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My Mafia Mystery: The Barefoot Princess Chapter 33
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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Kat POV“What do you think you are doing?” The cold edge of Madame Zametovka’s voice was enough to freeze the blood in my veins, and I almost dropped the plate I held. “What do you mean?” I asked as casually as I could. She eyed me up and down, the condescension in her gaze enough to make me feel as insignificant as a fallen leaf in a forest. “Princesses do not get fat,” she responded, taking my plate from me and setting it on the table firmly. “And you are teetering close to that point.” I stared at her, my mouth hanging open slightly in shock that someone had really done something as crazy as refuse to let a person eat at dinner. But there she was, all five foot something of her dressed in an outfit better suited to mourning, and staring at me as if she were daring to defy her. Instead, I slapped on a strained smile, gritting my teeth as I brushed past her, desperate to escape her presence. “Don’t cry, don’t react, don’t cry, don’t react,” I chanted to myself under my breath a
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Damian POVI watched her - my Katerina - disappear with her bodyguard into the ballroom before I returned to the darkness of the shadows. A chuckle escaped my lips as I processed what had happened. Being the elected King of the Lonewolves, there had always been a chance that I would be mated to a woman of a high ranking in the werewolf world, but it had never crossed my mind that she would be Princess Katerina. I chuckled again at the irony and pulled out a cigarette, lighting it as I leaned back against the balustrade. “This is going to be a challenge I am going to enjoy,” I murmured, taking a drag of my cigarette. I barely heard the footsteps behind me before I heard a surprised “Damian? Is that you?” Cassie stood behind me, a bright smile on her gorgeous face the moment she recognised me. “Of course it’s you,” she laughed, hugging me tightly. “Which other werewolf smokes? Apart from Otis, but even in the shadows I can tell the difference.” “Well, that’s a relief,” I muttered
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Kat POV“Are you sure that you are going to be alright without me for a few days?” Jurgen asked, his eyes almost begging me to tell him that he needed to stay. “I can always tell King Mattias to choose another of his men to do this task.” I shook my head, “no. My uncle chose you for a reason, and I will be safe. There are other guards on the premises - you know that, right?”He smiled at my teasing edge before he took my hand and placed it on his arm, guiding me toward the wing where our rooms were. Jurgen seemed to walk extra slowly tonight, almost as if he were wanting to delay leaving. But he would leave. Uncle Mattias had ordered him to do a special task for him, and I knew my uncle well enough to know that he wouldn’t ask someone to do something without having a specific reason. He wasn’t the type of king to boss someone around just for the fun of it. “It shouldn’t take more than a week,” Jurgen said as my bedroom door came into view. I smiled at him and squeezed his arm sligh
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Kat POV“My man has been severely injured by one of your rabid dogs,” Dimitri spat out as soon as we entered the room. Just like that, all eyes were glued to my uncle and myself, waiting like vultures for the showdown they presumed would lead to bloodshed between our species. Otis and another elderly man from the council called Yanis, sat with rather smug expressions on their faces, as if they were enjoying every moment of it.“Come, Prince Dimitri,” my uncle tried to reason. “Let us talk about this in private where we do not have such an interested audience.” Dimitri snorted and grabbed the bottle of vodka from the table, taking a swig straight from the bottle which was half empty. “And let you trick me more than you already have? You promised me a union with your niece, but instead she is willing to spread her legs for every man beside me.”A gasp ran through the room as the accusation reached the spectators’ ears, and I’m pretty darn sure that the whole kingdom would be told that
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Kat POV“Who would dare to attack a guest in our home?” my uncle fumed, pacing back and forth to the point that I was sure that he would wear a groove in the floor of his office. Vasilios stood by the window, blocking most of the light and leaving a gigantic shadow on the floor. “I don’t know, Your Majesty. But it strikes me as strange that whoever attacked Prince Dimitri and his supporter did not kill either of them. In fact, it appears as if this was a deliberate ploy to stop the union between Princess Katerina and Prince Dimitri.” I chewed on my bottom lip, trying to keep myself from blurting out that there was no way in this universe that I would ever be forced into a relationship with that brute. I would honestly throw myself off the edge of the earth before I could ever find myself in bed with the monster. “Yes, I thought that was strange too,” my uncle mused, scratching his chin as he glanced at me out of the corner of his eye. I froze, wondering what my uncle was planning.
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Kat POVI lay in my bed staring at the ceiling for most of the night, my mind restless as Damian’s words repeated themselves again and again. If I were to be honest with myself, they actually scared me. He seemed to be the kind of man who’s threats were always promises, and who would stop at nothing to see his goals accomplished - even if it meant destroying me. When I eventually fell asleep, it was a fitful sleep, and I woke up more exhausted than I had been the whole evening. Aurora lay on her bed, her head on her paws as she watched me. “Good morning,” I yawned, trying to summon all the strength I could to get out of bed and failing miserably. The wolf got up, padding over to me and nudging my hand before she grabbed the corner of the duvet and pulled it off me, the cool air instantly making goosebumps spread across my legs. “That’s not fair,” I pouted, forcing myself to get out of bed since it was no longer a safe haven. She looked at me smugly - if you can even say that a wol
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Kat POV“Not who you were expecting?” Damian laughed harshly as he pushed his way into my room. I stood by the door, my mouth slightly agape in a mix of shock and horror. I toyed with the idea of leaving Damian in my room and running somewhere else, but the look of rage in the man’s eyes made me second guess that option. “What do you want, Damian?” I asked, gathering what little courage I had in the face of his raw masculinity. He smiled slightly as he walked to the window - the exact spot he had held me mere days ago, probably remembering the way his body had claimed mine. But I wasn’t his, and I never would be. “I saw you with Enzo Castello,” he grumbled through clenched teeth, the anger returning to his gaze. “What were you doing with him?”I shrugged casually, brushing off his fury with a flick of my hand. “What has my being with Enzo got to do with you? You do not own me,” I enunciated slowly.He moved so fast that I had barely any time to gasp before he had me pinned up again
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Kat POV“How about to Freedom, and all that it represents,” I suggested and he smiled slightly as he clinked his glass against mine. I could tell that he had been disappointed that I hadn’t toasted to our relationship. Sure, I believed him about Amia, and I knew that he was the man that “Kat the thief” had fallen in love with… but there was so much that had changed and I would be an utter idiot if I believed that I was the same person I was back then. “To Freedom,” Enzo toasted, taking a sip of the champagne. A weird tension pulsed between us, and I was desperate to get the joking, happy Enzo back. I slid from the booth, tugging Enzo with me as I dragged him to the dance floor. “What are you doing?” he asked, suspicious of my actions. I laughed and winked at him, turning to face him as I wrapped my arms around his neck. “I want to dance, and just forget everything that has happened.” His face instantly brightened, and he put his hands on my hips, swaying with me as the music chan
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Kat POVI clung to Enzo as he guided the bike down the dark, winding road toward the glinting lights in the distance, butterflies fluttering in my stomach as nervous energy built up in my body. I had no idea where we were going, and Enzo refused to tell me. His answer had simply been, “freedom.” So I had to accept that until we arrived, I was going to be kept in the dark. I was grateful for the warmth which radiated from his body, warming me as the cool air nipped at my exposed flesh. Winter was coming, and I was dreading the cold that it brought. I pulled myself closer to Enzo and felt his chest vibrate as he chuckled at my action, and probably loving it way more than he should. Time seemed to slow down as the town’s lights came closer, and it was only when Enzo pulled up outside what looked to be an abandoned building that I actually looked around me. The parking lot was desolated with not a person in sight, and only a few vehicles which looked as if they belonged in a scrap yard
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Katerina POVI sighed loudly, closing my eyes as I collapsed on my bed, not even bothering to change out of the dress I had worn to dinner. After lingering in the garden for longer than was probably necessary, I felt eyes on me and looked up at the balcony to see Damian smoking in the darkness - at least I thought it was him, no other werewolf smoked as far as I knew. My back instantly straightened and I stormed back into the dining hall before he could think to corner me into an attempt to justify his actions. I wasn’t interested. So instead, I spent a tense evening watching Anka throw herself at the bears. By the time she left the room with three of the meanest looking brutes, I had had enough of playing the perfect princess. Luckily for me, the dinner party seemed to be dying down so I could easily slip back to the solace of my own room. I felt a wet nose nudge my hand and opened my eyes to see Aurora, her big pale blue eyes looking at me. “You would have hated it too, girl,”
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Enzo POVI should have torn the head off of that obnoxious bear. Every single cell in my body wanted to see his blood spilled, but I knew that I would be executed if I did - and what would it serve if I killed the man who was meant to marry Kat, only to join him in the afterlife shortly after. This political game made my head hurt, reminding me of why I had left Slovenia in the first place. Sure, I had wanted to serve my King as best as I could, but I kept finding myself stumbling in the politics which doused the Royal Court. When Luca had asked me to take over the business side of the family, I jumped at the opportunity. It had been an escape I hadn’t known I had needed. Returning was the last thing I had wanted to do - and yet if I had to choose between my freedom and being close to Kat, I would choose her every time. “Where the hell are your clothes?” I heard Cassie screech, covering her eyes as if my nakedness offended her. I shrugged, putting my hands on my hips in the taunti
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Kat POVI watched Madame Zametovka’s face light up with a smile the moment Prince Dimitri and his gang of muscle entered the dining hall. She stood, fanning her face as she watched him out of the corner of her eye - like some middle aged cougar. I half expected her to lick her lips or drool with the way she was staring at him. She could have him, for all I cared. As far as I was concerned, I wasn’t interested in being forced into a marriage with the man. Hell, I wasn’t interested in being forced into a relationship with any man. Dimitri and his men mingled in the room, taking glasses of wine from the passing attendees and downing the contents in a single gulp. Even I knew better than that! Maybe they were the savages Cassie thought they were. “Katerina,” I heard a low voice whisper in my ear and I jumped, whirling around to face Damian, his eyes almost begging me not to walk away from him. “I need to talk to you.” I shook my head, refusing to even acknowledge him as I strode towar
