"You summoned me, I'm here. Now speak. I have other things to get to."She gulped, nodding."My family. Set them free. Let them go, my daughter is sick and my husband---" her voice trailed off as tears threatened to overcome her at the thought of the condition they might be in. The inhumane treatment that they might be going through at that moment, the pain, it made her heart ache, most especially for her daughter, her darling little Mira. She knew nothing, she didn't deserve this."Please, just let them go. It is me you want." She said, her voice firm and laced with unhidden disgust.She watched him for a moment in anticipation of his response, taking in his silence, watched as he looked at her through black soulless eyes. As a usual thing, whenever she was around him, she had to fight the consuming mate bond that relentlessly drew her to him like a magnet far powerful than her entire being, a force mighter than her that always threatened to bring her to her kneels before him, to su
In the past, Zezi was quick to always find strength in her wolf whenever she was feeling too weak to combat a situation but not this time.Against a mate bond, her wolf was far more vulnerable and she had to be the stronger one for the both of them.She pulled her hands up to his hand, not looking away from his burning and accusing gaze, as she tried to pull it away from her neck and the mark that was increasingly burning hot against her skin the longer he invaded her private space."My family, please. Don't kill them. I'll do anything."Speaking was hard as she tried to hold her breath, to stop his scent rushing into her nostrils and flooding her senses.Something shifted in his gaze and his hand fell from her neck. Then he took a step back, his face hard and his eyes as cold as ice."I shall no longer execute them, but the pesky wolf and little pup dared my wrath when they tried to abscond with you, and they shall be punished fully for it." She opened her mouth to defend her famil
Zezi didn't like the elaborate long blue gown with the deep V shaped neckline, styled with barely anything for sleeves, that Gwen had made her wear. Neither did she like the silver heels Gwen had slid her feet into, nor how she had gallantly dressed her black hair in high bun and decorated it with little shinning silver stones.She hated everything, including the fact that she was now walking down the hallway and heading to the door of the King's dinning hall. But this must be done, she knew it and for that very reason, she kept the advice that Gwen had said to her playing in her head over and over again."Be well behaved, Milady. I know it is hard but please try to be. Our King was brought up differently, very differently, and his moves are rather clumsy. You have to show him that you are willing to submit to him. Only then, will he stop fighting you."Many things in her advice, was Zezi against. Submit to him?A thought that sent her whole body crawling with hate. Yet she could p
The word of gratitude that had slipped through Zezi's lips had been stiff and heavy.It was about damn time. Seriously, she was already starting to loss her patience and was already scared that doing as Gwen had suggested was giving her the opposite of what she wanted. Great things did come to those who wait. She had followed after him, down many stairs, with many guards behind them, holding up lit torches to light their way. Zezi could smell the anguish in the air, the pain, the suffering and her heart ached the further down they went, to know that her family was within these dreadful walls or even worse, killed her. Then they stoped, and took a path.She could hear a whimpering. Mira's.Her eyes grew glassy immediately, all her pretence shattering to the ground."My daughter--" she whispered with a gasp. "Mira." She teared up, her face quickly turning into a mess. She took a mindless step forward, ignoring the guard that moved behind her, as she held unto the bars that stood
Her eye lids were heavy and they were slipping close fast, she felt herself being lifted in his arms, all the fight in her quickly seeping right out of her body.Not because he was holding her but simply because she no longer had any fight in her.She was far too weak."Take them to the Execution Ground, I'm getting rid of the problem for good."She heard him dashing out orders, her heart feeling totally destroyed at them, not being able to do anything about broke her the more.She couldn't even open her eyes! She tried to speak, move, do something but no. Totally furtile!She could feel him breeze out of the dungeon, she couldn't smell the anguish nor hear the voice of her family that she was now scared of not hearing any more, now more than ever. Or it could just be because she was falling unconscious.She heard a door swing open and felt herself been settled into bed, a blanket dragged over her, gently.Careful treatment as if she was an egg.A sudden gush of wing. The door swin
"Milady!" The doors flung open, and Gwen stormed in, totally ignoring the men by the door that had tried to stop her. Her steps were determined and her eyes showed that no matter what they did, she wasn't ready to back down in the slightest.As for the men, their job was to keep the King's mate in the room, so they could let this slid. Besides, this was Gwen."Milady," Gwen rushed to the bedside that Zezi was sound asleep, her face dissolved into a relaxed smile. The smell that hit her nose almost stilled her to a stop, a whiff of powerful aura that only belonged to the King. Her eyes slowly widened in realization. Lady Zezi must have had the King's blood.Gwen had already heard the rumors of the dinner and how it had went down, but she had been in a little if a doubt. Well if the emergency trail that was going on right now on the Execution Ground wasn't enough confirmation of how terrible things had gone and how much further they would go, this was more than enough.Things had gon
Unlike last time, she wouldn't be able to deliver this plea to the King herself. She would have to go through Lady Laura as she normally would. In fact, the only reason she had been able to deliver her Mistress's message directly to the King before, was because he had been strolling along the hallway at the exact moment she had stepped out of Lady Zezi's room, he had also beckoned her to tell him about Lady Zezi and how she was faring.This time around, the King wasn't strolling the through the hallway this time around, so to Lady Laura's door she ran.Her hand rouse to Lady Laura's door but before she even had the chance to knock, it flung right open."Gwen," she declared with surprise. "What are you doing here? You are supposed to be feeding." Her eye lids came together in a slant and she said pointedly. "This is your break.""I have something of utmost importance to be delivered to his Majesty, Lady Laura."She held up the scroll and Lady Laura took it, moving it a little closer to
Bang.There were only a few steps away from the cheering crowd and Delice could see the podium distantly from here. Her face heated up at the sight of the King in his seat. Seeing him always made her feel that way, she loved him. But he had a mate and she had to stay away... for now, although Laura would argue otherwise. Her gaze shifted to the other side of the podium, landing on the werewolf who had his pup in his arms, as he looked around with misery in his eyes.Her heart went out to them, the one that was certainly not beating but still, it did."By the Blood, I forgot!" Laura stopped suddenly in her tracks."What?""My bracelet!" She dangled her bare wrist up to Delice. "The very one my Mother gave me. You know how important that is to me right? It's the last thing I have of her. I don't feel complete and I can't watch this execution if I don't feel complete." Laura lips quickly stretched into a smile. "It's on the table, next to last bottle containing green liquid. Don't touch