The eyes of the three females were fixed on the woman on the stairs.The lady who had been chasing the little girl stopped trying to get her and instead stood with her hands held together in front of her in what looked like fear to Hazel.The little girl had also stopped struggling but little giggles still escaped from her lips."Penelope? What have I said about how princesses behave?" The lady on the stairs asked as she took the stairs one after another in the most beautiful way.Hazel watched her with awe. She never knew that the way someone walked could be as enchanting as this. It was like the woman was gliding and not walking.The little girl's giggles came to an abrupt stop at the words of the woman.Hazel was totally oblivious to the girl who was still on her body as she was fixated on the woman who she suspected to be the girl's mother.The woman got to the end of the stairs and walked to where the three females were."Do I have to remind you of what you should be doing?" The

There was ringing in Hazel's ear. It was so loud, she thought she was dead for a moment.She actually hoped she was dead and had only just hallucinated the words she had just heard.Hazel could see her maid's face in the mirror. Her freckled face looked eagerly anticipating an answer as her hand moved up and down carefully brushing Hazel's hair with exaggerated attention.Hazel was starting to smell something fishy.Her heart beat so fast and so loud she wondered if the maid could hear.It was now it all dawned on her. It was all a trap. She had been lured to her capture. She should have known all of these were too good to be true.Her dagger was underneath her pillow. She had stashed it there. She made a mental picture of where exactly it was placed so that if the need arose, she would quickly run over and grab it.She was not going to hesitate to use it. She never had and she was not going to now especially on the bloody bastard, Sam.There was no way she was going down without a f

As if her body had been moved, Mrs. Aidan's words return to her head."Do you mean Mr. Sam is here?" She blurted out before she could stop herself."Yes, he is," The Luna replied.All of a sudden, the clothes which she had been wearing since last night could not seem to keep her warm anymore."Why?" Hazel asked, her voice barely above a whisper."Pardon?" Mrs. Aidan said."Why is he here?" Hazel asked again.The Luna blinked multiple times. At first she had been offended but she realized that Hazel was a stargazer. There might be something behind her questions."Well, the Alpha felt that he would be much more comfortable here with his personal doctors than at the hospital..."Anger shut inside Hazel and it spread, gradually warming up her insides till her entire body was now hot with it.Why could Sam not just leave her alone? She had to do something."We could have loved you to read his palm but he is unconscious from the trauma yesterday. The arrow had pierced a bit of his heart an

Like a toilet drainage, all the color on Aidan's face drained away leaving his face as white as bread dough."What?" He asked in a voice Hazel would never fathom hearing from such a powerful person.Aidan's voice was a whisper and it shook with fear.With her eyes still exaggeratedly wide open, she answered, "That's the problem. I don't know!""How can you say that?!" Aidan's voice bellowed angrily, bouncing off the four walls of the office and hitting Hazel so hard she almost jumped out of her chair."I pay you to know these things! And you tell me you don't know? How stupid could you be?" He added.His eyes were burning with anger and Hazel found it hard to look at his face because it felt like his eyes were burning hers.By this time, Hazel's exaggerated open eye had become filled with fear as she trembled under Aidan's gaze and anger.She was starting to think that her plan was a bad idea. If she continued this way, she would end up getting killed out of Aidan's anger."It-it's no

Hazel's hands flew involuntarily to her neck and she clutched the crystal pendant in her hand so tight as if it was going to be snatched away from her."Umm..." Hazel started to say as her mind worked so fast to think of an excuse after being caught off guard."... it is just a normal necklace. There is nothing special about it," Hazel said with her eyes on her plate trying to avoid looking at Mrs Aidan and risk her seeing the anxiety in them.The room went silent and Hazel prayed they would find something else to talk about."There is nothing normal about that necklace!" Mrs Aidan said in a cheery voice and Hazel's heart skipped a bit.Where were the angels when one needed them?"I remember, seeing something like that once on a man..." Mrs. Aidan said, now addressing the whole table and not just Hazel.The whole room was silent except for Mrs. Aidan's sweet voice and the noise of silver cutlery hitting porcelain plates in the background as they filled their mouths."He was a human an