“I thought we were going for a stroll and would be walking?” I asked Azalea. How else are we going to see everywhere in the pack if we don't walk around?We were both standing outside, blocked by over fifty royal guards who looked scared of Azalea but still stubbornly insisting on us getting into the carriage and them following us about.Azalea brows were furrowed, and her arms crossed over her chest, “what's going on with all of you?"The one I assumed to be the leader stepped forward and bowed low, “We are sorry Queen Luna, but alpha king Lothar asked us to follow you and ensure your safety.” “ When did you start following me and down to ensure my safety?” Azalea asked, her face now morphing into an angry frown.The leader's eyes flicked to me before quickly returning to Azalea, “today,” he replied.Azalea must have noticed when he looked at me, even if it was for a second. She turned to look at me and the frown left her face, “oh, it's because of her, right?" The guard spared me
“There is something I need to tell you Angela” Azalea said immediately we returned to the palace after our strollI nodded before sitting on the edge of my bed. She joined me. I waited for her to tell me what she wanted to say, but she kept quiet for a while and when she finally spoke, what she said made me feel like I had been gutted.“You are not just Lothar's mate, you are his second chance mate”. My mouth dropped open at the same time that my eyes widened in shock. I could feel my ears ringing and I felt like I did not hear, and it was just my ears playing tricks on me. I felt my wolf roar in my head and raise her hackles.Azalea just told me that I was not just Lothar's mate but his second chance mate. Does that mean he has another mate somewhere? Why would he even have a second chance mate anyway? What happened to the first one? Did she die? Lothar did not in any way look like someone who has lost a mate to death. He has been so eager to claim me as his. He had told me that he
I was still processing everything Azalea told me hours after she left. I came back to earth when I heard a soft knock at the door. I knew that I wasn't Azalea as she just left and wouldn't knock if she was the one, nor was it Lothar, he wouldn't have knocked either.“Come in”. I called out and kept my eyes on the door as it was pushed open. Rosaline, my maid and another girl who was also wearing a maid's uniform like that of Rosaline's stepped in. The second girl was carrying a tray of food as I could perceive the delicious scent of meat from where I was sitting on the bed. My stomach grumbled loudly, and I grabbed it with my hands. My face blushed beet red in embarrassment when Rosaline gave me a kind smile as if she understood that I was really hungry and was not taking what happened to heart.The both of them bowed low before the second girl moved to drop the tray on the table in the room.“This is Isabella, your second maid.” Rosaline introduced the girl to me.My eyes went to her
My anxiety increased the next day, and it went a notch higher with each passing day until a week later. I had spent my days in boredom. Wake up, bath, eat, sit by the window and stare out. It was like this until Rosaline decided that I needed a bit of fresh air and showed me the palace garden, which I quickly fell in love with.The few maids I encountered on my way to the garden every day kept throwing me envious or nasty looks, but none of them dared to come close to me.I had had my breakfast alone in the morning before asking Rosaline to show me to the garden in the palace. I had a nice time there just walking around and inhaling the scent of the flowers. I spent the morning thinking about what to do with my life. I had no important thing I was doing in the palace since Alpha Lothar announced that I was his mate. I haven't seen him after that day we shared our first kiss, and I doubt I would. I kept telling myself that he was occupied with other things, and he would come, but it h
I thought we would maintain a trot, but soon, Lothar jerked the reins and Manny took off. I shrieked in shock. I was not scared, just surprised. I grabbed his forearms because he did not give me any heads-up. He had the audacity to laugh. My face twisted into a dark scowl.“You should have warned me” I snapped before I could stop myself, and I regretted it immediately. I wasn't just talking to my mate, but I was also speaking to the alpha king, but he responded with a laugh.“And then I wouldn't have heard you scream, or you wouldn't have grabbed my arms. That would have spoiled the whole fun”I blushed and quickly took my hands off his arms before holding on to the reins with him.“Where are we going?” I asked as the scenery began to change. Before we were running in a forest, but after passing through the forest edge, we were in a beautiful meadow. I could hear the sound of running water.“Just ahead” he responded as he made the course slow down to a trotI couldn't hear the guards
“Tell me more about yourself, little white?” I froze, I could tell him a dozen things about myself, but which of myself? Mary Lee or Angela? As I racked my brain for what to say, my eyes met his curious and expectant eyes, and I found myself talking about Angela and not Mary lee. It was Angela he knew, so Angela will I tell him about.“I grew up in Shadow moon pack as an Omega maid. I never got to meet my father, I only knew my mother, who died while serving the alpha king and his family, who were an evil bunch. She died as a taster. Someone wanted to poison the alpha king, and unfortunately, she was the one who tasted the food that day. She died immediately. From age ten, I was asked to serve the Alpha's daughter, who was the same age as me. I thought that because she was young she would not be as cruel as her parents, so I was ecstatic to be selected as her personal maid, but I was wrong. She was exactly like her parents. I guess it runs in their blood. “I did not know any moment
His eyes narrowed into slits, “you don't look surprised about being my second chance mate” Uh oh, I murmured, but there was no way I could possibly hide the fact that I already knew his story. It was a surprise to me that I haven't heard it from old maids, but I also haven't heard the fact that I was Lothar's mate when I went to the market. Guess the way Lothar ran his pack was different from the others. Anything that happens in the palace, stays in the palace. “Azalea told me” Lothar groaned as he squeezed his eyes shut, “she had no right to do that”I moved close to him, “I guess she doesn't want you to get hurt again nor does she want me to get hurt when I find out from someone else. I'm sure she doubted that you would tell me yourself” I wasn't so sure he would tell me if I asked too. I'm surprised that he did.“It doesn't matter. She would stop acting like my mom. I'm older than she is”“ She loves you and cares so much about you. She doesn't want me to hurt you like Bonnie di
I whirled around and spread my arms just in time for Amber to throw herself on to me. I stumbled back and would have fallen but the guard assigned to me broke my fall with a hand to my back."Careful" he glared down at Amber as he reached out to pull her away from meAmber shrink back in fear as she took two steps away from me, "I'm sorry" she apologized"Hey, what are you doing?" I turned to glare at the guard, " she is my friend. Stop glaring at her" " She was going to make you fall," he argued as he folded his hand across his chest."But I didn't fall" I snapped at him though he was the reason both I and Amber were still standing and not on the hard floor, "she is my friend so don't scare her off" I reached out to grab Amber and hug her as I heard the guard muttering something unintelligible under his breath"Your safety is more important than your friend. I'm not about to get beheaded because of any friend"" I heard what happened with Piper and how she accused you of stealing th
Home, that's what the woman had called this place and it immediately felt like home to Angela when she stepped out a week later with the woman. The woman refused to allow her to step out of the room until she and her wolf were fully healed and the bandage was removed from her head. Angela stood in the middle of the street the woman led her to with her mouth dropped open in shock at the spectacle before her. Everyone in this place looked like they were straight out of a spirit realm; they all in one way or the other looked like the woman. White, gold, copper, blonde, and silver hair with different shades of bright eyes. “Does everyone in this place look like this?” Angela could not help but voice out this question in awe.The woman whose name Angela now knew to be Brunhilda slowly turned her face to look at Angela with a tranquil smile, “Everyone looks like we do.”At Brunhilda’s words, Angela turned to face her, “Like we do? How?”The smile with Brunhilda's face widened, “Look aroun
Angela expected to wake up in so many places —- the cold floor of a dungeon, tied up to a chair in a dark building and so on — but where she woke up was in a beautiful room and on a bed. How? Angela was lying on her back and she could feel a dull ache at the back of her head; her head was wrapped up because of the blow she took. She did not know how long she's been out or whose room she was in now.Whether she was saved from that woman and the men that came for her by Lothar's men or if the woman succeeded in taking her away.Only thing she knew was that she was alive and still in one piece and even if her head felt like it weighed a ton, it was another day to be grateful that she was still in the land of the living. She tried to sit up on the bed, it was supposed to be a chore and Angela was very ready to struggle but soft and warm hands reached out to help her up. She had not noticed that she was not alone in the room; there's a woman sitting on a chair beside the bed. The person
What did she want? Who sent her? Questions, but who would answer them? Since there was nowhere for her to run into and it was already too late as the woman had found her already, Angela decided to put on a false bravado and face the woman head on.Angela nearly groaned and dropped to the ground in surrender when another shadow appeared behind her and she realized that the woman was not alone. She has been so focused on the masked women she did not hear or notice the other person…. No, it was more than one person because other shadows appeared. They were coming from every angle and now, she was in the middle.“Who are you people?" Angela finally asked. She offered a little thanks to the moon goddess when her voice came out firm and did not give away her fear.“Hmm, a brave one. I see"It was the masked woman that replied. It felt like she was praising Angela for her boldness but her tone was insulting and Angela could see the woman's blue eyes looking at her from head to toe.Blue eye
In just a few weeks of her training with Camelot, Angela could feel that she was getting stronger and it made her glad. She could now hold her own for a few minutes. Though she had not been able to land any blows on Camelot during their practice, she knew that it was only a matter of time. Camelot was a big man and he was fast but she was faster and more nimble because she was smaller and it has always been her strength back when she was Marylee.Camelot was standing over her like her lord as he glared at her on the floor with that dark scowl of his on his face, “Aren't you getting up? We just started and you are giving up already?" "Please” Angela groaned as she rolled on to her back. She knew when to give up and accept defeat and the time is now. “You are too brutal"“The same complaint over and over again. No one is stopping you from giving up and putting an end to your training".“Never" Angela snapped she pushed herself into a sitting position to glare back at him, “No way am I
“I want to learn how to fight," Angela said when she was finally able to corner the guard whose name she now knew to be Camelot. She held his cold gaze as he looked at her from head to toe but she couldn't fathom the emotion in his eyes. He turned to move away and she was quick to understand that he was not taking what she just said seriously. Angela rushed to stand in front of him to block his path; she stretched out her hands when he tried to sidestep her, and because the corridor where she cornered him was not spacious, she was able to stop him from leaving.“I'm really serious. I want to learn how to fight." She held his gaze just to show how serious she truly was. Seeing that he was not trying to walk around her to leave but now had a contemplative look in his eyes, she dropped her outstretched hands. Camelot took a step back from her, "Why do you want to leave how to fight all of a sudden?” He wanted to know because what woman in her right senses would want to learn how to fi
What did he mean when he said ‘you will be the lady of this place and will live here’?Oh yes, she really did become the lady of the place because as soon as he was done saying it, over forty young girls and ten older women filtered into the room in an orderly manner and bowed to her in greetings before lifting their head to stare at her as if waiting for her orders. She turned to look at the man whose name she did not yet know in confusion, “Who are they?" She asked. “They are the women that will serve you during your time here" he answered her with a nonchalant expression.The only thing she latched onto was the fact that he said ‘during your time here’ “How long do you think I will remain here for?" Her expression betrayed her anxiousness as she held her breath waiting for his answer which delayed in coming.“Until the alpha wants you to come out. Now, address your ladies in waiting” he walked away after that.Angela kept her eyes on his broad back as he walked out of the place
Angela could not sit still after the man left, she stood by the door hoping to hear him coming back. When after a few minutes which felt like an eternity to her, she did not hear the man coming back, she became anxious and begs to pace to and fro. The man might have said that he would get her food and light but how sure was she that he would bring it?This time around, she did not hear the man coming back. Her mind must have been occupied with different thoughts. She almost let out a scream when the door was suddenly thrown open and light filled the room, almost blinding her. “Here is your food and light”She did not even have the opportunity to thank the man, as soon as she collected the tray of food and lamp from him, he slammed the door shut, causing her to jump and nearly burn herself.Angela turned away from the door and raised the lamp so that she could see the room she was in. It was almost the same as her room in Lothar's palace. It was a room fit for a queen but with no wind
No one came for her. Angela did not know for how long she sat in the dark room and cried until she had no more tears left in her eyes. She had to drag herself up from the bed when she felt like she was about to die of hunger to find her way to the room’s door. She had a hard time locating it; she kicked her foot against a hard wooden table nearly tumbling down on her face in the process.This place reminded her of when she was locked in the dungeon because of Paul and Anna. The same cold chill and feeling of fear because she did not know if anyone would come to her rescue or what was going to happen to her. She just prayed that history won't repeat itself and she won't die a second time because she would never want to come back again no matter what. Revenge be damned. When she finally located the door, she knocked hard against it, “Hello, anyone out there?” she kept quiet, silently uttering a prayer that someone would hear her and respond but all she got was silence. She knocked agai
Yes, Amber's mother was slowly recovering and could even sit up now. Amber and Angela lost track of time that Angela's guard had to come after them. He had changed out of his guard uniform and was now putting on clothes reserved for peasants and omegas, he blended in well. He also did away with his sword but Angela knew that he must have daggers and little knives hidden away somewhere in his body. When he knocked, Amber was the one that went to open the door for him and welcomed him inside. "Hey, what are you doing here? I thought I asked you to wait for us outside?" Angela asked and a snicker left her mouth as she eyed his clothes with a."Of course you did but have you been outside yet?" The guard snapped at her.Angela sneered at his disrespectful tone, " what's outside?""Maybe you should see for yourself. It's late already and we have to return back to the palace"Angela raised her brow at him before walking past him to the door. She sighed in understanding when she saw that it