EMMA I rise early that evening and as I feed Adonis; I ring my brother.“Alpha Samuel, here.” “Hey, bro.”“Emma… Is everything okay? Do you need me there?” I laugh, as I say, “No, everything is fine. I just met a Vampire Queen that Master Jeremiah and his mother made an alliance with…”I don’t miss his growl at the fact that I still call Jeremiah Master, but I can’t help it. He was and always will be my Master.“Okay, is she a threat?” “I’m not sure. I don’t think so. She saw our exchange program and was wondering if you would consider meeting with her to maybe…”“I would have to meet her. The one I did with Jeremiah was for you, not him. It was to bring you home… Not that, that worked…” “I will visit soon. I w
EMMA I spend the next few nights split between Queen Amelia and my normal duties throughout the castle and kingdom, as I thought it would be good for her to see how everything ran even without me moving through the kingdom or castle.Amelia and the twins were due to be on the plane just before dawn to return to their kingdom. We arranged to meet in my office to make any changes and resign the alliance. I carried Adonis with me as I entered my office. I had Finn place a small portable crib in my office for Adonis so I could monitor him while I did some of the mountains of paperwork that goes with being a Royal.I had been in my office for about an hour when there was a knock on the door. I lift my head and say,"Enter..."I smile as Amelia walks in with Emberlynn in her arms, but I then frown as she is followed in by another male vampire that I didn't know and he closes the door behind him. As I am in here on my own, a shiver of fear runs through me as I know that I am no match agains
EMMA I was expecting it to take longer, but it didn’t take Finn and Ali to organise and set up for the changing and crowning ceremony. They set up a stage in the middle of town and called a full kingdom gathering for the next evening so that Queen Amelia could be on the plane home just before dawn. I wake up the next evening and take care of Adonis’s needs and then get ready for the gathering. As I am standing off to the side of the stage, I am not sure if I can do this, yes they all like me and have all benefited from what I have done but that does not mean that they will agree with me being crowned their Queen and then accept Adonis on top. That could be asking too much of them. I wait for everyone to settle before walking up onto the stage with Benjamin a step behind me. I walk to the front and stand next to Finn as he says, “Welcome! As you know, Prince Jeremiah visited the Bhampair kingdom and entered an agreement and the result of that agreement is Princess Emberlynn and Pri
THIRD PERSON Emma snaps out of her memory when she hears Benjamin hiss and sees him step closer to her so that he is now only an inch away from her and slightly in front of her. She looks up at the males approaching and takes a deep breath before standing up straight, then slightly stepping around Benjamin and stepping forward, much to Benjamin’s annoyance. With Benjamin just behind her, she stops and waits for Elder Elio and his son Colter to stop in front of her. Elder Elio smirks as he says, “Now that was even easier than I thought it would be… See Emma, you are weak just like you have made this kingdom weak, just as I thought you would…” Emma is puzzled at how it was so easy for him to enter the kingdom, but doesn’t let it show as she smirks at him, making his falter just a little. He doesn’t understand why she is not cowering in front of him and his males. He can’t understand how she can stand there with her head held high when she was such a little lamb when he left. Emma st
(This memory will cover the next couple of chapters and will mostly play out as it happened in Emma's POV, but I will include the other main characters' POVs in places I feel they need to be included.)EMMA*** MEMORY ***I am in my office with Adonis in his portable crib, doing some paperwork. I look up at the knock on my door and smile as Samuel walks in,“What are you doing here? I wasn’t expecting you until next week.”“The family wants to meet you…”“I know and I want to meet them, but I have just been busy. I didn’t realise that there was so much work to being a leader to anyone, let alone the Queen to an entire kingdom.”“Emma, it has been a few months now since your crowning… Besides, you need to come and check on the progress of the training in the pack. Make sure it is to your liking…”I lower my eyes and
EMMA I still don’t remember much of my life with Samuel before our 7th birthday party and then a lot of what I do remember is the cold and dark from the cell Master Jeremiah kept me in and even when I was in his chambers it was always cold with only a small amount of light.As I got older, he allowed me a little more freedom to come and go as I pleased out of my cell but only within his chamber and then once I turned 18; he surprised me even more by allowing me to attend that celebration, dancing with him while everyone watched and then taking me somewhere private for my first shift.I didn’t know much about mates, but when Odette had come to me and said that Master Jeremiah was ours, it explained a little more about how and why I was drawn to him and even when he was punishing me I had always felt safe with him. At the time, I never knew why, but I never had the courage to ask him about it either.I could feel he felt it too
THIRD PERSONAfter Samuel mentions Norman, Benjamin allows Samuel to talk to Finn as he has to rein in his temper not only from what he was told about what Norman did, but her personal guard at the time was helping him.It had taken him a while to earn both Prince Jeremiah's and especially Emma’s trust to be allowed so close to her. Benjamin’s eyes then land on Emma’s sleeping form laying against Samuel. He then remembers the two days she had spent with him and his partner, Matt.Benjamin’s heart and chest then pull tight and he has to take a moment to remember to breathe. He turns away from Samuel as he remembers the short conversation he had with Matt before Queen Isabelle, had sent him out on an assignment.“You know she has done this on purpose, don’t you?”“Then don’t do it…”“Ben, Honey. I have to. It is part of my job and if you didn’t alre
EMMA I look around for our bags, but I don’t see them anywhere. I look over at Samuel and again he smiles.“Already at the packhouse…”“Arr… I hate it when you do that. Stop reading my mind…”Samuel puts his hand on his heart and fakes being hurt as he says,“Sis, you wound me… I would never. You actually asked where they were…”“Wait, no I didn’t…”“Yes, you did.”“No, I didn’t” “Yes, you did.”“Come on, you two… We are not going into one of those debates… Please let's move to the packhouse…”Finn huffs as both me and Samuel laugh and start walking, while still debating, as he leads us to the tunnels. We follow the tunnels until we get to a fork where Samuel says,“Okay, going to the right takes us to the packhouse and going left takes us to the barracks and the training field. So follow me and we will go to the packhouse where I have rooms set up for all of you, including a crib for Adonis.”As we walk down the tunnel and get closer to the packhouse, I have to ask,“Sam? Are our M