Chapter 10: Helena POV

The last couple of weeks have been a blur but I'm getting there now. I live in the capital, Silver City a two day drive from Five Lakes. My new home was once a grand castle but it's been split into apartments. A previous Alpha Romanov disbanded the whole royal aloofness to encourage loyalty and bonding between Alphas and Beta's, my heritage gets me a little single room with a large oval window looking onto an outer walkway wall where the security team patrol. Surrounding the castle is the township that supports the royal household, several hundred buildings which are enclosed within the huge castle walls.

Beyond the walls is the estate with flowering meadows, agricultural fields and vast swathes of pine forest as farms the eye could see. Kyra and Ivan are a few corridors away which is nice but luckily Bella is the other side of my hallway so I don't get lonely.

I think I was too quick to judge Kyra, she's a actually a very sweet presence against the sometimes prickly Bella now we've