You know that satisfying feeling when one of your loved ones is finally enjoying his lives and just being happy? That is what I am feeling right now.

After years of mistreatment by his father and just working to prove himself, Alexander is finally happy in his life and it is all due to Analise. Even if Alexander does not show it, he truly likes her. There is that sparkle in his eyes that I never saw before and I saw the way he treats her, like the queen she is.

I don't know much about Analise past, but I do know that it is not as described in fairytales. Neither Alexander nor Analise know but they are helping each other heal and mend their broken hearts. I just hope that these two never separate and nobody tries to separate them.

"What are you think about Diana?" Adrian asked as he sat next to me on the grass.

"Nothing. Just thinking about Alexander."

"He has changed and it is for the better."

"The effect of having his mate."

"It is not fair how you have become such good friends with her but here I am. I never met her or even talked to her. I just saw her at meetings. That's it."

"I can't do anything if your luck is bad." I chuckled "She is very nice you know. Unlike her sister and Ivory."

"Do you think she will agree to come with us to the kingdom and take her place as the queen?"

"I hope so. She is everything a queen needs to be. She is strong, powerful, mentally strong, smart, kind, determined, courageous, she makes the right decisions and also, she stands for herself and not submit to others." I said as I thought of how she carries herself in the meetings.

"Yeah."

"The best part is that she is not afraid of Alex either." I chuckled "She called him an asshole when Alex was ignoring her." Adrian laughed next to me

"That is a first time someone actually voiced it out in front of him."

"I guess it was a good thing she said that because you remember how pissed off he was after she told him that. You and me had no idea why he was in such a bad until he revealed it a few days back"

"I remember even being a bit scared as he went ballistic and broke things around." He said and shuddered a bit at the thought.

"And here I though you were brave." I scoffed, earing a glare from him. "I am really happy for Alex though. All these years after thinking that he was not good enough to have someone to love him, he finally found his other half."

"They both make a cute pair."

"Yeah. I just can't wait for the time that Analise will rule next to Alex as our queen." I said dreamily.

Both Adrian and I stiffened when me heard a voice from behind us. "What!?" The person shrieked. I whipped my head towards the source and felt the blood drain from my face. I looked at Adrian who was mirroring my expression. I scurried to my feet and faced the one and only Rayna standing next to Ivory

"Do you need anything Princess?" I asked politely, hoping she did not hear what we said but her expression contrasted my hopeful thoughts.

"Oh don't act dumb." Ivory scoffed. " We heard clearly that you said Analise would become your queen. So just fucking speak."

"We are speaking with respect to you, don't use that tone on us please." Adrian said between gritted teeth.

Rayna let out a small laugh. "Respect? You want us to talk to you with respect?" She scoffed "Just because you are respecting us does not mean we should do it too. Respecting us is your job not ours."

"Yeah. You are just the second and third in command." Ivory added, making Rayna laugh. I clenched my fists and used all my will to not go and punch both in their faces. If this would be any other encounter, I would have linked Alexander so that he could talk some senses in these two just like last time I did but he is out with Analise and I don't want to ruin their time. Also, last time I had told Alexander about them, that Rayna used it as an opportunity to get close to Alexander and created misunderstanding between Analise and Alexander. So, I would not do the same mistake again. "Now just fucking tell us what you were telling us."

If she is the future queen of werewolves, the entire kingdom is going to meet its doom.

"It was a joke. We were just saying things like that." I replied

"And you expect us to believe that bullshit? Just spit it out already." Rayna voiced out.

"We were just playing around Princess." Adrian said from next to me but judging by the slight edge in his tone, I could tell he was starting to lose his patience with these two.

"Do you take us for fools?" Ivory scoffed

"If you are one, why would we not." Adrian muttered. For any of us, we probably would not here but right now, they were not anybody. They were werewolves with enhanced hearing and just like I expected, they heard it.

"How dare you." She sneered. "Just fucking tell us what you meant by that weakling becoming your queen."

"Why would we?" Adrian snapped. I placed my hand on his shoulder, attempting to calm him down but I knew I was late since his eyes started changing color.

If there is one thing that could make Adrian furious this easily, it was disrespect and right now these two were doing a great job at it. Not only were they disrespecting us but also Analise who is supposed to be our future queen.

"Don't you talk back to us." Rayna said

"I am the future queen and I need to know what you meant by one of us being the queen of demons."

"That's right. You are the future queen not the queen." Adrian said. My eyes widened as he lifted his head slowly, revealing his black eyes. They took a step back in shock.

'Oh boy' I thought to myself

"Adrian. Calm down." I said while praying that nothing become worse than it already is but it seemed like the gods have something against my peaceful wish as I saw Adrian lunge at Ivory. "Adrian!"

Just before he could hurt Rayna, a blur passed in front of me and the next thing I knew was that Adrian was unconscious on the ground. "Oh my god. Adrian." I rushed to him. Just when I was about to mind link Alexander, I felt something sting me in the neck before a cold blanket of dark engulfed me

SHIT

I woke up to the sound of rustling of chains. I slowly opened my heavy eyelids and sucked in a deep breath at the scene in front of me. Adrian had his hands tied to heavy metal chains to each side of his head as well as his feet. He was struggling to free himself and I could see some blood dripping from his wrist area.

"Adrian." My voice echoed in the unknown room we were in. "You will only hurt yourself more."

His eyes snapped to me, as if realising just now that I was with him. "Thank god you are awake." He said in a hoarse voice. "I- I can't link Alex."

"I tried linking Alexander but it felt as if there was a very strong wall blocking us. "Why can't we?"

"They must have drugg- drugged us" He said as he pulled his arms forward again as an attempt to free himself.

"Well well, look who decided to finally wake up." Ivory's voice infiltrated the silent room. I turned my head towards the door to find her standing there with a smirk on her face as four guards stood behind her.

"Where are we?" I asked

"Getting punished." She said in a mocking voice. "You disrespected me. Now you pay the price." She moved and made way for the guards to enter the room. Two of them came towards me while the other two went to Adrian. I watched as they took off the chains and dragged Adrian out of the room and did the same to me.

"Where the fuck are you taking us?" I thrashed around in their hold but in return I only got silence and my energy being drained out even more. Both Adrian and I gave up. Feeling like a lamb about to be slaughtered, I let them drag me to wherever they were taking us

Soon we reached a double door with two guards outside. The guards forced us to stand on our feet properly and walk ahead of them as they pressed the tip of their sword right behind our spine. "You will regret disrespecting us." Ivory said

"You are a bitch and a bigger coward." I spat which only seemed to infuriate her. Red with anger, she disappeared form our sight. I sighed as the two guards opened the doors. They pushed us further, indicating for us to start walking and we did. Numerous gasps could be heard as we walked in the room.

The room was really huge and accommodated most of the people that were currently in the castle. The room had long carpet in the middle leading to the stage at the end of the room. On each side of the carpet, stood the different supernatural creatures. The demons looked at us with a mix of pity and fury directed at the werewolves as they tried to break past the numerous guards standing along the carpet to come and help us. On the stage all the leaders were sitting on their chair except one where Alexander would sit. The rest of the royal family were also sitting on the stage. On the stage itself, there was an elevated part where the guards made us stand.

"Silence." Some random guy who was standing on the stage spoke. "Adrian and Diana, you have been accused of disrespecting the werewolf family and also attacking them, causing them injuries."

As he said the last words, my jaws dropped to the floor. "We did not injure anyone!" I protested but he ignored it, earning a few sounds of disapproval from the crowd. Not only were they putting fake accusations on us but also resolving this matter like we were in the nineties. Who does these things these days!

"As Princess Rayna has said, they attacked her causing her injuries." My gaze immediately went to Rayna who was sitting next to her mom, looking scared with several bruises on her face and her arms. She would be an excellent actress one day. I scoffed at her acting all innocent and scared.

"Our future Queen, Ivory has also said to be disrespected and be degraded by using vulgar words." My head whipped to Ivory who was also acting. Wait! Over acting! She had tears running down her face while Ryan comforted her. Others could not see it but I surely saw the glint of evil she had in her eyes as she looked at us.

"Thank you." The king said as he stood up. "You should be punished for talking to them like this. You cannot disrespect us. We did not try to mess with any one of you but you don't seem to understand since you keep looking for trouble." Many protests erupted from the crowd. "!" He used his commanding voice. "Now how should you be punished."

"We did not do anything. It is your princess and future queen who started to disrespect us first." Adrian said while looking straight into the king's eyes. "You should teach them some manners first before trying to teach us." He said in a mocking tone.

For once, I actually enjoyed it. if we were going to be punished, might as well do some things that were actually worth being punished rather than being punished for nothing. Also, it was very rare to see people challenging the royal family. Just when I was about to say something, a blur passed in front of Adrian and he fell to the ground.

Ryan had just used his speed and punched Adrian. "Are you mad!" I exclaimed and several other people supported me. I saw red while Adrian was on the floor gasping for air with a little bit of blood dripping from the side of his mouth.

"Prince Ryan, I think we should handle this in a more mature way" King Tarsal said.

"That's right. Listen to him. At he has a brain and uses it unlike you!" I shouted at him as I felt my anger rising with each second. They drugged us and now were hitting us in that state. "You are just a coward. You drug us and hit us when we are weak. If this is how the future King of werewolves will be, then they are doomed." I chuckled darkly.

"How dare you!" He exclaimed and I saw his eyes change color. He took menacing steps towards me with a growl leaving his throat but before anything could happen, he was thrown off the stage.