NAYAA few days later, my father was finally discharged from the hospital. The doctor had told him that he could stay back for a few more days but he said that he did not want to do that. He wanted to get back to the palace as soon as possible. I knew that he was worried that the Elders were causing trouble and he wanted to go back to deal with it as soon as possible. My father assured me that it was not that he did not trust me. He just knew the kind of people that the Elders were and he was worried that they were going to try and cause trouble for me behind my back and that was what he didn't want them to do. Somehow, they had gotten the news that my father was going to be back from the hospital and the Elders were already at the palace by the time we got back from the hospital. They were in the living room and we met them as soon as we walked in. The Elders stood up with smiles on their faces. They all looked happy to see him and I could not help but scoff. I could see how
NAYAIt's just hard to get them to take me seriously. I feel like they don't care about me and anything that I am saying. Almost like they are patronizing me. How am I supposed to take over the pack after? What am I going to do then?" I could not help but be worried for my future. I had never had much interest in leading the pack before but after all the things that happened, I knew that I could not trust anyone to do it. I had to do it myself. "Don't worry too much, Naya. You've been doing a good job. I am sure that the Elders will think twice before they decide to mess with you. You may not know it but they know that you are not someone to be messed with. They have to think twice before they say anything to you. I could see it in thirty eyes just now. They were a lot of things that they wanted to say to you but they stopped themselves when they reminded themselves how you were going go take it. They don't dare to push you too much, " my father told me. I could not help but think t
NAYAMy eyes went wide as I thought of something. I had never considered it before, but the more I thought about it the more it was all starting to make sense to me. "Dad, do you think that the Elders....maybe one of the elders could be the spy?" I asked my father..A serious look appeared on his face just then. "You know that this is a really serious accusation and that things can go the wrong way if it turns out that you're wrong right?" He asked me. I nodded my head urgently. "Yes. I know that this is a really big accusation. I know that things can turn out badly if it turns out that I am wrong but please just think about it, dad. I don't think that I am wrong. When Liam called me, he told me that he wanted me to get married to him. He mentioned that the elders were already pressuring me because I did not have a husband. They don't know about Rowan and I, remember. When Liam called me, the Elders had just left. The news won't have spread to anyone else by that time. So it m
NAYA"Your Highness. It's not that we are trying to look down on you or undermine your decision, no it is far from that. We never thought about doing anything like that to you. We also are not looking down on your daughter. We just have a few concerns about her. This is our pack, after all. And we just want everything to be fine. We want a leader whom we can trust," Nathan, the first elder that spoke up when he walked in spoke up again. "Oh? And what is the problem that you have with my daughter? The fact that she is a woman? Or is it her marriage? I heard that you told her that she can't be the one in charge of the pack until I get better since she is not married and that you are going to find someone else to replace me. I had no idea that you guys wanted to replace me so bad. If I had known then....I guess I should have been more careful?" He asked them. They all frowned when he said this and I was really happy to see them like this. It was what they deserved. What did they think
NAYA"Your Highness please.... You have to believe us. We would never do something like that to you. We would never try to betray you. There is nothing that we are going to get out of it so why would we try to betray you?""That is right to your Highness. We didn't have any candidate in mind when you reset that we are going to replace you. And that is because we do not think that there is anyone good enough in this palace to replace you. We only said that to her to scare her. And it is not as if we were picking on Naya on purpose. We were just worried about the condition of the pack and we just wanted to make sure that she would be able to do a good job and protect the back properly"This were not the words that they had said to me when they were threatening me back then. What they were all making it sound so good now as if they were looking out for me and I was the one who was too unreasonable. I did not see their good intentions and now I was accusing them. It was a good thing that
NAYAMy eyes landed on Nathan who seemed to be in his own little world. He was fuming, for some reason. "Nathan, what do you think of this? Are you comfortable with us keeping an eye on everyone until we find out the culprit?" I asked them. He glared at me. "I don't think that you should be speaking up in a meeting like this Naya. I understand that your father is bringing you along because he wants you to understand how things work in the palace. I do not have a problem with that but your father is already back and he is our alpha. Until you learn how the park works completely you should keep your opinions to yourself" I could send that Nathan really hated me. The rest of the Elders did not really hate me as they just look down on me and thought that I was not good enough. A great majority of them did not even put me in their eye until the last time they met me alone. But Nathan was different. His behavior and the way he looked at me up until I was a clear indication of hate. And
NAYA"I am sorry, Your Highness. I won't bring him up anymore""What the Alpha said made a lot of sense Nathan. We do not know who the spy is currently and the spy could be one of us. We have to be careful and we can't trust anyone. It is a good idea that the alpha is keeping an eye on everyone in this park. That we would be able to find out who the spy is soon rather than later. Besides he told us about it first. That is more than enough respect!" "Yes. That is correct. I understand that this can be annoying but there is no need to make a big deal out of it. Besides we all need to make sacrifices so that the pack can be safe. The alpha is doing it for all of us and so there is no need for you to be angry"A lot of other people spoke up in favor of what my father had said and Nathan was made out of look like the bad person. I could see that some people were even starting to give him some weird looks as if he was the spy and he was trying to cover it up Nathan bit his lips and clench
NAYA"Your grandfather decided that he did not want to kill him. There was no reason for him to go so far because he was just a child when it happened. Besides, there was some unrest in the pack back then. They were some people who supported his father. Your grandfather wanted to make sure that people won't be rebelling against me. He wanted to make sure that he won over everyone in the pack and killing Nathan back then won't have been a good idea for him at all. He did what he thought was best. Besides, when Nathan got older, he came to your grandfather and told him that he was going to be loyal to him since he had spared his life. He said that he was going to serve him and make sure that he did everything that he wanted him to do and that was exactly what he did. He became part of the elders. And he has been loyal since then. Or at least, this was what we thought. I can understand that he hasn't let go of what happened to his father since then and he thinks that we are to blame fo
NAYAI shuddered when I saw the cold look that was on Liam's face. My whole body was in pain and I knew that I would not be able to stop him if he really wanted to do something to me. I was really scared now. I had no idea what he was going to do to me...."What are you going to do to me, Liam? Rowan is going to be back soon. If you don't want to die, you had better get out of here. He is not going to let you off if you dare to do anything to hurt me," i warned Liam. Liam just smiled evilly. "Well he is not here right now. I am sure that I would have finished and even left before he comes back. You don't have to try to threaten me with him. I am not scared of him at all, you see. I don't care about him. Now stay put and just let me draw some blood from you" he said to me. "Don't come close to me! Don't think I am joking!" I yelled. He didn't listen to me. He was still approaching me. "Just stay put Naya, it's not going to hurt at all. I just need a bit of your blood to make the
LIAMI was not expecting Naya to wake up at all. Her face was really pale so whatever has happened to her must have been pretty serious. I was blown away when her eyes fluttered open. My heart was beating fast against my chest. I was still holding on to her arm and she was blinking at me as if she was trying to figure out what was going on. "What are you doing here?" Naya asked me. Her voice was really weak. She tried to sit up on the bed but she fell back down on the bed. He face went vent paler. It was obvious that she was in a lot of pain. She placed her hand on her stomach. "What happened to me?" She mumbled to herself. I scoffed at her. "You really have no one else to blame but yourself for this. You are the one who brought this upon yourself. If you had just listened to me and did as I asked, then we won't have gotten here. You have no one else to blame but yourself," I repeated this over and over again. "Liam....what are you doing here?" She asked me. If was as if Naya h
LIAM"What do you need me to do for you?" I asked him urgently. I was more than willing to do anything now. As long as it meant that I was going to keep my life. I didn't want to die. "I need you to rescue someone for me. He was taken by someone... I need to to get him out there," The King said with a frown on his face. I blinked my eyes. I could tell that he war trying to hold back as much informational as possible. I could not understand why he was doing this. If he wanted me to do something, then he should tell me what it entailed upfront so that I would be able to do a good job. "You need to tell me all that I should know about this person so that I can rescue them," I said to the King. He waved his hand at me. "you don't need to know anything more. You just need to know that he's currently behind held at the home of a man called Rowan. You just need to find out where Rowan keeps him and get him out for me," he said to me. I bit my lips and chuckled to myself when I heard Row
ROWANI looked towards the window and I saw that it was nighttime. I sighed, really worried about Naya. Was she going to come out of the place alive?.The thought of hrr dying was the scariest thing to me and I didn't really think that I would be able to take it if anything did happen to her. Henry came back with the drinks that he said he was going to get and he handed one to me. I took it from him and took a sip. I had to admit that it was really good just what I needed. Just then, the doctor walked out of the hospital room and I ran to him immediately. "Doctor....how is my wife doing ...she is not going to die, right? She is going to be okay right?" I asked him all in one breath. The doctor looked at me and shook his head and my heart started to beat fast against my chest. I didn't know what to do or say at that moment. The only thing I could think of was that she was dead. She had died. What was I supposed to do without her? How was I even going to continue my life without
LIAMI walked out of the princess room with a heavy heart. Although I would have liked to stay and talk with her some more, I didn't want to do that. I knew her father was going to be back any time soon and I didn't want to make him even more angry with me. I was walking back to the doctors office when I saw someone I never thought I'd see in the VIP ward of the hospital. It was Rowan and he was pacing outside a hospital room with a worried look on his face. There was another man with him who also had a worried look on his face. I hid myself in a corner so he won't see me and I continued to watch him. What was he doing here? Was Naya in the hospital? I got a report from the Elders in her pack that had left the pack since her father got better. What happened to her for her to be in the hospital though? I had a lot of questions. Besides,I wasn't even sure that she was the one in there. The other guy placed a hand on Rowan's shoulder. "I am going to go downstairs and get somethi
LIAM"And what do you want to see her for? Do you even think that her father is going to let you see her? You were supposed to have come back for the antidote for her soon but you didn't do that. Because of you, her life is in danger now and you think that for some kind of reason you can come here and demand that out want to see her?! "The doctor yelled at me. I bowed my head as he scolded me as if I was a child. I did not dare to raise my head or say a single word back to him. I knew that all it was going to take was for me to make a simple mistake and then they were going to deal with me. I didn't want to risk it at all. "No, you don't understand it. I just want to know how she's doing. I am not planning anything. How could I dare to plan anything when you're still her with me? I am really very sorry for what she is going through and I really just want to make sure that she is fine, okay. Besides, the King isn't here right now. I will be back before he comes back," I assured the
LIAMMy legs were shaking as I walked into the hospital. I walked into the doctor's office and I sighed in relief when I was that he was the only one who was in the office. What I was going to get from him was a scolding at least. The King was not here and he was the only one who could kill me. Seems like I still had some time to think of how I was going through convince them to give me a second chance. "So....what is your excuse, Liam? What lie are you going to come up with this time? You know, if you were not up to the task then you should not have lied and said that you were. It would have been much more easier for everyone else if you had just told the truth instead of beating around the bush and lying your way out! How dare you lie to the King?! Do you really think that you'd be able to survive this?" He asked me. I wanted to fall to my knees and plead, but I knew that it would be best to reserve that for when I saw the King. "You know that is not true at all. I have always
LIAMI dropped the phone on my table slowly. The call that I had just gotten was enough to shake me up. The princess had been admitted to the hospital. She was dying because she had not gotten the antidote in a few months. My heart was beating fast against my chest as I thought about what her father was going to do to me once he got his hands on me. He would not let me off. In fact, I was sure that he might even try to kill me. He would really kill me! I was so scared just thinking about it. All of the plans that I had made to get Naya back to her so that I could get some of her blood had failed terribly. She seemed to be aware of what I was planning and she blocked me on every front. I tried to get the Elders to work against her because I wanted her to come crawling to me. Once she married me to stabilise her father's pack, then I could do whatever I wanted with her right? That was why I had her father attacked, and pressured the Elders into asking her to get married. But it
ROWANNaya was in my arms, bleeding badly. Her eyes were wide open and she tried to say something but she could not nin the end, she closed her eyes and passed out.I picked her up and stood up with Naya in my arms. I knew I had to get her to the hospital as soon as possible. As I stood up, I was the rogue. There was a pale look on his face and the full weight ot what he had done seemed to be crashing down on him now. He took a few steps back as she tried to get away from me. I did not pay attention to him though as the only person I cared about in that moment was Naya and how I was gonna to get her to the hospital and make sure that her life was saved. I rushed out with Naya in my arms. Before I did, I turned to look at Henry and he nodded his head at me, indicating that he knew what he was going to do. ......Naya was admitted to the hospital as soon as I got here and the doctor told me that they had to operate on her. I was not even listening to anything that they were sayi