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 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
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
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
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
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
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
KAYA It had been six months since the incident. Six months since I'd last seen and held my husband in my arms. I remembered that day like it was yesterday. Having to watch my husband's blood decorate the floor like paint while I could only cry and scream.I'd never felt so many emotions all at once.“Adrian, stay with me. You cant leave me, not now. Please. The doctor will soon be here.”I knew that wasn't true but at that point, I couldn't bring myself to believe anything else. “I didn't mean to do that. That was a mistake. He moved too quickly.”Adrian held my hand, seeing that I was going to go after him. Don't.”. His voice was a whisper “I don't have time. Take care of the kids. Tell them I'm sorry for not coming back and tell Lana- tell my daughter that I loved her and I always will.”His hand that was grasping mine went limp and his eyes that were once trained on me lost focus. The tears suddenly dried from my eyes and the pain in my heart disappeared. I brought his head
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