The party started and the officials started saying their greetings to the Alpha and he kept smiling through all their touching words. “I almost lost my mind when I heard you collapsed, but seeing how you came back shining the more, I think I can relax now” Elder Boris remarked, and they all chuckled. “I know, right? I never thought the Alpha was this handsome. The glow on your throne is special tonight” another chipped in and we all laughed hard. I was dressed in a pink gown that had a long thigh slit but was budded with silver flowers to cover the spaces. The hands of the gowns were covered with white gems, creating a lotus flower shape with shiny silver ornaments scattered around my packed hair. “Your beauty is blinding tonight, my queen”, he had complimented me when he set his eyes on me and I blushed. “I have always been beautiful, did you just notice?” I pouted and we both giggled. I was laughing alongside their hypocritical greetings while waiting patiently for the show to

HELENA’S POV The coldness of his voice seeped through my bare skin as he held onto me and stared at me fondly. My chest was beating fast again as the tension rose between us and I knew where this was going, so I had to up my game and guard up my control so I wouldn’t just be crumbling every time at his touch. I mean we still have a long way to go, we have several knots to untangle and many situations to straighten out. If I let my emotions get the best of me right now, I might not be able to find the answers I had fought for so hard till that moment. “How about you stay with me tonight?” he asked, staring deep into my eyes. My lips trembled to find the right one, but nothing was coming to it so I closed my eyes to take a deep breath before removing my hand from his. “Draco, we still have a long way to go. We have many riddles to solve, so let’s not do this yet”, I answered strongly before patting his shoulder and walking out of his room after bidding him a good night. I didn’t sl

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I was on a date with Draco on the wide bridge in the pack when Gray ran to us panicking. He was covered in sweats and his breathing was shallow due to the excessive running he had done. The field where we were busy having our picnic was actually very far from the palace, so it took him a while to reach us by foot. “There you are” he called out to us, stopping to catch his breath. With a broad smile, Draco waved at him “Oh Gray, why are you suddenly here?” Gray managed to stagger to our side so he could close up the distance while we wondered what could be so urgent and important for him to run all the way here without taking the car. “Ah, that’s true. I should have taken the car” he muttered before raising his red eyes. His eyes were red like hot coal, they were not normal at all and that was the first thing that hinted to us that something was wrong. I rushed to his side to hold him and asked whatever the issue was, only for him to drop the bomb. “You both n

I was thrown back into the cold and dark cell where I had been left for close to two days. The coldness of the bare floor helped a lot to cool my burning wounds and I was able to sleep well on the floor because my hands were not tied this time around. Everything I had passed through played in my head. From the moment I was laughing in Draco’s arms on the field to the place he commanded me to be thrown back in the cell. I couldn’t stop wondering where the trust he said he had in me was, the love he had always confessed he had for me and those assuring words he had always told me. “Everything was a lie, a blatant lie” I kept repeating to myself over and over, and I lied down crying silently. The more I thought about them, the more my tears flowed. When I remembered how I lied on myself and my poor parents, I bawled my eyes out till the point I had no more tears to shed anymore. It was then I knew I had to give up on tears and just let anything that would happen take place. All my fea

I treated him as promised and he was transported to one of the private rooms where guards were assigned to protect him. “What was wrong with him? We didn’t serve him anything unusual” Madam Jean asked me, her fingers were shaking because she was yet to recover from the panic. I only smiled and moved closer to her to give her a hug in order to calm down. “You don’t have to panic, I will make sure he’s alright” I assured her and instructed one of the ladies to make a cup of chamomile tea which will calm her tense body down in no time. She was led to the room where she was attended to while I waited by Mr. Black’s side for him to wake up. He finally woke up after three hours and he seeing me by his side made him jump a bit “How are you feeling right now? Do you feel better?” I asked, a broad smile on my face He tried speaking but couldn’t say anything well, his throat was still a bit swollen and the redness of his skin were still visible. “You cannot afford to speak now or force an