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 His body fell right in front of me and poured outed from his head as his wide open eyes stared back at me in a daze. I was frozen, as I stared at him. Jackson was dead. Jackson..“Mum!” Milo ran to crouch beside me and pull me up from the floor. “Milo. Did you do this? I mean, how?”The sculpture that he used to hit his head was lying on the floor right next to him and I stared at it, wondering whether it was the force that he had used or the sculpture itself that had done this damage. “How did you do that? How did you know I was here?”“I knew that there was something wrong from the way you were talking so I ran after you and saw you enter here. I waited until the right time and only came in when I saw you were in danger.”I pulled him close to me and placed his head on my chest. “That’s my boy. That's my King. Gosh, Milo. I'm so sorry you had to go through this. You're just a baby but you already had to do so much just because of him. I'm so sorry you got involved in my
ADRIAN It's been a long time. Too long. ”Are you ready?”. Nora stood over me. “Yeah, let's go. Let's go bring them back home.”We led the soldiers to Golden Blade. This time around, I didn't acre what happened. Since I couldn't find the spy, I was going to make sure that I went there and killed Jackson for everything that he has done. “What do you think has happened? Its been a very long time. You know Kaya, what do you think she has achieved?”I didn't know..I didn't want to think about the things she had to do just because of this bastard. “I don't know but something tells me that we're going to fight an already won battle.”Just as I thought, I found Milo and Kaya in the woods. Nora rushed to her side and tried to pick her up from the floor but she cried out in pain and fell back down. “It’s her leg. She had a bad fall.”I was about to ask how she felt and how she managed to get out of the palace but I heard footsteps approaching. “We have company in the South. Get read
ADRIANWe had arrived at the house that night and I asked the doctor to come take a look at Kaya. I didn't know why she didn't heal. Normally, if she had an injury, her body healed by itself. But it didn't, this time around. Maybe it was because of the severity of the injury. The doctor attended to her when she was already knocked out. She was soundly asleep so I left her to rest and went to check on Milo . He wasn't sleeping and I wasn't surprised. How could he sleep after something like that? He was facing outside the window when I entered and he didn't even bother to turn around to look at who entered the room .I just stood behind him, not saying anything as I didn't want to interrupt his thoughts. “I didn't want to kill him. I've never killed anyone before. The thought has never crossed my mind. But I had to. I swung it across his face and cracked his head. There was blood everywhere. I couldn't even look at it, dad. It was everywhere.”I pulled him into me and hugged him t
KAYAWhen Nora came back with a piece of paper in her hand, I froze. “I think you should see this.”The anxiety in my head didn’t let me move an inch from where I stood.“Where did you find it? Where did he keep it?”“Once, I saw him open a picture and when I asked, he said it was nothing. I think I know why he protected the letter with everything.”When she finally brought the letter over to me, I looked at it. The first thing my eyes noticed was the red crown symbol on the paper. It was even on the seal.The letter read,“Your Majesty,I write to you out of concern for your life. I fear there is a plan against you. They plan to kill you and your entire family just to take over the throne. I’ve managed to track them down after so much effort.”I looked at the description on the paper.“Where is this located? Because I know this is not in our pack.”“You’re right. It’s not.”Something else concerns me. “Nora , whoever sent this letter is the one who asked for me to be killed.That me
KAYAKnowing that it was just a small amount of time before what I'd done spread throughout the whole kingdom, I got to work immediately. After the party, I took Nancy back home and showed her to her room, telling the maids to look after her and make sure she's well rested. That woman had been through a lot. Then Nora and I got to work. “Kaya, do you realize what you're doing? This isn't just any other natural case. This is a case of treason and conspiracy to murder against the King. It's the most sacrilegious offense in the kingdom. Practically releasing an offender involved in this will not go down well.”I knew that it would not go down well and I was ready for the fire that they wanted to bring. “Nora, I have a strong feeling that he's innocent. I don't know why but let's look into it.”“Don’t you think Adrian would have done that when the case was brought to him? I don't really know much about it. All I came to see was him already in jail and I didn't ask questions because th
KAYA“Your Majesty, it's an honor to have you here. I didn't think you'd make it. I was afraid that you might be too busy to have time for a mere Alpha like me. We all know how hard you've been trying to keep this kingdom together.”This was another reason I didn't want to be here. The sucking up was next to none and it sickened me. I didn't even know who this man was.“Then why did you invite me if you knew I wouldn't want to come?”He seemed taken aback by that question.“I just thought it would be lovely to have you here. It's been a while since we've all gathered in a less tense environment.”They were the ones who were making things tense. I just sat back and watched them make fools of themselves.“I’m sure. My Beta would give you what we have brought.”
KAYA“Unfortunately, i can not grant you your freedom because your crime is too grievous. But you can ask for something else. Perhaps, a better cell before your death. I’ll make your last days a little worth living.”He fell to his knees.“I did not kill them. I have nothing left to lose at this point, i’m going to be killed but i will hold my stance. I did not kill my family. She was cheating on me and we both knew it. She was meant to leave with the man next day but when i gotback that evening, i walked in and found them both dead. And thats when someone walked in.”I didn;t know the full story so i couldn’t really say anything fr now.“You can go. I’ll call for you later but i need to do my own findings.”The guards too them out and i was left with little to no information. At leat, i knew that th
KayaI ran with Nora down to the dungeons.What was I hearing?“How the hell did this happen?”Her feet were very fast and she didn't even turn around to look at me. She was right, the dungeons had changed since the last time I was here.They were bigger and more spaced out. I didn't know that Adrian had done this expansion. When did he do this?We stopped in front of the cell and I didn't expect what I saw.There was not a single drop of blood. Just the man on the ground with his eyes wide open.As I entered and crouched in front of him, I noticed that his body was swollen.And there was a smell. Almonds..How can that be?“Get me a flashlight quickly.”&nbs
KAYA It didn't take a lot of time for what I said to happen but the sad thing was that I didn't realise it. I was in Adrian's room looking after him when I got a message that I had a visitor. I didn't know who it was because today was supposed to be a day off and I'd asked Nora to cancel every potential meeting, no matter what it was. “I think you should come out. You'd want to see this person.” It was a trap. “The only person I want to see is right in front of me so no, I don't care. Tell the person to go back and come back when I'm in the mood.” She didn't say anything after that and she left. There was no one that important for me to drop everything that I was doing and go out. Nora and Milo had taken the baby to the hospital later that day and I was on edge. I was checking in every minute to make sure nothing had gone wrong. I would have gone by myself if not for the fact that I had to be here. I had a meeting with all the Alphas in the Kingdom. It was a monthly meeting an
KAYAIt wasn't easy living with one arm. I was basically useless in doing everything. I had to wait for the maid to do everything for me. All I did was just sit in my room, sleep, eat and think. The maids were now live-in . But at least, I got to spend more time with my children who had now moved into my room. Nora threw a fit every time she saw me out of bed. She needed to remember that I was injured and not dying. It would eventually roll over. When the doctor finally removed the sling, I couldn't have been happier. My arm felt like new but it still hurt. “You’ll have to give your body more time to heal, which means that you can't stress too much. My Queen, you need to take it easy. Your blood pressure is very high, coupled with the fact that you're breastfeeding. You also need rest for that.” If someone else could take over those responsibilities for me, I would have happily given them out. “No problem doc, thanks for being here. Have you taken a look at Lana?” “Yes, she se
KAYAAs I hit the floor, the pain shit through my entire body like electricity and I was paralyzed for a moment before I felt someone rush to my side and pull me close. “Stay close, Kaya. We're going to get you help.”It hurt a lot and I just lay there while she put pressure on the wound. I could hear the shouts of people as they scurried to safety. “Leave me alone and take the kids inside. Get the people home safe and find who did this.” Milo appeared by himself as well. “Get your brothers and your sisters inside and lock yourself in my room. Go now!”I was getting weaker and weaker and I could barely move my body anymore. “Kaya, I won't leave you. Let's get you inside.”She lifted me on her shoulder and took me in and her voice started fading out but I could still hear that she was speaking to some people. “The doctor is on his way, Kaya. You'll be fine. Just stay with me. No, don't close your eyes. Stay with me, Kaya.”I fought so hard to keep my eyes open but the more I tri
KAYA It was the beating of the drums that woke me up that morning. Normally, the first day of the celebration often entailed the pack gathering at the house so Adrian delivered his speech. Normally, I just stood there, looking pretty by his side while he spoke..he often asked me if I had anything to say but I always declined. This time around, I was being fitted for a dress I had now become too big for. I hadn't lost all the weight I'd gained during my pregnancy so this dress that I'd had fitted last months ago was now so small for me. “My Queen, I don't think it'll fit. The corset…it's too tight.”I was barely breathing and this was going to be so uncomfortable because I was going to be out for the entire day in this. “What can I do? It's not like I can have the dressmaker make another dress in five minutes. Most of my clothes don't even fit anymore.”Gosh, how could I not have thought about this all this while? What was I going to do? It was tradition to get new clothes ever