" When will you be leaving?" Stiles inquired when Alden walked in the front door.Alden ignored him and trudged upstairs. He came to freshen up, pick up some clothes, and dash back to the hospital. Cisca hadn't woken up." Aren't you going to reply me?" He shouted. Alden continued to his room, he was not in the mood for unnecessary banter. If Stiles decided to play ignorant of the latest development, it was his business. Amelia walked out of the kitchen carrying a tray." Cisca relapsed." She announcedWhat? Stiles was stupefied. What was wrong with her? " I bet you didn't know. I suggest you stay away from Alden at the moment, his anger is more fierce than a spooked rattlesnake. " She advised and set the table. Stiles watched her and wondered what her game plan was. " What are you doing?" Amelia halted and stared at him, before returning her gaze to the plates. " Setting the table." " When did this start?" She shrugged and hid her smile, " Well, you see, I thought that it would
" What the hell?" Stiles muttered when a cup of water was dumped on his head. Sleep faded from Stiles's eyes, and he blinked when he heard his mother's voice. " Get up." She said.He was annoyed at the interruption from his sleep. " Mother." He said." Get up, and sort yourself out." His mother repeated. He took a glance around the room and saw that nothing was out of place. He looked down and saw a big bulge in his trousers. Shit! He wasn't a horny teenager." What the hell happened to you?" Her voice rose slightly, as she noticed him staggering to the bathroom. " What took you so long?" Amelia asked when he came out of the bathroom." Nothing." He replied. She was rearranging what she thought was out of place. The plastic duck that was on his right was moved." Stop."He ordered and sat on the sofa." The last person I remember seeing was Amelia." " I saw her coming out of your office. You were quite busy." Alexia spat. To her dismay, Stiles cocked his head and said. " I don't rem
" Are you sure about this?" Martin whispered. " Yes," Nicky replied and gave a rueful smile. " I also have evidence." A maid clamped her hand over her mouth to stop the yelp that threatened to escape her mouth, when she overheard the conversation. So, Alden had been mistreated all along. She was sure that the late king didn't know this. What a wicked wench! She thought. She tiptoed slowly away from the door when they stopped discussing. Martin came out of his mother's room and looked around. They heard a sound, and he decided to check it out. " Who was that?" " No one." He replied and continued with his questions. " Why didn't you say anything?" " Nothing. I didn't know at first, but I heard her yelling at her accomplice, that's how I knew. It was many years later, and when I broached the subject, the king was resolute on his decision." " You should have still said something." Martin insisted. His mother shrugged nonchalantly, " Don't blame me if I am not Mr. Nice Guy." The
Cisca chuckled and started at her finger again. " This is so beautiful." She gushed. She loved the gesture. werewolves didn't need to get married, but some people practiced it to show their devotion to their partner. She had always envisioned having that ceremony.Alden stared at her in awe, she was effortlessly beautiful. "You are more beautiful." He said and she laughed." Really? I am almost waddling." She joked. All in all, Alden was happy to see the pure joy radiating from her. " Yeah. You are the most beautiful person I have ever seen." Cisca snorted, The most beautiful woman was a far stretch, but she would take that. " I want him or her to look like you." She said.Alden smirked, " There's no doubt about him being a boy."Cisca cocked her head, " Your confidence is quite suspicious. Did Dr. Bart tell you the gender?" Alden smirked. " A gentleman doesn't reveal his secrets." " I think I know what this is. He told you, right?" She probed.Alden kept mum but continued smiling
" She tried to poison Martin?" Alden repeated to be sure that he heard her correctly. He stood with his hands akimbo. " Yes." His brows wrinkled, as he thought of what could have led her to do such. What could have happened between them? Martin was one of the coolest people he knew. He noticed her fidgeting, " How did you know?"She took a glance around wondering if anyone could hear her, and whispered. " I peeped through the hole, and saw her pouring a liquid from a vial into the glass of juice, I didn't think about it at first. It was when Prince Martin insisted that I drank it, that was when I became very anxious." Alden's face hardened, as he thought of the right way to deal with Alexia. His instincts were not wrong. " What did Martin threaten to do to you?" He asked.The maid was scared at the timbre of his voice; he sounded like he was about to march in there and cause damage, " To kill me if I didn't speak the truth. Please don't tell anyone I told you this. The queen threat
" Prince Alden, please I need your help!" The maid pleaded when he opened the door. Alden was surprised to see her in front of his cabin that night with a bag, where was she running to?" What are you doing here?" " Queen Alexia instructed me to leave." She replied, and he crossed his arms. " So, what do you want me to do for you?" " I overheard her saying that I should be killed in the woods when I was escaping. You are leaving tomorrow, please let me accompany you." She begged Alden would surely protect her. Alden sighed, real fear was evident on her face, " Who is that?" Cisca called from within as she marched closer.He explained to her and Cisca shrugged. " Come in." She said and Alden opened the door wider for the maid to enter. " Did anyone see you come here?" Alden inquired. He was skeptical about assisting her because of Cisca. Her life was precious to him. The maid shook her head as she looked around, and held her bag closer to herself.Cisca showed her to a room. " I
"You better make sure that the backdrop is fixed before I return!" Queen Alexia shouted at the maids when she saw it uneven. What rubbish?"Yes, Your Highness." They chorused and went back to work, climbing the ladder and adjusting the part that caused the chaos. Preparations had begun for the coronation ceremony. Their clothes were delivered and it was a frenzy. Alexia descended the staircase with a list in hand and inspected the flower vases lined in the house. " Why are these things still here? I told you to take them outside!" She screamed again. Stiles groaned from his office when he heard his mother engage in a screaming match all by herself. He peeped to see an array of maids running helter-skelter at her command. She flung insults at them."Dimwits, when do you intend to begin the meal preparation?" The cook shivered, " Soon, we are still waiting for your order." Alexia turned to her and suspended what she was scribbling, her eyes sharp like lasers." Really?" She asked.
" What?" " I want you to be my wife." He repeated in case she didn't understand the first time. Amelia couldn't believe her ears. He wanted to marry her. What happened to Amelia? The coronation was in two days. " I can't marry you." She replied. The rejection hit Stiles like a sucker punch in the gut. His throat felt gutted. " I know that I have been a shithead, and done you great evils, but believe me when I say that I am a changed man." He said. Amelia stared at him, " That's not the reason." First, she wasn't single and couldn't contend for a queen position. Amelia and Alexia would frustrate her life. " It's not?" He replied, and she shook her head. He felt relief inside of him. Whatever reason it was then, maybe he could do a bit of convincing, and she would change her mind. He thought. " Is it because of my mom, Amelia?" He asked. He had found a permanent solution to that. She scoffed, how did she break it to him that she was in no way attracted to him, " No." His eye
"I am extremely delighted to be given this opportunity to be your leader. I promise to serve you the way I should." Alden vowed.Then, he drew Cisca closer to him, " I am also seizing this opportunity to present to you my Queen, the one for me. The owner of my heart." He replied and the crowd erupted in louder cheers. "I accept you as my King and husband," Cisca replied with tears misting in her eyes. " I love you," Alden replied, drew her closer to him, and gazed at her lovingly before kissing her deeply. " You are so beautiful."" You are not bad yourself." Cisca teased." Take it back." He whispered and she smiled.Elder Drew stepped forward and announced. " We present to you the Alpha King and Luna or Moonstone pack! Alpha Alden and Luna Cisca!"The pack clapped loudly as their joy was infectious. " Be merry and enjoy!" Alden said and music was played. Alden and Cisca moved around to greet visiting Alphas. "Alpha Jared, thanks for coming." Alden greeted the lonely Alpha.He l
Three weeks later, " Whew! I have missed this place." Cisca muttered when she arrived at the pack house.Alden chuckled as they walked upstairs together with Shawn in his arms. " I have to quickly attend to some letters, I'll be back in some minutes." He told her after placing Shawn in his cot. The calm baby watched his father who poked kisses at him. Cisca looked up, " We'll be fine, I am feeling sleepy." She said."Okay." He replied and returned to his office. A log of files waited for him and he had to attend to each of them one after the other. One was from Alpha Jared, and he stared at the file skeptically. How was he sure that this was truly from him? He heard a knock on the door. " Come in " He replied with a gruff voice. " I'm sorry for barging in." Elder Drew apologized. A maid had told him that Alden said he didn't want disturbance. Alden looked up, " It's fine, you can come in." He said and Elder Drew sat down. " I came the discuss the issue of choosing your members
" How is she doing?" Alden asked a nurse when she came out of the room. It was getting to an hour and she had not heard a baby's sound. His heart almost left his chest. He hoped nothing happened to her. " Fine, please just relax." She said and walked briskly to god knows where. Alden paced outside the door for a long time. He looked at his watch, it was another thirty minutes, and he barged into the room. " You can't be here." A nurse protested and he shot her a withering glare which made her retreat in surrender. Alden looked at Cisca who was sweating profusely on the bed as she writhed in pain. " Dr. Bart, what is happening?" He asked. " She's pushing." He replied and turned to Cisca, " Push!" Cisca tried all her might to push but nothing was coming out, " I can't." She cried. Exhaustion was written all over her.Alden was at her side at the instant, he held her hand, " You can, baby, you can." He soothed.Cisca began to cry, " I can't. I don't want this baby to die." Alden
The first thing Alden put in place was the detachment from any financial treaty between his pack and others. This required him to take his time to make strategic plans about how to generate a sustainable source of income." Hello, babe." Cisca knocked on his office door." Come in." He replied.Cisca pushed the door open and walked in with a tray. She sighed at the sight of files scattered about his desk. "Do you ever get rest?" She inquired. Alden chuckled. "I believe I would soon. I just need to put things in place." He said and rose to collect the tray from her."" Are you sure?" She asked. He didn't look like he was going to stop soon He nodded, " Of course I will. I am having conversations with a few Alphas, but we are yet to conclude." He said. " Alright." " Thanks for the cookies. But I told you to rest. We have maids." He scolded her gently." Okay." She replied. It wasn't stressful for her. In fact, she wanted to stretch her leg more. " Hmm, I don't think you will stop.
A week later, Cisca decided to go for a stroll in the garden. Boredom had gotten the best of her. If she spent another minute in that house, she wasn't sure of what could happen.What a sunny day, she thought as she reminisced on the recent incidents. It was very painful because she had lost very important people in her lives. First, it was Reagan, now Martin.A hand suddenly closed over her eyes and she screamed. A light familiar chuckle calmed her nerves. " What the hell?" She asked and turned to see the culprit. Alden stood before her with his hands stuck deep in his pockets. " Hello, love." Cisca burst into tears, and Alden panicked. " What is it?" "These are tears of joy." She sniffled and hugged him and sniffed his scent. She was so happy to see him. How did she not notice his scent? "I'm sorry, I should have returned much earlier. I was tidying up some things." He apologized. Cisca wiped her tears with the tip of her cloth. " It's fine. I'm just happy that you are here."
The man managed to escape, and Martin carried Amelia to the house. Cisca was waiting at the foot of the stairs and her mouth fell open when she saw an injured Amelia." What happened to her?" she asked as Martin called for other guards at the border. It was almost three a.m. before the pack house was stabilized. Alexia was baffled by what was happening. She locked herself in her room. She saw the intruder that came into the house through the window. Cisca paced around as Dr. Bart worked on Amelia. Her bleeding finally stopped and she slept off. " How did he manage to break into the house with this amount of security?" Alexia queried the next day. " We don't know, your highness. We chased him to the border, but he was able to cross it before we got it." A guard said.Alexia crossed her arms. " We will know the truth in the morning." She said. She could bet that this was targeted at her. This was what she could do." You can all leave. We'll speak about this in the morning." Martin d
Dr. Bart stood amid the office with all the elders in the room and his notepad in hand. " The autopsy took longer than we anticipated." "What have you discovered?" Martin asked. Dr. Bart looked at each of them and wondered and saw the tension on their faces, " Poison was discovered in his system. It was in his system for five months. It was wolfsbane." He said. Alexia rose, she faced Nicky, "I knew it, you killed my son." She said. Everyone turned towards Nicky, and Nicky rose to her feet. " This is ridiculous." She said, " I will not allow your stupidity to rub off on me." She said.Alexia looked at Nicky, " I want an investigation to go on." She said. "I want to find out who killed my son. When I get to the root cause of this issue, I promise that I will not spare the person." She said." How do you intend to do this?" Martin replied. Alexia smirked, she already had a plan." We will visit a seer. She will tell us who killed him." She responded. Nicky's heart skipped a bit at
" How are we preparing for his burial?" Elder Drew inquired. Queen Alexia looked up with an ashy face which was puffy from crying too much. " We are doing nothing about it. The elders can around " I want an autopsy to be conducted for him." Queen Alexia ordered and the elders looked at her. " He was murdered." She explained she needed to find his murderer. The elders exchange glances between themselves. " Okay, we will inform the doctor." Elder Drew said. Martin patted her back gently as she sobbed after they left. " Everything will be fine. They'll get to the root of the matter." He assured her. He stared at her with pity-filled eyes. Alexia was unable to eat for days and she began to lose shape. " It's so sad. I know who did this." She said. Martin's hand stopped moving as he turned to look at her. " Who?" Why didn't she say anything? Moreover, didn't she also kill the king?" I suspect it was poison. Someone in this house did it." Alexia replied flippantly. Intrigued by the
Between Cisca's frequent visits and cheering Stiles up, Cisca became a bit ill. She didn't play with her health this time as she visited the doctor immediately. Dr. Bart couldn't just stop her from staying with Stiles because he was the king, but he feared that she could catch his sickness. " You are running on low fuel." He said. " I thought that I told you not to stress yourself anymore?" He asked. "Yes, you did." Then he lowered his voice and listened to see if anyone was passing by. " Why are you staying with Stiles? You need rest." He scolded her. If Stiles was that useful, why was she mandated to stay with him? "I know, you said that it wasn't contagious right?" Dr. Bart nodded and watched her, " Yes, that doesn't mean that you should endanger your life because of whatever. I'm sure you are doing this out of pity which is good but very dangerous to your health. I don't want you to lose this baby." He said. "Alden will have my head if anything happens to you." He added. May