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Chapter 23 - 23.

My heart is tethered to a soul, I've always known in a person I've yet to find.

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Recap :

"What do you all think you are doing?" I trailed my angered stare up her long lanky legs slowly, until I realized she was naked for whatever reason. Her voice riveted an unconcealed anger inside of me and I couldn't decipher why or what it was.

All I know is,  more and more of Alexander's family just keeps popping up with their own agendas and motives.

Okay, if Clarity throws a clock at me with some fable of her dead mother I'm going to lose my shit.

"I'm who you've been waiting for," the notorious Princess Clarity's declaration is filled with mischief, strutting her curvy self right into my land, where my people resided while going silent with this empty look in her eyes but a ghostly smile invaded her lips.

"She's no queen. I am. Now praise me like the infinite god I am."

Unbreakable, unbendable but unbearable.

With a fluttering heart and unraveling nerves, Vera grimaces when the sight of the infuriating blondie stood naked for all to ravish in the sight of her nudity with imperial irises flooding in with concentration.

Simultaneously did Vera's beasty position become rigid until her poised stance started to repulsively tremble, as did her chest begin to rumble from this squelching animosity that stirred within her eerie being, her animation began to morph until human legs replaced her much coated furrier ones.

A feral human kneeling down, fully bare, in her rooted place with her fists clattering like silver spoons at her side, glowering at the placid princess who matched her starkness only except with ivory skin which blushed golden at the waist line. Vera's cheeks stained freckled as heated pressure consumes her senses and her guise. How sudden did a beautiful moment of a welcoming peace turn overwhelming so aimlessly.

"Madam," So smooth yet constricted did a voice thieve the tension in the air emitting from the second in command, Beta Hector. "You shouldn't be here." He spat while fighting the urges to rack his fingers throughout his sandy tresses.

With her sight switching between the two, Vera couldn't stop from shaking. Easily was her body, mind unhinged. It was this deep indescribable feeling crawling in the gorging part of her abdomen. It couldn't decide if it wanted to jump this woman's bones or scurry away in the woods until she seeped completely into darkness.

"At least not now."

Absentmindedly despite Hector, Clarity wouldn't stray her gaze from Vera as they engaged in a merciless stare down and yet, she seemingly smirks upon indicating the cutthroat rosary in her opponent's optics.

A yawning red shimmering as it awoken inside the child's orbs. So condemning and irrational, reminding her of a certain brother who've made men plagued with those eyes.

So captivating and sensible it squealed at her as Clarity stepped more dangerously closer at the physique of the rather smaller female, not daring to blink. Clarity's smirk grew wider until she started to scoff more to herself soon snapping her judgement away out of inspection.

"Im suppose to be here, you dog," Clarity doubled over her lips as she narrowed her eyebrows toward the beta. "I can't say the same for this child." She spoke matter-of factly.

It was Vera's turn to clear her throat while crossing her arms across her chest. "I am suppose to be here." She stated with the same tone of distaste.

Pictures surged within her mind all the swift ways she could die. How she could kill the blonde girl who wanted her title. Vera liked Clarity before, so why now did this despise unfold, arousing conflict?

Vera wasn't human anymore and not only could Clarity smell it but it detested her future and interrupted her perfect world. Aside from that, Vera's insides agonized when this superior female disrupted her wolf side accepting a balance. A balance which was off putting and threatening in more ways than one, Clarity felt it as well but never once before did another apart from the royal family, or lycan ranked come close to hers that was also near equivalence and... maiden.

They were imposing a stand off, that was meatiful pronouncing a showcase of torn skin and malevolent talons. It didn't sit right with Vera and it damn sure didn't resolve well with her wolf.

"You think you're more stronger than me." Clarity's heat crackled as she fought a leap at the girl she so desperately wanted to claw to death. Not only could she smell Vera's ideology at the fact she could take her, break her down, strip her from power, a hint of jealousy swiped down her spine.

A thought invaded her mind as a growl began to diffuse from Vera's chest as she ticked like a timeless time bomb. "You're still that same sick looking girl I guided on that tour. You locked gazes with me. Only god would have known what you were." Vera started to mock the princess, beginning to circle Clarity she did to her.

Only more fury coated her bones and she could only assume now her wolf was more in control than she ever were before. She could sense all the eyes gauging her appearance and this seemed to have boosted her confidence to continue, not backing down. "I'm more than what you'll ever be."

Clarity inhales sharply through her nostrils at those words which felt stiffening to even disgust the thought of. Her head falls back as everyone took sight of her veiny throat. She taunting the mere girl to steal her source of being. To latch, steal her existence of life. Soon as she brings her head up, were her orbs, a raving faun shaped blue.

Teasing canines sprouted from her gums until they teased, shining gloriously at Vera, they made promises of a hasty deathless death. "What are you?" Clarity truly inquired with an expression of questioning. "I am a mortal goddess, sacred to a kingdom, a family of greed, wishes, and tenets of faith. You are nothing compared to me." Clarity chastises even convincing everyone around them.

Crowds of pack members had dissipated amongst crowds as they fell, bowing at their true leader and it Vera's blood boil.

Collecting all of her strength and anger as fury reigned inside her legs. Waves of electrical resent shattered the pools of everyone, registering the true nature of indifference.

"You are a mortal goddess that can be wounded and killed," Vera made powerful strides until her face was millimeters from the alleged goddess in front of her, "I am the unbecoming of an unearthly cycle. I will shatter you until only your bones rely into every path you've ever walked."

Vera's esophagus burned as a convicting voice left her that she couldn't recognize as her own. Distraught, emptiness yet an overbearing since of violence ruptured her bode that also was unfamiliar as well.

Before she could pick up on her foe's sudden movement, Vera was instantly pounced on by Clarity and she blinked seeing clear images of someone ripping open new inflictions on random places of her bruising form until she reopened her eyes to find Clarity on top of her in wolf form.

Vera snarled feeling pinned, with leaves and grass scraping her backside from below. She elongated her own claws until soon a loud petrifying roar invaded everyone's ears.

Crunching sounds of wood and forestry was heard as emerging steps, Vera could hear, and it was so frightening that it made even Clarity congeal until she shifted back into human. Her wavy blonde hair falling over in Vera's face, absolutely blinding her from seeing whoever appeared.

Without another thought, Clarity had been thrown from her resting position. She went from sitting on Vera's stomach to a random place in a bush, whimpering in the process.

Vera had been lifted by her shoulder blade until her legs had been wrapped around someone's hips, with another growl rippling from their chest. She could feel their muscles until her years focuses on bronze skin, trailing her eyes up to be easily captivated by crimson ones.

His gaze is transfixed on hers and without glancing another fleeting second, he barks at her bareness. The single thought on his mind being angered at her display of being without modesty. In a swift motion, his shirt was being pulled over her head as he squeezed her tighter, the registration that her her fatigue pelvis was literally digging into his side made Vera want to purr and melt within his embrace.

He didn't even bother to mutter a word to her as his sight became studious to someone else, Clarity, his sister, began lurching for the child in his hands until her advances was easily reprimanded by his knuckles shoving her chest.

"Alexander," she barked out in acknowledgement. "We have business here. Now." Clarity scowled.

Alexander denies her of this, as he readjusted his mate in his arms a little bit more. Vera didn't even stop herself from nuzzling into him and it wasn't even her own mindful action. Her wolf appreciated the comfort he provided. His protective nature revealing itself, which he rarely let surface.

"You came here to do business, to negotiate." The lycan in him was fuming as his penetrating gaze made Clarity internally fret but nevertheless she remained hard.

Still wanting to tear the girl apart she still listened to the alpha of these lands, endlessly wondering why he subjected himself to something smaller than he was. When he sought to be king.

"You came here to initiate those things, not to cat fight with my goddamned mate." He sentenced everyone to waves of submission with carelessness as everyone felt the energy leak from his pores, domineeringly.

Clarity nodded while pursing her lips in order to remain fearless, the loathe never left her body. "Yes, that is correct brother." She agreed.

"But the new question is why the hell is that," spitting her words like a poison, "Abomination here and what do you plan to do with her."

Vera glared even harder at Clarity's sad attempt at playing nice, or ass kissing while still managing to insult her in the process. She found Alexander's regard toward her as they exchanged a soft gaping of each other which he returned back to his sister.

"Even that remains cluelessly to myself but you are never to touch, skim, glance, nor any form of contact with what is mine. Do you understand that or should I make myself clear?" The warning behind perpetual demand is outliving, pounding in the abyss of Vera's core and she noted that at least he was being bloody honest.

But the warmth had spread to the south points in her legs as she wrapped them tighter around Alexander while something else pooled between the mated pair. Sending a warning growl, Alexander could feel the heat himself that wavered his senses and alerted his nose.

Scoffing again, "I understand Alpha." Clarity remarks.

Alexander rakes his fingers throughout his mate's hair as she closed her eyes wordlessly at the mere showcase of affection and he did yet to give his attention to her.

Snapping his head around, Alexander throws up a dismissive hand toward his Beta whom made his way by his alpha's side. "I want all of you to return to your homes, crawl into your bed and forget this night ever happened." He instructs.

Alexander tucks Vera deeper into his body, with his hand indulging in the soft action of massaging her scalp.

"Any one who dares to open their mouth about what happened tonight shall be executed." His voice is promising and doesn't waver in malice. A smirk beseeched his lips as he turned, making his way down the blood red path to his personable home, the manor, his castle.

Mavis stepping away from the retreating classes of pack members taking her mate in the process, Hector's palm falls into her hand kissing it as she to like Alexander, brush Vera's hair with a stoic expression across her face.

"You four will follow me." Alexander bids.

Hector, Mavis and even Clarity followed the full blooded prince in a single filed line, ascending up stairs and all of them had the same thought coursing threw their brains.

A strange pair they were. Vera and Alexander.

In a battle they were both equally as lethal sporting beady red eyes but around each other,

They melted.

"You want to talk about the Malediction. Fine, make do, and let us talk."

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