From Pawn To Queen Novels & Stories

He was waiting for my lead. ​I stepped out from behind him, raising the pistol he had given me. I didn't care about the guards. I didn't care about the explosives. I only cared about the woman who had spent nineteen years trying to break me. ​"You always said I was a pawn, Betty," I said, my voice cutting through the fog like a blade. "But you forgot one thing about the game of chess. If a pawn makes it to the other side of the board, it becomes a Queen."

Tonight was not for fathers, tonight was for promises and new beginnings. “You will not be traded,” I whispered into the dim space of the wagon. My voice was barely louder than the creak of wood. “You will not be used as leverage or proof or punishment. You will not be a bargaining chip for a council or a king or an Alpha who sees a child as a way to win.” “You will be wanted.” My throat tightened, but I kept going. “Even if I am the only one who wants you.” The wagon rolled on and the road grew darker.

"She is alive." "She is alive, and in my father's house, and close enough to him to slip a note into his own correspondence." My voice shakes, and I let it. "She says the pledge is not a betrothal. She says it is a door. That he cannot cross my threshold unless I open it myself, and that this is the key." "The pledge." He is staring at the paper. "Fifty wolves at the gate by dawn. Legally welcomed in by the lady of the house."

She set down what she was holding very carefully. Turned to face me fully. "I know how to do it," I said. "I don't need training. I could start today. I just need someone to tell me which areas need," "No," Maren said. I blinked. "I haven't finished," "My lady." Her voice was not unkind. It was the voice of someone who had worked in this palace for longer than I had been alive and had developed very specific opinions about how things worked and was not going to be moved from them. "If the King had wanted you in the staff quarters he would not have put you in a guest room."

Two divorce agreements lay before Anya Ellington and me. One was hers. The other was mine. My share amounted to 20% of our assets, plus a villa. She would get the twins and everything else in the house. I skimmed the papers in seconds, then signed without protest, perfectly calm. Not a trace remained of the hysteria I had shown over the past few days. Anya's pen slowed as she signed her name. She fixed me with a burning stare. "You have no objections?" she asked. "You're not even going to ask about visitation rights? Once you sign, there's no taking it back." I handed the papers back to her, and the corners of my mouth curled into the faintest smile. "No need," I said. Anya's eyes nar

She was standing behind a counter trying to get away from him; her abusive step father. "Petite peste! tu ne me parlera pas de cette manière tan que je restera ton beau père" The humongous muscly man sped left to catch up with the girl from the other side of the counter but failed miserably as she spun further away from him causing them to run circles around the counter.

Or something. “Your turn,” David said. Lauren drew a one, which meant she could move one of her pawns out of home base. “Lucky.” “Yeah,” Lauren said, looking at her pawn standing all alone on the game track. “Lucky.”

LUCAS “Karen is finally out of the way” Greg said moving the Queen to the white square of the Chess board. “Addison would be next, I guess?” I asked him, thinking of how to protect my own Queen, in the game. In celebrating our victory of Karen demise we thought it will be great to play something that would bring out our delight.

He truly was my fate. And maybe it was time for the tables to turn. With a deep breath, I met his gaze and tried to smile. I knew I failed miserably by the look on his face, but I hoped he could feel the intention. "If this is just a game of chess, I don't want to be a pawn anymore. I want to be the queen."

Even though they had misunderstanding at times, he valued his friendship with Beta Aiden and there was nothing that the Elders of the council would say that would make him change his opinion about him. I don't need him to change his opinion, I couldn't even care less. All I needed was for Aiden to be gone permanently. "Just like how a pawn is seen as the weakest player in a chess board, but also can be the most dangerous because once it reaches the end, it can take on any form it wants. It can get rid of the King and all those near it. You chose to be a pawn in the chess board and now is the time for you to take on any form you want. So which one do you want to be?"