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{Cayden’s POV}I’m stuck and I’m alone with my predicament.I had decided to risk my life to save Isla’s because she deserved it. She deserves to live and well, I don’t deserve to breathe.The more time I spent around her during the Lycan mission, the more I realized how evil I was. I watched her talk to people. I watched her talk about people. I watched her character towards people and realized that I was cruel in ways I didn’t know of.I treated the world with brutality and angst but Isla saw the beauty in things, no matter how little they were.When I got to know about Lily’s absence— the little girl. I had immediately rushed to return to the Lycan Hold, knowing that if Isla heard of it, she would want to return too. I journeyed as fast as I could only for me to crash into her along the way. I left before her but she met me along the way. It didn’t mean she was necessarily faster than me. It only meant that she was more strong-willed than I was and ever will be. Her empathy and

{Isla’s POV}My face crashed into a glare and I threw my claws out.Standing before me was the man— well, half man, I hated the most, and beside him was the woman I loved the most. “Let her go!” I voiced, feeling myself growing angrier. The Dwarf Commander was standing in his short height and he made my mum kneel beside him to match that height. Her hands were chained behind her. All around the Shacks and the surrounding forest areas, Lycans stood, seizing our maids and warriors— a sign that someone had snitched on us. Someone had informed the Lycans of our plan in the dying minutes of our victory as there was no way they could have found this place on their own.“Your Highness.” The Dwarf Commander bowed his head at me with a smile I had seen a thousand times before. “We haven’t met.” He said.“I mean, we have, but not under an official circumstance such as this.” He smiled again.“I said, let go of my mother!” I voiced, creeping closer with two steps.The Dwarf Commander ignored

{Isla’s POV}Everyone was shocked by my intervention, especially the older warriors who knew the depth of the rules. But that was all they could do. Be shocked.If it had been another person to disrupt the fight between two werewolves in a challenge, that person would have been whipped to death. So, as the Queen, I had Queenly advantages and I had just used one of them.I stared at Ralph with shock bathing my face. He had really wanted to kill Cayden. If I hadn’t stopped him, he would have sunk his claws straight into Cayden’s heart.I know the two of them were at loggerheads with themselves, but you would think that after all this time, the hostility between them would have settled a bit— would have gone away from wanting to kill each other to wanting to just fight for the glory and clout.Ralph frowned. “What have you done?”“I have stopped you from behaving like a lout and an animal!” I rebuked him. “You were really going to kill him?”“That’s the point of the challenge, Your High

{Isla’s POV}I left the Dungeons without answers but with annoyance and a little uneasiness. Those Lycans weren’t going to talk. They made that obvious.Despite my threats, they didn’t say anything because they knew they were going to die anyway— killed by their own King.I don’t believe that shit.Why would their King want to kill them for losing a war? They were his men and killing them would mean he would be short on men.Unless he has more…Nah, I’m not going to let that Lycan’s words muddle me and ruin my mood. Nope.I turned to Andrea now. “Take Lily to her nanny and meet me in my Chamber. I need my hair oiled.” I told her and drove my gaze to rest on Lily.“Hey… I’ll find a way to heal your father. I promise.” I said to her. She didn’t say anything or react to my words. She only stared.I looked over at Emkay. “Doesn’t she talk?” I asked her.“No, my Queen.” “You’ve never heard her speak?”“Yes. Ever since I found her at the Lycan Hold, she has never said a word to me… or anyon

{Isla’s POV}“Killed the Rogue?” I asked, confused by what I was hearing.“Yes, my Queen.” Ralph said.“But how? I instructed that he be taken to the Dungeons immediately. How was he—.” “He was taken there but… but then we heard that he was murdered.”“Just now?” “Yes. I was told by one of the guards. It happened almost immediately.”“And nobody saw who did it?”“We’ve been searching and asking but so far, no one is saying anything.”I paused my quizzes as I tried to absorb everything I was hearing. It was so sudden and suspicious.“And how was the Rogue killed? Bite marks or claw scrapings?” I asked.“Bite marks, my Queen.” Ralph said. That means the Rogue didn’t kill himself. I frowned. This was really disturbing news. If this was really reality, then it meant that there was a traitor in the Palace. I hadn’t given any orders that the Rogue be killed but now we find him suddenly dead without traces of the killer. That’s all the proof we need to know that the turmoil hasn’t ended.