AXEL/ STEFAN POVI looked at her, a little confused until there was a knock on the door. I step back from her and fix my sweatpants. I then head to the door. I open it to find Michelle. Before I can say anything, she jumps into my arms, wraps her legs around my waist, and kisses me. I try to push her off, but she doesn't move until we hear a gasp coming from the kitchen door. She finally breaks the kiss but still will not let me go as she looks at Charlotte."So this is today's conquest. She seems a little plain for you, Stef! Wait, why is she here? You never bring your one-night stands here!"Axel gives me back control. He has never really liked Michelle except to use her on nights he felt that he needed some pleasure. Michelle finally lets me go and puts her feet back on the floor, then continues,"You haven't even bought me here to spend the night. What's so special about her?"She then walks away from me, and over to Charlotte, circling her like she is an object."Oh! I see it now
SCARLETT POVI wake up with a start. I sit up slowly, taking slow, deep breaths. Phoenix was out doing his patrol run. It has taken four months with the help of Nathaniel and Charlotte's blood once the transfusions finished, but I can finally start to feel Ruth and Cara stirring, which also reopens my links with the rest of the family.Unfortunately, now that they are returning, so are my nightmares, my visions. I make my way slowly to the bathroom to splash my face. I haven't had one while awake again, but I have been having a variation of that first vision. I run the latest vision through my mind,VISIONA male in the shadows… A threat close to home...Rogue Vampires and Werewolves running free throughout the kingdom…Enemies threaten the Vampire’s Queen and Princess…The Vampire King, on the verge of death, can only be saved by his Queen...All lives will be lost if war starts….Must protect... But most of all must love unconditionally…We have managed to change a couple of things,
UNKNOWN POV There is a buzz around the castle. Scarlett is getting better and her pregnancy is progressing quickly. Princess Charlotte has found her mate and has moved to his pack under his protection with a couple of trusted guards from here as well, for added protection. It might be a little hard to get to her now.I heard that a group of vampire rogues are willing to take the Queen, hoping to get the King to start a war trying to get her back, as they are based in a werewolf pack in King Noah's kingdom. The leader of these particular rogues is said to have a personal grudge against the King and has waited over one hundred and fifty years to find a weakness and be able to repay him.I might put out an ad and see if he answers. If I can have a private word with this rogue leader, I may even be able to help him. I duck into the shadows as I hear someone coming."Yeah, I'm on secret patrol and doing some personal guard duty for the Royal family's monthly picnic." "Yeah, I got that to
ROGUE LEADER POVI go over what the informant gave me, all the patrol's schedules, including the ones that aren't meant to be known. All the routes that those patrols will take, the layout of where the picnic will be held and the times the family members are meant to be there. My clan knows that no one is to be hurt. The Vampire King is the target, and he is mine to take down. Unless I decide to make him suffer more by taking one of his daughters.I gather up all the members of my clan that can fight and make our way to the field. We slowly take out the patrols surrounding the field. Once all the clan was in position, I had another quick look around and glanced at the notes I made for myself. It seems one of the family members is running late. I see her and the new Alpha of the Blue Moon pack walk out of the woods just up from where I was perched in a tree, dam typical Alpha he bought some of his own personal guards with them but there aren't that many so we will still be able to do t
*FLASHBACK CONT'* The second then walks over to where the King's daughter and my daughter are still trying to protect Phoenix and Sebastian. He grabbed the King's daughter first by her hair, pulling her to her feet. He put his hand on her cheek and then ran it down her body before saying. "We will get to you soon my little princess" He then pushes her into the arms of a rogue standing nearby, a couple more rogues move to stand over Phoenix and Sebastian as he then grabs my daughter by her hair forcing her to her feet as well except he kept a hold of her, he used his claws to shred her dress making her stand naked in front of everyone. He moves behind her, pulls her tight into his chest and then pulls her head back using her hair stretching her neck. He opens his mouth, showing off as he lengthens his fangs and then runs them along her skin and hisses. I watched her shiver in fear as terror shows on her face. I fight and struggle against the rogues I didn't even realise were holdi
ROGUE LEADER POV "So you see, my queen, if your little king had stayed away from my daughter, he wouldn't have killed her and she would still be alive today." "I was going to make her my queen!" Dominic says quietly "WHAT??" "I was going to make her my queen," he repeated a little louder. "We had already agreed, and we were going to announce it over dinner that night. We wanted everyone to know our intentions before we gave ourselves to each other. Maximus, I loved your daughter with everything in me. It wasn't the death of my mother or father that caused my heart to freeze and me to become the cruel and ruthless king... It was the loss of her. She was the one that kept me centred, kept me honest even when pulling pranks with Seb and Nix. She was the one that made living for so long worth every second of it. But the prince of that time died that day with her and the king everyone came to know and fear was born." I can't stop the couple of tears that slide down my cheeks after hea
PHOENIX POV "So, what do we do now? I don't think you are just going to let me leave after all this, so what are you going to give me to have your family back?" Dominic steps back slightly and whispers "So what do you think, at the time it was the best choice to exile him rather than give him the penalty of death for saving the kingdom from what would have been an even bigger massacre but with more human innocent bystanders being killed. War would have started again. Sebastian, I will not keep you from seeing him now that you know he is alive but I still can't allow him full freedom to return to the kingdom or there will be calls for his death as per the law for killing the king at the time." "I have lived with the belief that he was dead along with the rest of my family, I would like the chance to get to know him again and I would like Teresa, Kathleen and Victor to know him..." Sebastian says trying to control his emotions "We have this picnic once a month Dom, why not keep him i
PHOENIX POVOnce Teresa had finished with her checks and everything she needed to do for Scarlett, we decide it would be better to head back to the castle. Dominic gets Maximus to send all of his males besides two back to his territory as he wants a meeting to put his exile and the exceptions he just added into the paperwork.Once at the castle, Josephine and Charlotte went with the children to get them ready for bed, as Teresa, Seraphina and Tina went with Scarlett to get her and the twins settled into the room next to ours, while we went to Dominic's office. We needed to discuss how they had managed to get even two steps into the territory without someone knowing and the alarms going off.We enter the office, and Dominic sits down in his chair at his desk. We all make a semi-circle around the room. Once we are all there, Sebastian closes the door as Dominic starts to speak,"Thank you, Maximus, for coming back with us. We do need to do that paperwork, but first I would like to know