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
KAYABy the time the day was over, I was fagged out. I was sleepy, hungry and overwhelmed. I'd had to ask one of the maids to put Lana to sleep. She had a fever and while I was trying to breastfeed her, Nora called and said that we had a meeting to attend. I almost cursed her out before I remembered that it wasn't her fault. Maybe if Adrian was awake, I won't have to be doing this. My feet were hurting and I'm very sure they were swollen. “What do we have to do tomorrow? I'm thinking of not showing up.”Nora laughed..“If Adrian felt this way about things, we wouldn't have had a king for a very long time.” “Adrian has patience to deal with those old men. I don't.”The werewolf kingdom was dominated by men in high ranking positions. Which meant that they were often uncomfortable when they had to deal with a woman in a position that matched theirs. I'd had to smoothen it out with a particular Alpha yesterday who felt my words weren't valid because he didn't know who I was. “All
KAYA I was in Adrian 's office, trying to gather my thoughts. Today was meant to be a holiday for me because I wanted to spend time with my kids and also, I needed to make sure that Martine's kids were doing okay. I'd already asked Nora to help move all my meetings to tomorrow. The twins were especially happy with this because it was their birthday soon. I'd felt disconnected from the kids in the past few months. They'd been asking questions about their father repeatedly and I was running out of things to tell them. I wouldn't tell them lies per say but it was just the twisted truth. Lana was already down for her afternoon nap after the doctor left. Thankfully, her fever was coming down and she was showing signs of recovery. Her health had given me reasons for concern in the past months. But luckily, the doctor said it was just a new born thing. I was seeing him out of the house when he turned to me..“My Queen, remember how I told you that we had a hard time finding the Kin
KAYA Being Alpha was hard. I was supposed to have a meeting at 7am this morning. When Nora presented it to me the night before, that was the first thing my eyes landed on. “What outrageousness is this? Why do I have a meeting this early? What do they want to say that can't stay till later in the day?”She shrugged. “I have no idea. They just said they needed to see you.”“And who fixed the time?”“They did. I fixed it for later but they asked for it earlier.”This was outrageous. What do they want to say that they couldn't wait until later? Anyways, if I didn't show up at that time, they would wait. And I didn't actually show up at that time. I slept in. It wasn't until later that day when Milo walked in and shouted my name. “What?! What's going on?!”“The elders have been waiting for you all day!”My brain was still processing what the hell I was hearing. I had to look outside the window to fully understand what was going on. Shit! “Why didn't anyone wake me up?! What time
KAYAI should have known that my decision to keep Storm pack was going to come back and bite me in the ass. As the Elders had said, Alphas who were not happy with my decision came to me and laid their complaints. Just as I'd been told, they were five. Including Alpha Damon. No wonder he was being a bitch when I asked that the matter be postponed that day. “My Queen, you can't do this. The Alpha would never do something like this. This matter was being debated before his unfortunate accident. And I'm very sure he would have given it to me.”The other Alphas almost had his neck for saying that. I, however, was unfazed. “What Alpha Rave was trying to say, I believe, is that the Alpha would have given the place to one of us. He would keep it for himself.”Saying nothing, I let them rant and rant until I was tired of hearing their whining. “Are you done or you still have more to say?”They looked at each other like they couldn't believe my response. “Take a look around. You might as
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
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
KAYAHaving Adrian back into the house seemed surreal. Seeing him walking along the hallways or hearing his voice with the kids when I walked into the room still seemed new. Damien had been able to track Thomas down and he dragged him in by the hair and dropped him on the floor. “Did anyone order one scumbag? Found him trying to cross the border.”I had nothing to say to him. I called for the guards to take him out. “Put him in the same cell as Damon. I'm sure they'll keep each other company. Damon has a lot he needs to say to him.”I could see the fear in his eyes as he heard his name. I knew it. He was a coward who hid behind his mind games. “As for the boys, they're okay. All three of them are downstairs.”That's good. I was beginning to fear that he would go too far because he was desperate. “Wait, all three of them? Kyle isn't dead?” I brushed past him and almost ran downstairs, trying to make sure that he wasn't playing with me. True to his word, Kyle was standing there
KAYAAdrian and I walked behind him, making sure that he didn't do anything stupid.The reason why I believed his bomb threat was because if he could bug the house without me knowing just so that he could find out info about what was going on, then he'll surely do all he can so that he'll get what he wants. And I wasn't going to gamble with anyone's life.“When are you going to drop the remote? You don't want to leave with it, do you?”Thomas turned around.“What do you want to do with it?”“That has nothing to do with you. You get to leave so I get the remote. I can't trust you.”“You know I can change my mind and press the button. Then, you'll lose everything.”That was a threat.“As long as you go down with me.
KAYAWhat were the odds, what were the odds of Adrian waking up today?If he wasn't standing behind me, I would have said there were a million to one. But those odds didn't seem so anymore.My husband who had been out for seven months had suddenly woken up.My heart was racing fast and the arm pointing the gun at Thomas was shaking because I wanted to put it down and hug my husband.But that's what got us in this mess in the first place, one moment of weakness.Just then, I felt his voice in his ear and it sent shivers down my spine.“Kaya, listen you can put it down. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. The guards are going to arrest him now.”I saw him speaking to Magda, telling her to drop the gun if she didn't want it used on her. My brain was sti
ADRIANThere was something heavy on my hand. I could hear voices around me but this time around, it was hard for me to make them out. Even though I wasn't awake, I could hear everything that was going on around me and I could feel everything too. I just couldn't move or open my eyes. But not this time. This time, I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling, breathing heavily and finally feeling less trapped in my own body. I looked around the room and my kids were there. I heard the cooing of a baby and I knew that it was Lana that was by my arm. I wanted to move so that they'd know I was awake but for a moment, I could. Milo was speaking to the twins about something but I could make out what he was saying. My body was sore, which was expected. I didn't even want to know how long I'd been out. It was hard for me to move but I had to. All my joints cracked like I was a mummy just rising up from the dead. And Milo sure as hell looked at me like that. “Dad!” The way he crashed
KAYAI gave Magda back her phone..“Please, excuse me. The maids will get you some tea and we'll find you a room so you can stay for the night. I don't want you going back home tonight.”Nora was standing outside when I left the room. “Nora, send guards to stand in front of Adrian’s room. No one goes in or out. Take all the kids and put them there.”I ran to my room. A few years ago, Milo had given me some weapons to protect myself and I took them out and put them in my belt. “Kaya, what's going on? Do you know who he is?”“I’ve been so stupid. I've been ignoring what has been right in front of me and I didnt-”Tears didn't even let me finish what I was going to say. They choked my throat and did my let me breathe. “Kaya, please calm down. Tell me what is going on?”“That bastard is the doctor! The doctor that I gave the permission to treat Adrian is the one behind everything.”The picture that Magda had shown me was not very clear but it was just clear enough for me to see who h
KAYAI told Milo about the plan and we entered the room. “I can't believe he made a mistake like that. How stupid was that? If he had taken another route at this, then maybe it would appear smarter. But this, is just stupid.”I didn't know where exactly In the room the camera or bug was so we just stood in the middle. “Stella really helped us out. She didn't leave any detail out in her confession. So who do you think her boyfriend is? Of course, Elias is not his real name. I'm not stupid enough to believe that.”Nora opened the door and walked in. “What are you guys doing here? Kaya I finally trac-”“Nora, don't you think that it's weird though? Going for a girl like Stella? Just shows how much he had no class. A maid like Stella? Tch.” If he knew that we had Stella in our custody, maybe he'll see that he had been cornered. “Have the guards lock her up and beat her until she tells us where he is. If that bloody bastard doesn't show up, kill her. He'll show up one way or another.”
KAYA “The maid that takes care of Lana. I bumped into her and it fell to the floor. It seemed like she had been reading it and I saw it when I bent to pick it up.”Lana's maid? There were three maids that took care of Lana. “I saw some content of the letter. Something about a tux. I didn't see it well because she snatched it from me and walked away immediately like she was on fire. I just figured it was something personal.”A tux? Why would he want anything to do with a tux? Maybe Milo didn't see it properly. “Wait Milo, did you say a tux?” He nodded. “Kaya, the toxins. The ones the doctors spoke about. Milo didn't see “tux.” He saw “toxin”. She's the one who's been-”I shook my head to stop her from talking. I hadn't told the kids about Adrian's poisoning yet. She's the one who had been poisoning him. “Get all the maids that take care of Lana and bring them here. I don't care if you have to wake everyone in the kingdom up.” Nora left and I decided to tell Milo what was go
KAYAI now believed when Nora said that the house had been bugged.We figured that they might be somewhere in the woods. Besides, that's the only place that Kyle would be able to grab a flower.So we decided to search the woods for them..it was actually quite hard to move around because the forest was very thick and it was almost impossible to cut down the vines that were hanging around.We walked around for a while until we finally saw a house in the woods. That's very strange and there was smoke coming out of the chimney so I knew that someone was at home.We approached the house quietly, surrounding it and bursting in immediately to meet an empty house.The men went in to search the inner rooms and they came back with nothing. How could this happen? Or did we come to the wrong place?“M
KAYAThe pieces are slowly coming together. They were still all over the place but at least, we had information. We cleared the board that we had used for Damien's case. “So Kyle said that he had a tattoo on his wrist and that he smelled like rubbing alcohol. Both of which Damon confirms although Damon does not know the smell.”We pinned those two facts to the wall. “We know he needs blood. I heard from Damien that he threw the throne because Nancy needed blood and Damon asked for the throne in exchange. Damon is one of the few people who have rare blood. But what would he need that much blood for? A pint every three days is a lot.”“Not if he has a blood disease of his own. He may need it for himself or for someone close to him.”Hmmm, maybe. We pinned that to the board too. “He also said that he smelled like the King. Does that mean he's close to Adrian? He goes into Adrian's room?” I could see in her face that she didn't agree with me. “We don't know how long ago he smelled