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
DOMINIC POVMaximus bows toward me and then turns to Sebastian, who opens the door and follows him and his guards out. Once they are gone, I get up from my chair, move to the front of my desk, and lean up against it. I then look at Theodore."I will not punish you for any of this, and we will not keep the schedules in this office either. I do not truly trust Max yet. We will keep the schedules in Seraphina's office. We will have them filed under 'kid's dance lessons' so it looks like it is meant to be there. Of course, I will inform Sera of this so we all know what is happening."I dismiss everyone and then move and sit back at my desk, as I have a little bit more paperwork to do now, thanks to what happened today. I get about halfway through when there is a soft knock on the door; I Look up as Seraphina slowly enters the office."My Lady! Are you okay? Are Scarlett and the twins settled?""I am okay and yes, the twins are settled, and I left Scarlett in Phoenix's hands! But now I wan
UNKNOWN POVI stand at my post just away from the kitchen door in the back garden, my shift is nearly finished, and I am surprised when the King and Queen exit into the back garden and then go into the woods, I am surprised that they are alone. I look around and see that I am alone as well, so I follow them. I listen as the king explains how he knew the rogue leader and what all that was with that female the rogue was talking about.Being of a reasonably high rank, I could always mask my scent to a degree, but after I started selling Royal information, it is something I have been slowly working on over the years so I can nearly cover it completely now; I move into a bush not that far in front of the King but still behind the Queen, as her werewolf's sense of smell might still be able to pick up just a small hint of my scent.I have been holding onto the needle that has my altered sedative in it, as the King makes his way closer to his Queen, I remove the cover from the needle and inse
PHOENIX POV When I woke up after the wonderful time with Scarlett, I did another patrol and then headed to Dominic's office, which is where I am now. Sitting at my desk filling out some paperwork to do with the trouble we are having as more and more rogues try to enter the territory since the picnic. Once they heard that, Maximus managed to enter and get a hold of the queen and two of the princesses.They believe it is a sign that he is getting weaker and can not protect the kingdom like he use to. He might not like doing it anymore like the rest of us but when we catch the next lot of rogues whether they be werewolves or vampires he needs to make a statement again saying that if they enter the territory or kingdom without consent, they will be held accountable.Just as I was thinking this, the door to the office opens and in walks Dominic talking to Sebastian and Theodore, saying just what was thinking."Theo, how many rogues are in the cells?""We have about twenty rogues, sir!""H
PHOENIX POV "I would say getting in touch with King Noah would be the best thing to do to start with because then he has time to take care of whatever he needs to and then travel here if that is what he decides to do. We can then inform him of Dominic's condition when he gets here if he decides to come.""Okay, that sounds good."Seraphina reaches over and picks up the phone, enters Noah's number and puts it on loudspeaker, as it rings. It isn't long before he answers."Hey, Sera! What do I owe the pleasure of you calling me?""Well, we have five rogue werewolves in our cells that we have caught in our territory. We were wondering if you would like to handle their punishment? Or want us to handle it? Which will be done in three days.""Sera? This is something that Dom normally handles. Why are you ringing me instead of him?""Noah, I don't really want to discuss this over the phone and I think the rogues would be better handled as a joint punishment. If you decide to come, I can fill
SCARLETT POVI woke up with Phoenix already gone; I knew he would be as he had an early patrol and then had some paperwork to do in the office about the rogues that have been entering our territory over the last few weeks, as what happened the day of the picnic spreads. I don't know if anyone has noticed but father seems to be really tired lately.I hope he is okay. I must remember to ask either him or Mother what's going on. I stretch out my muscles. I guess Phoenix was a little more intense last night than I realised. I smile as I remember the wonderful encounter with him. He has been like a totally different male since the picnic, but still the Phoenix I love.I get out of bed and go have a shower. Ruth and Cara are fully back now, which is a relief. I was starting to feel really lost without them. I head to the training field for a light workout. Teresa won't allow me to do much heavy training or even shift yet as I am still suffering from small side effects of the silver and I am
SERAPHINA POV I shift and slip my dress back on and wait for Patrick and Ethan to shift and put on their clothes before entering the castle. I first head for the hospital to see Doc Teresa. Once I am at her office, I knock on the door"Hey! Any news yet?" "I have him stable at the moment, but Caleb is very weak, not only from lack of blood but from some sort of poison. It seems to be attacking him. I found a small amount of a strange substance in his blood, it's not silver like Scarlett had so I tested it and it is something I have never seen before, it is unique as if it was made just for him, made just to attack, weaken and then kill Caleb. It will take me a little while to study the substance and then hopefully make an antidote, I just still don't know if I will be able to do it before we lose at least Caleb and then I'm not sure if Dominic will survive losing him." "But didn't you just say they were stable?" "Yes, they both are stable at the moment. I have them on a mix of hum
UNKNOWN POVI hear the rogue alarm go off and it couldn't have been done with better timing; I use this time to have a look at the unused wing and which rooms would be best to use, but I make sure I don't disturb the dust as I move throughout the wing. I found three rooms that were good for what I wanted near the back garden. I need to get into contact with that sedative male again.I need four canisters of the sedative he made for Angus, but in gas form, three set up with spray releases and the fourth set up as a handheld gasser. Then I can use the three spray release canisters in the rooms and I can set up a trigger system so as someone enters the room, they will go off and knock out whoever it is. The fourth handheld canister I can use to re-enforce the sedative if needed until I am ready for her to wake up.I head back to my room at the barracks to get together everything I needed to set this trap. I overheard the queen and the prince talking about 'The Punishment' for the rogues