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26: Great Friends
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Lost Queen 27: Morning Fire
ADRIANASounds of screaming and shouting woke me up the next morning.I sit up from my bed groggily, rubbing my tired eyes.A loud crashing sound makes me wince and I curse, trying to force the thud in my head away.What the hell is going on?I ask no one in particular. There isn’t anyone to reply to me, seeing as I’m alone in my room. I pushed off the bed and ran out of the room when the smell of smoke tickled my nostrils.What the hell?!Now that I’m more aware and on my feet, I hear some of what was being said.Fire. There is a fire.I pull the sweatpants lying on the floor in my room, almost tripping as I start running down the stairs. The smell of smoke was pungent as I got to the living room.There isn’t anyone there but the door is wide open and I’m able to see people rushing outside.“What’s going on?”I drag the hand of one of the kids. A girl who couldn’t be older than five years old. She has black streaked on her cheek and tears streaming down her face. The sight breaks my
Lost Queen 28: Culprit
ADRIANAThank God no one died from the fire. but a lot were injured and property was lost.I was livid. I’m STILL livid.God, I want to get my hands and Xander. Preferably around his neck, then I’ll hold on until I’m sure he can never hurt anyone again.We spent the rest of yesterday trying to save the properties of the affected people.Just to show how heartless he was, the fire was started very close to residential homes. If they hadn’t noticed it early, the damage it would have done would be very ugly.We didn’t sleep last night either. We couldn’t, even if we tried.Kids were crying, those who were injured had it worse. Even with their healing abilities, it was a chore.We got a break from the chaos much later in the afternoon.Ursula apparently works with the pack doctor. Not really a nurse yet, but she came from a pack of healers and had an idea on how to mix medicines so she was needed on stand by.I would have loved to take the break with her. She wasn’t free though.I was abo
Lost Queen 29: Broken Mirror
XANDERI stared at the blurry mirror in front of me. Confused as fuck about why I’m no longer seeing Adriana.I rubbed my eyes a few times to be sure it wasn’t the one becoming blind. Risking a glance away from the mirror, I see everything else in the room with great clarity. So yes, I’m not the one going blind.Whatever the issue is, it is from her side. Or my side, with the magic.“This is getting kind of old.”I ignore my sister who has made it her life’s mission to come here and bother me.She believes I’m wasting my life and important time I could be using to find Adriana, stalking her instead.It is like both she and Damien have forgotten the kind of psychopath Dreaya is. If there was any chance or a lead that’ll take us to where they are, then I’m sure she has burned it. And anything we may find was strategically placed to distract us and make us waste time.“You’re just being paranoid.” She had replied when I told her that.Maybe I’m being paranoid. Maybe I’m in the right fram
Lost Queen 30: Monster Of My Dreams
ADRIANAMum assured me that she was proud of me for coming forward and telling her what I thought about the fire. She said she already knew. In her words.“Alpha Xander is a ruthless monster. I should have expected a retaliation sooner or later after we went into his territory.”She tried her best to make sure I didn’t feel like it was my fault. But how could I not think it was when it literally is? If I had told her earlier, she would have seen it coming. And all those that were hurt would be fine. The families that lost their houses wouldn't have had to go through that.“There is one person to blame, and only one person.” Mum spoke sternly, seeing how I was still beating myself up. “That person is Xander. Nothing would have changed if we knew or not. We should just be happy no one got killed.”But a lot of people got hurt. And for that, I promised to make him pay.I urged mum to let me go back to his place. This time, I was going to come back with his heart. Even if it was the last
Lost Queen 31: Distractions
ADRIANAI managed to convince mum to not move the whole pack. We won’t let Xander win this. And while I was scared I was dragging innocent people into this war with us. I knew they didn’t want to leave their homes. I’ll do everything to make sure the events of last week never repeat itself.We’ve all been working hard trying to rebuild and put everything back together. I have drowned myself in so much work that when I manage to lay my head down on my pillow, I’ll be out in seconds. How exhausted I was ensured I didn’t have any dreams, if I had them, I couldn’t remember.Of course, I took that as a win and kept doing the heavy labor. Many people have tried to get me to stop, saying we already have enough hands. They didn’t know why I was doing this, and I couldn’t explain.Whenever they send me away from the construction, I go to help with the kids. I make sure to keep myself busy more than eighty percent of the time.I was trying to put a four month old to sleep when I felt a hand on
Lost Queen 32: Obsession
XANDERDaciana swatches Donovan’s hand and he winces. Holding it against his chest with a look of absolute betrayal on his face.“Why’d you do that?” He asks, his voice sounding almost whiny.It would have been amusing, seeing as half of his face was injured. But nothing in the world was fucking funny.“You were picking two at a time.” Daciana replies, unapologetically, glaring at him.“Well, couldn’t you have just said that instead of hitting me?” He is still using that voice that is grating on my nerves and ears.“I’ve warned you three times already. I said I wouldn’t do it again.” She said nonchalantly, throwing a berry in her mouth.Yes, that is what they were fighting over. Like we didn’t have en-fucking-ough.I’m tired of them. And they insist on following me around like some damn bodyguards. Except, their presence doesn’t protect me from anything. If anything, they are making me want to jump to my death just so I could avoid them.But knowing both of them, they’ll jump too. So
Lost Queen 33: Run
ADRIANAWith Kian’s support, I managed to get back into training.We’ve decided to forget about The Incident. Well, I already programmed my mind to forget about it. I was glad he never tried to bring it up again.I train every day now. And though we didn’t talk about whatever mental strain Xander was putting on me by just surviving. Mum thought it would be good to add mediation and other exercises for me.A month after his stupid, heartless attack. I was ready to get back on the field with him. This time, I’ll make him regret everything he has done. And I’m not going to back down without getting what I want.“Are you sure you’re ready?” Kian asks.He helps me train in the evenings. While I go with Henry in the morning. In the afternoon though, I rest and spend my time doing other things around the pack.I feel better, both mentally and physically. And without the kind of strain I put on myself during that fire hassle. I’m able to sleep peacefully without any worries. I’m ready for thi
Lost Queen 34: Shiny Juice
ADRIANAMum’s fear was potent, I could almost feel it inside my blood. No, deep in the marrow of my bones.“What’s wrong?” I used the last ounce of strength I had to voice that question. Even at that, it comes out in a whisper.I looked up, my eyes were a bit cloudy and I looked at Kian, he was also watching me with an expression I couldn’t place. But it couldn’t be good.What is going on? What is happening to me?I was shaking inside. Terror filling me. Not just from mum, but this seems like a memory of mine. It was so close, I felt like I could reach my hand and touch it. It didn’t make any sense. None of this makes any sense.I’m about to try and find strength to speak again when mum shakes her head. She motions for Kian to pick me up. I start shaking my head. I really felt like I was going to break apart if I moved from my position.“Nothing will happen,” almost like she could hear my fear, mum said. Her tone is soft and reassuring.I breathed in and told myself to believe her. Sh
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