*LYCIA* Rushing towards the door when Seff hadn’t returned after so long I had just opened it a little when I noticed King Rozzen standing before me with Seff beside him. His gaze was unmoving from my face and awkwardly looking away from him I glided my gaze to Seff and said, “I was just going to look for you. Where did you go?” “I am sorry about that I-” Seff had started to say but Rozzen interrupted in between and said, “Let’s head inside and talk.” The authority that he held in his voice and his aura had been almost crazy dangerous, my body moved on its own as if listening to his command even when I wasn’t his subject. Thankfully I caught onto myself and then calmly nodding I opened the door for us all to step inside. While I had been trying my best to not show my confusion, my mind had been a battlefield of all kinds of thoughts and deductions clashing against each other, trying to imagine why and how Seff knew King Roz so well. And how did he come out alive after touching th
*LYCIA* “Is something wrong?” I murmured to myself walking towards the palace garden that Esme had called me to. For some reason she had insisted we meet there but it was weird because she had sent a messenger to fetch me instead of coming to see me herself. Did she need to talk to me secretly about something? Seff had been gone for the past hour to talk to the King and Reemus about his departure from the kingdom back to my Coven so I had been killing time searching for Esme when I received the message. I might sound like a bad friend but maybe I should have paid more attention to her instead of leaving her with a complete stranger. “Shit, I probably need to apologize and do some damage control,” I muttered looking at the heavily guarded palace with Lycans staying put at their posts in utter discipline. Their eyes followed me periodically and every move I made was assessed to guess if I had been a person with ill intentions. Well it was a given, I was the princess of the neighbor
*SEFF*“A month, huh?” I muttered to myself as I sighed and walked out of the throne room after having a serious conversation and some mild begging to my brother. He had allowed me to go back to Lycia’s Coven but wanted me to come back to the kingdom in a month. I am partly sure that it is because he still doesn’t trust the coven and Lycia that well yet but the other half could be because he feels lonely when I am gone.The palace always felt a little too big to me when I was alone here and Roz was away for official business.A month felt too short a span of time to probably sort everything and come back to visit him but I needed to try my best.“If it is a day more than a month then be prepared to see me present myself there the very next day.” That was his threat to me and given the history that Lycia’s mother had with the Lycans this type of a situation could only lead to both sides hating each other more.Why couldn’t people understand that a moth was too less a time to sort relat
*LYCIA*“There you are, I have been looking for you everywhere,” Esme said making me turn around to look at her. “It seems like you have forgotten all about me since you found your mate.”My innocent friend had been unaware of the struggles I had gone through just now while I had been searching for her myself. If only she knew then she wouldn’t be taunting me this way.“Well it seems like you found a new best friend to replace me too,” I tried to smile but I wasn’t feeling all that well. The remains of the ashes were still there on my hand reminding me of her presence.She looked at Reemus, shrugged and said, “I had to manage somehow but he is a good guy.”“On my part I had to accompany a guest of the kingdom, it’s in my obligations,” Reemus said trying to hide his smile and it seemed like they had bonded in the time that I had been away. Well it was good for witches to communicate and fraternize more with Lycans for the future of our coven that would soon get a lycan as their king wh
*LYCIA*‘Lycia, Ahh, fuck you are so tight. I wish I could use more than my fingers.’“Princess?” Reemus’s voice broke me out of my trance as I blinked my eyes in embarrassment and gave him a small smile.“Could you please repeat?” I asked willing my mind to stop conjuring images of the sexy evening I had spent with Seff. But how was I supposed to do that when each step I took reminded me of the ecstasy I had just received along with the rivulets of love still buzzing through my senses?“I just asked if you were happy with your stay here?” he said looking towards Esme once who was walking on my other side. The three of us were headed towards the dining hall for a private dinner with the king, one last time before we went back home.“Oh yes, everything was to my liking,” I said as we reached the room and nodding in satisfaction Reemus stepped forward and entered first.“A little too much I think,” Esme said and then wiggling her eyebrows at me she whispered, “You barely left your mate’
*LYCIA*“Did you really think that you could escape me?” Seff’s voice echoed in the room, the door to which I had just banged shut.How did he come here before me?“How…?” my question trailed off as I turned to look at him sitting on the bed, staring at me. His black hair was tousled and he had a few buttons undone letting me know that he had been here long before I had arrived.“I have my ways but what you did wasn’t nice. You promised you wouldn’t abandon me or run away from me,” he said standing up as he approached me.“B-But how could you expect me to stay quiet there? Everyone was present there! Even the Ki-”“I don’t care about that. You promised you would show me that you love me and then you didn’t. You will have to pay for that,” he said, interrupting me in between as he pressed me against the door of his bedroom and kissed me.His tongue thrust in my mouth, tasting me with the voracity of a starved lover. The seductive movement of it had my mind in a buzz at once. I tried pu
*LYCIA*My blood froze.What was my mother doing here?Turning around to look at her I find the darkness of the night shroud her features but the aura she radiated is heavily clogging the air around me. She is more than just livid.“M-Mom? What are you doing here?” I asked, unable to raise my eyes to look at her face. I had been reprimanded before, rather harshly too but this time I had made a blunder that I wouldn’t be able to rectify that easily.“Are you sure you should be the one asking me questions here?” she thundered, “What were you thinking Lycia? That you would transport out of the coven and I, the queen and your mother, wouldn’t even be aware of it?” I always had a doubt that my mother had been dabbling in tracking spell along with the protection spell she put on me but I hadn't been very sure. The potion too that she fed me occasionally had been similar to these qualities but I never cared about it before because I never had anything to hide, in fact it made me feel safe.
*LYCIA*It happened so instantly that I could barely fathom it but almost at once I had been pressed into the backrest of the Sofa where I had been seated before as the sofa went flying back into the wall behind carrying both Seff and Esme still seated along with me.“What the fuck did you say?” she shouted, cursing at me, letting me know how truly pissed she was.I would have answered her if I had the breath to but her magic had been pressing so tightly around my neck, like a vice that I could barely even breathe as I thrashed around in the suspended sofa trying to live.“Aldith!” my dad immediately pushed her hand down as he covered her eye to stop her from hurting me.‘Please understand Lycia, your mother is just a little short tempered but she doesn’t hate you.’ This was what my father had told me when I was young and had thoroughly been punished by my mother in one of her sudden outbursts. I had always been understanding of it but today it made me question, was that really true?