*Axel's POV*
As the women and I began to leave after the interruption, I could feel the stare of someone that was filled with killing intent. I brushed it off though, anyone who had killing intent but wasn't attacking did not mean much in my eyes.
I gripped Silvara's hand firmly and with my other I let my mana pool into it for the just in case measure. It was a good thing I did to because I soon felt the expected attack coming towards me.
Turning in the direction I felt the attack coming from I realized that it was headed for Silvara and not myself.
Without wasting a moment I pulled Silvara behind me and threw my mana infused punch right at the ethereal arrow that was headed towards us.
*BOOOM*
As the two attacks collided I slid back a couple feet careful to direct the blast away from the women I was walking with. I darted my eyes to where the attack had come from just to see what looked like a personal guard of someone lowering his bow with a smirk on his face. Just as I was going to take off and attack the man Silvara grabbed my arm.
"Axel, I know that guard. He is one of the princes men." Silvara spoke almost guiltily with her gaze slightly lowered when I turned towards her. Without saying anything I just took her hand again and started moving towards the exit again.
When we arrived outside of the Coliseum I notice Jeeves standing at the rear door of our car waiting for us. The twins rushed ahead of us to give their father a run down about what had happened. As Jeeves listened I could tell that he was getting angry just by the subtle tremors running through his body.
As I neared he calmly opened the door for us.
"Jeeves, Amani will be following behind us as she is much to big to fit in the car." I addressed the butler with a calm voice trying my best not to let my battle intent get too high after deflecting the arrow.
I looked towards Amani who was being obedient and calm just watching me like there is no other person in the world.
"Amani, you are going to follow us closely don't let this car out of your sight. Soon we will be back home and I can introduce you to the rest of the family."
With a slight dip of her massive head I knew that she understood. I climbed into the car and sat in the middle seat knowing that at least one lady was going to try and get close to me in the car. To my surprise this time just Leah and Mia squished against me. Silvara sat beside Lauren with a slight frown on her face.
Noticing her like that I had to ask.
"Sil, are you alright? You haven't said much since we left the Coliseum."
She looked at me for a moment before sighing.
"I should have known that is would never be this easy." She took another deep breath before continuing. "Axel, Like I said that man was one of the princes men. He was likely put here by the prince to keep an eye on my actions."
I raised a brow slightly intrigued about the situation and also somewhat possessively angry about it. Who did this prince think he was to to this to my woman?
"Who is this prince Silvara?" I asked with an edge to my voice even though I was trying to keep my anger under control. "And if you don't get over here and smother me in your love I am going to think you like this so called prince even more then me." I said the last bit jokingly so I could try and ease the tension in the car.
With a half smile on her face she flew across the back seat of the car and landed on my lap with my arms wrapping around her frame and holding her close.
After a moment she finally spoke again.
"To be honest, there was a time I thought I was in love with the prince of this Kingdom. His name is Blake Libertine the second in line to the throne behind the Crown Princess his older sister."
My grip started to tighten slightly hearing that she had another man she loved. Not even hearing the words 'I thought' in her sentence. I kept my cool though trying to let her explain it all herself without my interjections.
Maybe she felt my grip tighten a bit too much but she slowly sat up and turned to look me in the eyes. I felt a pang in my chest as she gently took my hands off of her and slowly went back to the other seat by Lauren.
By now the other girls were paying close attention to us with Leah and Mia leaning closer into my sides as if to support me silently.
"Blake has always been kind and protective of me. He never forgets my birthday and always write letters to me. Almost every morning I can always expect a good morning wishes and goodnight words whispered to me."
As Silvara spoke I felt my heart sink. I had just fallen in love with this woman but everything she is saying and doing right now is telling me that she is in love with someone else. Not able to contain myself any longer I spoke cutting her off.
"Silvara, enough I don't need to hear anymore." I snapped slightly but still kept my emotions under control.
Silvara heard my words and slowly trailed off. She looked at me for am moment something flashing through her eyes but I was more focused on not letting the gut wrenching feeling in me overwhelm me. I knew that I was being unreasonable to an extent but come on man the way she was talking about this other guy was breaking me. I had just resolved to let these women into my heart and the one that I thought was definitely my mate just thrust a dagger into my heart so to speak.
The car ride seemed to go by a lot slower with the awkward silence in the car. As soon as we arrived at the estate I called for Lozen and Amani to follow me and I left without saying anything to anyone. I didn't even look back as I started moving out of the gates of my home.
I kept walking till we reached the City Gate. Lozen and Amani seemed to be having a silent conversation but I did not concern myself with that. I just walked out of the city with them following behind me. I needed to kill something.
***
*Byron's POV*
I had a headache as I walked into my study. I had just talked to my wife and learned that she had once again overstepped her bounds with our daughters. She had given Tiana a love potion that made our daughter obsessed with anything to do with the Garret boy so that bit was explained.
What really gave me a headache though was when she told me that Blake Libertine the hedonistic piece of shit had come to her recently asking for Silvara's hand in marriage, and she gave it to him without even notifying me.
In this country you need to have the father's approval to hold an arranged marriage. Not the mothers. Quickly I sent word to the king expressing my stance that in no way shape or form would Silvara be marrying his son. The king agreed and started an investigation into the matter only to contact me saying 'The marriage contract has your name and signature on it, it is valid 100% of the way.' To which I unleashed a tirade on the king expressing my displeasure at his stupid games.
Luckily he isn't as dumb as I thought and quickly destroyed the contract before I destroyed his kingdom because of their stupid ambitions and thoughts on my daughter.
The only hope I had now was that Silvara didn't do something dumb to push Axel away from her. Whenever she started talking about the prince she seemed to only remember the good things about him and never the bad things he has tried to do to her throughout the years. No doubt her mother had a hand in that as well.
*Sigh*
"I really hope no one gets any stupid ideas." I lamented to myself not knowing that Silvara had already damaged her relationship quite heavily.
***
*Leah's POV*
When we were in the car, I saw Silvara acting strangely. Not like the woman who had fallen head over heels in love with Axel. No, now with the way she was talking and acting it was like she was in love with this so called prince.
What the hell is going on?
She started spewing things about this guy genuinely sounding happy for his affections. I could feel Axel trying to keep himself contained. He was practically vibrating with repressed emotions. I could only imagine what he was feeling.
Axel didn't even look at Silvara for the rest of the car ride. At least for her part she looked like she felt guilty. She kept her head down and didn't look at any of us. When we got back to the estate Axel jumped out of the car quickly. Before we could ask him what he was doing he was already gone with Lozen and Amani in tow.
I whipped my head around and glared at Silvara.
"You really are a stupid woman aren't you? Do you realize the way you were just talking about another man in front of the person you claimed to 'love oh so much'? Do you understand that you are the reason he wont even look at the rest of us now? How could you be so callous after knowing how long it took for him to open himself up to you? Ugh, I just can't even with you!" I grabbed Mia's hand and pulled the woman along with me. We still needed to get the rest of our stuff from our old house anyways.
We walked away without looking back at Silvara. I feared if I had to look at her again I was going to smack her.
***
*Silvara's POV*
When I saw the man that shot an arrow at us in the arena, I felt a mixture of feelings.
I felt disgust and hatred first and then as I thought of the man's master I felt my heart get sweet. That was when I felt Axel's grip on my hand. Slowly without his noticing I let go of his hand. Looking at him in just tattered trousers something in me started to criticize him.
Sure he is handsome and strong but he is nothing compared to Blake.
"Get over here or I am going to think you like the prince more then me."
I felt happiness when I heard Axel's words and I jumped into his lap to enjoy his embrace. As soon as I touched him though I couldn't figure out why I wanted to feel his embrace. He then asked me about Blake, of course I could only tell him the truth about how Blake is so sweet to me. During this time I got up from this mans lap. I wanted to be with Blake not this man.
"Silvara, enough I don't need to hear anymore." The rude man cut me off as I was talking about Blake. 'Ugh this stupid commoner!' I thought to myself. I kept my head down to hide my rage towards him.
When we arrived at his "Estate" he quickly jumped out and left with his beasts.
As I watched him go something in me wanted to call out and stop him. To apologize for what I had been saying about another man in front of him.
I felt the tears start building in my eyes as he disappeared around the corner. Then I heard Leah and she sounded very angry.
"You really are a stupid woman aren't you? Do you realize the way you were just talking about another man in front of the person you claimed to 'love oh so much'? Do you understand that you are the reason he wont even look at the rest of us now? How could you be so callous after knowing how long it took for him to open himself up to you? Ugh, I just can't even with you!"
She grabbed Mia's and stormed off.
Jeeves, Laurel, and Lauren, all looked at me with slight indignation in their eyes. After a split second Jeeves gestured for his daughters and they all walked away without looking at me again. I knew at this point I had somehow really messed up.
I called for Greta and the rest of my Dire Wolves. They all came out excited and cheerful looking around as if searching for someone. Seemingly not finding what they were looking for I watched as they visibly deflated. Cautiously Greta stepped forward and asked the question that they were all wondering.
"Master, where is Lord Axel and Lady Lozen?"
I froze at her question. Instead of answering her I just walked straight out of the estate calling them to follow. I knew something was wrong with me because my feelings were way to conflicting. I had to get help and who else is better then my father.