KAYAJust like yesterday, the trial started as soon as the sun came up. I was the last one to enter the court since I'd woken up rather late.Milo and I spent more hours delving into the dynamics of my relationship with his father.Adrian wasn't only my husband, he was my best friend. Which means that we trusted each other with everything.That included administration.I'd only gotten there hours but I had to forget about sleep for now and make it to the throne room.In Alpha Damon's best interest, he was already in the room when I entered.“Things are moving rather speedily and I hope that I could round this up as quickly as possible. Now, I'll be hearing from Alpha Damon about the events that happened in his pack. I think a first hand account won't hurt. Just as it happened.”
KAYA“Go on, Damien. You have my full attention.”The court was quiet as he rubbed his wrists, obviously happy to be free from the chains.“I can not believe the accusations waged against me. Never for once in my life has it crossed my mind to rebel against Alpha Damon or the King. Even when he took what belonged to me, I took it as fate.”I wanted to ask him about that but I didn't want to interrupt him.“I do not know how those items ended up at my house. I've never even heard of aconite before. All I know is that they came to raid my house and arrest me, saying that I was planning against the Alpha. I got to his house and was still trying to plead my case when they walked in with those items.”So there was no proof that any of those things actually came from his house?
KayaHer groans are still echoing in my mind. Even though it has been a month, the day he shouted those awful things to my face feels like it was only a few hours ago. The cut was still open, oozing blood and clogging everything up. The betrayal stung in my eyes. That heartbreaking sight is something I find myself returning to again and again. On the couch, my sister and my boyfriend, well, ex-boyfriend, were having sex. Serena's moan rang in my ears as Jackson pressed her down against him, grasping her waist and pushing her closer to his groin. Her button-up shirt was hanging open, practically falling off her shoulders, and her huge breasts poked out through her bra, pushing against his bare chest. He put his lips to her neck and ran a hand through her hair, pushing it back and pinning her to him as they continued to rock their hips in mindless passion.His free hand grabbed her ass through her jeans, she let out another gasp and their lips met once more. Five years with him had
KayaI stood there, listening keenly to them as they decided my future like it was up to them. I gripped the tray nervously, making sure that I didn't make a sound so they wouldn't know of my presence. “B-but Serena, I don't think that's a good deal.” Jackson stammered. he always acted like a fumbing fool when he was needed to step up and do anything. Like now, he knows she is wrong and what she is suggesting is nothing but evil. But as always, he couldn't be a man and say it as it is.“What do you mean?” I could imagine that ugly frown on her face right now. “I mean, I've heard rumors. The Lycan King is a fifty year old man and he already has a kid older than you and I. That’s not fair.” I momentarily removed my ear that was pressed up against the door and looked around to see if the guards were coming. “That’s nonsense. All those rumors are lies." I didn't even know who to believe. Nobody had ever been to the Lycans lands because it was forbidden. Wolves and Lycans shared noth
Adrian I dropped his toy train and walked over to meet Steven, the pack doctor, who was now gathering up his equipment. “Steven” I turned around to look at Milo, to make sure he couldn't hear me “What do you think? When do you think he would be able to talk?" From his expression alone, I already knew what he wanted to say and it wasn't good news. He simply shook his head, not wanting to add salt to the injury. Disappointment washed through me as I walked him out. Every time he paid a visit, I had always hoped that he would give me good news, that he would talk real soon. Ever since Asher, my former Beta and his father passed on, he had been like this.Milo was his father's son and the only thing Asher held dearest to his heart. Their bond was so strong that when Milo realized that his father wasn't coming back from the war like other men, he fell ill. To make matters worse, Hailey, his mother, left him because she wasn't able to cope with his illness.Milo had no one to care for
KayaI was sure it was Serena's voice I had heard coming from behind the mask. She was my sister, I couldn't possibly mistake her voice but somehow, I had still wished that it wasn't her. I hoped that it wouldn’t be her. That she wasn’t as bad as she portrayed herself, and that my sister was in there somewhere. The person took off the mask slowly, and the scar was the first thing I noticed. And all my hopes shattered. “Serena… What's the meaning of this? What are you doing? Let me out of here?” I fought against the thigh ropes and she laughed.The sound was like a dagger to my chest. No, seeing her was the dagger to my chest. That just turned it more, causing more pain and making me bleed even more.After all the things she has done, I’ve never felt as betrayed as I do right now. I regretted giving her a chance all these years, for believing there was some good left in her. That my sister was in there somewhere. She isn’t. She never has.“Let her down, boys." One of the men stepp
KayaI was waiting for it, the sharp quick death Serena was going to give me. Or maybe she'll make it slow and make sure I suffer in pain as she watches my blood drain into the ground. Whatever my death may have been, it did not come in soon, I felt the absence of the knife against my throat. Slowly, I opened my eyes in case Serena was still there but there was no one there. She wasn't there and neither were the other men who were standing with her. What the hell? What was going on? Did she have second thoughts? Knowing full well that Serena wouldn't pass up an opportunity to get rid of me, I looked around properly to see if this was just another trick to see if I would actually run away and then catch me in another trap. That was when I saw it, the green glowing eyes approaching me. If that wasn't a wild animal, then it would definitely be a-His growl was the next thing I heard and I froze. Those bastards, they had left me here to be food for whoever this was. I couldn't fight w
KayaThe guy dropped me on the floor as more footsteps approached us. Had Serena gone back to bring more men to fight him? As we stood waiting for whoever was approaching us, I took a quick glance at him. I had never seen anyone so relaxed in a moment like this. He had a stoic face and looked straight ahead like he could scatter whatever it was, with his mind alone. My ankle was throbbing badly but there were more important things to face right now. “That’s them!” I looked up to see Serena pointing right at the both of us. No, she hadn't gone to bring more men. She brought my father, Jackson, and more guards. This bloody bitch actually had some balls. “Get behind me, it's fine.” The guy whose name I still didn't know, pushed me behind him but he didn't need to protect me, this was my family. Or so I thought.“What are you talking about, Serena?” She went to stand beside my father and held his hand. “Dad, this is the rogue she's been having an affair with. I told you I'd find p
KAYA“Go on, Damien. You have my full attention.”The court was quiet as he rubbed his wrists, obviously happy to be free from the chains.“I can not believe the accusations waged against me. Never for once in my life has it crossed my mind to rebel against Alpha Damon or the King. Even when he took what belonged to me, I took it as fate.”I wanted to ask him about that but I didn't want to interrupt him.“I do not know how those items ended up at my house. I've never even heard of aconite before. All I know is that they came to raid my house and arrest me, saying that I was planning against the Alpha. I got to his house and was still trying to plead my case when they walked in with those items.”So there was no proof that any of those things actually came from his house?
KAYAJust like yesterday, the trial started as soon as the sun came up. I was the last one to enter the court since I'd woken up rather late.Milo and I spent more hours delving into the dynamics of my relationship with his father.Adrian wasn't only my husband, he was my best friend. Which means that we trusted each other with everything.That included administration.I'd only gotten there hours but I had to forget about sleep for now and make it to the throne room.In Alpha Damon's best interest, he was already in the room when I entered.“Things are moving rather speedily and I hope that I could round this up as quickly as possible. Now, I'll be hearing from Alpha Damon about the events that happened in his pack. I think a first hand account won't hurt. Just as it happened.”
KAYA I was going for the letters like a hungry lion trying to gnaw at their prey. I could see that the pile of letters was reducing. “Have you found anything yet?” “Not at all. Do you think it's here?” From the look of things, I didn't think it was here. “How could this happen? We sent the letters out to everyone. And this is everything right? You're sure none of them went missing?”“Yeah, I'm sure. I asked the guards to put them all in a bag and deliver them together so everything will be accounted for. They didn't lose any.”How then was this possible? I sighed and sat on the chair. I had really high hopes for this plan. This was the only way we'd know who had the symbol. “Or maybe we're not dealing with an Alpha. Maybe we're dealing with a noble man. We didn't send letters to them because we thought it was an Alpha.”No matter how much I thought about it, my mind didn't just lean towards it being a noble man..“I don't know about that but we can try it. I'm not in the mood
KAYA“When he approached us at the bar, he told us that the job he had for us would make us rich and we immediately agreed to do it. He said he needed us to keep secrets and that we have to never tell anyone what we’re doing. Then he said that we had to kill the King.”Nora returned to the room and stood beside me. “What happened after that?”“We didn’t want anything to do with it but he said he’d kill our families if we didn’t do it. So he asked us to meet somewhere and he’ll take care of everything else but we just had to be there. But it neve happened and we were caught.”I was still waiting for him to fill me in but he kept quiet. I was surprised. “Is that all? That’s all the details you have?” He nodded. That’s odd. For a plan as big as killing the King, there should be specifics. I asked that the next person be brought and Miller said the same things. I even had to look through my notes to make sure that I was hearing right and there was nothing new to write down. When Coll
KAYAThe next day, the court opened as soon as the sun was up. There was no sleep for Nora and I last night since we were trying so hard to put forward an argument. Since she was now representing him, I couldn't help her directly because I needed to remain unbiased and uninvolved in all the dealings of both sides. But that didn't mean I was free to sleep. I needed Damien to be free which meant that I had to raise my own questions too. The letters hadn't returned and I was thinking of telling the Court what happened with the prisoner and the letter and all the ways the coincidence just matched up. However, I didn’t know who was the real culprit which meant I couldn’t trust anyone yet until I found answers for myself. Nancy, who was restless , bumped into me when I went to drink water in the kitchen. ‘My Queen, you’re still awake.”“Nancy, I've asked you to call me Kaya and stop bowing to me. Come, let’s go to my waiting room.”I shouldn’t be speaking to her either since she was
KAYANora was representing Damien since no one agreed to represent him knowing that if they lost the trial, then they’d suffer too. I would have done it but it had never been heard of so I asked Nora to do it. We had to plead our case to the Elders. If they saw reasons with us, they would approve his release and then I would too but if they didn’t they would have to bring in the Alphas, which was something i didn’t want them to do. “ My Queen, may I present the initial report regarding his arrest which clearly states that upon his arrest, his apartment was searched and certain things were found. All of which included aconite, the deadliest poisons known to mankind and witches. Imagine what it will do to a wolf. So at that point, it wasn’t an issue of unlawful arrest. There was evidence.”Nora brought the paper to me and I went through it and read all that he had said. “Go on.” “When brought to trial, Damien could not explain why he had the acenite with him in his house. He maintai
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.”