Chapter 3: I Will Break The Stereotypes!

(Matilda's POV)

She looked back at her father’s appearance with a shocked and questioning expression who was standing with a proud smile on his old yet handsome face.

 “Yes! Meet Marco! Oh! Wait you are already familiar with this personality right?” Her father mocked her.

 She squeezed her eyes at Marco; “You!”

He passed beside her, giving her a devilish smirk.

“Yes here is he! He will be your mate then!” Her father again suppressed his words.

“Not only he will be your mate but he will also become the king just as our tradition.” The king further added.

Matilda was busy glaring at Marco but soon her father got her attention.

“As you are my daughter so I am going to give you a chance!”

Matilda's hope and ears arise.

 “If you want to be a queen, you have to go and find a suitable mate for you, or else you will have to marry Marco and become his Queen!”

"I will definitely!", Matilda said proudly.

“And also, I will not be just the dummy Queen, I will become the powerful ruling queen of all time and this will happen without him!”, she said pointing at Marco without turning.

 Then she turned around to Marco and said to him with so much anger in her voice; “This is the kingdom of my forefathers, Marco!”

 She continued again after a pause with a warning tone.

“I will not let it slide into your hands while I am still alive and worthy enough!”

He glanced back at her with strange eyes, the meaning that Matilda can never understand. But one thing she was, sure enough, is that it isn’t anything good as she is pretty aware of his evil nature but who cares when she is not afraid of him? Not him only but from no one!

Then she added her last statement before going. She turned back and said pointing to everyone present in the courtroom.

“I challenge you! All of you who are present here, I Matilda Jessabelle, will become your future Queen and I will change the so-called unjust and absurd old traditions of our kingdom and set my new rules to make it a better place to live!”

There was silence in the court again no one can dare to object or say something because they were the words of a princess.

“We will see, your highness!” Marco mocked Matilda and bowed in respect.

She just ignore him like he doesn’t exist and stormed out of the courtroom but not before bowing to the King.

Whatever the world says or thinks about my dream and goal. I will not care about it. I will fight for it. No matter what, I will sacrifice for it if it's necessary. “I will break the Stereotype!” She promised herself.

“I will definitely hold the Kingdom independently! The world will watch me doing it!” She vowed to herself, but one thing she didn’t know was that her vow will cost great sacrifices that she can’t imagine. Her fate was going to be very merciless to her without her knowing.

  “Mateo!! She shouted top of her lungs.

He instantly appeared with his rushing paws faster than the speed of light.

He changed his animal form as he revealed himself near her.

“Yes, my lady?” He bowed ahead of her respectfully.

“I need to find a track to grab the Kingdom” She shared her thoughts with him;

“Sure, my lady!", Mateo said respectively.

"So my lady, what do you want exactly?” He asked her respectfully.

“Is there any way through which I can acquire the Kingdom without a mate? Or is there any story in the past of our Kingdom where a queen held the Kingdom without a mate? If so? Then How?”

She asked swimming in her deep thoughts.

“My Lady as long as I know I haven’t passed through such a situation or story before but…

“He was interrupted by Matilda’s rushing and impatient words.

“But what?” She asked impatiently with the hope of any solution.

“But I have heard a story through my Grandfather. Almost 10 centuries ago This Kingdom was held by a Queen. She was naive and brave.”  He elaborated to her.

“Really?” She asked him shockingly.

“I’m not sure but we could explore more about her in a royal library in an old cave.” He replied doubtfully.

“Hmm... Are you sure? Because it’s seemed too old story” She asked for assurance.

“A lot of records still exit there! So probably she must be in an old record!” He replied with indecision.

“Okay let’s go then!” She ordered him anxiously as she wasn’t even willing to wait for a moment.

“But my lady only werewolves with particular position holders are allowed to enter that cave!” He told her with disappointment.

“But I’m a princess of this kingdom and a future Queen!” She said proudly.

“Sorry, my lady, not even you are allowed to pass the gate!” He replied again with dismay.

“What the heck?” She suppressed her anger by pushing the wooden chair away, it fell to bits of pieces.

Mateo was a little taken aback by her anger. Everybody knew that she is a short-tempered person. A woman who can demolish the surroundings within a moment in her anger.

“My lady don’t worry we will get to that place through someone who is allowed to go there!” He poured out his words carefully without making her angry.

“Okay then get someone!”; she roared.

“Sure my lady!” He bowed respectfully and left.

“I have been breaking stereotypes since my childhood, I had made every impossible thing possible, I have excluded the word impossible from my words bank then how could this be impossible? I will be the queen of “The Kingdom of Shades”. I will change this kingdom one day. I will eradicate all the darkness from it and make it the kingdom of rising. It will be just bright and powerful like the sun rise. I want everything, everyone under my Lead. The Lead of werewolf Queen. The queen who would be loved and adored by all. The queen will be just like her wonderful mother but she will not be weak like her who couldn’t fight her fate and hence died because of the damn rules of the kingdom. I lost my beloved mother but now I will change these absurd rules and for it, I don’t need a mate. I have more powers than any prince around all the clans.”

I need to find that book in which there is guidance to sole rulership. While she was thinking about that book the door of her room banged open and revealed her right hand Mateo.

Your Highness! Your Highness! I found it!

Mateo seems quite excited.

What did you find Mateo?

When Matilda heard about it, her expression turned into the fierce and dangerous one that scared Mateo.