CHAPTER 18 (HIS MOTHER'S RING)

XAVIER'S POV

I had lost track of time and when I arrived at the front of the bar to meet my carriage, it was almost ten p.m and I was so late.

My uncle had informed me of the welcome party and engagement announcement he had planned for the green-eyed witch today.

And I had promised him I was not going to attend and he had threatened to lock me in the dungeon.

Not that his threat scared me, but I knew if I was locked up, I would not have the opportunity to oversee my affairs of taking back my birthright and I currently had no time for delays.

Quickly, I jumped into my carriage and I didn't have to say a word, my driver knew what he had to do.

"Yah! Yah!" The voice of the driver called out on the cold night as he whipped the horses urging them to run faster.

I would have preferred to run in my wolf form, the air coursing through my grey fur, my paws slapping and lifting off the bare Earth, easing my mind and connecting with my true form but I had no time to clean up lest I mess myself u