ADRIANI couldn't help the way my mind kept going to check on Kaya.I knew she was extremely mad at me and I knew she didn't want to speak to me but I couldn't help the way I felt.I'd not seen her around in a while and since I was so busy with other things in the kingdom, I didn't exactly have the time to check on her.My mind kept drifting back to her though.So I went to see her. I knocked on the door but there was no response and I pushed my way in. The room was empty and after checking the bathroom to see that there was no one there, I left.I called for a guard.“Look for Martine and send her to me.”Maybe she also had been caught up with something that was taking her time. I was sure that it had to do with the case that we were all dealing with. Maybe she was speaking to the parents of the kids that were taken.“Alpha, I've been told she's not on palace grounds.”“Where is she then?””According to the matron, she hasn't been present for a week.”What? Did Kaya fire her and I di
ADRIAN“So you're trying to say that the Queen is missing?”I sat with the cabinet and Nora by my side, giving me a look every second. I'd changed my cabinet. Just as I'd said, I'd gotten rid of those old men who were giving me a headache and judging every move I made.Nora was the one who took care of the selection process. I just told her what I wanted and she presented me with candidates. I handled the rest myself.“Yes. She had been missing from her chambers and so has her handmaid. All efforts to find both of them are in vain.”Martine has not been found. I sent guards out to search for her over and over again but no one seems to have seen her.“Could we possibly say that she ran away? That's not possible. Queen Kaya is a strong Queen. She won't run away when her son and other children of the pack are missing. She knows she's needed for this.”So what other explanation would I have to offer for her disappearance? The kids are already asking questions. What will I say to them?“I’
KAYAIf there was one thing I learnt from being a Queen, it was how to be a Queen. Back at home, I related well with everyone.But not here. This wasn't my kingdom and it would never be so since Jackson wanted a Queen, I would give him a Queen.I started the morning with a tantrum. When the maids brought food, I took the plate and threw it at the wall.“Take that dog food out of my face and get me actual food!”There was nothing wrong with the food. I just needed Jackson to know that he should kill whatever motion he had of me in his head. To him, he'd think that I was still the quiet and innocent Kaya that he knew.No, she was dead and gone. Right now, only Queen Kaya remained and she was a mother and a wife on a mission. I won't let him destroy my family after doing so much to build it.He had no idea what his actions have done to Adrian and even my other kids. I barely had time for them because I had to attend to this and now, I've had to leave my kids because I wanted to be her
ADRIANNora was the one who brought the news to me. It seemed like a dream, like it was fake because we had done this before, spreading rumors like this.“Why would I lie about something like that, Adrian ? At this point? I'm serious. The kids have returned to their parents. All of them.”That means, my son should be back now. And hopefully, Kaya.“So what about Milo ? Have you seen Milo ?”She shook her head.Where could he be? Or did he stay back to help his mother?That is a situation I can see happening.“Get the carriage. We're going into the pack. I need to see some of the kids. I need to know what happened over there.”I waited until they brought the carriage around and then hopped in with Nora behind me. For the first time in months, I felt relieved. The children have finally seen their parents.If anything had happened to them, it would have been disastrous and it would definitely hurt the pack. But thankfully, nothing happened.The first house we stopped at was quiet.Nor
ADRIANNora started working immediately on the information we had. Now, I knew that the only reason why Jackson took Milo was because he wanted his delusion of a family to be complete. Beneath the picture of Jackson, Milo had begun drawing the picture of someone. The face wasn't complete, probably because he ran out of time but he wrote the word “spy” in very small letters. Nora knew who noticed it and showed it to me. I have such a smart boy. So now I know that his spy motion wasn't a goose chase. Milo knows who the person is or else, he wont have written that. “The pictures have been circulated around the pack. Soon, we'll have news about their girl and whose child she is. In the meantime, more gifts arrived.”I'd spent the last few days visiting all the kids that had been returned to their parents. Since I wasn't there for them when they were taken, the least I could do was to see them when they were returned. I knew if Kaya was here, that's what she'd do. “Adrian, what do y
KAYA I left the room just then and returned to study. I had to act like nothing happened or else, I would be the one at risk here. He didn't know I had overheard the conversation and I wanted it to stay that way. He was standing in a spot, with his hand on his chin, looking at the ground when I entered. “Hello.” I said and stood in front of him. “Do you need anything?” Yes, I need you to tell me why the hell you are doing this? What will he get in return? There's no reward for marrying me, as far as I know. At first, I thought it was because of our history that he wanted me back and wanted to marry me but after hearing the conversation earlier today, I wasn't so sure. It was like there was much more that was attached to it. “Yes. I need to ask you a question.”He led me to the sofa and sat down across from me. “Let me hear you.”“Why do you love me? Why me?”He smiled a bit when I asked that question and for a moment, just a split second, I saw the Jackson that I fell for.“
KAYA “Excuse me?”“You never cared about the important things. Always had your head in the clouds, it was sickening. I wanted you to take the throne but you didn't want it. Why didn't you want it? Your younger sister was going to take everything that belonged to you and you were fine with it like a fool.”Now, this was the Jackson I knew. “You should have fought. You should have fought her so hard and even killed her if you could but you didn't. Instead, you stood there like a fool and begged for help from people to come save you from the abuse. It was them I knew that you were never going to be a good Alpha. You were worthless, and sorry.”He started taking steps towards me and I moved back. I moved back because I didn't want him to touch me and hold my hand. He had a very strong grip and there was a high chance that he would hit me if I let him get too close. “It’s your fault I left you! You wanted me to save you from their abuse?! What happened to your hands?! What happened to y
KAYA “How-” the tears in my throat stopped me “How did you find out? I mean, I never knew about this. How did you know?”“Well, unlike you, such a weakling, I don't sit around and wait for people to bring answers to me. When I want something, I go out and get it. I needed to know which one of you your father wanted to give the will to. I didn't have the time to be swinging between the both of you so I needed to make a choice. So I went into his study and I found a journal of the events.”My father kept a journal?“That’s when I knew that you would never get the throne. Your father hated you and your mother so much that if he had the chance, he would have killed you all off a long time ago.”No wonder. No wonder he never gave her the light of day. No wonder, I thought it was because she gave birth to daughters but no. It was just us, just my mother and I. Why didn't he just let us go? I'm sure she would have taken me and left but no. He was a sadist and he wanted her to take care of
KAYA I saw him. Mark. I saw him standing over her with a knife in his hand and I screamed but he wouldn't stop plunging the knife into her. I ran to stop him and that's when I realized that I had been chained to the wall. He cackled loudly, disturbing my ears and tears blinded my vision. “You will suffer. I will kill all your children, Luna. And you will stand by and watch.” To the side, I saw Milo and the twins also being held by men and I couldn't do anything. All I could do was beg. Cry and beg. “You can't do anything to save them, Luna. You can't. So give it up and give me what I want.”My body was getting weak from trying to get out of these chains. But my daughter was with him and I needed to see her. “I don't know what you want. Tell me and I'll give you.”I noticed that the chains were falling off the wall.With one strong pull, I should be able to get them off. And that's what I did. I used yeh chains to hit him across the face, causing him to fall to the ground
ADRIAN It was taking too long for them to bring him to me so I went out myself. “What the hell is the hold up? Why can't you find him?”“I have no idea, Adrian. I don't know. He was just here right now.”This was insane. Did that mean I couldn't trust any of my men anymore? Why were they dead if he had put them in the cells himself? “The men said they last saw him a few minutes ago walking out of the cells. Of course, they didn't suspect a thing.”This was bullshit. Cold blooded murder right under my nose. The audacity! “Get men out there! None of them are to come back until they come with a solution. They should bring him back here!”She began walking away. “And Nora ! Tell Allister to bring himself back here. I need him now.”I couldn't even remember where he was because of the amount of things clouding my mind. “I'll let him know, Alpha. I'll be out in the field if you need me.”All I could do was wait until they returned. In the meantime, I remembered that he had dropped
ADRIAN“You didn't know he wanted to harm the princess?! What did you think a random stranger asking you for such a thing wanted to do? Give her a surprise party?!”If I was employing such stupid guards, I wonder what else has gone wrong in this house because of them. “What else did you do?” “I found them and told them about the plan. He said he was going to pay us as soon as the job was done.”If they were there, that means they saw them when the baby was taken. I asked the two others who were on the second floor. “No, as soon as they passed, they asked us to leave. Their faces were covered with a hood. It was only later we learnt of the princess's abduction.”So these men stood by while my daughter was being taken. “And just like that, they left. They took the child and left.”Well at least, I'm getting somewhere. That meant that Mark wasn't working alone. That meant he had someone else working for him, most definitely on the inside as usual. “Take them away. I don't want to
ADRIANI grabbed the note pad and ran out of the room, going to our room to look for her. How did she- That's why she was with Nora during the interview. “Alpha, we found something.”I stopped to look at Peter. “Can it wait? I have something to do right now.”“No, it can't. It needs your urgent attention..I think you should see this.” What the hell could it be? “Fine then, what is it?”I went downstairs with him. Two guards were standing in the centre ground, with clothes in their hands. “Is that what I think it is?”They were Lana's clothes. And it had their blood on them. “Alpha, that's not the only thing we found.” I didn't like his tone. I didn't want to believe it. No, it couldn't be..“Whatever it is, can wait. Not a word of this to anyone..not a single soul. Not even Nora , do I make myself clear? Take them and keep them in my office along with whatever you found. Not a soul!”I walked away, leaving them there. If Mark harmed my daughter…I wouldn't be able to stand i
ADRIANThat bastard had the guts to come into my house and take my child.After everything that he had done, this was more than he could chew. No one knew what had happened aside from Nora and Kaya . I wanted to keep it that way. We would find him one way or another with my baby safe and sound. Kaya wasn't saying anything. Not just to me, to anyone. I'd asked Nora if she'd spoken to her and she said no. When I tried to approach her, she walked away.It was driving me nuts and I needed to know what she was doing. “Adrian , I need your help. Can you recognize Lana's smell?”Nora handed me the blanket still stained with blood and it got my stomach in a knot but I didn't let it show. “Yes, I can.”“I need to make sure that it's her blood. At least, we'll know that she's safe and sound.”The entire blanket smelt like her so it won't be hard to figure out if someone else's scent was mixed up somewhere. But when I smelt it, it was just her. “I will kill him, Nora . I will give
KAYA I screamed. With everything in me, I screamed. It only took Adrian two seconds to come flying into the room. “What’s going on?”It only took him another two seconds to access the room and see the blood. “Where’s the baby? What happened to her? Why's there blood? Whose blood is that? Where is she?”I couldn't move. I just stood there looking at the empty blanket as if I could see her.Nora joined us in the room. “What happened?”I don't know what Adrian said to her because I had already disconnected by that time. My legs went away and I fell to the floor. My chest was heavy and my breathing heavier as my brain tried to remember where the hell my baby was. Adrian came to crouch beside me and he shook my shoulders. “Kaya, now's not the time to cry. Where is the baby?”I opened my mouth to talk but nothing came out. I just stayed staring at him.“Kaya ! Say something! Where is my child?!”Him shouting at me got me scared and it pushed back the words I wanted to say. “Adria
KAYA I followed them downstairs, not being able to sit there anymore. I was not going to sit there when a psychopathic murderer was on the loose with no one knowing his whereabouts. Nora and Adrian were talking in hushed voices and I walked up to them to hear what they were saying. But they stopped talking as soon as they noticed my presence. “What’s going on? What's the update?” They looked at each other and I didn't like it. “Can someone tell me what's going on?”Nora walked away while Adrian turned to me and grabbed my shoulders. “Kaya, you don't have to worry, okay? I assure you that I'll take care of everything. You won't have to worry. I'm working to make sure that he's caught. It won't be long now.”I knew that he could catch him quickly but it didn't give me a sense of relief, especially the fact that he was not in chains. “Why didn't you just get rid of him when you had the chance? Killing him would not have affected her birth, you know?*I wasn't blaming him for t
KAYA Nora was right. I was pregnant..I also didn't believe it when the doctor told me..I gave birth to my daughter, Lana last week. She was the most beautiful thing to ever exist and I felt like I'd fallen in love all over again. She came out looking like Adrian which pissed me off so much. “According to my father, a girl has not been born into this family in ten centuries. But you, my Queen, gave me a daughter. You made me a special father and I love you for that.”“So you weren't a special father when you had us?” Milo asked. Adrian barely turned around to look at him. “Shoo, everyone has seen you. I'm speaking to my wife and my daughter.”I laughed..”She’s going to be so spoiled.”Adrian was very good at spoiling kids and that's why Adrian was going to be just as his father was. Spoilt. “You can say that again. She's going to be daddy's girl. My little princess.”She made me happy and she made all of us happy. She was a blessing. Adrian had to leave because a guard called
KAYAMaybe it was the fact that he thought I had forgotten or maybe it was the fact that he thought I didn't see him but the Chief Guard returned like nothing happened. I didn't even see him. Milo was the one who saw him and ran to my room. “Mum! The Chief Guard.”Since he woke me up from sleep, I stared at him for some moments before my brain kicked in. “He’s back?”Milo nodded and I was about to get down from the bed when I remembered that I couldn't walk by myself anymore. The crutches hurt my armpit and I didn't like using them. “Get me your father now. If he's with the Chief Guard, don't bother saying anything until he leaves.”He nodded and ran out but I stopped him when he got to the door. “Milo, try not to look suspicious. Just be you.”How could he be the spy? It just didn't make sense. What was in it for him? I could have never asked Jackson what his connection to him was. But as much as I could think about it, try shouldn't be connected in any way. I never knew any o