VICTORIA’S POV  I looked at the guards that were bowing in front of me before smiling at them. “Please stand up. Your love is all I need. You don’t have to bow to me like that,” I said, and they immediately went back into their previous guarding positions. We waited for some to open the gates for us, and it wasn’t long before we heard footsteps.A man clad in a grey colour suit came from behind us and clapped his hands twice in the air.   I was waiting for the gate to open on his claps, but the doors didn't open, rather there was a small bag of rose petals on top of us, and it was released, making the petals fall on our heads.  Giggling at the sight as the petals were falling, I swirled under them, feeling happy after such a long time. It was after such a long time someone had surprised me like this. I thought. A

VICTORIA’S POV  “Haha… What are you going to do about it?” Ashton asked me when I didn’t reply to his attack for a few seconds.We had been fighting for the last thirty minutes, and I am ashamed to say this, but he was having the upper hand in this fight.  “What happened? Cat got your tongue?” He asked again, and I gritted my teeth angrily.  ‘You can do this, Victoria. Have a little bit of faith in your body. Let it act on its own accord.’ Carla said, and I nodded my head at her suggestion. She was right. I need to have some faith in myself. I was the hybrid. The strongest in the world. “You want to know?” I asked, my voice dangerously low. Looking up, I smirked at Ashton before running towards him and holding his neck. Turning his hands at an odd angle, I was about to break them when he turn

VICTORIA’S POV Alexander? I am sure I heard Alexander’s voice. What is he doing here? How did he reach here? Is everything okay with the kingdom? Has my grandfather come to visit him?  Many questions were swirling inside my head, and as darkness was consuming me, it was as if something or particularly someone was stopping me from entering the dark abyss.  But what could it be? The magic was nothing like Neptune’s magic. While Neptune’s magic appeared cold and soothing, this magic was something warm that was filling my heart with care and love. Someone who knows that I am not allowed to sleep. Someones who loves me and is afraid that something will happen to me. After a constant struggle of being on the verge of losing my consciousness and groaning as I held onto that someone’s healing powers, I finally opened my eyes when someone lifted my body.

VICTORIA’S POV “What did you call me?” I asked, my eyes widening as I looked at him with disbelief. “I called you a filthy hybrid. A filthy hybrid that I know is going to be the death of me. And I would rather you stay away from me because being touched by a hybrid that I need to kill is the last thing I want right now. Got a problem with that?” My grandpa said, and I looked at him for a few seconds before smiling evilly at him. “A filthy hybrid? Is this what I am to you? Just a filthy hybrid? Am I not your granddaughter? The granddaughter that you should love and cherish? Fine! Yes! Yes, I am a filthy hybrid, and this filthy hybrid has decided to hug her grandpa. Got a problem with that? If yes, then you can leave from here. Leave me alone so that I can drown in the sorrow of the pain and-” I started, wanting to annoy him with my emotional drama, and it indeed worked.&nb

VICTORIA’S POV Standing in front of the mirror, I looked at my reflection and couldn’t help but wince at the girl that was staring back at me. It has been 20 days since my training started, and my life became a living hell. Every day Daniel and Ashton were harder with their moves than the previous day. Daniel had suggested Alexander train me too, but he didn’t take the advice, which I was glad for, or I think I would’ve died by now. My grandfather has been visiting me at random times and days in between, which I was grateful for because he was kind of providing me the moral support that I needed the most in this bruised condition of mine. Daniel doesn’t suspect anything. He thinks that it’s my Magna trying to elaborate and expand itself, and I can’t be any less guilty about it. After the incident that happened that day, the guys have learned to knock before they