The maids walked with their heads bowed to the ground, as they made their way into the room by the head maid's instructions. She choose three of the maids including Azalea, to enter inside and serve the wine to the guests. In an arranged order, they made their way into the room according to the way they were ordered. Azalea whose head was still bowed down walked over to the guests side, to serve them the wine that she had with her. She suddenly thought her heart would drop when she heard a familiar voice, with same peevishness and sauciness it was always laced with."Make sure the wine does not spill on my dress!" 'Goodness! Is that not Coral's voice?' Azalea's subconsciousness rang, as she tried to squint her eyes to the side. To be sure if he she had heard right, or if her ears were doing the trick. She was sure it was Coral.'That means Hendrix is here too. And the entire Haystars family!' her head screamed in her mind again. A feeling of uneasiness formed in her heart, wondering
Azalea had a long and restless night again, because of different maids with their own different sleeping habits. There were some who snored or talked loudly in their sleep, while there were some that moved from their own mat, to another's and sleep on the person. To make matters worse was that, no matter how much they opened the window in the room, it was still always stuffy. She had woken up since dawn and had kept an open eyes till the bright morning, already sure that she would probably sleep off during her service to Ayden. Right before she left his room, she made sure he wore no upper clothing, and opened all the windows for aeration. She could not afford him getting stiffened in heat through the night. Immediately the door to the room of the maids was opened for them to go out, Azalea jumped out and made her way quickly right to Ayden's room. Sure no one was around, she quickly inserted the key into the lock and opened it. She could not afford to hear rumors like; she ha
The preparations for the king's upcoming birthday feast had began fully around the palace, with every servant working in every way they could, to clean the outdoor hall at the palace. There were painters around repainting every wall of the palace in naturally made colour pigments, and more chairs and tables were being brought into the palace outdoor hall by some others too. Just right across the twins hallway, Eadlin could be spotted walking hurriedly to her twin sister's room with a huge grin on her face. She heard words of it that Edla was refusing to eat that morning, and that she had sent every of her maids away in anger never to be seen around her again anymore. That put fear in the heart of the girls, because none of them would like to work outside the palace rooms, even if Edla was such an annoying stuck-up. Eadlin who had tried to open the room but found her door locked, thought of something that would make Edla open the door, without she having to stress herself o
Azalea sat beside Ayden's bed where he laid still, watching intently every inch of him for any movement. She had been trying to hold her scared feelings to herself, as she encouraged in her mind that Ayden would wake up soon. Watching the night get darker and darker with not many soul still awake, she sniffled often and often trying hard not to let the tears making her eyes glassy pour down. "Master, stop lying there like a log of wood and just pick yourself up. I've been trying to hope strongly that you would wake up soon, but it is almost one day already and you are still not moving," she sniffled again and rocked his body gently. The thought of anything happening to Ayden mumbled her thoughts into anxiety. If he by any chance lost his life in the process, then she was in every way guilty to death; For killing a member of the royal family, for practicing a technique she knew not much about, for being failure and for interfering into matters that did not concern her in any way.
"What..why..?" Ayden stuttered with his eyes still bulging out, and his right hand pointing to the direction of her hair. Azalea quickly held the hair in her left hand and tried to roll it up immediately. "I've been keeping it since I was young, since my mother did not the hair for a long time. I think I am ready to cut it now though," Azalea rushed her words, as she tried to fold her hair into three equal places of desirable length, before using a tie to hold the tip end of to the hair, to the beginning of her hair extension. "Do you need help cutting that?" Ayden stuttered again as his scratched his head, "I should at least start doing ........" "Do not worry, master. I should go run a hot bath for you now, so you can wash your body and your hair. Then I would go to the kitchen to go and get your breakfast, it has been a while since you've eaten well" Azalea cut in considerably. Azalea stared at the prince's body and could speculate that he had lost so much weight, especial
Hendrix tried to control his anger as he told the guards around, to send every lady that were at the party back to their home immediately. He stormed angrily towards the direction of his room, with his mother scurrying after him as fast as she could wondering what made her son so raged. "Hendrix wait. What is going on with you," Scarlett asked her son as she held the hem of her emerald green dress, following him into his room hurriedly which was far from where they had left. As soon as he got to the front of his room, he swung open the huge door by force and entered inside immediately. Though he was angry about what his mother did without telling him, but the anger he could feel within him was much greater than even the actions. "Hendrix, why did you chase every of guests away. They were here for you," his mother said immediately she had gotten to his room entryway and entered inside. "Did I say I wanted someone to marry?!" He almost yelled, trying to control the anger he was fe
"I don't want a party!" Azalea remembered Ayden's words to the king the previous day, as she restructured her plans to make the prince's party a remarkable one. It was Ayden's birthday party the next day and he had said nothing to anyone, as he didn't even seem so glad about that fact. It was not really anything huge since he still felt so terrible with himself, that he had still not shifted into his wolf form even till twenty. It made him feel less so terrible and bad even if he tried to hide it.Ayden had told Azalea that she shouldn't go back to sleep at the cramped maid's room, as he made a very comfortable space at his room for her. But whenever he had slept in the night, she would sneak out to join the other personal maids at where they slept. She has always thought that prince would not really understand how tough the palace could get for a maid, when that kind of relationship between a master and a maid, becomes a topic for main talks around the palace walls. She had alw
The mood around the room was somewhat gloomy, with Ayden checking out the dozens of clothes he had. Azalea who had tried to pick out the perfect ones for him, soon gave up after the young prince didn't seem satisfied by anyone. "Can you imagine? I have to at the palace on or before six in the evening. Am I young child? What a joke!" Ayden exclaimed angrily, as he finally found something he felt like he could wear. "It is at least nice that you can leave the palace freely now. It is probably for your own safety too," Azalea said, trying to comfort her master who didn't seem moved the slightest by such words. He just struggled angrily with the cloth he wanted to wear."It is just because everyone sees me as a joke," he spat again, as he stood in front of the mirror to dress himself, "Then the king said if I am able to show him I have basic defending skills, he would let me be free by myself. I have never even held a sword before, talk less of swinging it!" He hissed again and again, a
He gently walked towards the hallway that led to the garden to see if she was probably there, but the place was empty and lonely just as they had left it. His heart began to feel unsettling, as he quickly made his way into every room in the palace that he knew she usually liked going to. "Check every nook and cranny of the palace for Azalea, right, now!" Ayden dispatched every servant and soldier around, as he walked back into their room looking so confused and stressed out. That was when his eyes caught the paper that was folded neatly, and placed under the oil bottle in the dresser in the room. He rushed to pick it as he opened it. It thus read; "Dear Ayden. I know you must have been alarmed by now about my disappearance, but do not be. I am sorry to leave you in this manner, but this is actually the best thing to do for now. Do not look for me too, because you will not be able to find me even if you try. My powers have gone out of hand, and I have finally figured out why. Seem
The palace of many rooms and hallways was unbelievably quiet, with just servants and maids doing their best to clean every room in the large building. Everywhere was now more silent than ever, rather than the usual noises of the main family that once lived there happily. Everyone now had their lives to live.Zachary had left the palace together with his wife Armani and their son, after publishing his new book which had become best selling in a few weeks. Edla refused to go with Elliott when he came back one more time to see Ayden and Azalea, rejecting his offer to find a job for her in the nearest city which was many miles away. He told her that Eadlin had joined another pack as a warrior, and just spent her time training endlessly. Edla remained in and out the palace walls in hopes that one day,, she would still be able to capture the heart of Hendrix whom she still loved in her heart. Being well versed with the embroidery skills she learnt and spent her time doing during her
For the king, she had robbed him of his mate and the real Luna of the kingdom, because of her own selfish gain. She also made their only child's life a miserable one, and tried to kill the true prince of the kingdom several times without number. And she had even given birth to the children he had loved with his entire life, for another man whom she disguised as her brother to the palace. With him again she conspired to put his life into danger and left his already thin body to decay, so that she could finally usurp the throne with him. She also put a division between him and his bonafide son. For her first son Elliott, she made his life a miserable one since he had started growing up by pushing him too hard. Beyond his limits that put him into great depression and low-self esteem, and helped him to find solace in a lady who was willing to do everything for him. Robbed him of being the first son of the king. And to that beautiful union she put a division because of her greedy
Arturo was pacing his sword already in restless motion, in stark contrast to Azalea's as he traced roving loops with the point. He stepped forward, his sword swinging in a mock offense in an experimental probe into motion. He had put his dark magic power into the sword, and was ready to destroy the despicable little lady that was right in front of him. He hated so much that she had refused to die and always sat on his nerves, and that she was doing it till the very last moment. That was when he knew that she should not have underestimated her powers. However, he was ready to destroy her finally.Azalea launched aggressively straight into the attack as she filled her sword with her powers, left, right--she twisted away, jumped back, closed in for the attack again taking him off balance. The last time that she had hesitated to finish up everything with the fight, Ayden's sudden attack from Eadlin had distracted and almost caused both of them death.The werewizard swung his sword in a
Azalea was lying on the cold and bare floor hopelessly, weak and out of breath, with no assurance of surviving till the next day. Ayden had not even stirred ever since they had been locked up in the room, and was just motionless on the floor with also no one to tend to the wound he got from Eadlin's stab. If he was dead or alive she knew not, and her wrenched heart could also not take anymore pains or could her eyes shed anymore tears. The floors of the room were beginning to quake more violently, of the self-destruct effects it was having on itself. It was a glaring fact that the situation was just too despairing to do anything. If a miracle would occur by any chance at that moment, then she would first have to get out of the prison she was locked in unscathed. If there was another one that was willing to follow, she would also need the strength to escape together with Ayden. If she was going to escape safely with him, he needed to be alive and strong enough to migrate, for h
Edla and Zachary had remained restless all day while going in and out of his room, searching for clues that could help them discover where Azalea and Ayden could be. It was a tricky one because there were now twice as many soldiers in the palace, but they could now walk around freely however they liked. No one was talking about their mother and if she was okay, and they had no idea if the king was still even alive. The entire family had become a royal mess that the gossip about it could never be heard outside the palace if they all wanted to keep their heads. Eadlin was the only one allowed to see her mother and see her recuperation progress, while Elliott had run away from the palace the night the fight escalated with Azalea, and he saw his mother to the ground. Though he still felt the love he had for her as a son, she had ruined him too much for him to watch her stand back on her feet. He went back to search for Gianna at the inn where her parents owned, but they told him t
"We are all doomed now!! There is certainly no way out of this. There is no way!" Edla panicked, yelled and screamed, as she paced from end to end in Zachary's room. She had stood by the nearest room with a window to watch what had happened during the fight, but fled after the buildings collapsed for the second time. The next event that followed after the entire fight and commotion, was Arturo that now sat on the throne as the new king to reign. That same day, he summoned everyone in the city and called them to the palace, in which his new men informed all of them of the new development. It became the words amongst them that the wicked queen had been usurped, while their savior whom she also manipulated initially had come to save them from their misery. Everything had turned on Etheldreda to Arturo's full exploit. To make everything seem plausible, he started by banning the restriction orders and then fixed the reduction in tax payments. Grains were massively shared too among
"Azalea took the entire afternoon to rest by the hut and to regain her strength, while Ayden sharpened the sword that they found in a corner which was insinuated to have been left by Armani. She had a strong affirmation in her heart that no matter where Armani was, she would be safe and fine in everything that she did. They had nothing left to eat from their bag, and just had to wait till nightfall before they returned back to the palace. It was definitely where they had to start the fight from, and choosing the night was the best time to attack.There was definitely no time to waste time. Using her powers to become invisible through air, both Ayden and Azalea were able to get near the palace wall. And through the hidden tunnel which was still safely untouched, they both made their way into the tunnel as they crawled gently. As soon as they continued to get near to the other end of the tunnel in the garden, Azalea continued to sense some kind of ambience around but she could not
"Go and take any clothes that would suit you well from my wardrobe, and remain here till I come back. Do not open the door to anyone even if they knock!" She instructed, and hurriedly put on the clothes the girl was wearing initially, ignoring whatever sweat and dirt that might have gotten on it. The royal family which now consisted of Etheldreda, Arturo, and Elliott would be at the royal dining having dinner at that time. It was around that time too that the soldiers changed shifts and received dinner, so things would definitely be rowdy around without much attention paid to everyone passing by. But still, she had to make sure not to get caught, because she had no idea what her mother would do to her for disobeying the rules. With tension and some sought of contrition in her heart, she hoped so much in her heart never to run into anyone who would figure her out, even with her changed appearance. Edla stepped out of the room with the empty tray of food plates that the maid had