ADRIAN"Why...why am I seeing a lot of foreign faces?" I tried to sound as unbothered as possible. The training for the position of the puppet King had started this morning. I had been so excited I would finally see their treacherous faces. I needed to see how many loyal men she had but now, I was shocked to my bones as I stood on the balcony to the western wing with Veronica. The guards, even Gregory was amongst them. He sat by the hay and kept to himself as he played with his word. Gregory was definitely not Veronica's loyalist. Veronica hummed as she bent her head sideways with closed eyes, so the wind could brush through her curls and light purple gown, a bright smile on her face. "Oh Adrian. It will be good. I can feel it in my bones." Truth was I felt like smashing her head on the rail in front of me. She avoided my question. I gritted my teeth and begged myself for patience. Veronica was toying with me and the most annoying part, she was deeply enjoying it. She couldn't kno
ADRIAN"I suggest we just attack, my lord. They're only a few men. We do not need the Lycans. The sooner the better."Gregory had a strong feeling about this. We were seated in my study this morning and Greg came in, in all good spirits. He claimed Veronica's men did their training in the guards quarters and they were just few men she had. He suggested we attack the men and kill Veronica, afterwards. But this wasn't settling to me, for some reason, it just didn't seem alright to me. Why would Veronica allow her men, if they were just a few of them to train where they stood to be ambushed anytime? No. It was a trap. "No. It is a trap. Veronica is smart. She knows what she's doing. She wouldn't willingly strip herself bare to us, especially if she knew we could take them out. Don't." I was still deep in thought as my mind appeared to think of what the witch was planning. But Gregory didn't understand, he believed this was our opportunity. He didn't know the witch like I did."We can't
ARIAI was shaken violently from my sleep. I hadn't been able to sleep for days and this night was the night I succumbed to sleep. I groaned in protest and shifted away for the second time. The shake began again and this time, it was followed with a voice. "Aria. You need to wake up. Veronica is searching for you from cottage to cottage. She is coming here." Ferris sounded scared, more like she was already panicking. This had me opening my eyes and shooting pff the bed immediately, my eyes searching and adapting in the darkness, focusing on her. "What?" I whispered. "How did she find out where I am?" No. It couldn't be. Where was Adrian? If she was doing this then something definitely happened to him. What has happened to my mate? "Where's Adrian? Where's Gregory?" My voice was loud, what did she do to my mate? From how enlarged Ferris eyes was, I knew she had no clue about our mates. My heart fought for the different waves of emotions that came so suddenly, from how my body warmed
ARIAThe sky was clearing up, becoming brighter and brighter but I was no where close to being around the borders. My feet were weak and bloody. I had a lot of cuts and bruises as a result of stepping on the thorny plants. It didn't help that it rained and now the fresh muddy soil seeped into my cuts. I discared my two cloaks for they had gotten much heavier from the rain. Fresh warm blood spat out of my re opened wound, creating a red coloured map on my sleeping gown. I ached all over but I still walked on, with shallow breaths and clouded dizziness and no soul cared. I was passing through the villagers but none of them stopped to help me with my condition. They just watched me, whispered amongst themselves and went on with their daily lives.I happened to remember the stall of an old man I was kind to at the beginning of my reign as I walked. I navigated my way with difficulty to the stall in the market and climbed into his stall. He looked startled at first, his eyes enlarging as h
ADRIANA bucket of cold water was poured over my head. The coldness seeped into my naked skin and make me shiver awake. I was lost, at first, my mind was unable to recollect. My lazy eyes looked around and wondered what was happening until I lifted my gaze up and saw Gregory binded at his arms and feet while Ferris was on her knees. The guards were noisy, creaming in obvious victory, their arms high up, their once upon a time king was now at their feet while others kept splashing the pails of water they held in their hand on my guards. I tried shifting immediately to fight but I winced in pain. I looked down on myself and saw the dried blood that stained my thighs and arms. That was when the earlier events came flooding in my head. I remembered everything. How wrong we were, to think that Veronica wouldn't catch on our plans and this was the outcome. "Now, now." Veronica's voice boomed in the grand hall. She was seated on her throne and what? She even had make-up on, the black lips
ADRIANThe hall was dead quiet, pin drop silence. All the guards looked at each other, silently demanding explanation from one another. They had long abandoned me and already forgotten about the punishment they wanted to impose. Veronica on the other hand, had become white, dead white and her eyes mirrored shock, she looked disbelievingly at me. The sword she was holding had long slipped from her grasp. She parted her lips, to soeak but no words seemed to roll off her tongue. I smiled. For the first fucking time in a long while, I stretched my lips, showing off my set of teeth. It was time. The deed was just half way but I already breathed so much better already. Veronica was dead meat and there was nothing she could do about it now. She had no escape. She looked around the hall, her hair whipping from one direction to another, obviously looking for a way out when the loud noises and cries began. The hall negan to fill with murmurs and gasps at the realization of what was happening
ADRIANThe palace was in ruckus. The air was polluted with smoke from the fires and bombs set ablaze. The cries had reduced a notch but the noise was still loud. I was gotten a physician. I sat on the throne chair as the Lycan warrior male herbalist proded my at my injury. He dipped his hand insde the green paste and smeared it on my injuries. It burned for a split while before it became slight peppery tinglings. My ripped breeches were torn from a healthy length before the Lycan wrapped a clean cloth around my thighs, covering the sore up. The grand doors were open and by now, the only people I saw were the Lycans passing and skipping the dead bodies through the hall way. It was a done deal. The Lycans have completely taken over. I looked longingly at the doorway, waiting for my mate to grace me with her presence but she never did. Each time I looked up, I was met with a different Lycan, hence my disappointment."Where's Aria?" My voice was above a whisper, loud enough for the warri
ADRIAN"Find her. Right now!" I ordered some set of Lycans after the Cosmos treacherous guards proved how incompetent they were. Their bodies were on the floor now, their stinky blood staining the grand floor. Veronica was definitely somewhere in the castle, planning something. Whatever it was, she had nowhere to hide now. If she thought she could easily maneuver her way out of this like she did before, then she was crazier than I thought. She had to be somehere, in this very walls. "Search everywhere! Bring her to me!" My throat ached from my loud commands. "Adrian. You need to rest your leg." Ferris tried as much as possible to take care of me since King Maddock and his first in command had retreated back to his kingdom but I had other plans. I didn't care about my almost incapable legs. I have more important matters. My leg would be just fine, as long as Veronica was captured, tis was just a matter of time. "My King, where are we to take the Luna?" I looked up at the voice o