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
ROWAN Jessica handed the phone over to me with shaking hands. "I....I called him. He told me that he's going to be here soon. Are you happy now?" Jessica asked me. I nodded my head. "Yes. I am very happy. You know ...you really didn't need to do all of this. You should have just left Naya alone!" I told Jessica. "You....you have no idea how much I love you! Despite how many times you trample on the feelings that I have for you, I refuse to care about it. I just want to be with you. And yet you treat me like this! You even dared to kidnap me! Let me just make it clear to you, Rowan. You are never going to get Naya back. You are going to find out that you're making a big mistake. The King will never let you take the only person who can save the life of his daughter!" Jessica told me.I rolled my eyes at her. "Do you really think that I care about whoever you are working for? It's none of my busines, and it would have been great as long as you had left my wife out of it. You only h
NAYA I lay on the bed weakly as I watched my blood being made into an antidote for the so called princess. She had looked weak when she first walked in, but now that she had taken the antidote, she looked a whole lot better. The princess smiled at Liam. "Thank you so much for saving my life, Liam. I really don't know what I would have done without you. If it wasn't for your efforts all of these years, I am sure that I would have died a long time ago. I am really really happy that I have you in my life!" She said.I wanted to throw up when I heard this. I had never felt this disgusted in my life before. Liam had a sweet smile on his face, and he looked like he was happy to be doing this. I was shaking in anger as I watched him. How dare this person?! He was using my blood to appease someone else! I noticed that Liam had never looked at me the way that he was looking at the princess. He had never been nice to me. I was sure that he did not treat even Sophie in this way. Was this
ROWAN"Are you sure that she is in here?" I turned to ask Sophie. We were standing in front of a house that was in the middle of nowhere. It was an old neighborhood and I was sure that they were less than ten people who lived here. The people who lived here were also probably extremely old and so even if anything had been going on, I was sure that they won't have been able to notice. Sophie nodded her head"Yes. Do you think that I am lying? I did what you asked me to do. I followed him and this was where he came to," Sophie said. I glanced at Henry and he walked with me into the house. I was about to walk in when Sophie grabbed my arm. "Hey where do you think you are going? We aren't done talking here. You said that you are going to pay me a hundred thousand dollars as long as I got the information on where she lived for you. I did that. When are you paying me?" Sophie asked me. "We haven't found Naya yet. As soon as we find her, I am going to give you your money!" I told her f
NAYA The door was pushed open and my eyes flew open immediately. "Who is there? Jessica? You are back? Let me out of here. Let me go as soon as possible. You are not going to get away with doing this. You are going to regret ever don't this to me. Let me go if you know what's good for you!" I snapped at her. When she didn't reply me, I continued. "Rowan is going to find you, and he is going to make sure that you pay for doing this to me. Don't think that you can get away with this. Even if you keep me here for the rest of my life or even kill me, he's never going to look at you. He doesn't love you. Why is it so hard for you to understand that? I am the one that he loves! Only me!" I stated. "Oh really? You are the only one that Rowan loves? Are you sure about that? Are you really so confident about his feelings for you?" I heard a familiar voice ask me just then. I would recognize that voice even if I was dead. The voice that had haunted me in both lifetimes..Liam! Liam was he
LIAM"What? You went out to meet with him? Are you stupid?!" I yelled at Jessica over the phone. "Well, Rowan called me and he told me that he wanted to see me. He even booked a table at a restaurant. I thought that he had come back to his senses and he had seen that I was the better choice for him. But when I got there, all he did was talk about Naya. I think he knows that I am the one who kidnapped her, but he doesn't have any proof at all. He even knows that I met with yon. What am I going to do?" Jessica asked me. She sounded like she was panicking. .I just rolled my eyes. I had no idea why I was surrounded by all of these dumb women. I thought that Sophie was the worst that I would have to deal with and that since Jessica worked for the King, she would be smart at least. But once it involved the man that she was interested in, she had no brains. She was just so fucking stupid! "Do you really think that he'd come running back to your arms a day after Naya went missing? You
ROWAN "Are you sure that Jessica is working for the Alpha? If she's the one working for him then...it means that she's the one who has been spying on us. When she came here and said that she wanted to take care of you that time ..it was because she wanted to spy on you," Henry said to me. Sophie was gone now. It didn't take much for me to persuade her to find out where Liam had taken Naya. "Yes. I am sure of it. She's definitely working for that person. She has been working for him for a really long time, I am sure. If Liam is talking to her about him then it means that they both know him," I said."Then what are you going to do now? Are you sure that it's a good idea to meet with her? I don't think that she's going to give anything away if she's really working for him," Henry said. I shook my head. "I have to try. I know that she won't tell me the truth but I have to meet her and ask her and see if she's going to let anything slip. I asked Sophie to find out from Liam where Naya
ROWAN"I don't deny that she was good to me while we were best friends, but how am I supposed to make a living if I don't have any money? I can't take chances, Rowan. I need to survive. You will never know how hard it is for me to survive. I don't want to beat around the bush with you. So are you going to give me the money or not?" She asked me. "Fine. I will give it to you. And don't think about playing tricks with me, Sophie. Because there are many ways I can get this money back from you. And I don't think that you are going to survive what I do to get the money back if you play me," I warned her. "Don't worry about it, Rowan. I may be a terrible person but I am very honest when it comes to doing business. Besides, I don't want to die. I need to be alive to spend the money," she stated. I brought out my bank book and I wrote her a cheque. Sophie snatched it away from me. She gasped when she saw the price that was written on it. They were literally dollar signs falling out of h
ROWANI turned to Henry. "What do you mean you still can't find her? It's not as if she disappeared off the face of the Earth? Why can't you find her?" I yelled at him. A whole day had passed since Naya had not returned home. At first, Henry had said that she was going out to meet a friend, but then she didn't come back yesterday and we still can't find her today. I was really worried now. Had Liam gotten to her? Did he kidnap her all because of her blood? "Did you find out what Liam did yesterday?" I asked Henry. He nodded his head. "Yes. The person that we had watching him said that he didn't leave his house much yesterday. He went out to meet with the Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack but that was just it. He didn't go anywhere else and he came back home immediately. I don't think he has anything to do with this," Henry said. I sneered at him. "Are you stupid?! Even if he didn't do anything, then he must have had someone do it for him! He must have told someone to kidnap her!
SOPHIEI gasped when I heard this. Was Liam saying that they had kidnapped Naya? I had no idea who that Jessica person was but from Liam's words, they had worked together to kidnap Naya. Liam ended the call and he burst out laughing. I quickly shut the door and started to pace around the bedroom, thinking of what to do. I did not want Liam to know that I had heard what he was talking about. I knew that he was an extremely cold man and if he taught that I knew a secret then he was going to do something to hurt me. I didn't want to die in Liam's hands. I just wanted to be able to survive. Just then the door was pushed open and Liam walked in. I turned to face him and we came face to face with each other. There was a menacing look on his face when he saw me and he looked like he wanted to just triangle it to death and be done with it "What the heck are you doing here Sophie? I thought I have told you that I don't want to see you in my house? and how were you even able to get in