SCARLETT POVI can't believe I allowed Isabella to talk me into disobeying H and Wrath again but I must admit it is good to walk around amongst others without H or Wrath keeping us shielded from everyone, and the excitement coming off of Isabella is amazing and a little contagious. I take in the fresh air as we walk arm-in-arm through the stalls. I stop and just look around at all the people as Isabella looks at some necklaces.I smell them first. It is a scent that I will never forget. I scan my eyes over the crowd until I find them. I try really hard to keep myself where I am and not run over to them, wrapping them in my arms for the first time in twenty years... My Brother... My family. I turn back to Isabella as she returns to my side after finishing with the Witch behind the table; I don't know what it is, but I bow my head a little and allow Isabella to put one of the necklaces she just bought around my neck.I then look back over to where I see Nathan

* H BACK STORY *My real name is Prince Silas Reminaton, I was the firstborn to King Jeremy and Queen Camila. We weren't a very big kingdom, as we were only made up of a couple of clans. My father ruled with a firm hand, but my mother made sure he still showed them kindness and fairness.My father over the past few months had been having meetings with all the kingdoms around us, looking for an alliance and a chance to expand on our territory. We found an alliance in the next kingdom over with an arranged mated match between me and their daughter, Elizabeth. I didn't know if I liked the idea of being forced to mate someone I didn't even know.However, that all changed the day we met; we were not true mates, but I just knew that I would grow to love her and she would love me in return. As per our arrangement, we mated the night we met, and we then spent the next six wonderful months together getting to kno

RYKER POVI look around and there she is the older female from my dreams. I can't believe I am finally looking at my mother. She is standing on the far side of the town centre; I feel Nathaniel freeze next to me as she looks right at us and even from here I can see the recognition in her eyes as she recognises Nathaniel and the others, when her eyes land on me they are a little confused and that is when I realise that I probably have the same expression since I was only a year old when she went missing.I don't notice until she turns that she is there with another female; I watch as she bows her head slightly and allows the female to put something around her neck. They both then look over towards us and I realise that the other female is the other one from my dreams as well. I am then hit with the most wonderful smell I could ever have come across. I take a deep breath of roses, forest pine, and wild berries. I end up having to hold my head as Christopher and Jack go nuts screaming."

ISABELLA POV Once the silver is off my wrists and laying on the floor, I then start to feel Zoey stirring in my head and I finally smell the intoxicating pine bark, pine needles and spice and whisper "Mate!" as I sit up a little I am pulled towards him. I flinch a little as he brings his hand up, what he says next surprises me even more as he stops moving his hand so it isn't quite touching me and then he continues "Mate? I will not hurt you... May I touch you?"I have suddenly lost my voice as no male has ever asked permission to touch me; they have only ever touched me to hit me but I nod my head slightly anyway; he takes that as permission and lays his hand gently onto my cheek. I take a sharp breath in as the sparks spread through me from the contact of his hand; I don't miss his sharp intake of breath or the shiver that runs through him starting at the

SILAS (H) / WRATH POVI stand and bow as King Marcus enters the room, no doubt coming at Queen Clementine's request. I know I shouldn't have done it in front of her, but I couldn't stop Wrath as Scarlett disobeyed what she was told to do again. Marcus walks over and stands in front of Scarlett. I smile a little as she flinches at his touch, he then tilts her head a little and looks at the bruises that are starting from where I slapped her, he then looks to me and says. ''Did you do that?" I bow a little more as I nod and reply, "Your Highness, I gave her an order, and she disobeyed. I am still teaching her, her place!"I should have known it was coming, as one of his only rules was to never touch a female outside the privacy of the bedroom, especially not in front of Queen Clementine. So it doesn't surprise me when Marcus send