Hope y’all were warm and comfortable reading this ‘cause this chapter is a lot!!! And we’re just getting started… Carlot’s dead but believe me when I say sadder things are about to happen… Lol… don’t hate me. See yA!
{Isla’s POV}I paced out of my mum’s Chambers and the small crowd that had gathered trailed behind me. Andrea was still beside me and she gripped my left hand and stroked it gently. She knew I was angry— and I do crazy things whenever I’m angry.“Ralph.” I called.“Yea, My Queen.” He inched closer.“Bring out all the suspects to the fields— except the kitchen maids. They prepared food for the general populace and if only one person died, then they are innocent,” I said and Ralph nodded before he trudged away to do my bidding.“Also bring Cayden.” I added.“Isla…” I heard my mum’s voice so I halted my haste as she tried to catch up with me. She got to me and rested a gentle touch on my cheek. It momentarily gave me peace but the aggression that was inside of me was too strong to be defeated now. “Don’t let your anger rule you, Isla. You rule your anger ‘cause when it’s the other way around, we tend to make mistakes.” She said. “You can always rest for the night and carry on the inves
{Isla’s POV}My gaze stretched in shock as I realized what I was holding, poison— what I had found in Cayden’s possession.“Seize him!“ I roared and a ton of guards rushed to bind Cayden to the ground on his knees. He was immediately injected with Wolfsbane as he was wrapped with more chains.He looked at me with alarm and confusion on his face but I crept over to him and wiped those fake expressions off his face with a strong fist. Blood came pouring out of his mouth.“You traitor!” I bawled and clenched his neck tightly to raise his gaze to meet mine. “You murderer!” Cayden coughed out some more blood and then he turned to look at me. “What are you talking about?” He said.I see. He wants to play pretend. I smacked him again as stinging tears clothed my eyes. “You killed Carlot, you demon!” I cried. “How could you?!” He spat out more blood and with his mouth gaping, he turned to look at me again. “Carlot is dead?!” He voiced.I immediately inched away from him. I don’t have time
{Isla’s POV}Her smile always irritates me and that’s why she reveals it to me without effort.I felt like going over there and wiping it off her face with a good punch but I had to remain calm because she was the one who could help us bring Cayden to Justice.“What do I want?” Ivanka muttered dramatically. I rolled my eyes.“Well, I’m not asking for much. It’s simple, what I want. I want to be out of that hole of darkness you put me in and brought to the surface where I can see the light… by Your Majesty's grace that is. I don’t mind serving as a slave or worse, but I just want to be out of there.” She bowed. “This is my request, my Queen.” Slowly, the hall began bobbing with murmuring and chattering. Ivanka was requesting freedom from the dungeons to be brought up here and put to harsh labor which was a strange demand— as in the Dungeons, she only had to sleep, wake up, and eat but out here, she would be put to afflicting labor through every hour of the day, every day— as per how s
{Isla’s POV}Cayden was tugged roughly to the wooden post where I was standing and waiting.He was dragged on the floor because his feet were useless. He couldn’t use them to walk due to the lava heat from the Critter Dungeon that had burned them. He also had blood-stained injuries on his arms and legs, and whip marks from the rounds of vain torture the guards at the Critter Dungeon had put him through. His hair was messy, stained also with blood, and he was really bruised.Filthy.The guards dragged him until a few distance from me where they dumped him on the ground. He crashed limply with the clanking of the heavy chains while the guards chained him to the Execution Post.He looked drained and weak but I knew it was all a facade. He could kill a wild Boar if one was brought to him now.I covered the distance between us with a short step and held his jaw, raising his head up for his gaze to meet mine. I needed him to see the hatred I had in my eyes for him. I needed him to see the s
{Isla’s POV}I went from feeling optimistic about the execution to feeling very confused with it.There was no execution anymore.Cayden had tricked me and then he had vanished. I blamed myself for believing he wanted to die a noble death… but then there was more to the story.He had left behind a message.Mysterious Pack. It sounded familiar but that didn’t help reduce my confusion by one bit.The guards were still in the woods chasing after him but I knew that was a vain attempt. They could never catch Caydne out there, except if he wanted them to. With his velocity, he was most likely a mile away from where the guards were searching.I drove my gaze around to see how cold the crowd had grown. They had come to witness an execution but had instead witnessed carelessness. My carelessness. “My Queen.” I heard familiar voices call my attention before I saw Emkay and Andrea appear before me. They must have seen how disturbed and confused I was looking.“Are you okay?” Andrea asked me.
{Isla’s POV}“What’s our next course of action?” Ralph asked me.I was buried in my thoughts and his question had interrupted me but I had an idea.“We’ll search Cayden’s chambers— see if we can get any clues from there.” I said, rising to my feet with my words.I had come to my room to rest but I just couldn’t. I couldn’t just lay around and do nothing.“Now?” Kayla asked.“Yes.” I said, already strolling towards the door. They both trailed behind me as I crept out of the room and started for Cayden’s chambers. I was pacing fast now and someone joined us on the way. “My Queen. What’s going on?” Andrea asked in her tiny voice. “Where are you guys headed in such a hurry?”“Cayden’s chambers.” I said.“Is he there?” She asked promptly, confusion lingering in her voice.I can understand why she would think that. Recently I’ve been thinking that I’ve become slow in my actions, so I decided to start doing things a little faster. Walking included.If I had been quick-witted, I might have b
{Isla’s POV}I lied.I said I wouldn’t stop running until I get to Zitumi’s pack but the thing with that statement is that I wasn’t thinking when I said it. I was panting like a Mac dog now and Zitumi’s pack was still miles away. It would take me days before I got there. That’s one bad news.The second bad news, I’m all alone, and traveling alone isn’t exactly my thing. It’s not always friendly on me.Note, I’m not scared. I’m just bored and it only gets worse. I’ve only traveled alone twice. One, was when Cayden had sent me out of his Alpha mansion at GreyHill, and two was when he had tricked me and led the Lycans to chase him instead of both of us.So yeah, I’m not used to traveling alone. It would be nice to have someone with me even if it’s a vulture or a weasel or a Rogue. I honestly wouldn’t mind anything or anybody if it—“My Queen.” A voice said.“AHhhhh!!!” I jumped away and slammed into a tree. My heart rate immediately went from 60 beats per minute to 1000.With a bobbing
{Isla’s POV}I made my way into the Zitumi’s pack with dread filling my lungs. This was the place where my mistake— my presence, had caused the death of an entire Pack. I felt guilty, I felt miserable.. and I felt evil. I didn’t come to pay my respects to the deceased souls because I was scared to come here, and this made me feel like an evil soul.I paced further in and I grew confused as there was no trace of killing or dead bodies even. The Place just looked deserted and that was all.With my confused self, I kept strolling around and the more I did, the more clueless I was becoming. The day had grown a little bit dark and the evening was creeping in so it wasn’t helping my search. I continued that way until I saw a figure sitting before a campfire with its back turned to me.I paused and stared for a moment, trying to know who was seated there but I couldn’t tell as the figure was clothed in all black like some sort of mage and shit like that.It was a bit huge so I guessed, “Ca