Few Royal Advisors were walking towards The Great Hall. With them were also The Royal Beta and one of the Commanders of The Kings army.

The King had returned and he's heard what happened to the execution. Instead of Maeve losing her head, she is now in one of the bedchambers in the castle. You could say that literally, nothing went as it was planned.

The plan was easy anyway: First, drag the human to the market square. Second, listen to the speech. Third, watch her head as it falls to a basket. Fourth, The King is happy and won't kill Cato. There was no room for an old hag who ruined everything. Not only save the humans life but reveal that she is The Kings mate.

One of The Advisors knocked on the door. But only silence answered them. He knocked again, but nothing happened.

A few seconds later a powerful voice that everyone scared echoed to their ears.

"Come in."

And they did. The Advisors walked first towards The King, Cato was the last one to walk in. He knew that this 'meeting' is not going to end well. Someone is going to lose his life, hopefully, it is not him.

"My King." They bowed and went to kiss one of his expensive rings.

"We are here to inform you that The Council wants you to choose new Royal Gamma." Dominic's face didn't falter. He knew that he need to choose a new Gamma to replace the now deceased former Gamma.

"Anything else?"

The Advisors stayed quiet. Ethen smirked, those püssies were too scared to ask the thing everyone in the whole Kingdom is thinking about. Is the human girl really his soulmate?

"Uh... W-well all of u-us are wondering.... uh... if the human is your..... mate?"

"Leave."

"B-but M-my King... we a-all."

"Leave!" Dominic raised his voice. He knew that those persons who he called his 'advisors' are truly as stupid as rocks. But after he raised his voice every one of them ruined away from The Great Hall like chickens.

"Not you Cato."

The King didn't even have to say that, Cato already knew that his friend has something else to tell him.

After Ethen had closed the door, both of them stayed in pure silence. Their faces held a look that would have scared anyone else to run to the hills. After about a thirty minutes The King opened his mouth to break the silence.

"Where is she?"

"In one of the chambers."

"Why? She had a great cell in the dungeon."

"Because that old hag told everyone that she will be their Queen. What kind of Queen sleeps in a cell?"

"A human and she will never be their Queen."

"That human is your mate and She destined her to rule beside you."

"Humans are only destined to be slaves. And that is what she will be now."

"You know that as well as everyone that slaves don't live long in this castle, and those slaves were werewolves. You can't do that."

Dominic raised his right eyebrow. "What should I do then?"

"Don't kill her, don't slave her, let her live in this castle in some lonely tower for the rest of her pretty life. If she dies, your wolf will go crazy. If you put her in a slave position she will most definitely die."

"I can't do that."

"Then let her go. If you do that she will disappear forever from your sight."

"They will go after her."

"Yeah... well that will be a problem anyway. A few hours later that old hag told everyone that she is your mate there has been a few trespassing situations in the border. Of course, they are dead now. But I don't think it's a coincidence."

"If I let her go and they catch her, they will try to get to me through her."

"But that is impossible."

"They want to bring my wolf to his knees, and the only way to do it is by taking his mate."

Cato looked the expression on The Kings face. It was pure hatred. Dominic will never ever let anybody to blackmail him or take his Kingdom away from him. Actually only as stupid as a brick would even try to do it. The King's reputation is something he has achieved by actions. His reputation is no rumor, it's the reality.

"Take me to her chambers."

"Yes, My King."

Maeve's heart cried in pain. She is homesick, she is missing every flower and smell she used to know in her home. And now they weren't letting her out of the chamber. She also missed her little mouse friend, Tommy. They didn't even let her go to get him from the cell.

It may seem weird but Maeve is also missing that rotten cell.

She observed the room she was in. A large bed with silky wine red sheets and curtains that matched the sheets. Sure, Maeve has never ever seen something so fancy and beautiful inside four walls. But it didn't take her breath away, like the flowers in a meadow close to her home. Maeve could still hear the voice of water running in the river next to the meadow.

There is nothing that she wouldn't do to get there, with her family.

That is when something bright made her blind. Maeve moved away from the carpet and stared at the blinding light. It was so bright that Maeve couldn't remember the last time she saw something like that. But she couldn't understand where the light was coming from, there were no windows. Or at least windows she could reach and see.

Maeve moved one of the large curtains sides and noticed a window. It wasn't a large one but she could fit through it if she wanted.

"What are you doing?!" An angry male voice asked. Maeve turned around and saw an angry soldier. Clearly, she had done something she shouldn't have.

"N-nothing." She shuttered.

The guard gave her a look and then walked away from the room she was in. After looking the room trough, Maeve went back to the window. It held a beautiful landscape, it almost felt like she was home. At home, Maeve would always look through a window where she saw a beautiful forest. The landscape she was staring at right now is very similar.

The girl heard that the door opened and someone walked in. Of course, she thought that it was the same guard as before.

"I'm n-not doing a-anything wrong." She whispered. Is he going to punish her because she is breathing or expending the floor?

"Why would I believe so?" Maeve winced and turned around to stare right into a pair of grey eyes.

"Y-you."

The Kings aura hadn't changed. He looked just as big and scary as Maeve remembered. And now he is standing right next to the closed door. But as Maeve expected he didn't say anything, just stared at her. She felt how his eyes wandered on her body.

Maeve's cheeks started to change color from white to red.

But The Kings face held only disgust. Maeve knew that she wasn't the curviest woman or most beautiful, but the look on The Kings face hurt her more than she would have admitted. Her Mother was perfect in any way you could measure. Beautiful and shiny hair, curves just at the right places, stunning eyes, perfect height, and her personality was something Maeve has always dreamed of. Her Mother always told to Maeve that she inherited her Fathers eyes, but Maeve has never met him so she could see his eyes.

As The King finally started to walk away from the room, Maeve decided to do the stupidest thing she has ever done in her life. "Y-you weren't t-there." She whispered very quietly, but she knew that he could hear her.

"That's true." He answered but didn't turn to face her.

"W-why?"

"It's not your business human."

"Ac-actually I think it is. Y-you have t-tried to k-kill me many times, but w-why haven't y-you ripped m-my heart out? W-why makes it public...." Maeve started but never got the chance to finish it.

"As I said, it is not your business." The King raised his voice and opened the door when a small hand touched his arm.

Dominic used his strength and ripped the human's hand off of him and tossed her to the other side of the room, so she crashed with a dresser. He could see the fear in her face as tears rolled on her cheeks. Her nose started to bleed.

"Y-you are an m-monster." She whispered.

"You should believe in the rumors." After that, he walked away from the room and left the door open. Maeve saw as the same guard who came inside her room earlier watched in shock as The King left the room and left a bloody human girl inside of it.

Maeve just sat in the drawer. She was too tired stand-up or wash her face. She just never should have said anything to him, he will only punish her from everything she does. Time went by, maybe just minutes that felt like hours or hours that felt like minutes.

Finally, when the tears stopped she raised to her feet and walked away from her room. Now the guard has left and there was no one else in the hallway. Maeve felt like her legs had their own will and started to take her towards the darkest hallway. She couldn't see any source of light as she walked even further from the room with a broken dresser.

Maybe she will find the dungeon and take Tommy with her, they could escape together and forget that man. Maeve could find a human man and marry him and get children, Tommy could find a beautiful female mouse and start a family with her. Maeve could take her children to the meadow she dreams of. And last but not least die in the hands of her loved ones.

The route she picked took her into some kind of tower.

The room held inside of it dusty portraits and stuff that would have made every other rich person jealous. And in here they were covered with multiple layers of dust.

Maeve started to watch closely at those portraits. Every color and brushstroke was perfect and the persons in the portraits were all god-like. They looked like they don't belong in this world. There were names in every frames and Maeve thought that the names belong to those who are in the painting.

One of the portraits really got stuck in her eyes. It held a family of four, a man and woman and two beautiful children; a boy and a girl. But in that frame, she couldn't find a sign.

"Strange." She mumbled to herself.

Maeve continued to stare at the paintings and noticed a familiar face.

"C-Caspian?" It had to be him, every feature matched and even the smirk on his face looked like a copy. Maeve crouched to look closer to the sign and it says 'Caspian Mordrik.' Those words trigger a memory in her head.

"NOOO P-PLEASE DON'T!!" Maeve ran and tried to reach the podium where The Royal Gamma is being executed. Tears flowed in her cheeks and hair as she ran faster than ever before.

People just stared at her like she was a maniac who tried to get through the mayhem. They slowed her down so she couldn't reach for him in time.

She remembered the look in his eyes as he noticed her; full of disgust. And his last words didn't help. "Stupid human."

Maeve felt like her knees gave out and she crashed to the ground filled with dust.

"Stupid human."

Sobs left her mouth. Caspian was right, she is a stupid human. After all who in their right mind tries to touch The King or stop the execution.

"Stupid human."

Why couldn't she just die in that forest fire with her family, or in the attack at her village? The soldiers brought her in this castle just to be humiliated or killed in front of everyone. No one should ever go through that. She should just find Tommy and leave this place forever. Then she wouldn't be a burden to anyone. After all, she found a window where she could fit trough.

***

Maeve started to walk away from the tower that held those portraits. Her next destination is the cell that held her best friend. But there is a slight problem in her way, she had no idea where she is and where the dungeon is located in this enormous castle.

While walking in the dark hallways she could sometimes hear few people talking to each other. And like in every time Maeve hid behind the next corner.

"Who do you think it will be?" A female voice asked.

"I have no idea. But whoever he will be I hope he hasn't found his mate yet."

"Elise! You shouldn't be thinking things like that."

"Why not? After all, I haven't found mine either."

"If you keep thinking things like that you should join the whore house." Hearing those last words Maeve gasped. She had never heard females using such a bad language.

"Did you hear that?" The first female voice asked.

"No? What happened?!"

"I think I heard someone."

"Is guards coming to us?"

"No, or at least I don't see anyone coming. And it sounded like a female." Maeve felt like her heart was beating inside of her throat.

"Let's go, Anna."

After saying that they left and Maeve felt like she could breathe again. She just could have asked where is the dungeon, but they could smell that she is a human.

Maeve continued her journey to the dungeon when she walked into a hard chest.

"Well well well where are you heading human?"