Ever since we came back and I wasn’t that busy, I started feeling weak once again, but I didn’t let it get to me. When I realized that the harder I worked, the stronger I felt, I decided not to sleep around even though I was planning to rest till the banquet evening. I walked around to get the gist I had missed while I was absent from the palace and my girls didn’t fail to fill me in on every single thing that went down between Chief Kinn and Amy. I had even forgotten about her for a while until she was mentioned and I was glad that Chief kinn was strong enough to make her behave. I know she must have been looking forward to her reinstatement in three months’ time, but I had planned to uproot her and her lineage before that time and they just made it easy for me by getting involved in such a crime as poisoning the Alpha. To make sure everything was set in place, I was with the Alpha all day to discuss things we would say and how we would act while waiting for both Beta Gray and Prin
The party started and the officials started saying their greetings to the Alpha and he kept smiling through all their touching words. “I almost lost my mind when I heard you collapsed, but seeing how you came back shining the more, I think I can relax now” Elder Boris remarked, and they all chuckled. “I know, right? I never thought the Alpha was this handsome. The glow on your throne is special tonight” another chipped in and we all laughed hard. I was dressed in a pink gown that had a long thigh slit but was budded with silver flowers to cover the spaces. The hands of the gowns were covered with white gems, creating a lotus flower shape with shiny silver ornaments scattered around my packed hair. “Your beauty is blinding tonight, my queen”, he had complimented me when he set his eyes on me and I blushed. “I have always been beautiful, did you just notice?” I pouted and we both giggled. I was laughing alongside their hypocritical greetings while waiting patiently for the show to
Her hands trembled as she exchanged glances between her father and the glass in her hand. Everyone focused on them and they had no choice but to down the glass or else they would have to confess to their crimes. I watched them swallow the drinks in fear, their brows quivering to show their nervousness. She gagged along the way but managed to force the drink down till she was done with the last drop. She turned to face me and gave an awkward smile. “Thank you for your favor, my Luna”, she greeted, her teeth clenched against each other tightly. Her gesture only made me release a snort before I managed to compose myself and reply “You are always welcome”. The continuation of my words made her legs pause as she turned to return to her position. “You have been diligent in your work as reported to me by the chief butler. This is an example that you need to set in the palace and I am glad that you are doing that. Your punishment will be over soon, so I hope you stay strong”, I added, and
HELENA’S POV The coldness of his voice seeped through my bare skin as he held onto me and stared at me fondly. My chest was beating fast again as the tension rose between us and I knew where this was going, so I had to up my game and guard up my control so I wouldn’t just be crumbling every time at his touch. I mean we still have a long way to go, we have several knots to untangle and many situations to straighten out. If I let my emotions get the best of me right now, I might not be able to find the answers I had fought for so hard till that moment. “How about you stay with me tonight?” he asked, staring deep into my eyes. My lips trembled to find the right one, but nothing was coming to it so I closed my eyes to take a deep breath before removing my hand from his. “Draco, we still have a long way to go. We have many riddles to solve, so let’s not do this yet”, I answered strongly before patting his shoulder and walking out of his room after bidding him a good night. I didn’t sl
I discussed the issue with Alpha Draco, who wondered how we could rescue Vincent from Elder Damon’s residence if it was true that he was there. “The goods for the palace will be coming in soon. You can use that as a form of disguise to confirm if he’s there or not”, I advised, and he clapped at my suggestion. “That is very true. We will have to see how it turns out when we get there. Since it’s a hostage case, then we will have to search properly because he will be hidden in a place where no one will have access to him except the elder himself”, he added, and I reasoned with him. We would need to be smart with it if we want our rescue mission to be successful. One thing that kept bothering me was the fact that he might not be alive anymore. “I hope I don’t find you too late” I kept muttering to myself as I went back to my quarters to strategize and prepare with Han, who would be the one to check for the place where Vincent could be. I sat with his line from the letter “Who knows?
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I was on a date with Draco on the wide bridge in the pack when Gray ran to us panicking. He was covered in sweats and his breathing was shallow due to the excessive running he had done. The field where we were busy having our picnic was actually very far from the palace, so it took him a while to reach us by foot. “There you are” he called out to us, stopping to catch his breath. With a broad smile, Draco waved at him “Oh Gray, why are you suddenly here?” Gray managed to stagger to our side so he could close up the distance while we wondered what could be so urgent and important for him to run all the way here without taking the car. “Ah, that’s true. I should have taken the car” he muttered before raising his red eyes. His eyes were red like hot coal, they were not normal at all and that was the first thing that hinted to us that something was wrong. I rushed to his side to hold him and asked whatever the issue was, only for him to drop the bomb. “You both n
I waited for so long in the cell and it felt as if no one would come. Hunger almost gouged out my eyes, but I was suppressing it with the thought that I shouldn’t be hungry in this kind of absurd situation. “I wonder if I have been forgotten here. Who knows what has happened to my parents? I want to see them so badly” I kept talking to myself until the huge metal scrapped the concrete floor to signal the presence of someone. “Finally” I gasped, trying to rush to the cell’s door, but I was pulled back by the shackles I had forgotten was there. I shrieked in pain as the cold metal dug its teeth into my already sore flesh. The speed at which I had fallen back to my seat was so hard that my butt stung in pain. “Fck” I cursed subtly under my breath, waiting for whoever it was that opened the door. A ray of light finally appeared in front of my cell and a small part of the cell was thrown open forcefully. I was still hoping to see the person’s face when a plate board penetrated through
I was thrown back into the cold and dark cell where I had been left for close to two days. The coldness of the bare floor helped a lot to cool my burning wounds and I was able to sleep well on the floor because my hands were not tied this time around. Everything I had passed through played in my head. From the moment I was laughing in Draco’s arms on the field to the place he commanded me to be thrown back in the cell. I couldn’t stop wondering where the trust he said he had in me was, the love he had always confessed he had for me and those assuring words he had always told me. “Everything was a lie, a blatant lie” I kept repeating to myself over and over, and I lied down crying silently. The more I thought about them, the more my tears flowed. When I remembered how I lied on myself and my poor parents, I bawled my eyes out till the point I had no more tears to shed anymore. It was then I knew I had to give up on tears and just let anything that would happen take place. All my fea