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Kat POV“Are you alright?” Enzo glanced my way, his hand capturing mine as I tapped my fingers on the arm rest of the private plane. I tried to smile, but I knew that it probably looked more like a grimace. My time being Kat had come to an end, and I was being forced to become Princess Katerina - Jurgen had made certain of that. The smug looking arsehole sat with his cold eyes closed, absolutely at peace as the private plane hurtled toward Slovenia, leaving all I knew behind. Eli sat on the opposite side of him, looking as nervous as I felt although I'm pretty sure his nerves stemmed from the fact that he was scared of flying. In fact, he had almost insisted that we go to Slovenia by boat rather than flying, but Jurgen refused. For which I was rather grateful for. I'd rather skydive from ten thousand feet in the air than be anywhere near the water, the fear of drowning still plaguing my nightmares.Enzo squeezed my hand again, returning my attention back to the man. “I'll be fine, I
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Kat POVI will never forget the feeling that overwhelmed me when the plane finally rested on Slovenian soil, taxiing to the end of the runway where three black vehicles parked, waiting for us. The nervous energy tightened around my stomach, causing me to gag - not exactly the reaction one should be hoping for when returning to their home country. Forcing the nausea down, I looked through the window as the plane came to a stand beside the vehicles. I watched as six men climbed out of the cars, their muscular arms straining against the restriction of their white shirts, and their faces all neutral without a hint of what they might be feeling. “Come, Princess,” Jurgen instructed as he stood up and took my small bag with him as he walked to the door, opening it with a twist of a lever. He turned back to me, and I felt compelled to walk to him, leaving Enzo and Eli to gather up their bags and follow as we all filed down the stairs and onto the tarmac. “Oh ground, how I’ve missed you,”
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Kat POVKinga Mattias, or Uncle Mattias as he insisted on being called, sat beside me on the sofa in his office, his hand trembling as he held mine and tears shone unshed in his eyes. He insisted on knowing everything that I had been through in the last four years since my disappearance, even the bad stuff, and I tried to fill him in as best as I could. “There is almost a year between your kidnapping and when you were taken in by Miss Giulia that we do not know what happened to you,” he said slowly, a sad edge to his voice. “We know that you were taken by Castle Corp, but apart from putting that awful necklace around your neck, we don’t actually know what was done to you. It must have been terrible for your wolf to choose to separate herself from you entirely, although it was probably a good thing or else she could have gone mad. Maybe that was their aim, and why they used the necklace to suppress both her and your auras.” My eyes flew to the wooden box that Jurgen had placed on Unc
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Kat POVDinner was a disaster.From the first second that I sat down beside my uncle at the dinner table, until the moment I returned to my room, things just did not go well. And as much as my uncle tried to guide me, I could see that he was getting frustrated with the fact that I didn’t know much about formal dining, the political issues facing the werewolves or about the different ranks within the Royal Pack.And then my mother showed up.“Princess Anka,” the man who sat beside me stood and bowed to her before he offered her his seat, only to have it turned down with a snort as the woman chose to sit at the foot of the table, as far away from Uncle Mattias as she could get.“I’m glad you could finally join us, Anka,” my uncle said in a disapproving voice. “I trust that you have already welcomed your daughter back home.”She threw back her head and laughed, grabbing the bottle of wine from the table and pouring herself a glass. “Of course I did, Mattias.”Lies.She drank half the gla
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Enzo POVIt had become pretty darn clear that I was no longer welcomed at the Palace. No one had come out and said it outright, but between the back roads getting to the castle, and the convenient exclusions from certain guestlists, it was pretty obvious. A week passed since I had seen the woman my heart yearned to hold, and then another week went by. And still, I hadn’t even caught a glimpse of her. “I can’t believe they’re making you move out of the Palace,” Eli grumbled as he carried a box of miscellaneous things I had stored in my closet. “I’m not surprised. Despite King Mattias supporting my search for his niece, I never really believed that he ever wanted me to mate and marry her,” I grunted, lifting the last box of my belongings. “I'm not royal-worthy.”Eli snorted, “fucking royals. I hope they don't go and change Kat. I was starting to like her before she became a princess.”I didn’t respond, if I did I would have echoed his own fears and I didn't want to say those thoughts
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Kat POVThe door to my bedroom swung open and I jumped up from where I'd been sitting on the sofa in fright as a woman barged in, followed closely by a rather apologetic looking Jurgen. “I'm sorry for the intrusion, Princess Katerina,” he began before the middle aged woman raised her hand in his direction and halted his apology.“I am Madam Zametovka and I've been hired my King Mattias to remind you of your princess training,” the woman spoke slowly, her words dripping with condescension. “We will start now. You can go, guard.”Jurgen looked at me for confirmation and I nodded, letting him walk away and close the door behind him.“A princess does not laze about like a sloth,” Madame Zametovka waved her hand in the direction of the sofa. “Oh, I was just…” I began to tell her that I was reading about the different ranks in my uncle's armies, only for her to frown and walk away.“Don't oppose me, girl,” she growled, flinging open my closet doors. “Now take off all your clothes.”I blin
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Kat POVI closed my eyes and turned away, expecting to feel the teeth of the wolf pierce my skin. Only it didn’t come.I opened my eyes slowly, and watched as the black wolf seemed to grin at me before it padded off casually in the opposite direction from where it had come, its golden eyes gleaming. My heart hammered against my ribcage, the beating echoing in my ears as my fingers dug into the bark of the tree I leaned against for support. “What the hell are you doing out here alone?” I screamed and spun around, coming face to face with a furious Jurgen. “I was looking for Aurora,” I explained feebly, feeling rather stupid in retrospect. “I told you to wait for me, my Princess. You are vulnerable outside of the Palace walls, and even within, you are not entirely safe,” he scolded, arms folded across his chest. “Now come, you should return to the Palace before something bad happens out here.”I didn’t dare tell him that I had almost died. He would have been even more furious and h
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Kat POV“Is Aurora going to be alright?” I asked the moment the doctor and I were alone. He smiled slightly, and yet it was a painfully fake smile - the type people plaster on their faces whenever they have bad news but don’t want to seem intimidating. “She will survive this attack, Your Highness,” he said confidently before his tone changed entirely. “However, the link between the wolf and you has been fractured - and has been for a long time. You are no longer connected in the way you should be, and this is why she has not been able to heal in the way she should.”I chewed on my lower lip, fighting the fear that something was terribly wrong. “It is not normal for a werewolf to be separated from their human counterpart - even for Royals like yourself. While I understand that she may have done so to save both of your lives at some point in the past, it is now hurting her and will lead to her death. I need your permission to be able to consult my colleagues about your case and find
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