ELVA'S POV " What do you mean' suspicious'?" I asked, looking at Mom. She looked really serious. I turned to look at Darian with a questionable look and then turned back to look at my mother. "I have been watching the both of you for a while and I noticed something different, it's like the both of you are hiding something," Mom said looking from Darian to me. I let out a dry laugh " Mom, what are you talking about?" I asked, looking at her. " Something is not right," she said, looking at us. " I mean last night you looked really scared about something," she said facing Darian and then turned to look at me " and you looked lost but had a knowing look on your face last night too, and now this morning you both have burns on opposite sides of your hands," she said still looking at us. " What…what are you talking about Mom?" I asked, looking at her. " You're really terrible at hiding your feelings," Mom said to me. " And throughout this week I noticed someone watching the both of yo
DARIAN'S PVOThe queen and Elva seemed to be having a serious blinking compilation because none of them had blinked for another fifteen minutes now.I was actually impressed with Elva because it seems like she has been detained for not telling the queen anything. " Someone's been learning how to hide her feelings a little I see," I said to her with the mindlink." I don't know why, but I just don't want Mother to know about the cursed necklace, because if she does, I don't know what will happen, and I can't risk that," Elva said to me with the mind-link, because I heard her in my head.After a while Elva suddenly jumped like she had realized something very important, " Hey Mom, can we please do this some other time? I just realized something" Elva said, still looking at the queen before she turned around to face me and took hold of my hand, and dragged me away from there.I turned back to look at the queen before we took a Left turn, she was staring at us with wild eyes and a mixed em
DARIAN'S POV "Ahhhhhhhh" Elva said running to me and jumping on me, "Did you see that, the…the…the…the pair of eyes ju… just bl…bllll…blin…blink…blinked at m… m…me" she said stammering and shoveling her face in my chest. " Yes, I saw it too," I said holding her really tight, rubbing her back, trying to keep her calm. "Normally if this part of the castle wasn't this quiet and empty, people would have been in here on hearing her scream," my wolf said, and I chuckled. " What?, Those pairs of eyes just blinked after about thirty minutes or maybe more, and you tell me to calm down and to top it you chuckled," Elva said more like a statement than a question. " Yes" was all I said. " Okay, but I'm not letting go of you," she said, holding me even tighter this time. " Suit yourself," I said and started walking to where the eyes were. "This is getting really creepy," she said, still holding me. I just checked and said nothing, still moving slowly to the pair of eyes. " Shit, it reall
ELVA'S PVO " So you've Clearfield that they are your maids" Darian asked looking at me. " Yes, kind of," I said, still trying to remember where I saw them. 'I mean I have seen them, right?" I asked myself. " So that means the murderer is still in the castle, because this one over here, I mean the one who died from the stabs or from the scratch because the one on her neck went really deep, deep enough to kill her. Wait, so the murderer is a wolf, but what kind of wolf is he or she, because the person didn't remove their clothes or anything? Just killed them, why? For fun or revenge or warning or…" Darian stopped by my annoyed voice. While Darian was thinking out loud, it got me really annoyed, "Could you please stop that your 'or', it's really annoying just hearing 'or" I said and turned to look at the dead bodies with annoyance. " Sorry, I got a little carried away with it," he said and came to stand beside me. " The questions we should be asking is why did the person kill thes
ELVA'S POV " Yeah, I think I would, when she gets here, that is," I said, still looking at Mom walking slowly. " Why does she do this all the time, is she trying to make an epic entrance or what?" I asked this time not with a mind-link. " I mean what is up with that, you females do that a lot," he said. " Why are you asking me?" I asked, looking at him with a confused look on my face. " You're a female, so you should know," he said, looking at me. " Well I don't know, so don't ask," I said, still looking at him. " Geez, you women," he said and looked away. " Wah" I was speechless. " Mom, could you please walk faster!" I yelled out to her. " Leave me alone, let me have my moment," Mom said, still walking slowly. " Mom, this isn't a fucking prom or a wedding or anything like that, it's a fucking murder scene, so could you please walk fast!" I yelled out to her. Mom looked annoyed" Fine," she said and started walking at a normal pace. In no time she was standing beside me, "
ELVA'S POV After running out of the hall, and a few steps further we finally caught up with Mom. " Why are the both of you so slow? I am older than you guys but I walk faster than the both of you. Hm, pity, '' Mom said, not looking at us. " Mom, have you seen the way you walk sometimes?" I said, more like a statement than a question, and I tried to catch my breath while walking at the same time. "Hm, just try to keep up, would you?" Mom said, still walking. After a while of walking and both Darian and I still trying to catch our breaths, Mom suddenly stopped walking and turned to look at me. " How do I walk sometimes?" She asked me. " Hun?" I asked, looking confused at her. " You asked me if I have seen the way I walk sometimes, so now I'm asking you how I walk sometimes," Mom said, still looking at me. " Hum, okay let me see," I said looking at Mom before I looked up and back at her age, "You sometimes walk like you're about to make an entrance in a wedding and you're the br
DARIAN'S POVI was walking when Elva came beside me, She looked like she was about to say something, but I wanted to play hard to get so I moved forward and went to walk behind the queen, as if I was her guard and I smiled to myself.After a few minutes she walked up to me and pulled my left hand a little to get my attention, I turned my head to the left and looked down at her with a questionable look on my face." Darian, I am sorry about what I said earlier, I didn't mean it, I just didn't know what to say at that time," she said looking up at me with a pleading face and voice.I decided to look at her with an expressionless face, so she wouldn't read my face and know what was in my mind. I wanted to ask her if we were going to tell her mother about the person who has been watching us for a while, and also ask her about the important thing she said she wanted to tell me before the whole dead not dead thing. But I'll keep playing hard to get until she makes me stop." Why are you sta
ELVA'S POVThere's something that I had tried avoiding all my life and that was the day that I would have to say goodbye to Ruya. I discovered that even after I was able to figure out that He wasn't my wolf, I didn't want to let him go at all.The thoughts ran across my mind but this was needed for the pack and this was needed for me. I needed to be able to bond with Darian and then he would finally mark me as his. Then we can move on to the coronation rather than all this drama going on.I hadn't even come out of my room the entire day but rather I intentionally stayed indoors because I wanted to have one final conversation with Ruya. We've come such a long way together and it was finally time to say goodbye.I didn't know why my heart felt as though it was going to rip out just by hearing that. Ruya didn't say a word rather we both just kept quiet reminiscing on the silence that enveloped us both." I guess this is it," Ruya finally spoke up.I unknowingly heaved a sigh of relief t