nest to be known by anyone else. “I want to believe it is. Because with that strategy, I can spend time with you alone like this without the constant My King and My Queen here and there, Your Highness and Your Majesty any moment of the day. Ughhh! That just feels so bothersome when I can have you all for and all by myself, and likewise, you can have me and your mate all of the time!” Ethan answered as he attacked Lexy with tickles and kisses in her clothed with a seductive nighties’ body. “Ahhhhhhhh! Babe!?” Lexy shrieked as she felt the tickles run all over her body from the tip of her toes to the roots of her hair due to
A lot of them raised their hand. They were crying silently but heartbreakingly. Some of them killed their loved ones in order to respond to the nature of thirst for blood they felt the very first moment they were turned into vampires. Some were parents to their children and vice versa. One was a mother to her child, while others were a lover, a friend, a spouse, and many more. And their body still recognizes these grave mistakes that they could not help mourning deep within them. A part of them was still grieving, but they were sent to an unknown place to kill everyone in it, promising more blood to satiate their hunger, and they were like mad bulls who dived into the task without even the ability to check if what they were going to do would be safe or not. Lexy and Ethan were able to hear the cries of their silently weeping hearts. “Do you want to end this curse in your life?” Ethan asked. Ethan explained that their body was already dead, and there was no way they could turn back
The war ended with a glorious victory for the Lycan Kingdom. The High Priestess Aquila did not see miss witnessing what happened in the thick forest between the royal couple Lycan King and the young Grand White Witch. She just realized how protectively secured her spot was when she herself could not step out of the shield which was covering her concealed, unseen, and unnoticed by the vampires surrounding them. Aquila was astonished to realize that even with how high rankers the vampires that they were dealing with were, they failed to notice their presence until the couple showed themselves. And even though she was not as powerful as the young white witch was, they failed to detect her presence among them although she was not even another tree afar from where they had gathered to attack the King all at once. When they tried to overwhelm the Lycan King with their number, they approach and gather around one tree and but they realize it was not wise to do so as the lycan could, the vam