IANNA’S POV
I cried even more when he said that, no one has ever said that to me before and meant it. Well, besides Christina and Aegen. But that was different, this was my father who was saying it and I believed him with everything in me.
He pulled out of the hug and wiped my tears. “I am home now baby girl and I never want to see you cry I again. The only tears I want to see you shed are those of joy.” I gave him a small smile.
I still didn’t know what to say to him. He was my father, but I didn’t know him, and he didn’t know me. “Come on, let’s sit down and talk.” We went and sat on my bed with him never letting go of my hand.
“The witch told me everything.” He started and I lowered my head. Aegen was right, the man was intimidating but not as much as he said he was. “Don’t lower your head as if you did something wrong.”
He took my chin and
AEGEN'S POVI waited in my room for Ianna's father to leave so I could go and see her. I wanted to warn her about Christina and talk about leaving this place. I was not sure if she was going to agree to that or not.Her father did just come back and I wasn't sure if she was going to want to leave. But I wanted to leave and I was sure my mother wanted to leave as well. My father was dead and she could finally get her freedom back.Her journey was a painful one, she found her mate when she was only but eighteen years old. They were in love according to my mother. Two years later, they had me. She said my father was the happiest when they found out she was pregnant. She told me that he could not wait for me to be born.Then I was born and two years later my grandfather got sick. My mother says that was when things changed. My grandfather wanted my father to marry a royal or the crown was going to go to my grandfather's beta.My father begged him to reconsider but my grandfather would hea
Christina's POV "Stop mopping around and go get your crown or you will lose it." Adolph was driving me insane, he was busy mopping around for someone who was not coming back. We both lost our father but there were more important things to take care of than sitting around like this. "I am in moarning in case you didn't notice, our father just died, how are you okay with that?" I wanted to kick him where the sun don't shine for saying that. He was my father too and I loved him. But he was dead and there was nothing we could do anout that. But there was something we could do about Ianna, the backstabbing friend who threatened his throne! "Adolph, someone is going to take your crown from right under your nose while you are sitting here mopping like a damn child!" He stood, anger visible in his face, I was angry too and it was about time he knew that. "No one is going to take my throne, stop saying that and let me moarn the death of our father!" I chuckled pissed at how stupid he was b
IANNA'S POV The wind was blowing ever so gently and the mood was somber. It was the day of the king's funeral and the people attended in numbers. The family, Adolph and Christina. Stood towards the head of the coffin while Aegen and his mother stood towards the feet. My father and I stood with the rest of the people but in front. To show that my father didn't care or respected the king. He wore open shoes and shorts to the funeral. Standing next to me and the witch by his side. I could see the confused glances he got from the people, am sure many of them wanted to know what the witch was doing with the disrespectful man who wore shorts to the king's funeral. But the two couldn't care less, maybe because I forced them to attend. Maybe I shouldn't have. The king was still Aegen's father and when I asked them. I wanted us to show support to him but here they were, wearing shots and getting the people's attention. I sighed and squeezed Aegen's hand just to let him know that I was wi
IANNA'S POV My father looked at her and said nothing but turned back and stood next to me. My mother looked shocked and confused at the sametime. "Are you back, are you coming home?" I looked at my mother in disbelief. Her questions confused me because the way she spoke about him suggested that he hated the man and hated me for looking like him. So, why in the Goddesses name did she want him back? "What home are you talking about, if I may ask?" My mother looked like she was poured with a bucket of water. She glared at me and I knew what was coming. "What lies did you tell him, huh? What did you say to make him talk like this?" There is was, my mother showing her true colors. My father stepped in front of me blocking mother from seeing me. "She didn't have to say anything, people talk you know and they had a lot to say about you, Lupe." My mother was like a child in front of my father and it was like I was seeing a different woman altogether. "Let's go home and talk things throug
IANNA'S POV I looked at Adolph and felt sorry for him. His father was dead and he was angry. I didn't mind what he was saying because of that and he didn't like me to begin with. "I was just leaving." I told him then I walked out leaving the siblings alone. I went back to my room but before I could enter, I heard voices, it was my father and Aegen. I stood by the door and listened. I knew one of them was going to smell my scent and know I was there but I had to listen. I wanted to hear if the two got along. "Sir, I will help you in any way you can. There is no love lost between my siblings and I." That was Aegen and I anxiously waited for my father's response. "I heard you and I will let you know when I need you. I hope you won't mind, I will be taking back my throne and I don't care what happens to your siblings. If they stand in my way or try anything with my daughter then I will have no mercy. My daughter has been through enough and I will not let your siblings put her through a
Christina I glared at my brother when Ianna left. I walked to the door and listened to her footsteps fading away. Then I turned back to my brother. "What are you doing?" I squinted my eyes looking at my brother. "What? I don't like her and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The girl is after my crown!" Oh how wrong we both were, Ianna was not the one we were supposed to worry about. Her daddy was the problem. If Ianna was indeed, who she said she was, then her father was the true King. The throne was his and we, had no claim to it. "I was wrong, Ianna was telling the truth when she said she wanted nothing to do with the crown." He looked at me confused as usual. "What are you talking about?" I went to sit on the bed with no clue on how to go about getting rid of her father. "Ianna's father is here, I met him." He still gave me a confused look. "What does he have to do with anything?" Oh, sometimes I wonder where is the cunning in him Aegen always spoke of. "If her father is her
AdolphI looked at the witch with nothing but hatred in my eyes. No, it wasn't hatred, it was disdain. I wished I could wrap my hands around that thin long neck of hers and squeeze the life out of her and watch as she takes her last breath.Who the hell did she think she was to say something like that to me? That man was not king yet and I was still the crowned prince. "There is a saying that people say, it says don't count your chickens before they hatch. I will suggest you do the same because you don't know what tomorrow holds."I warned, it was time I showed them who I really was, they thought they could walk all over me but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was Adolph the majestic wolf and I was meant go rule. I was not about to let them or anyone else take that away from me. If they wanted to know what I was capable of then they should keep pushing."I think you should be the one taking that advice, I mean, you are not the king yet, it might not happen. I suggest you get
Christina I watched my brother leave without saying word about where he was going or what he was going to do. I went back to my room and sat on the bed trying to come up with a plan to deal with our problem but nothing came to me. They had everyone who could have helped us win this. Aegen and his warriors. The witch and her visions and whatever else she could do. Two true Royals and their powers. Powers we knew nothing about. We were on the losing side and I didn't like it.I found myself resenting the day I met Ianna. Why was I so forward and befriended her? I should have never done that, but I didn't know who she was or what she was going to be. I was the princess and I thought I was looking out for someone who was going to be loyal to me for life.I didn't know I was helping someone who was going to take my place. Oh, how I hated her. "Turn that frown upside-down little sis, we are about to have everything we want." I didn't know when Adolph arrived but he was standing on the doo
AEGENThe guard went looking for Ianna’s phone in all the places she went to toady, but he could not find it. I tried calling it again, but it kept ringing with no answer. I didn’t think much of it when I asked my head of security to track it.But I started to worry when she told me that she tracked it to the woods close to our spot. Our spot was between the palace and the deep-water pack. There were only three people who knew about that spot and one of them was dead.Me, Ianna, and my dead sister. Also, I knew that Ianna would not have gone to that spot without me. We promised we would find time to go there together. Plus, the guard said she never left the palace grounds since I left.That only meant one thing, that her phone was stolen, and the culprit was someone who worked in the palace. I wouldn’t have cared about finding the phone if it wasn’t for the serial killer we had in our hands.I could not take any chances and there were no coincidences with these kinds of things. So, I
IannaI studied until noon then I went and got lunch for myself. I was starting to feel dizzy, and I knew it was because I didn’t eat breakfast. Aegen would have been angry with me if he knew I didn’t eat breakfast.He would have accused me of starving his child. Not knowing that I didn’t have appetite this morning. After eating, I felt sleepy, and I decided to go and take a nap for a while before going back to my studies.The week has ended and there were still no new leads on the serial killer. Aegen was getting frustrated by all of it. I could hear it in his voice very time we spoke on the phone. But there was nothing either of us could do about it.This person has to be stopped. One way or the other he has to be found. I told my guard I was going to take a nap for a while and that he should not let anyone disturb me. I missed having a friend in the palace.Now that Aegen was not here, I didn’t have anyone to talk to. It was lonely. The omega bless their souls try to talk to me and
AEGENLeaving the palace was difficult, not it was not but leaving Ianna was. Especially now, knowing that she might be in danger. We didn’t know who this was, we didn’t know where he was. He could be at the palace for all we knew and yet. I was leaving her behind.My heart was not at ease, but I had to go. She wanted me to be the best warrior in the kingdom and not her mate and father of her unborn child. She trusted me to get this person and put this matter to rest.It has been a week since I left her, and three more people have been killed so far. A she-wolf from the silver moon pack and a close guard to the young alpha of the deep-water pack. Jeyden. He too was killed the same way as the others.Another was the young alpha from the Golden Moon pack and this one was a friend of Jeyden. Now I believed that the person who was doing all the killings was after Jeyden, but we still didn’t know why.We were now back at the Deep-Water pack to question the kid. I want thinking this person
IANNAI sat there listening to Damon explain about this serial killer and I didn’t know what to do. Aegen and I have just taken over as leaders of the kingdom and yet the very first challenge we had on our hands had nothing to do with finances.Resolving pack disputes, no, our problem was bigger than anyone else’s. we had a serial killer in our hands, and we had no idea what to do or how to stop the person. I hear Damon saying they are trying to figure out what this person wanted, and I couldn’t care less about that.I wanted the person can be found. The only way to know what the person wanted was to find them and question them. “Tell me Damon, since you and my father have discovered what this person’s Amo is, have you not discovered what he wants already?”I mean, his actions and the scorpion should give them an idea what he wants. “It’s not that simple with this person. The Amo is the same, but that doesn’t give us anything at all. Just some killings done by the same person nothing
AEGENI watched from the window as my mother and Ianna’s father got into the car and left. She has been trying to talk to me since the coronation, but I would not hear any of it. She did something wrong and she needed to know that and learn.This is how Christina started her evil ways and because I forgave her when she did that. She continued to a point that she ended up almost killing my mate. Mother needs to know that we don’t do things like that I was not going to allow her to start now.What she did was vindictive for no reason because Ianna’s father chose her. Why did she have to go the extra mile rubbing it. That is one thing I will never understand.Ianna came and stood behind me. “You should have said goodbye to her.” I scoffed. “She is not dying but leaving the kingdom.” She came and stood in front of me. “You are going to miss her.”I took her into my arms inhaling her scent. “Of course. I will miss her; she is my mother after all and I love her. But, not enough to encourage
MICHAELIt was so good to see how well she was received by the kingdom. I knew they would be like that as soon as they knew who she really was. She too looked happy, I didn’t know if it was because of the crown or the pregnancy. But it didn’t matter.What mattered was that she was happy. But I wouldn’t say the same about Aegen, he looked bothered before going to be crowned. I asked his mother to go and talk to him. I didn’t want him taking the crown if he didn’t want to.My daughter deserved more than that, though I didn’t think being with her was the problem. I was sure it had something to do with his family. That was why I asked his mother to talk to him.“Penny for your thoughts?” I snapped out of it. “I was just thinking about Aegen and what could be bothering him on a day like this. Doesn’t he want the child?” I asked his mother. I didn’t know what to think and I didn’t want to leave Ianna if things were not right with them.“No, it’s not that, he is looking forward to being a fa
AEGEN I didn’t know what to say when she told me that she was pregnant. Of course, I was happy but damn it. Did she have to tell me in front of all those people. How I had to restrain myself and not act cry in front of them.I was going to be their king after all. I pulled her gently close to me and whispered. “You are a very cruel queen and you have not even been crowned yet.” She chuckled. “Why would my kind say something like that on such a day.”I gave her a playful glare. “You told me this here on purpose knowing very well I can’t do what I want to do to you. How could you do that if you were not cruel?” she laughed. “Well, Malraux kingdom, I think we should crown them now before they show us things we are not prepared to see.”That fucking elder said making the crow laugh at our expense. “This is not over, not by a long shot my dear queen.” I whispered to her, and she blushed. I could not believe she was carrying my child.No wonder she was adamant on finishing her studies ear
IANNATwo months have passed, and it was the day of the coronation. Today Aegen and I are going to be crowned king and queen of the kingdom then my father will leave with Aegen’s mother to lead the fairies. I still can’t believe those two. But they were happy and there was nothing I could do about it.I was happy for them. Aegen and I have been happy, and we are expecting. But I have not told him about that yet. I plan to tell him after the coronation. To surprise him, am sure he is going to be happy about it.Damon also took the girl from the deep-water pack as his mate, and I believe she had made him soft if I dare say. “I can’t believe this is happening, it is packed out there that it got me scared a little.” He said coming in.I turned to look at him and fixed his tie. “Well, you better get rid of that fear because it is happening. We didn’t want to go to the fairy kingdom, and this is what we got.” He sighed pouting. I kissed him.“Don’t stop, why are you stopping?” I chuckled mo
LUPEI felt sorry for my daughter, the Goddess knows I do but I could not take it anymore. It was too much. The only thing she has been doing through all of this is complain, call me stupid and asking me why I didn’t kill my other daughter.I was tired of it, we have done enough and the reason we were now going to live with the humans, it was because of us. We did this to ourselves, and we had no one else to blame but ourselves. Me especially, I am her mother, and I should have taught her right from wrong.But I didn’t and now it was too late to do anything. “Lissa, go get your bags so we can leave.” She scoffed. “Didn’t you hear what I said mom, I want them to pay for what they did to me. You have to do something.”This child is driving me insane and if she continues this way. I am going to lose my mind and I don’t know what she will do then when I am cray. “You will get me in the car and if you are not there in the next twenty minutes. I am going to leave without you.”I told her th