KING ARCHIE’S POVI had to send for Amanisa to prove that my mom was just unnecessarily terrified. She was terrified of Amanisa and that sounded weird to me even though it had been over five minutes since my mom told me about what she thought of Amanisa... I mean, Amanisa was the same woman she had dotted on when she returned to Royal Hills. The woman that saved her and took an arrow for me. It was okay for me to suspect Amanisa but no one else could. Not even my own mother… not my mom who had become less of a comfort to me. She was so off yet I had stayed true to my promise to not call the healers. “Don't you see how this could break the realm, Kovan? I am scared that the female has been working with Alpha Damon. I have been having flashes of what happened back then in that hell hole, son, and see her.” My mom announced. She was trying too hard for me to believe her. Yet I couldn't believe her. She sounded more like Ardin at the moment.“What is she talking about? During the tim
AMANISA’S POVI didn't kiss him just to escape his questions. I kissed him because I was forced to follow my intuition… I claimed his lips for myself because I felt the hunger to claim all of him before Violet’s games would start working on him. It was a miracle that Sophie had failed to make him believe that I was the killer. It was a miracle that he chose to believe me. Despite having doubts about him, he had managed to clear the air between us, and rather than speak about the truths I had figured out, I kissed him fiercely, pouting out my emotions. The kiss was for him to feel my love even though I still wasn't strong enough to let him know with words. At least I was still using my mouth to communicate my love to him. Arla melted within me as Kovan’s hands sneaked around my waist within seconds. The kiss started intensely and we both fought for dominance as we kept the intensity of the kiss alive and strong.My lips felt numb when Kovan finally let me detach them. My forehead
KING ARCHIE’S POV“What the fuck is this meeting about!” Jay exclaimed within me. He was furious. I was furious too and I didn't hide it as I walked through the Lycans that had been gathered in the throne room without my knowledge. What the heck! Did they forget they have a King? No decision should be made about my realm without my knowledge. Perhaps I was this angry because Curtis had uninterrupted I and Amanisa this morning when he forced a connection between our minds to tell me that my cousin had called for an impromptu meeting. Even Curtis knew nothing about the meeting but at least he had the decency to tell me about it. Ardin didn't think about telling me and neither did Byron who was my cousin. I was livid.I saw Byron standing by the throne with Ardin, booking nothing like the Delta he was supposed to be. Violet was also there wearing black just like Amanisa but Amanisa looked better than she appeared. Violet looked like she had been dragged through the pit of hell and
AMANISA’S POVthey had him.They had trapped him too and he hadn't realized it yet. Byron had trapped Kovan and as I watched the scene quietly, I realized that his friendly enemies had planned even the beautiful night Kovan and I enjoyed together last night.Of course, they knew how to make me forget my priorities and how to make Kovan drop his guard.They had us both.Ardin shoved Eva to the floor like she was a sack of worthless material. That made Eva scream and she ran to her sister at full speed but Ardin smacked her away even before she could reach her sister. “Don't you dare lay your hands on her!” I finally broke my silence, seething at Ardin like a mother hen. I rushed to Ava and helped her off the floor still hissing at Ardin. He should just wait till I understand what the hell they were doing at the moment. Ava tried to reach for Eva again and I did all I could to hold her back while Byron continued speaking about how Damon wasn't a truth-worthy subject of the throne.“L
KING ARCHIE’S POV“We might have found our man, My King.” Curtis found a way to tell me that through the mind link when everyone else was focused on the female that had been introduced as Ava’s twin. It didn't have to be spelled out to me. I understood Curtis immediately. The closet Lycan to me… the most powerful that could stand against me.There he was in his dark robes, disobeying me and making me look like a sick joke before my subjects.Byron. My cousin. But for what?If he was the mastermind we have been searching for, why would he do that? Why would he send that letter to me only to perform his drama?He wasn't coming for me or my throne. He was going for Amanisa instead. He was going for the woman I loved. Insulting her and calling her a criminal yet I couldn't stop him from talking for two reasons. One, Byron had the support of the Lycans in the throne room. Secondly, the more he spoke, the more Curtis and I could access him.“Amanisa mentioned something about Violet kno
AMANISA’S POVThere was no way that was Damon… the real Damon. That clown couldn’t be Damon. No way! “The real Damon knows you aren't Princess Isidora's friend.” Arla pointed that fact out. “He knows who you truly are. What's going on with him?”Two things could be going on with Damon.First, he could be fake just like we have established that Eva was but I still couldn't understand how that was possible.Secondly, Damon could be himself and have been captured somehow by Byron but had decided to still protect me to the end… “How is he protecting you, Ama? He is literally accusing you of killing all those people and Kovan can't really save you if Damon continues. You might get killed, Ama.”Arla argued.Yes, Damon wasn't protecting me. He was giving me out in ways that the Damon I knew since way back wouldn't. The real Damon would never give me out or put me in danger no matter what the case may be. That Damon wasn't real.“She brought about the idea of saving the King’s mom herself
KING ARCHIE’S POVWhy does it have to be like this?Why does everyone have to stand against my happiness even though I was the King?Being a leader sucks.Just when I thought I had found a way to save Amanisa from the web she was tangled in, Byron brought about another way to snatch her from me… He was snatching my happiness and peace from me.There was no way I would see Byron in the same light anymore. Despite how confused I was, I was still certain Byron wasn’t as pure and loyal as I thought he was.There was no way he was doing all of this for me. He was ridiculing me in the presence of everyone here. He was making me look incapable.He was making my heart hurt.“He is opposing you and I wonder how much Amanisa knew about all of this.”Jay called my attention to the fact that Amanisa wasn't actually stunned to see or hear all that I have been seeing and hearing.Until now.Until Byron took threatening steps toward her, making my blood boil.“I have had enough, Jay. I can’t sit her
AMANISA’S POVLook at me.Take a look at the royal darkness that many had worshiped. Right there in the middle of a cold, lonely, and soul-draining hell hole.Take a look at me. Amanisa Isidora, sitting like a pitiful princess in distress in a place that was meant for criminals. Hardcore criminals.Take a look at me as I drift away in a dark, cold, killing, and suffocating cell room. I could see the spiders. The roaches. The slimy remains of dead rats and other irritating small pests. I could see them all.But after staying here for a night. I have learned to overlook and ignore everything in the cell except myself. I was locked up just like Byron, Violet, Ardin, and perhaps Sophie wanted. I was locked up. All alone. And since fate has always been against me, I felt sick in the guts. Like I would puke anytime soon.“This place is built to weaken Lycans, Ama. I am able to communicate with you because the energy here couldn't sense me.”Arla announced, making it known that it could ha