"Excuse me my lady, but breakfast has been served," Maya said to Ivone. She had collected the tray of food from the servant who had earlier knocked on the door and brought it into the room. She set it down and turned to Ivone who still laid on the bed, giving her a naughty smirk.Maya grinned, "My lady, you should come and have your breakfast now. Come eat." "What do we have for breakfast?" Ivone asked and sat up, "Could you bring it closer?""We have some potatoes," Maya started and carried the tray towards the bed, "Freshly squeezed fruit juice, scrambled eggs, and chicken," she said and set the tray down on the bedside table.Ivone smirked when Maya brought her attention on her, "Well I want to eat something different."Maya frowned slightly, "And what might that be, my lady?"Ivone grinned and seized Maya by the wrist, "You."She pulled her down to the bed and was quick to roll, coming on top of her. Maya had let out a gasp and a quiet scream of protest which turned into a chuckl
"Maya?" she called, but when Maya met her eyes, she knew something was wrong. She turned her head to follw the direction Maya's attention was and her eyes landed on Triston standing by the door."Oh shit!" she gasped and struggled, rolled off the bed and landed on the floor with a thud. She got on her knees and leaned against the bed, embarrassment washed her entire body."Triston," she called in a low but still alarmed voice, "What brings you here and how long have you been... er... standing there?"Triston frowned and narrowed his eyes. He brought his attention from Maya to Ivone whose entire face had turned a light shade of red and he knew she was feeling very embarrassed and so was her partner who could do nothing but stand rigid, holding her hands together and with her gaze low. Ivone could barely maintain eye contact with him.His wolf was angry and that anger had gotten to him, he could understand his wolf who felt like someone had just violated his mate, despite the fact that
It was bright and early in the morning when Reyes gathered some of his trusted men to the underground dungeon for a meeting. It didn't matter what his father said, he would go ahead with his initial plan of sending some people into Elyria to get Maya out. His father might be the one recognized as the ruler of Nyxoria and have the title of Alpha, but it was he who led the Nightshade pack, and it was he that most of them regarded as their Alpha and he knew they would do as he would request.Usually, their meetings were only held at night when most people would be asleep in the castle, that was to avoid prying eyes and ears from hearing whatever it was that they discussed, but recently, Reyes had started calling for meetings during the day and without a care in the world if news got to his father about his perculiar meetings. He was Alpha Prince, and as such was allowed to have his own committee to overlook some certain affairs.His people were standing around the stone table when he wal
"According to what Ivone told me, they should plan to attack somewhere around here."Triston, Jaxon, Revin and Xaren gathered in an open room on the ground floor of the castle. The room had a round table fixed to its center with the chairs pushed all the way to the walls. On one side of the room was arranged fully armoured statues, about twelve of them, and on the other side were piles and piles of broken chairs and other broken things. The room had only two windows and both were on one side of the wall, positioned on either side of what should have been a door but was only now a huge rectangular gap in the wall. Hinges were still fastened to the wall, but it would seem that the doors were never put in place or they had fallen away and were never replaced.The open room overlooked the spacious courtyard and despite how open it was, it made it the perfect place to hold a meeting like the one they were having now, all the while having their attention on the outside to observe what was
Ivone pulled Maya behind her as she led her partner through the castle's courtyard and headed for the stable. Maya had complained to her earlier in the morning, while they had been in the room, of being bored after their chat and she had decided to give her a tour of the castle, a castle she herself was not all that familiar with. "Are you sure it is alright for me to be out and about like this, Ivy?" Maya had asked her this question repeatedly throughout their short journey from their room to this courtyard. And each time, Ivone had assured her. "Yes, it is very alright," she had replied with a chuckle and squeezed Maya's hand gently, giving her a reassuring smile, "As long as we stay clear of the Alpha that is, but not to worry, he hardly leaves his quarters, and I don't think he is in right now." The sun was high up and the day was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside, it was literally begging to be spent wandering and galivanting. On days like this in Nyxoria, she and Dama
He was angry at them right now for coming down to the courtyard, but he knew it was more than that. What fueled his anger more was the scene which he had witnessed when he had been forced to barge into her room in the early hours of the morning because of the sounds that had been coming from there.He shifted his gaze to Maya and his wolf growled at her, wanting to slash her pretty little face open with its claws. To him, this Nyxorian princess had violated his mate and he should not let it slide, but then there was noting he couold do because the two of them had recognized one another as the other's mate. He was just on the outside crying desperately to be let in. Confusion had left him needy and helpless.He could not get that scene out of his mind, Ivone laid out on the bed, open and vulnerable with her legs spread open. The expression on her face. He could not get Ivone's voice out of his head and he fisted his hands.Her voice...Just hearing her moans had stimulated him and had
She swallowed and he continued, the smirk having vanished, only to be replaced by his very cold and mean gaze. It was very obvious now that he didn't like her. He didn't like her one bit."You will get into that drum and stay under.""What if she dies?!" Ivone voiced out, coming to stand inbetween Maya and Triston, having Maya protectively behind her.Triston straightened and replied to Ivone nonchalantly, "If she doesn't get into that drum, she will die. If my father finds her, he will behead her and put up her pretty little head on a spike."Maya swallowed and grabbed a hold of Ivone's arm. She was scared now and it pleased Triston. She should be scared, next time, she would not wander out of the room unnecessarily."Triston, stop scaring her," Ivone cautioned him with a frown. But Triston right now, didn't have a care in the world for Maya.He narrowed his eyes at the scared princess and brought a hand to place on his chest, and with a sarcastically sad face, said, "I can imagine h
It was the first time in forever since Triston had the chance to spend time with his father like this without the two of them going for each other's throats and as he sat atop the horse over looking this vast farmland they had ridden to, with his father quiet beside him, he realized that he actually liked this."Your mother used to love coming here," He suddenly said and Triston turned to face him, worry was very evident on his face. First of all he was warming up to him, and now he was taking about his mother?Alpha Ardon took in a long and deep breath, then let it out slowly. It had been a long while since he had come here. In fact, ever since the death of his wife, he had avoided coming here. This would be the second time he was here since he lost her."Don't look at me like I have lost my mind," Alpha Ardon said to Triston and then chuckled."Forgive me," Triston said and bowed slightly, "But I cannot help and be worried.""Worried about me?" Alpha Ardon asked and looked at him wi
Triston stood in front of the decaying horse, the earth around it had been thoroughly soaked in blood and the smell of death was heavy in the area. He could pick up two distinct scents from the blood, one belonging to the horse and the other belonging to a human, Maya's, he presumed."That was a stable horse from the castle," Xaren pointed out, drawing Triston's and the others attention. He had gotten down to a squat position at the head of the horse and was holding up a brown leather patch he had taken from the horse, pressed into the leather was the Elyrian royal crest. He stretched it over to Triston.Triston reached over and took the atch of brown leather and studied the crest on it, it was definitely the Elyrian royal crest so this was a horse taken from the stable, one that Maya had ridden that night no doubt. He looked down to the ground where he stood, in the middle of the soaked up earth, Maya must have been killed right here, at this very spot."Focus Xaren, the dead horse i
"It has been six days since Ivone left the castle Triston, are you not even a little bit worried about her? Where she could be and if she is doing alright?"Jaxon had come to the stables with Triston who seemed relaxed most times, and then out of it the other times, and he was sure that this Alpha Prince was worried about Ivone but was it his pride that was keeping him from actually showing concern? He suspected that they might have had a fall out but how big of a fall out would they have had that would have been enough to make Ivone leave the castle and probably leave the kingdom as well and Triston would not do nor say anything about it.Triston remained quite, standing beside his horse and stroking the animal's neck. He was worried about Ivone but he had refused to show it because he had been angry at her, for the words she had said to him and her behaviour towards him, he had been so angry at her. He had not noticed her absence on the first day and even on the second day until Jax
"What are you talking about?" Reyes asked him with a frown and Kasier's head came up, his gaze rested on Reyes. "If you are going to have me killed or imprisoned for life, I am requesting that you allow me see my family one more time before yoou carry out your judgement on me." "I'm not going to have you killed, Kasier Archon," he said with a relatively calm voice and a weight lifted off of Kasier's heart, imprisonment may be better than death, he thought, but Reyes continued, "And I am not going to have you imprisoned either." Kasier Archon was perplexed and it showed in his facial expression, if the young alpha was not going to do either, then what was it that he had in mind to do to him? Surely, letting him go was not part of what he had in mind. It could not be. Not for Reyes Thorold at least. Reyes observed the confusion in Kasier's facial expression and in his eyes, and somewhere lurking behind that confusion he could still see the fear. He grinned. "I am going to reinstate
He had only been Alpha for a couple of days now but he felt he had been carrying the title for much longer than that, one of the main reason he had wanted to become Alpha was so that he could have the free will to rain down attacks and war on Elyria, but for some strange and unknown reason even to him, he had delayed all that and instead had been dwelling on the kingdom's affairs, affairs that could easily be dealt with even in his absence.He sat on the throne in the throne room, a place where he had been for hours attending to one problem presented to him to another. Frankly, all these seemed boring to him and it was easy to tell because he had been yawning more frequently now like someone that had been deprived of days of sleep. Dathan stood beside him facing forward, with Reyes rise from Alpha Prince to Alpha, his own rank too had increased and now he was the second moost powerful person in the whole of Nyxoria."When will this all end Dathan?" Reyes asked him as he sat lazily on
She opened her eyes slowly but her vision was still a blur and somewhere in the back of her head ached. She blinked severally until her vision was cleared and she looked around the place she had come to find herself in. Last thing she remembered, she had been in the forest surrounded by three men and had been knocked out by a drug of some sort, and now she had woken up in a place that seemed like it was a basement in a house. Her head still ached and she tried to lift her hand up to her head, only then did she realize she had been tied up. Her eyes widened as she looked at the ropes binding her by the wrists to the arm of the chair she sat in and her feet were hels in chains. She suddenly began to hyperventilate and struggle against the ropes but it was of no use as they had been tied tightly. If this kidnap had been orchestrated by Reyes, then she needed to do everything possible to get out of here or her life would be in danger. She cursed as she looked around the place for anythi
She was back in the forest, back to the exact same spot where Maya had been murdered by Alpha Ardon of Elyria, the air still carried her scent and the strong smell of both her blood and that of the mutilated horse. She tried to imagine how Maya must have felt in that moment, if she had been here scared of dying alone, if she had felt the cold, how much pain she must have been in, and the feat that must have invaded her heart knowing that she could not escape death. She went down on the ground and squatted, then placed the flat side of her hand on the patch of earth that had drank Maya's blood and she cried. "I'm sorry," she sobbed and buried her face in her knees. She hated how she was feeling now, so very guilty and so very unworthy, like she should have been the one to die in Maya's stead. Maya would never come to learn of her betrayal and she would never get to apologize for that. She lifted her head up and took in a deep breath, trying to stop herself from sheding any more tear
"Did you find her?" Triston had asked her calmly but she didn't give an answer to his question immediately. He watched her from behind as her shoulders heaved and she brought her hand up to her face before crossing them. He guessed she had wiped a tear and then he heard her sniff before she responded to his question. "No," her voice was choked, "There was blood though, I saw that, enough to soak up the forest, there was also a bloody tree branch and a dead mutilated horse." Triston took in a deep breath and let it out, he wanted to console her so he took a step towards her but then Ivone spun to face him, she was crying hard and he could see clearly the pain and anger in her eyes. "Did he have to kill her in that manner?" she asked Triston, "The same way Damaris was killed, using a tree branch?" He didn't know what to say to her, he was not sure how he should reply her but he so badly wanted to console her, he just didn't know how, "Ivone... I..." "And where is her body, Tristo
Ever since he had brought her back from the forest that eventful morning, Ivone had been in her room sleeping. She had been knocked out for a full day and it had kept Triston so worried that he had checked up on her every hour just to be certain that she was indeed sleeping and not slowly slipping into death. Early the next moring, the first thing he did after waking up was to go to Ivone's room to check up on her again, to see if she had woken up and in what state of mind she was currently in, but he was shocked when he found an empty bed and his heart rate began to spike as his heart beat accelerated. Quickly, he grabbed the arm of the servant girl that happened to be passing by in that moment and he yanked her to himself. The girl in fright, dropped what she had been carrying and yelped, but Triston, seemingly unaware or not concerned of how his actions had affected the girl, fixed an angry look on her and shook her slightly as he asked. "Where is Ivone?" The girl trembled in f
The woman lived by the outskirts of Nyxoria, all the way over on the other side. It had taken them almost half the day to ride to her place and with her mother hammering on that fact that she would have to return back to the castle, Zina knew that this visit would not take long.She had seen the woman only twice in her life and this visit would be the third time. She never associated with her because her mother had forbidden her for doing so, said it was to cover their tracks, but even without that, Zina knew she would never even want to associate herself with the likes of the woman because she gave hr the chills.Her house - if it could be regarded as one - stood alone in a clearing and was omnious to even look at. Smoke rose from the chimney, telling them that someone was home and cooking, but with her reputation, Zina wondered if she could evengo anywhere. She remained attached to her mother as she led her through the clearing and into the house, once inside, their nostrils were hi