After the elevator door opened, the housekeeper on the floor escorted them along with their luggage to their room at the end of the hallway.Daniel put her and Ragnar in the royal suite which was fancier than his to manifest her identity as the Phoenix princess. Theoretically speaking, she and Lennie were now on the same starting line. Only at present, she wasn’t interested in her ridiculous ex anymore.Back in the kingdom after everything she had experienced, Elena now finally saw how stupid and blind she was to have such deep trust in her shameless ex. But guess pains and betrayals are what it takes to grow up. Only after all those sufferings and regrets, did she become the person she was now and obtain the courage and wit, and determination to be with her second-chance mate and to achieve things that she had never dreamed of. It was all because of hate and unwillingness.It was also all because of love and remorse.After introducing different kinds of room services, the housekee
When that gorgeous girl who was probably his second-chance mate stepped into the dancing hall, Cory felt his heartbeat stop. He ceased his conversation with those honorable guests surrounding him, and then turned and strode towards the door. Some guests’ attention was drawn by him. They followed his motion with their eyes and then saw that stunning newcomer.She wasn’t the kind of sweet or sunshine type who would make others fall in love at first sight. But that distant ambiance around her, and that coldness and pride in her eyes made her a raving beauty above all other people.She didn’t smile, and she didn’t socialize with others like a respectable guest was supposed to. It was impolite, even rude to attend a formal party like that, but Cory was deeply drawn by her indifference. It was what a princess should be in his mind. And that proud attitude of hers made him want to conquer her more than anything.It almost felt like she was made for him. And he would never stop pursuing her
Following Ashely upstairs to the dressing room of Lennie’s, Elena had this strange feeling of returning to her past.When she was still a kid, she hung out with Cory in the mansion all the time. After they confirmed they were fated mates, Elena basically lived here. It was supposed to be her house, her dressing room, and her wedding, but now they were all under the name of another woman. A month ago, she was so devastated about it. Right now she just felt that it was funny.It was funny that what you once valued so much could turn out to be so worthless overnight. Elena even felt glad that she had been betrayed in that way. That’s how she got out of this sugarcoated morass and found what was really important.“This way, please.”Being guided to the familiar room at the right side of the hallway. Elena was surprised to see that Ashely actually took her to the dressing room. Judging from what Lennie had just said in the dancing hall, Elena was pretty sure Lennie knew something about he
Chris Moore, the invisible assistant of the kingdom’s young king, had a really good time recently. As the king’s wedding drew near, more and more tasks fell on the kingdom’s Beta, Jasper’s shoulders. And each day, Jasper showed more of his incompetence at handling those tasks as the Beta.He was an incompetent wolf all along, but he got the Beta’s position anyway just because his father once fought wars following the old king. Chris’s father was in those wars too. He didn’t make as much contribution as Jasper’s father did, but that didn’t mean his son would be inferior to Jasper.They went to the same school, got the same training, and took the same examinations. Chris’s performances were much better than Jasper’s in all aspects. Still, he couldn’t get Beta's position because his father was less famous.Chris hadn’t been happy about it for a long time. Luckily, the young king he was serving was a bit arrogant, but not an idiot. He gave all the inessential paperwork to Jasper but sec
Elena was waiting outside anxiously in the car.Once Chris believed Ragnar was his king, she followed them in the bushes all the way to the hospital. After she saw Ragnar go inside the building, she called their driver to bring over the car. It might leave some eyewitnesses, but it didn’t matter. She changed into a hoodie to cover her face. And them being seen was part of the plan.She asked the driver to leave and waited in the car alone. Being back to the same building where she was imprisoned by Cory brought back some really bad memories. Which she had never told anyone. She was held in a ward with silver bars on the windows. And they tied her to the hospital bed with straps as if she was some kind of lunatic. Up to today, sometimes, when she closed her eyes at night, she could still feel those cold needles going underneath her skin. They poked into her flesh and injected those crazy fluids into her body. Her veins twitched and burned. And the pain of Nyla being peeled off was so
The trip back to the hotel was pretty peaceful. There were no warriors chasing on the streets and no checkpoints to inspect passengers. Everything was usual just like every other usual night.Obliviously, Chirs hadn’t realized he was scammed by a person who looked exactly like his king. And he wouldn’t realize it until he had met his real king and confronted him.Ragnar wondered when it would be and he would love to see how his young brother would react.“We are currently living in the hotel as his wedding guests. Ragnar’s friend, the Serpent's heir, Daniel, brought us here as his friends.”On their way back to the hotel, Elena explained their destination to her mother. She noticed her mother had been staring at Ragnar in a strange way since he got back into the car. She felt a little worried, but not too much. She knew what rogues were in “normal” wolves’ eyes. They were a bunch of wolves who didn’t have family or friends. They didn’t even have food or shelter. Before Elena met rogu
“And I promise I will never leave her alone in this world.”Right after Ragnar said that, the door of the meeting room was knocked. Both he and Eleanor turned their heads towards the door. Ragnar said “Come in” after a few moments. And then the door was pushed open. It was Elena and she was wearing a bashful smile on her face.“Sorry to interrupt, but I thought I’d better be in this conversation if you were talking about the hospital,” she said shyly. But Ragnar noticed she was also nervous for some reason.He nodded his head and said, “Sure”, and then walked up to her and pulled a chair for her to sit. Elena sat right beside her mother, and then raised her head to look at both of them.“Did you figure out what is going on in that hospital?” she asked nervously.Ragnar exchanged a look with Eleanor. Eleanor then answered that question with an assuring smile, “Nothing to be worried about, sweetie.” Her voice was soft, “He is testing some drugs on his prisoners, I guess. But your father
When Cory rushed back to the lab underneath the hospital, Chris was still waiting outside the elevator. He looked really confused and nervous. As soon as the elevator door opened, he stepped forwards and asked, “What happened? What’s going on?”That was exactly what Cory wanted to ask. “Pull up the security footage,” he growled, striding past Chris, and walked towards the security room.Chris nodded his head. He trotted ahead of his king to get the security footage ready. On the screen, the images were intact and clear. Cory saw a man who looked exactly like him followed Chris into the lab and then left with Elena’s parents.Knowing clearly that the camera was on him, that strange man looked directly at the lens once on his way to Elena’s parents’ room. There was no expression on his face, but his eyes were cold and full of defiance. Cory then knew it was a provocation. That man was daring him a fight. And it totally enraged him.“Did he say anything to you?” Clutching his hands int
Simon shifted to this huge, yellow dragon and roared into the sky. He flashed across the dark sky like lightning, and then disappeared into the thick night chasing the wolf carrying his sister.Once the snow stopped, the temperature started to rise. Everything around started melting slowly. Elena felt her phone vibrate. She pulled it out of her pocket and checked, and then saw a message from her mother.He is awake. It said.Elena let out a relieved sigh and smiled. The sky above her head had never been so clear. She knew it was the end of it.All these hates, and betrayals, and revenge, and greed. It was finally cleared out. They were free now. She and Ragnar, they could finally start their new life.“We need to get home like now,” Nyla strongly urged in her head.Elena nodded her head, and then looked around.The two dragon Betas were still there. The demise of the Princess was a huge deal. They needed to find a proper explanation to their Alpha.After meeting Elena’s eyes, the old
She squatted in front of the wheelchair to get closer to him, and then kissed his hand with tears streaming down the corners of her eyes. “I am sorry, Simon,” she said, “I am truly sorry.”Simon leaned forward a little to stroke her hair. “It’s alright, Little one. It’s not your fault,” he said, and his voice was so gentle, “It’s nobody’s fault. No one could foresee this to happen.”Lennie shook her head. She held her brother’s hand with both her hands and leaned on it with her forehead. She knew it was time to tell him the truth, and she felt so sorry and regretful that she had to disappoint him. “I am sorry, Simon,” she raised her head, looked towards her brother, and confessed, “I killed Cory the other day because I want to have my own kingdom. I want to be a real Queen, Simon. I am sorry, but I just … want it.”Simon’s face turned pale. His heart sank. No matter what horrible mistakes Lennie had made, he would forgive her as long as she didn’t mean to be bad. They all would. But
Hearing Lennie’s “confession”, Elena knitted her brows. Nyla whispered in her head, “She is lying again.”Elena knew but she didn’t interrupt. She knew Simon would naturally trust Lennie more than her and she was just here to make sure the necklace to be destroyed. She needed to save Ragnar first. Simon widened his eyes. He recognized it was the necklace Lennie had been wearing since she was a child. But he couldn’t understand how a necklace could threaten people. “What does it mean, Little one?” he asked, but in a soft tone, “You have to explain to me first.”Lennie sniffed, wiping her tears with the back of her hand, and then explained, “There is a werewolf living in the necklace. His name is Tyron. He is the ancestor of the wolf brothers. He started to speak to me in my head after I turned 18. He threatened me to kill all the wolves, the old wolf king, Cory and his big brother, Ragnar. He hated them for some reason. He wanted to destroy the wolf kingdom. And he is very powerful,
The moment Lennie locked her eyes with Elena, she clenched her fists. She had never expected to meet Elena at her own home, and she didn’t like it when Elena spoke of her necklace in front of all the others. It was supposed to be her secret.She stared at the unexpected guest and smirked, coldly.“How dare you come to my home, you pathetic loser? You are not welcome here,” she said. Elena didn’t reply right away. She took off her cloak and passed it to Brian, and then said to the dripping princess in an indifferent tone, “I wouldn’t call myself a winner if it was my mate who poisoned my brothers.” She had just learned from Jack that, not only Alex, Lennie’s youngest brother, Liam, was affected by the snow too. Lennie clenched her fists even tighter. She hated what Elena was suggesting here. She wasn’t Zeno’s mate. She was a dragon. She was herself. She would never be anyone’s mate. “I guess there is a reason why your stupid ex put you into that hospital,” she said contemptuously,
Lennie was in a huge fury.The meeting place she agreed with Elena was where she escaped from Ragnar the day before. She reached the same place long before sunset and observed the whole place carefully in order to catch Elena.Her permit to the wolf kingdom had been deactivated. But to make the exchange, she and Elena, one of them, must cross the border. She knew Elena wouldn’t come into the dragon’s land, but it didn’t matter.She brought a special plant with her. It looked like a piece of dead vine, but was actually alive. Once the vine reached its target, it would grow rapidly to wrap the target up and then drag the target back to its owner.Her third brother, Simon, brought it to her from one of his mysterious trips years ago as a toy. Lennie hadn’t played with it for a long time. It took her a while to dig it out from her piles of precious gifts.She then carefully twined the necklace on that vine. If Elena wanted the necklace, then she would have to take the vine with it and tou
“Who is that?”Noticing Elena had turned back, Chris reined the horse too and came near her.Elena didn’t reply. She was hesitating whether to check it or not.The sun had already gone under the horizon. Lennie should have already found that she didn’t go to the borderline to exchange the necklace. She must get in touch with dragons before Lennie figured out what she intended to do.And they only had two horses. It wasn’t that easy to help an unconscious person.Chris made no further comment, waiting for her decision.Elena hesitated for like 5 seconds, and then got off the horse and walked closer to that person.The snow had covered most of his body. Only the shape of a person and some of his clothes could be vaguely seen.Elena knelt beside him and wiped the snow off his body with her gloved hands. A tall man lying face down gradually showed. He was very strong but na/ked with clothes piled on his back. It seemed like he passed out somehow in his dragon form and shifted back to huma
The blood-curdling screams and curses were horrifying. Lennie felt cold sweat had soaked through the clothes on her back. At the same time, she was being enveloped by another ball of white light. The next moment, she was sent back to the library. She found she was sitting on the carpeted floor with that old book on her lap, at exactly the same posture as before she was transported. Only now the book on her lap was wide open. But all its pages were blank like nobody had ever recorded anything on it. Lennie quickly figured out the book was spell-protected. Someone put a spell on the book which required certain keys to read the secret in it. And the necklace she placed right beside her leg was just the key. That young, but gut-wrenching voice was still echoing in her ears. Lennie took a deep breath to get it out of her head, and then bent over a little to pick the necklace up from the floor.This time she didn’t touch the ruby pendant, but used the silvery chain to lift it. She slo
Back to five hundred years ago, in the dragon’s castle of the dragon kingdom. One of the most powerful dragon leaders, and the sole Dragon Queen in dragon history, the fire dragon, Vivian, was sitting on her throne, quietly, alone. She used her left hand to prop her head, leaning against that magnificent but cold, stone seat. The winter afternoon sunlight ran through the broken ceiling, fell upon a bunch of debris on the floor. The whole place looked more like a ruin than a royal palace. She sat there, completely alone, still, staring at that sunlight and those remnants on the floor. After a while, a transitory shimmer shone through the egg-sized ruby on the necklace she was wearing, but she didn’t notice it. At the same time, a strong, bearded male dragon walked into the tumbledown door frame, and then bowed to her. “The second of the Tinsley brothers asked to meet you, Your Majesty,” the male dragon said. His voice was thick and heavy, and echoed in this ruined throne hall. Th
Hearing Elena’s request, Lennie clutched the cell phone in her hand. The only reason she wanted the Moon Goddess’s relic was that she didn’t want to lose Zeno along with his incomparable power. If she traded the Moon Goddess’s relic using Zeno, then what she was trying to do now would be pointless.Although speech so, she couldn’t give up that easily. “Why do you want my necklace?” she asked questioningly. Except for herself, no one should have known the power Zeno possessed. Elena answered quickly and calmly, “In case your mysterious friend hasn’t told you. He is actually a werewolf and belongs to us. He is a property of the wolf kingdom, Princess. That’s why we want him back.”Lennie bit her bottom lip. She had already known Zeno was a werewolf from their conversation yesterday. But if Elena knew Zeno was a werewolf too, it would be a different story. There must be something special about Zeno. She thought for a few seconds, and then said, “Fine, you can have my necklace. Come t