Silvan.“D…does this mean that we can’t be together?” Sophie asked and I turned to look at her, my brows raised in confusion. The expectant and hopeful look on my face made me hold back on my words and asked a more important question. “What are you talking about?”Sophie looked at Paul, then at her maidservant and then back at me. I could tell what she wanted but there was no chance I was staying in a room alone with Sophie.The last time I had allowed myself walk into a trap or scheme by my mother was ten years ago. And I was not about to make such a mistake now. Especially when I had Esme in my life.Seeing that I wasn’t going to budge, Sophie swallowed and spoke up, “Your mother told me that you couldn’t have a Luna that isn’t a gifted… but now,” she trialed off, her eyes twitching.She tried to look at everywhere but me and I chuckled.“Sweetheart, even if you had your gifts, you still wouldn’t be my Queen.” I had my made up on who was going to be my Queen. And I had no plans of
Esme.I don’t know how long I had stayed on the floor for, but when I wake up, my entire body feels heavy and completely weak. Using the door knob as support, I pulled myself up and then allowed my back to rest against the door for a while.When I was sure that I had more strength, I finally pushed away from the door and walked into the room. Perhaps, those maids from back then had known the way things were going to end up.They had to have known that things would become like this. That Silvan would get bored of me and leave.As I settled on the chair by my dressing mirror, I saw a familiar black card and my eyes shone brightly. Silvan must have forgotten this card while leaving in an hurry. The longer I stared at the card, the more ideas were coming to my head and eventually, I picked up my phone and called Amy.“Are you done?” I asked as soon as she picked up the call.As though sensing something was wrong, Amy returned a question, “are you okay, sister?” “Yes, yes. I have neve
After calling Esme for more than ten times with the call not going through, I was more than worried and couldn’t help but switch on my laptop. With a few taps, I saw that her phone was in the hotel but switched off and relief flooded my entire body.Satisfied, I left her some messages and got started on work. After about an hour, I got a call from Paul. “Silvan, Sophie sent a message to say that she is ready to speak now,” he informed me.My brows raised from surprise. “That was quick.” I had expected that she would take some time to think about this, and maybe even inform my mom about her wanting to talk. But she had agreed rather quickly. However, I wouldn’t let myself get carried away by her quick resolve. “I already called for a council meeting, tell the men to keep an eye on her place, I’ll go there after the meeting.” Paul mumbled some reply to show that he heard all I said and ended the call.I wrapped up the important things for the meeting and left my floor.Although I
Outside the empire?” I asked, my brows furrowing as I tried to process what he was saying. “They run a jewelry business and the media, if they want to run the media, I think it’s better if they affiliate with Morak since it would make it easier for them to get verifications,” Paul suggested.“I’ll wait until they mention it.” I didn’t mind them trying to grow but they needed to make sure that their tracks were being covered.“Let’s pay a visit to Sophie,” I told him as I stood up and walked out of the grand hall.Paul communicated with the men, clearing everywhere until it was just the two of us and then we took another route into the side palace. No one knew the palace more than I did. I had grown up playing around these walls. More importantly, to make sure that I would make it out safe if there was ever any trouble, my father had made me play several games where I had to use the underground passages and all to make it out.Sophie’s door was wide open and she sat up hurriedly when
Esme’s POVRue and Amy dressed up in comfortable clothes just as we had agreed. After shopping, we would change into something that was more suitable for partying. Rue finally looked up from her phone after spending the last few minutes buried in them, “I already talked to them, we just have to be discreet and avoid the cameras.” A small smile broke on my lips at her words and I nodded eagerly, “let’s get this party started!” Like the guard had promised, the whole place was indeed cleared out. Since we had been investigating the resort in the last few days, dodging the cameras was not a lot of work for Rue and I but we had to hold Amy’s hand to make sure she didn’t take a wrong step. The moment we got outside the resort, relief rushed through my nerves and I exhaled.“We did it!” Amy danced, giggling at being free one more time.“Yes, we did.” “Although, I heard that the police has been made an estimate that they would lift the ban in three days.” Although it was a resort and a
Silvan’s POVA sleeping Lycan? “Sophie, can you shift into your sleeping Lycan?” I finally asked about a minute later.“I don’t think so,” she replied after what seemed like forever.What the hell was going on? A part of me was considering locking her up or having my men take care of her in case she had some scheme up her arms. However, there was also this nagging gut feeling that made me feel like I needed to know some more about what was going on here.“I’ll be putting you on house arrest and a female guard would come to your room in the next ten minutes.” I didn’t mention that I also had plans of putting surveillance cameras in her room just in case she tried anything funny with the guard.Unlike before, Sophie was more resigned and nodded numbly to my words. Satisfied, I stepped out of her room. “Any progress?” Paul asked, his face laced with worry.“I think she is saying all she knows, for now. However, assign a female guard to her room. I want eyes on her every minute.” “Als
Esme’s POV My head throbbed as I struggled to open my eyes. There was no difference in opening my eyes as everywhere was pitch black.Where were we? The last thing I remembered was being in the limousine headed to the club.I needed to know where this was. Considering that there was no movement or sounds around us, I doubted that we were still in the car. Alarm bells rang in my head the moment I tired to move my hands and saw that I was bound. “Amy?” I called out, my heart throbbing in my chest from fear.There was no reply and I tried for Rue. “Rue?” Still no reply. What in the goddess was going on. I moved my body even more and immediately realized that my legs were just the same as my hands. Bound and held in place to something.Was this the driver playing tricks on us? Or had we fallen into one of those human kidnapping scams where they wanted the families of the victims to fork out money. “You are messing with the wrong people,” I mumbled as resolution settled in my heart
Silvan. Doran had yet to call back, but in the last hour, I had found out the stores that the black card had been used. My heart dropped as I read the locations and saw how far it was from the resort. Did someone else take the black card from Esme’s room or was this Esme. Just as I forwarded the first store address to Doran, he called back.“Alpha,” he greeted and impatience surged within me.“Have you been able to find anything?” I asked.“Yes, we found the guards and they seem to have been knocked by someone and then pulled into an empty room,” he reported.Before I could ask more questions, he continued, “I checked the surveillance and although the faces aren’t showing, from their physique, I can see that it’s a group of men.” “Also, the guards were knocked down at the entrance to a secret passage of the resort.” My mind quickly filled in the gaps and the full picture looked as threatening as all my worst nightmares.“I’ll send you an address, you can let your men get started