EVANORA'S POVI spent the rest of my day in my room, locked up with just me and my thoughts. The palace was surprisingly quiet the whole time. After what happened with the witch, I was expecting my dad to storm into my room and uselessly try to lecture me. I sneered at the thought. What were they expecting from the stunt they pulled? Were they trying to compel me? Were they that desperate to get me married to the Prince?I shivered as I recalled how the witch managed to get me in control. It felt strange and unfamiliar for me to barely be in control of myself. It was scary and I was only thankful I somehow managed to get out of her grip.Glancing at the clock by my side, I checked the time. I had been patiently waiting till sunset so I could sneak out to meet Blade. Thanks to the condition of things, I had to stall even longer making me wait till it was even later before I got out of bed.It was already dark by the time I got out of bed, got freshened up, and got ready to sneak out.
EVANORA’S POVIt just had to be a dream.Instead of sneaking out to meet Blade at night, I’d somehow slept off in my room and was currently dreaming about my dad catching me right in the act. Dreams worked that way, didn’t they? They came in form of one's worst nightmares just to frighten us once in a while.“Evanora, is something up?” Blade’s voice pulled me out of my momentary trance. “Why did you suddenly-”No, no.I watched Blade rise to his feet and then walk towards me, not caring if he had no clothes on. Immediately, my dad turned to look away from his naked body and it was at that moment I knew it wasn’t all a nightmare.Shit. Without thinking twice, I pushed Blade away from me even before he could hold me and immediately bent to pick my clothes from the floor. Not caring if I was putting them on correctly, I threw them over my head to just cover myself.“Evanora?”“Shit, get dressed,” I cursed under my breath as I said to Blade. I was burning with embarrassment and could ba
EVANORA’S POVI could feel my dad’s gaze bore holes in my skin as I remained in my position, watching Blade’s figure slowly disappear.His anger could be sensed from up to a mile away. I couldn’t blame him though, he had every reason to be angry. He had just found out his daughter, the vampire princess was in love with a werewolf. An Alpha at that.“Princess Evanora.” Unfortunately for him, my understanding of his anger wasn’t enough justification for his actions. Regardless, he should have kept Blade away from it and had us deal with it personally. He had no right to insult the man I loved and I was not going to simply have that slide.“How dare you, dad?” I replied to him, turning to face him. “How could you?”“Excuse me?” contrary to his words, he didn’t look surprised at me. “What the hell are you talking about?”“You know exactly what I am talking about!” I yelled. “How could you threaten to kill Blade?”He chuckled softly, getting on my nerves even more. “You should be gratefu
EVANORA’S POVA whole three days had passed by since the last time I was allowed to step out of my room.My dad meant every word when telling me I wasn’t going to be allowed to leave the room. By the doors, were armed guards ready to attack me at even my slightest attempt to escape and the windows were laced with fresh vervain every morning to stop me from trying to pass through them.It was useless to act stubbornly. There was literally no way out.Refusing to admit defeat so easily, I refused to eat for the first day. Irritated every time a new maid appeared with a tray of food, I’d yell at them and send them out, feeling satisfied from the look of fear on their faces. My dad however seemed just as angry as I was as he was relentless. With every maid I sent out of my room, a new one was sent in the next hour. I couldn’t understand him. He obviously didn’t care about my feelings or what I wanted so why was he so bothered about me eating or not?By the second day, I’d become weak fr
EVANORA’S POVI had no idea I could miss the training that much.The familiar movements as we threw punches and kicks, the grunts that erupted from us as a result, the stench of sweat, and the feeling after defeating Matthew- I missed it all so much though it had only been a few days.Truth was that I missed being in action. I missed doing things other than sulking and getting angrier with every passing second. Though wasn’t perfect, I missed my old life before it took its very dramatic turn.“I see you’ve gotten extremely good, princess,” Matthew commented as he took my hand. “To be honest, I was expecting a little slack from you considering you haven’t done any training or activity in the past couple of days.”“Too bad,” I snickered. “You didn’t get what you were expecting.”“Tell me,” he said as he dusted his hands. “What were you doing for the whole three days? Training secretly? Now that I think about it, you don’t seem like the kind of person to just sit around calmly doing noth
BLADE’S POV “Alpha Blade!” It took Adam’s loud voice, immediately pulling me out of my thoughts for me to realize how lost I had been. Forcing a neutral expression, I raised my head to meet him staring at me with furrowed eyebrows. “Oh. What were you saying?” “I said so many things so I don’t know which part exactly you missed,” he replied me, seeming irked. “Or were you even listening to me at all? Was I just speaking to myself all along?” “No, no,” I massaged my temples as I responded. “I was listening. Just got lost along the way. You were talking about recruits, weren’t you? Yeah, what about them?” “I was saying the Luna said she wants to choose the new sets herself,” he groaned. “It’s not like she was asking for your permission anyways. I was just informing you beforehand.” “Oh, thank you,” I nodded. “Alright then. If that’s all, I’ll be heading to my office. I have a pile of work waiting for me.” Ignoring the confused look on his face, I turned to walk in the direction of
BLADE’S POV My steps were slow as I approached the pack house. If there was anything I’d learned from staying out with the hope of seeing Evanora tonight, it was that I needed to find a way to have us stay together. As soon as possible at that. I was going to head to the library to go through all the texts again. Just maybe, the last time I checked wasn’t thorough enough so I was going to check again. I was going to go through every single text all over again until I finally found a way out. With a nod, I walked inside. It was dark already and all things being equal, dinner should have been served hours ago. My mother was supposed to be tucked in bed already with my Beta also preparing to retire for the day but apparently reverse was the case as I immediately spotted my Beta walking towards me. “Adam?” “The Luna asked about you earlier at dinner,” he said to me on approaching me. “I guessed you went to see your mate so I covered for you.” “Oh, thank you,” I breathed out. I didn
EVANORA’S POV “Princess Evanora, you are to head downstairs for breakfast in 20 minutes.”Rolling my eyes at the guard at the door’s comment, I got off my bed to head to the bathroom. I had woken up several minutes ago but purposely chose to remain on my bed to stall.The past few days had passed by with me hating every second of it. Though I was finally allowed out of my room, it made almost no difference as I still felt imprisoned.I was forced to spend my days in preparation for the wedding. I wasn’t given a choice as I was constantly reminded of the possibility of me getting locked up in the dungeon if I tried to act up.It was suffocating and extremely torturous, the only thing keeping me up throughout being the hole in my bathroom ceiling. I knew one day it would be over and I would finally be able to sneak past them and out of the house.Giving my little secret a final glance, I stepped out of the bathroom. I had no idea what they had planned for me today but whatever it was,
Three weeks later… “Evanora, would you at least have breakfast before you leave?” “For the hundredth time, dad, I can’t,” I replied my dad with a sigh. “I’ve spent a whole week here already. I need to return home.” Home. I smiled as the words escaped my lips. I could finally call Blade’s pack my home. I could finally proudly call myself a member of their pack. Not just as a regular member but as the Luna. I spent the past few weeks after our marriage shuffling between his pack and our coven. It was just as hectic as we imagined as I was constantly needed as Luna and at the same time, the vampire princess. The past week was the most hectic as I had to spend the whole week at our coven. There were tons of events I had to attend, and tons of matters to address and they just kept on increasing, everyone forgetting I was to be on my honeymoon after getting married in not the smoothest manner to the love of my life. It was finally going to pause though as after spending a week alone
BLADE’S POVWe literally ran back to the palace, the same thing evidently on both of our minds. Evanora. My Evanora. I couldn’t afford to lose her. I just couldn’t. Silently praying as I ran, I recalled the arrow hitting her right by her heart. Fear gripped me at the thought of her not being fine. She needed to stay strong. I needed her to. My breathing became heavier as I ran. Oddly, the palace seemed to be longer as after what seemed to be hours of running, we still hadn’t gotten there. After seeming like forever, we finally arrived at the palace. Side by side, we rushed towards the garden the ceremony was being held. Tearing through the crowd as we got there, we rushed towards the podium to see Evanora was no longer there. “Where’s she?!” I and the king asked in unison, the fear and worry evident in our voices. “Where is she?” “She’s in one of the tents with the witch.” Mumbling our thanks, we rushed towards the tent pointed at. Taking the lead, I ran and on getting to the
BLADE’S POV“Evanora!” My yell was the loudest it had ever been as I rushed towards her, watching her slump onto the ground. No, no. I shook my head. It couldn’t be happening. I felt my whole world shatter to the ground as she slumped in front of me. We were about to get married. We were about to go through the last ritual so it made no sense she was suddenly shot by an arrow.“Evanora,” I cried out to her, holding her close to me. I stared at her in horror, watching blood pour off her chest. Whoever shot her must have practiced well enough as the arrow hit her right by her heart. “No, Evanora. Please stay with me.”The whole crowd was thrown into a frenzy. It was too terrifying to be true. Not only had someone dared to shoot the princess, but they had also dared to do it at t her wedding. Holding her close to me, I was suddenly consumed by rage. How dare whoever it was trying to hurt her? Swearing on my life, I vowed silently to find whoever it was and have him or have to feel th
EVANORA’S POV A smile appeared on my face as I stared at my reflection in the mirror. It was finally the day. The day I spent the past week counting down to. The day I’d been anticipating ever since I realized I was in love with Blade. It was finally my wedding day I was dressed in a white gown, a bouquet of red roses in my hands. My hair was styled prettily, my makeup was done perfectly and I knew I looked beautiful. I could only imagine how dashing Blade was going to look in the suit we had chosen together, the image of both of us standing close to each other playing in my mind and having my smile even wider.The past few days had been hectic with literally the whole coven preparing for my wedding alongside me. Wolves from Blade’s pack had also freely entered our coven and vice versa, everyone is happy.My dad for one seemed the happiest. He actively took part in the preparations for the wedding as he was always busy around. A lot had to be done and a lot had to be changed too a
EVANORA’S POV“You have met my Beta once already, right??” I nodded as me and Blade walked out of his office to head to his home. Both excited with the way things were finally turning out, he was about to introduce me to everyone all over again. “Yeah,” I nodded to him. “Why?” “I don’t care,” he playfully replied. “I’m going to introduce you to him all over again. Officially, this time. As my Luna.”I blushed as I had been doing every single time he called me his Luna. The title still felt foreign to me and extremely exciting. “Alright.” Hands intertwined, we climbed down the stairs to step into a wide hall. Taking a couple of steps more, we walked into a corridor and after more walking; we were in front of a room.“Is this his room?” I got the answer to my question as he placed a knock on his door, calling out to him as he did. Initially, all we got in response was silence but after a while of more knocking, the door was finally open.“Were you asleep?” Compared to Blade’s smi
BLADE’S POV“Don’t you fucking dare lay a finger on her.”I growled out to the wolves as they tried to touch Evanora at my mother’s command. noticing the seriousness in my voice, they all stepped back, slowly loosening their grip on Evanora.“Blade!” my mum exclaimed, rushing towards me. “What are you doing? Her people got you captured and now you’re trying to protect her?”“They didn’t capture me, mother,” I replieto d her. “I voluntarily surrendered myself to them and I’m here alive, am I not?”“Blade-”“Order your little minions to let her go,” I breathed out. “We don’t have a reason to be enemies with the vampires anymore, mother.”“What?” she knitted her eyebrows in confusion. “What do you mean?”“Trust me, mother,” I took a step closer to rods her. “Call for an emergency pack meeting and I’ll explain it all. For now, let Evanora go. please mother, don’t make this any harder.”Her shoulders slouched in defeat as she heaved a sigh. She knew she was left with no choice but to liste
BLADE’S POV“Are you sure you’re really fine?”“For the millionth time, Evanora,” I laughed lightly, pulling her close to me to place a kiss on her forehead. “Yes, I am.”She shut her eyes and then let out a sigh. I could tell she was still worried about me not healing fully before heading back to my pack. I was fine though and as much as I wanted to do nothing but lay in her arms under the guise of taking my time to heal, I knew I needed to return to my pack.I could only imagine the frenzy the whole pack must have been thrown in without me being around. They must have been so confused and lost on what to do. After all, their Alpha was suddenly in captivity.It must have been hard for them all, especially Adam. I could only imagine how worried he was going to know there was almost nothing he could do. With me being in captivity, they couldn’t risk waging war against them. Especially since I voluntarily gave in.Thus, I was left with no choice but to return home to inform them I was w
EVANORA’S POV The past two days went by very quickly with me barely leaving Blade’s side throughout. After the whole very dramatic event ended with Blade accepting to get us married in a week, he slumped and finally collapsed. It was only natural for it to happen, given how much torture he had been under for the past week alongside the insane amount of wolf's bane that was injected into his system. He was immediately moved to the infirmary, and the best doctor around began to treat him. Though he had been responding to all the treatment he was receiving, he had spent the past two days in bed, taking his time to heal while I did nothing but watch him closely. I was overjoyed. Despite him being unwell and unable to celebrate with me, I still felt extremely happy. It was all over. We were finally going to be able to stay together. A light blush crept towards my cheek as I recalled how he accepted to get us married. It felt like a dream. I was finally going to be getting married to
EVANORA’S POV The chants from the crowd were getting louder with every passing second, my tears not stopping as they freely rolled down my cheeks. My dad’s guards were frozen, conflicted on what to do considering how torn the crowd had quickly become. Desperately, I turned my head in my dad’s direction to look at him. His eyes looked just as desperate as mine, containing an element of fear in them. Of course, he was to be scared. He could tell I wasn’t joking and knew even his slightest actions could cause him to lose his only child at that moment. “Please,” I whispered to him. “Please, dad.” We locked gazes for a while, both doing nothing but pleading with our eyes. I felt hopeless and after a couple more seconds of my dad staring, he looked away. “Silence!” At his words, the bubbling crowd became silent, everyone immediately shifting their attention toward him. Sparing me another glance, he walked towards the podium, looked at the crowd, and took a deep exhale. My heartbeat