ANMELDENSelene’s POVLeo left very quietly, just the same way he came. Then right there at the border, he told me about what went down in the investigation room yesterday.“Why didn’t you tell me? This is very serious.” I gasped.“It skipped my mind, and we were very busy too. You were going to hear either way, but I’m still sorry for just telling you now.”“It’s okay. What’s the way forward now? At least we now know that there’s an unknown woman somewhere who’s very intent on destroying the kingdom. How do we find her out?” I asked him.His jaw tightened, “The archives… I’m sure we’d find something there. Whoever this is was affiliated with my father, and they weren’t able to get what they wanted during his tenure. So now, they’re moving to me.”At that, we moved towards the archives as he had suggested, and we started to rummage through books. Moving past the ones that were only made during his tenure.We, or rather, I, took a break at some point because of Jordan, but he never stopped. I f
Selene’s POVI was on my way to visit Amber when Lucian came in, and the scent of the person on him made me freeze up at first. Why did he smell like Leo? And most importantly, why did he look so mad?Is Leo here again?“He’s here.” He said, confirming my thoughts like he had been reading my mind or something.“Another attack? But how come there’s no emergency alarm blaring yet?” I asked, trying so hard to control the level of anger that simmered through me.“He didn’t come with an attack. He’s just here, and he’s surprisingly very calm. I’d have sent him back from the border, but he’s very insistent on speaking to you, and I didn’t want to assume what your response to that was.” He explained.“Oh.” I pinched my nostrils.I set down the food flask in my hold, “And you don’t have any idea of what he’d like to discuss with me.”He nodded.“You’re going to be there, yeah?” He nodded at that too.“Well then, let’s go. I think I want to hear what he has to say.”A non-violent Leo was rathe
Lucian’s POVShe went still on my lap, not saying anything at all. Then, slowly, she turned her head to me.“You just yelled at me.” She said in a very soft voice. And as angry as I was, her voice did something to me that made me cool down a bit.I sighed and gently put the spoon of pasta back on the plate. I grabbed her by the waist and drew her closer to me. “I’m sorry I yelled.”She broke my gaze, but I pulled her head back to look at me. “I can’t have you starving yourself, though. You’re stressing yourself out as it is; starving shouldn’t have to be in the equation.“But it’s not like I’m dying yet. I was still going to eat at night.”I took her hand and made her splay her palm across my chest. “Can you feel that?”She frowned at first, then slowly tilted her head to look at me properly. “Why’s it beating so fast?”“Fear,” I said. “You invoke so many emotions that I’ve not felt in a long while, and one of them is fear. Hearing you say you’ve not eaten made me think about so many
Selene’s POVI could barely think too much about what Priya just said before a call came in from Lily.“Amber is awake, and she’s thrashing around. I’m afraid she’s going to hurt herself.” She said into the phone.I immediately got up, and with Jordan still in my hold, I went towards the door. Priya, who must have caught what Lily told me on the phone, ran along with me.We got to the infirmary, and I handed Jordan over to Lily, who took him, so I could easily get to Amber, who had gone still upon seeing me.She suddenly burst into tears and threw herself on me just like she did earlier. She held me so tight that my body hurt, and that was when I realized how malnourished she was. Her bones were so visible that they pressed against my skin.I was about to rub her back, but I remembered that she had injuries there, so I just withdrew my hand and let her be the one hugging me.“It’s okay, you’re safe now,” I said into her hair.She shook even harder, and the room went so quiet that her
Lucian’s POVThe proposal didn’t put me in a good mood, as I just got information about an investment that was meant to be done in the kingdom, so I just waved it off, thinking it was one of Elysia’s silly tricks.But colour me shocked when another warrior approached me with another letter, or rather, the same letter but with a different covering and wrapping.The proposal wasn’t just silly like I had thought it was. It already has close to five signatures on it, and the only space remaining was for me. They expected me to append my signature.With that, I read through the document, and I almost squeezed it in fury with each word that I read over the former.A Proving. That’s what the process is called on its own. It’s a very old tradition that hasn’t been practiced in years due to its uselessness. More often than not, a king’s mate automatically becomes the Queen.And it’s actually the same in my case with Selene, as she’s my second chance, mate.On reading further, I saw that it sta
Selene’s POVThe next morning, I was woken up by a call from an unknown number. I got out of Lucian’s stronghold and got my phone from the beside table.I pressed the phone to my ear, “Hello?”A chaotic noise came from the background of whoever was calling. “Miss, we’re here now. You have to come over.”I recognized the voice immediately. It was the woman from yesterday who had suspicions about her neighbors.I got off the bed with full force, “What’s happening? Where exactly is the house?”“They were hitting her this morning and I heard the noise, so I broke in. You have to come over immediately, I can’t take them down alone.”“You’ll see me now,” I said and hung up so I could call Priya. She answered on the second ring and I told her to come over to the castle’s entrance immediately.“Selene? What’s going on?” Lucian asked from the bed.I quickly filled him in on what was going on, and entrusted Jordan to his care, promising to be back immediately we apprehend the guardians in quest
Selene’s POVThe moment the guards grabbed me, I snapped back to reality.“I didn’t poison anyone! I have no hand in whatever is happening to Elysia.” I yelled, but the glares of the people only intensified.I kept my gaze on the head council, “Think about this too. How’s Elysia the only one who’s
Selene’s POVMy lips thinned into a straight line, “I’m no one’s plaything.” I declared.Her eyes roamed my body then back to my face. She nodded slightly as though noting something, “Selene, is it?”I nodded and she clocked her tongue. “You’ve not been coming to our meetings, do you think you’re a
Selene’s POVHe wasn’t lying when he said I’d start staying on the same floor as him. The words had hit me like a rock and I had asked if he was joking at first, but he wasn’t.I understood why he said that the next day when I was planning to move. The council sent me a letter, reminding me that my
Leo’s POVI sat in the midst of muddled up clothes on the ground, the walls of the room barely hanging off its holder. The room was a total mess. I had no idea how I got back home from the Lycan kingdom two days ago.All I knew was that I fought off the soldiers alongside mine but we got thrown out







