"Witches entered my palace, what in the sun's name allowed you all to be so idiotic." The king yelled, his voice booming like thunder in the winds.

All the guards in the palace where in front of him. all on the floor with their heads down too frightened to move an inch, in fear of evoking even more irritation for the king.

"We are impotent and we deserve death your majesty." The layout of more than 200 guards said in sync, the line was used too often in the palace by the guards.

"If that's what you all wish then so be-"

The guards jolt up to look at the majesty, usually they'd assume he was joking but his emotionless tone proved them otherwise.

"Your majesty, the queen informed us that they'd be coming. We as humble servants only followed the queen's order-" one guard shouted out in fear of his life.

The rest gasped and looked at him with pleading eyes, begging him to shut himself up.

The king stands up, his shoulders high and his face twisted in a glare.

"Surely you aren't using the queen as an excuse for your impuissant attempt at any and all aspects of your job."

"I apologize if my words sounded disrespectful your majesty but I know you to be the kind of man who listens to reason."

"Reason... reason you want me to listen to your reason when I can't even step foot in my own palace in fear of there being a hex placed upon it."

The guard couldn't respond anymore, even the courageous guard wouldn't be stupid enough to continue to speak when the king was practically boiling up with anger.

The king walk passed the bowing guards on the floor without relieving them from their position insulating that that was their punishment.

The minute the king, clast and Michael's footsteps couldn't be heard the guards rejoiced, this punishment was far better than the hanging they expected.

"Oh how merciful" one guard said to another.

"Our king is a good king who reasons." The other whispers back.

"We must never let something like this happen again." The first guard says and the other nods.

Rare green energy traveled up the king's tan wrist. He noticed and then swiftly shoved his hands in his robe pockets.

"Where's Akia?" The king asked and clast was of course expected to response because obviously the question wasn't for Michael.

"She's outside Of the palace.. in a farmer's shack north of here."

"And the queen?"

"She should have reached her family home in Calasberia."

"I see, I'll visit Akia first before I start my trip to the queen."

"Yes your majesty." Clast said.

The king spotted Akia sitting down on hay and staring blankly at the chickens feeding in front of her.

He walked over to her and she seems to stiffen.

" I'm sorry about what happened?, to have let your safety be compromised like that."

"It's okay." Akia said not making eye contact with the king.

He sat on his knees in front of her and tried to get her attention.

"is anything the matter?, have you been feeling strange?. The witch doctor said there wasn't any spell out on you but with witches you can never be sure."

"I'm okay, nothing weird has happened so far." Akia said still avoiding eye contact with the king.

"my king's okay?" The king said softly, Akia turns towards him to see his soft eyes before she hurriedly turned away.

"The doula said he's doing just fine." Akia said her tone snappy and impatient.

"Aside from my impotence last night, did I do something to upset you?."The king asked and akia shook her head but remains silent.

"I wanna talk about getting married." Akia said and the king looks at her with a big smile that burns through her heart.

"I can start the preparations now." The king said and akia shivers.

"I don't want to marry you now... I want to marry you when our baby comes out." Akia recited the lines her mother had given her before leaving.

"Why's that?" The king asked, smile now gone from his face.

"I just think it'll make it more special, we'd be married and the sun would be there to bless it." Akia said with a smile that didn't match her eyes.

"I suppose it's a reasonable request." The king said.

He puts his ringed hands on her thigh, the coldness of the gold shocked Akia a little causing shivers to run down her back.

"you know you can talk to me about anything right?" The king said the green light flowing through his hands again.

"I know." Akia replied with a small smile.

The king stands and prepares for his departure.

"When all evidence of the witches have been wiped from the palace I want one of our strongest night guards to be akia's personal guard."

"But what about her maidens?"

"What about them?, what have they done right ever since Akia got here." The king said furrowing his brows.

The queen felt the walls of her prison cell. The creeks of the wooden floor a and the smell of dust and vanilla.

Her bed looked old and broken down.

The dust was suffocating.

She turns around to see Mina right behind her.

"Did the king decide what to do with my mother?"

"No your highness, he wanted you to make the decision." The maid said with her head facing the floor.

"I want her hanged publicly." The queen said and the maid nodded.

"Did she just say hanged?, she wants to hang her own mother" One maid asked Mina, Mina with a straight back and blank eyes, replied.

"A mother who tries to kill her child should be killed just for the pure cruelty of such a woman"

"April KEEP UP YOU'RE FALLING BEHIND!" General Kenya said as his head continues to ran at full speed through the passage way.

April had tears in her eyes blurrying her vision. She had followed the trail of blood, bones and skin to find a wolf chowing down viciously on the flesh.

How Donovan had been taken and eaten in the night by wolves as explained by her father was beyond her.

How could it be possible that a wolf would take just one victim, and take them without making so much as one sound.

April was in mourning, she somehow had gotten attached to the emotional man. The sounds of her Father horse's hooves hitting the forest floor repeatedly put her in a trance as tears built up in her eyes. She had searched for the man in the dark wood until she stumbled across a trail of human skin with a wolf not too far from it chewing on it.

He'd woken her up in the morning and hurried them off the property. April had cried herself to sleep in silence, afraid of waking her father.

When the man woke up and she'd told him of last night's events the man had go out on his own to see for himself.

He raised up the pile of skin with a stick he picked up from the ground.

Skin was lifted to see a ball of dark brown hair and teeth.

General Kenya dropped his stick. The man his daughter had brought along with him had completely caught him off guard. His mind begins to analyze the scene and search for the answer.

He returned to April in a rush, he'd poured water on himself at a near by lake. he had started screaming and running to where his crying daughter was sat near their horses.

"A bear was eating his remains, he the bear saw me and I think craved fresher meat." The father yelled as he got into his horse and started riding away.

April swiftly got on her horse, she turned around to look at the blank spot that Donovan had slept.

"YAH-" She said and her horse starts speeding after the older man.

Donovan wakes up staring at a bright blue sky. He rolls over to feel soft fur on his face, he sneezes. His nose twitched acknowledging the fact that his scent was all over the area.

He turned to look around. He found out that he was in a small barn, empty of its animals. He was laying in hay and fur, his own shredded fur.

He stands up with his bones cracking as he does. He starts to smell something else. Something rotten and moldy.

He looks around him and sees a naked woman laying onto of the hay. Her mouth was slightly open with lips a pale pink, her eyes wide and a pale blue. Her hair was curled in neat curls of blonde. Her breast had bite marks on them.

Donovan shuddered.

His eyes trailed from her bitten breast till the bite mark on her wrist to the clawing of her stomach.

He felt air get stuck in his lungs as she shoots up and starts to cough.

Her once dead pale blue eyes were a bright yellow. Her chapped pale pink thin bottom lip were covered by extended canines.

Donovan choked, falling backwards on himself as she started breathing heavily. Her claws extended and hair covered her whole body.

"H-hungry."

Akia woke up to her meal already prepared and in front of her being kept warm by a small flame in the room.

She walks to the large closet across from her bed. In her elegant white dress pocket she had kept the liquid her mother had given her.

She gets the potion out of her dress and as she gets out of the closet she's met by Juliet.

Akia jumps and drops the potion behind her.

She hears the bottle hit the floor with a cracking noise.

Juliet noticed it But kept to herself.

"Word has come from the wall that the General is heading to the palace. The king would like to eat with you in preparations for his arrival."

Akia's eyes widen and a large smile presented on her face at the idea of her father. She stomps her feet and twirls around once the royal maid leaves.

She won't have to kill the baby, father will save her from this palace.

She just knows he will!

(guys I'm sorry this update took so long. I wrote it and somehow it got deleted and it was a lot too so I was too frustrated and lazy to try again.

This book has reached 70k reads and it's such a big deal to me because I am writing this book the way I want to.

I know you're wondering if I don't write my other books the way I want to as well but the thing with my other books I pressure myself to write hyper sexual content because I know it's the content I personally only read.

My other books, they're hyper sexual and they don't really evolve any other emotions than arousal and fear- believe me those are by far my favorite emotions in sense of entertainment- .

but I never really write love stories and things that are adult and have real emotions. I don't know I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.)

I still love smut and my other books.