Kiara:
“Well, Niklaus, how about you show me what you can do?” The man said looking at Klaus. Niklaus pulled me to stand behind him, his body tensing as he looked at the man who was suddenly standing in front of us, a smirk on his face. I couldn’t help but frown as my hands shook, this being the first time I’ve ever encountered anything like this.
Children from around us hid behind their mother, fear in their eyes, fathers and young men kept their women or children well hidden behind them, protecting them from this man who was smirking a calm expression on his face despite the fear he knew he was radiating. Niklaus kept his hand in front of me, telling me not to get closer. I didn’t move from behind him, knowing that whatever we were about to deal with right now was nowhere near being sane or normal.
“You finally came out of your hiding place” Niklaus said calmly, though I could tell that he was nowhere near being calm.
Niklaus:“Niklaus, who is that man?” Kiara asked as we entered the palace, the guards and maids bowing at the sight of us entering, Ian and Grace walking close behind. My anger could be seen a mile away, everyone in the palace was making it obvious as they kept their eyes down avoiding my wrath. Of course, I just saw the one man who was my sworn enemy and he dared approach my mate and kingdom. I could hear my princess’s racing heart as she followed me through the halls of the palace not answering her question, as my mind raced. I couldn’t even process how that bastard managed to enter the kingdom without getting noticed by the guards. How was it possible that I didn’t notice that he was there in front of me? I didn’t even catch his scent, and he was right in front of me. Hell, he even dared speak to me, and I didn’t even know that it was him.“Not now, Kiara” I warned walking toward our chamber, slamming the door sh
Kiara:I woke up feeling fatigue.My body felt like a thousand tons were walking over it, though I couldn’t help but smiling when I saw Niklaus softly running his fingers through my hair, my neck feeling a bit sore as his teeth were dug deep in my neck last night as he claimed me as his. His emotions had gotten the best of him when it came to King Verone’s state, and I was having a feeling that it was due to being sexually frustrated, the idea of the king being here was not just as bad as him being in the same room as my father. However, I wanted him to remember that he was the strongest of the kings, everyone should be fearing him, not the other way around.“Good morning my love” Niklaus said softly, his lips touching mine gently, the kiss he gave me was much different than the others, his eyes filled with love making my heart swell.“Morning” I said smiling as he pulled away, his finger ran over my collarbone, then up
Klaus:“You will protect my mate with your lives, do you understand?” I ordered looking at my guards who were in the throne room “while I’m inside this throne room, until Verone leaves, Kiara is not to leave the chamber”“Yes sire” the guards said at once, I nodded dismissing all of them before taking a deep breath trying to control myself. Kiara was not aware of Verone coming to the castle. I couldn’t see him out of the castle, it would be risking many people’s lives, however, I couldn’t risk the fact of him and Kiara being in the same room. If I knew Verone, then I knew that he would do his best to annoy me using my mate. He would sense and see my annoyance of him being here, and he would be using it to his advantage.But, I sadly needed to negotiate with him, especially after forcing his heart to grow back. He could come back for Kiara, he could come back to annoying the people, to trying and killing
Kiara:“Aiden” I scolded the little dragon who was jumping on top of the dresser. No matter how many times I scolded the little creature. He grew more stubborn as he grew.“You know that I won’t break anything” Aiden said looking at me with his big blue eyes. His eyes had stopped shifting in color and were now a dark royal blue, his scales were as black as night. A person couldn’t see him if he decided to sneak on him in the dark.“You know that I don’t like you getting on the dresser Aiden, whether or not you were going to break anything” I said scratching the little creature’s head, he leaned in to my touch, purring, and closing his beautiful eyes “now, get down before I get angry”“You’re acting like a mum” Aiden said jumping down making me laugh, he was growing faster than I had anticipated, I hadn’t even expected him to learn our language so fast. But acco
Niklaus:“What is the story of Verone? Who is that man? And why is he after your throne?” Kiara asked slowly. Her eyes stayed on mine as she watched my expression carefully. She wasn’t judgmental. I could tell that she was simply trying to understand, her hand held mine and she slowly intertwined our fingers letting me know that she was by my side, that she wasn’t going to judge or leave me.“He’s my twin brother Kiara” I said slowly waiting for her expression to change but she didn’t. Her eyes were as gentle and loving as they always were, and if I were not mistaken, they were even softer as she waited for me to continue with answering her questions “him and I were close long ago, we fought for the same cause, which was against the humans who were hurting our people. But Verone went too far, he wanted the people to submit to him, he was merciless, he lost his humanity, he started killing children for simply being h
Kiara: “You are upset with me” Niklaus stated wrapping his arm around my waist from behind and pulling me to his chest. My body involuntarily leaned into his touch despite my sadness of him hiding what he knew from me. “You hid something from me when we promised one another to be clear towards each other” I said in his arms. His arms tightened around me and he kissed my cheek from the back before softly turning me around to face him. His arms remained around me as he leaned in to my lips “Niklaus…” “Shh princess, allow me to explain why I did it first, then you have all the right to be angry with me” Klaus said softly. His lips connected with mine and a vision of a forest appeared in my head making me pull away from the kiss but Niklaus kept his arm wrapped around me, nodding as he encouraged me to kiss him. Slowly and carefully, I wrapped my arms around his neck, connecting our lips. The vision of the forest cleared itself in my mind and Niklaus tigh
Niklaus:“I will expect no excuses Lorenzo, Kiara is already a nervous wreck right now. She needs to be guarded at all times. Otherwise, we’ll find her trying to go to her mother” I said looking at Lorenzo who nodded at me. He knew Kiara more than I did. She would put herself in danger to protect her mother. Even in her worst states, even when her father put her life in danger, the two threatened her, locked her, hurt her, Kiara did nothing but protect her mother through everything making sure that the woman was never harmed by the man she called her father. It saddened me that I couldn’t help her sooner, I knew that I should have gotten her out of the man’s palace. But I also knew that she would have never come with me if she did.“But sire, if the princess decides to leave, what would I be doing to stop her? You know that she has grown a lot stronger, she will challenge King Leonardo” Lorenzo said stating a fact that I knew w
Kiara:“Baby girl”Lips touched my forehead waking me up “come on my gorgeous beauty, I believe it is time to wake up”I smiled opening my eyes, Niklaus sitting on the edge of the bed beside me. His arms either side of my head as his lips kissed my forehead, cheeks, nose, and when he saw me opening my eyes, my lips. I smiled into the kiss, kissing him back and Niklaus chuckled slowly sliding his arms under my shoulders and wrapping his arms around me pulling me up to him before putting me to lay back down to lay comfortably on the pillow.“Good morning” I said smiling. Niklaus rested his forehead against my own and smiled at me, both our breaths mixing. Niklaus kept his arms either side of my head, holding himself up as he looked at me, my green eyes melting in his gorgeous blue ones making me love him more with every passing day.“Good morning my love” Niklaus smiled. The man had stayed by my side th
Klaus:I tightened my arms around my wife who stirred in her sleep as she got another nightmare.It’s been the case since we finished the war. She’s been too shaken up about it to even speak of what happened, but I could easily read her mind and see what she saw.The visions that were in front of her made her feel like everything she chose to believe in as she grew up was a lie. The fact that she had sent Lorenzo to kill her father didn’t go unknown or unspoken of, which made their already broken relationship hit an all time low this time. The queen refused to look at Kiara, even when she learned of her daughter’s pregnancy, the queen had refused to come and be by her side.Now my wife was in her last month. It’s been three months since we found out of the pregnancy, and with her carrying a hybrid child inside her, the pregnancy was a lot faster than most. But that only meant consequence…With my wife’s we
Kiara:I never understood what my parents feared when they said that the world outside the palace was a dangerous place. I always wanted to go out and explore. I hated being locked in the palace for years. Well, at least until I saw what I have today.To say that getting mother out of the palace was hard wouldn’t be an understatement. However, I wouldn’t lie when I say that us leaving the palace didn’t seem like the best idea at the moment. People were on the verge of eating one another, literally.How it happened was something that I couldn’t understand. I knew that the kingdom had its issues when I was here. However, I never expected to see what I was seeing today, nor did I expect to see the terror that I was currently witnessing.It was like poverty had spread all around the kingdom, and now all they saw and wanted was to kill one another for the smallest loaf of bread. Had Caspian not stopped four of them, they would’ve
Klaus:I glared at the man, my brother, who stood beside the dragon. His eyes amused as he watched the people flee, fear could be seen in their eyes, expressions, and even their body languages. Never had I imagined seeing my brother being this evil. Growing up, the man had the heart of an angel. I will admit that we have been harmed, the humans have not left us alone for years. But that didn’t mean that we had darkened, the man’s heart completely died and he had lost all senses of humanity.Having sent my mate to the human world. I feared what was to come, and I knew that there was no way for me to handle it if anything happened to her, nor would I be able to focus knowing that she could be in danger at any given moment. At least in the palace, having Lorenzo and Caspian by her side, I would know that she would be somewhat safer than she would ever be here in the kingdom, even if she was with the bastard she called a father.“I see that your pe
Kiara:“Klaus, there’s no way…”“Kiara, please don’t argue with me this time. Go back to the human kingdom. It is a lot safer for you there…”“Klaus, no. I won’t leave you…”“Kiara, this is life or death. You are with child and I will not be able to focus with you here…” Klaus cupped my cheeks and kissed me gently “Caspian, Lorenzo, guard her with your life. I will come and get her when everything is done”My eyes widened when I saw that he had put the teleportation amulet around my neck and having ordered it to take us away, the amulet started glowing making me shake my head. I watched as my love ran out the window before everything blurred and I was suddenly in the middle of the palace’s throne room. Mother’s eyes widened when she saw me and my hands shook in fear. Father was nowhere to be seen.“Kiara?” Mother
Niklaus:“Did she speak?” I asked Lorenzo who had just sucked Rosetta dry.He was in charge of this task after his brother’s death, knowing that nothing would avenge him for the death of his brother except this. I assigned him to do this, he knew that Verone’s death would be on my hands, as I couldn’t give him that, I offered to allow him to kill the one person who Verone would die for, and though Lorenzo was initially against it. He was not one to lay his finger on a woman, he knew that this was the closest thing to killing Verone that there was.“Not a word. I’ve killed her twenty-eight times already, the woman just keeps coming back to life and says nothing as she smiles and waits to see what I have on my sleeve for her. She would taunt for a while, but she knows the fate that would hit her eventually” Lorenzo said and I nodded looking at Rosetta who was coming back to life once again, this time the woman seemed
Kiara:“Baby girl, you need to sit down” Niklaus whispered to me and I shook my head at him pacing around the people who were in need, everything was a mess. The people who have managed to escape the terrifying events that happened were either coming to their senses after the shock they’ve been through or healing using vampire blood. The people were petrified and despite not wanting to show it, I was too, and I was well aware that my husband could feel it too.Everyone around us has lost their homes, most of them have lost their families and loved ones. I couldn’t handle the situation that we were put in, what I saw, the people’s screams and cries filled my ears and the vision of the fire haunted my mind the second I closed my eyes. Niklaus has been watching me for the past hour trying to stop me, but all his tries went in vain. I needed to keep myself distracted before everything that happened hit me. As I knew that this was no time or pl
Niklaus:“I see that your mate left” Rosetta said when she caught sight of me. I raised an eyebrow at her when I entered the ballroom and her blue eyes met my own, she looped my arm with hers when she saw me approach her “aren’t you going to greet me, my king?”“I can tell that you’re still as observant as you always were” I said glaring at Rosetta who rolled her eyes on me, she smiled at the guests who were leaving. Their eyes looking at our joined hands for a second before they bowed and walked out of the ballroom fearing me noticing their eyes.“Do you really believe that she’s safe because you made her leave the palace Niklaus?” Rosetta asked making me frown in confusion, I could tell that her tone was nowhere near being normal. I glared at the woman whose lips twitched up as she tried fighting back a smile “have you already forgotten who I am and what I’m capable of?”
Kiara:“ALL HAIL QUEEN KIARA!”I walked out the door as Lorenzo announced my arrival to the guests who attended the gathering that we were having. Grace was already with the guests who stood up and bowed to me when the announcement was made. I smiled and nodded at the to rise before going to sit in my place beside Grace. The ball was enchanted to bring out couches where the ladies were to sit. However, these couches would be disappearing when the ball officially began.Fixing the dress I was wearing as to make sure that it wasn’t wrinkled, the dress was royal green. My sleeves reached my elbows as my chest and collarbone were exposed. The dress reached my knees and I wore stockings beneath it covering my exposed legs. A simple crystal necklace hung from my neck reaching my breasts. It was one that Niklaus made for me, specifically for this ball. He urged me not to take it off even when I would be going to Lorenzo and Giovani, I didn’t que
Niklaus:“It is impossible that this king doesn’t have a weakness” I snapped at Ian making Kiara jump at my sudden loud tone. I knew that she didn’t like yelling, but this man was getting on my nerves. We have been trying to find something to kill him with, anything to reverse the spell. But nothing was working.“He is your twin Niklaus” Ian reasoned and I glared at him. Kiara took my hand in hers and intertwined our fingers seeing how tense I was.“Screw the bloody day that I was born with that thing called a man” I said angrily.“Why not try to find the witch who put the spell on him in the first place?” Kiara asked slowly.“Tried that Queen Kiara, the woman has been killed a long time ago. Verone feared her trying to break the spell. Therefore, he killed her long before she tried anything” Ian said answering Kiara.“But why would a witch make a spell on a man to