Authors note: enemies to lovers story
Please let me know if you would like to read more I hope you like it
Inspiration: thorn of glass series and some other books..
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Chapter one
Amara Duffield, Queen of Valeria, finds herself walking into her number one enemy's layer as a guest. Amara is a Fae and the Queen of Valeria at 18-due to her parents death. She is a beautiful young woman with brown long curly hair and beautiful green eyes. She has sharp features thanks to her fae heritage. She is being escorted to the throne room in the castle of the king Alexander Griffin and his son-her number one enemy- James Griffin.
Her and James have an interesting background. They don't get along very well because whenever they are together it's either to complete or show off their skills. They have both trained like assassins to scale walls and fight off anyone with a simple wooden stick or anything they can find around them. They are both very resourceful and very talented. They are the two most talented and they compete to see who is better than the other. They are both stubborn and refuse to get along.
It doesn't help that his father, the king of Aleria, killed her parents when she was only 6. Of course the duffus didn't notice that Amara wasn't there that day but spending time with her grandmother. When she came back she found her parents lying on the floor of their room with a slice on their necks from ear to ear.
When she arrived at the throne room door they announced her and she walked inside. She kept her face neutral as she bowed and looked at the king and his son standing nearby and said " Your majesties." She stood up straight after the king gave her a slight nod.
The king-also being fae- looks about 30 but everyone knows he's well over 300. His son, Prince James has a wicked smile as he nods respectfully at me. I see through that and see the challenge in his eyes. But i'm not here to play around.
James has dark black silky hair and blueish greenish eyes. He's tall but not much taller than Amara. He has broad shoulders and muscled structure.
"Queen Amara, glad to see you accepted my invitation" said the king. He invited me here because he had a proposal for me. " Now I'm just going to cut to the point. I invited you here to unite our kingdoms through marriage. You and my son will marry and our kingdoms will unite" His voice was firm leaving no room for disagreement. Even though he invited me to propose this idea I knew I couldn't say no.
I looked at James. He is clearly shocked, which meant the king hadn't told anyone. "father can we talk about this in pri-"
"I don't need to talk to you about anything! I have made my decision. This can greatly affect our kingdoms and with everything going on in Valeria, wouldn't you agree, Amara."
Recently in Valeria, Amaras Kingdom, there have been groups of people dying in their homes. There has been an assassin that has either been hired by someone or really wants to get on the queens kill list. That is why Amara was here. She has seen the way these people were dying and she knows this very specific method of killing the assassins using.
"I'm sorry but i can't accept this offer. As much as i love your son i have matters to resolve here" Amara said
"Of course but why don't you stay here for a couple weeks and maybe you'll change your mind"
"I doubt i can be persuaded"
"Well Queen Amara as you'll soon figure out, i can be quite persuasive"
He glared at me like a predator would to a prey. I keep my head held high and say "fine, i shall stay for a while but i cant promise you anything." he nods in responses and i take my leave.
I went out to the garden while the servants were preparing me a room. While looking at the fountain in the middle of the beautiful garden I hear footsteps. I turn around and see James.
"What do you want James?" i say in a bored and annoyed voice. Our talks aren't exactly enjoyable.
"Hello to you too. I just wanted to ask if you were up for a fighting match, that is if your not scared to lose"
"Please... i think we both know whos going to win, unless you'd like me to show you"
"Okay, princess. Enlighten me."
"First don't call me princess." i say while we walk to the training room.
"and the first rule of fighting is never underestimate your opponent."
"Hey! That goes for you to."
I grab a dagger from the weapon belt on the rack of weapons. I have always preferred a dagger to a sword. He grabs twin blades, long but shorter than swords.
"When you start acting like a threat I'll treat you like one." Even though we hate each other and refuse to talk about anything other than to boast about our skills, we loved fighting together. It's like dancing where we know what the other is going to do before it happens.
Amara starts attacking and James deffends and dodges the attacks. Then he swings and Amara gets out of the way in time. She grabs a sword from the rack and turns in time for her sword to meet his twin swords. They kept this up for a while before she swept him off his feet then stradeled him with a dagger pointing to his throat.
"I told you I always w-" she doesn't finnish before she gasps for air. He twisted her and pinned her under his body with her hands pinned down on the side of her head.
"What was that, princess." he teases then gets off her and holds a hand out to help her get up.
She accepts the hand. " that doesn't count," she was going to explain but was interrupted by some guards.
"Sorry to interrupt" one of the guards says and nods respectfully to both me and his crown prince. "Milady, your room is ready. The king has also ordered some guards to escort you from now on."
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I went to the bathing chambers to clean off after the match with james. I had to prepare for tonight. The king has hosted a dinner to welcome me. He thinks I can't see through his plan. I know that he had told his son to go and murder some of my peaple putting my kingdom in a weak position. Then he invited me here so that I could marry his son.
I'll play along with his games, for now.
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I arrive early to the dinning hall and the only people there are the king, his son, and their captain of the guard. I can tell it's the captain of the guard because he has a special sword unlike the other. It has a lion on the tip of the hilt and an ember in its mouth.
"Amara, welcome. Sit here." he said pointing to the seat next to james.
Even though I wanted to sit as far as possible from them, I accepted it and sat next to james. As people began to come in they sat down at the table. Next to me sat a beautiful girl that seemed around my age. " Hello, i'm princess Keira of Elmantia." she says with a calm but firm voice.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Queen Amara of Valeria." I nod respectfully. She seems nice and different from the rest so i found it nice to speak with her. We ended up speaking most of the time and I found out some things. Apparently her father king of Elmantia sent her here so she could find a husband since the king is throwing a ball for the annual court season. But she isn't like the other princess i have met. She isn't waiting for a prince charming; she just wants to study and help the world.
She is a beautiful chestnut color with her wavy brown hair. Her eyes are a beautiful hazel- wait, no gold color. Her smile can brighten any room. She is strong headed and if someone argued about something she would state her claim and none could change her mind or prove her wrong.
Amara likes Keira very much. She reminds her of herself quite a lot.
The whole dinner she barely even looked at the prince seated on her right and he barely looked at him. They have been like this since they were four. Yes even back then, when her mother and father invited the king, queen and their son for dinner, they ignored each other and acted like they weren't their. It's not like they met a lot maybe three or four times. Once when her parents invited them the other when she was thirteen and he was fourteen. The other time was a competition to see who was the best assassin, she was sixteen and he was seventeen, she won.
After the dinner she headed to bed. She was exhausted with the trip here, the training match with James and the dinner she just wanted to sleep.
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