AEGENThe Malraux kingdom was once again turned into a battle ground. Bodies soiled the grounds and blood ran dry. The air was filled with two distinctive scents.The metallic scent of blood and the scent of things burning scent of fire. I watched as the warriors cleaned up. I still have not found the fairy king. It was like he disappeared into thin air like a magician.“I am going to the fairy kingdom with the witch. It’s high time we put an end to this war.” Ianna’s father said joining me. I said nothing, I was numb and most importantly. I was exhausted.“You can stay here if you want. The fairy king is gone and am not sure where he went but we can not sit back and wait for another attack. This kingdom will not be able to handle it.”I turned to look at him. “With all due respect sir, I will have to say this. I don’t care what this kingdom can and can not handle. I have been fighting for this kingdom my entire life and I am tired.”I told him. “All I want now is a peaceful life with
MICHAEL“Something is wrong with him.” I said to the witch as soon as she joined me in the car. She looked over at Aegen who was just standing there looking lost. “He is losing hope that anything good will happen to him.”She glanced at him before telling the driver to go. “He has been used and abused by his family all his life. He and Ianna are kindred spirits. They went through similar things with their parents and siblings, they were meant to be together.”That was why they were mated; the moon goddess knew they needed each other. I just wished my daughter’s life didn’t turn out the way it did after I left.“Don’t start with that, I didn’t mention their lives to make you feel guilty about not being there for Ianna when she needed you. She understands why you couldn’t be there, and she forgave you. She even calls you dad now, that must feel good.”She teased but I didn’t care. Being called dad by her after everything felt really good. We were starting to build our relationship and i
MICHAELHe backed away from me going behind his desk as if that was going to save him. He stretched his hand out to stop me from advancing. I stopped just to see what he was going to do. “Don’t you even think of doing something stupid now Micheal.”I laughed; he was a funny man. How could he think that I was going to do something stupid when he was the one who did, not who has been doing stupid things for many years now. “I wouldn’t dream of doing something stupid. I am still a king after all and doing stupid things will only make my subject resent me.”I pulled a chair and sat. the witch was standing by the door with her arms folded in her chest. The fairy kept glancing at her then back at me. He remained standing.I would too if I were him and not sure what was going to happen to me. I would want to be ready. “Why don’t you take a seat, we have a lot to talk about.” She shook his hea
MICHAELHe stood pushing the chair with so much force that it fell behind when he stood. I just looked at him, I wished I felt sorry for him, but I didn’t. this man has caused my family so much pain.He started by killing my whole family, attacking us in the night and locking me up for years. Then now when he attacked killing the man who took my crown, then again now when he attacked and destroyed half my kingdom.I could forgive anything but not what he did. He deserved what was coming to him. He brought the papers and signed them over to me. “I want everything, even your hidden fortune.”He glared at me. “I have no hidden fortune, all that you took is what I had.” I laughed. “Do you think am stupid? You were leaving just now probably going on a run, you didn’t carry anything but a small bag. What were you going to live of off?”He cursed under his breath. He then took out some docum
MICHAELI had a long talk with the fairies about their kingdom and how I wanted them to run it. They were to report everything to me and submit written reports of their expenditure. All that. I did not want to waste funds with them.They needed to learn to be responsible. Their king was dead, and I was yet to go over the documents I got from him and see how wealth they are. Then we can maybe ease up a little.They were not and never will be happy being led by a werewolf. I get that it was a strange situation, but we had no choice. I didn’t want to spill more blood and to avoid that. I was doing this.Taking the fairies under my wing. “I am just about ready to leave now, I can’t stay here any longer.” I complained to the witch. She yawned as well showing how tired she was. “I am tired too. Let’s go.”We left and drove home. The drive was a silent one, the witch fell asleep in the car. I coul
IANNAI looked at Aegen not knowing what to think about the offer my father just made. “What do you think?” he sighed then stood walked to the kitchen, poured himself a glass of water before turning to look at me.“I don’t know what to think here. I want to leave this place; I have lost so much in this place that I want to leave it behind. But on the other hand, I don’t know if going to the fairy kingdom and leading the fairies is something I would want to do.”I didn’t know what to do either, all I knew was that I didn’t want to fight or spill more blood. I felt like I had spilled more blood while I lived in the palace.Well, that was understandable since I learned how to fight and defend myself from there, but I have had enough. I needed some normalcy in my life, and I didn’t I was going to get it at Malraux kingdom.“What do you want to do? This doesn’t concern only me but you as well.” I sighed and beckoned him to come to me. He came and sat next to me. “I wish my father had given
IANNAThat night I slept like a log; I did not dream about anything or wake up in the middle of the night. I think I was tired to a point that I just shut down. But I felt relaxed and well rested this morning.I went for a run, something I have not done in weeks since this damn war started. I came back and went to fetch breakfast for Aegen and I. he was still asleep when I got back, and I didn’t wake him.He needed his rest after everything that happed. There was a knock on the door, and I went to open. Aegen’s mother was standing on the other side of the door. “Good morning, Ianna. How are you doing?”I smiled opening the door wider for her to get inside. “I am fine, well rested. How are you?” she glanced at me giving me a small smile. “I have had better nights. Aegen here?” I nodded going to pour her a cup of coffee.“He is but still sleeping.” She took a seat next to me. “That’s alright, I am not in a hurry. Will you attend Christina and Adolph’s funeral? I organized them for this
AEGENI didn’t mean it like that, the Goddess knows I didn’t. I glared at my mother. “You just had to come here and talk about this damn funeral.” She looked shocked by my outburst. She shouldn’t be, she asked for it.“Aegen…” I raised my hand and stopped her from talking. Her mouth hung open not believing I just did that. I didn’t want to, but she was forcing my hand. “I told you I didn’t want to go to this funeral, but you keep pushing and pushing. I am not a child anymore mother.”I laughed mockingly. “What am I saying? Even when I was a child all you knew how to do best was to reprimand me just like father did. Nothing I ever did was good enough for any of you.”Mother looked sad when I compared her to my father. It was the truth I never wanted her to hear. I endured everything growing up and keeping everything to myself.“You were more of a mother to them than you were with me, your own son! You never asked how my day was when I came back home with bruises. All you did was tend t
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