Chapter 45

Eloise’s p.o.v

Everything started coming back to normal.. I saw Melissa and Eric look at me with panicked gazes.

“What’s happening?” I said as I held my head tightly. I felt as though someone had hit my head with a stick, severally.

Eric was the first to heave a sigh, but he was still wary of me. At least that’s how it looked to me. But why?

“Eloise, you are awake.” Melissa said coming closer to me as if studying me.

“Something isn’t right” she said more to herself, but I heard her anyway. She grabbed my face gently as she could and then looked straight into my eyes.

“you saw a seer” she said rather than asked. I trembled.

Dorothy’s visions were too vivid in my head like I was the one living the life instead of she.

“its her memories she keeps showing it to me for some reason “ she clicked her teeth and looked at me.

Ignore the vision from now on. It’s dangerous to you. She shouldn’t be doing that and she knows this” she sounded angry, like she was going to rip someone’s head off.

“How do I do it? Block out the memories?”

“Build a wall around your mind. That way, only those that you wan to enter your mind would.” I did that as soon as I heard the instruction and then proceeded to stand up from he lying position in which I was.

I felt as though something was pulling me down.

My neck felt heavy and there was an awful pain coming from the left side of my neck.

“What’s …. Happening” I said a little out of breath.

“You need to calm down” Eric said, rushing to my side and helping me to adjust the pillow.

I felt something scratch my senses.

“something… it’s scratching the back of my mind.” I said as the pain at the back of my head became more and more.

“Keep those wall up, she’s trying to get to you!” Melissa said, gripping the both sides of my arms… “youre hurting me” I felt my eyes roll to the back of my head as the visions came forward…

“Listen? You want me to listen?!” more enraged, I took the nearest thing my hand could hold, which happened to be a vase and threw it to him. “You are exaggerating this” he said dodging the vase before it could come in contact and cause any physical damage to him. “You need to calm down and get a grip of yourself before your new bride gets here.” He said panting, already exhausted from having to dodge the things that was thrown his way, little did he know that I had just begun. “Are you listening to yourself? Have you forgotten what we are? What I am? ! There is no doubt that once she comes she is going to run her mouth like a stupid vermin and then all other kingdoms would be against us! You think we would survive it if humans turned against us?” I looked at him as my inner beast tried to fight through to claw out his eyes. “Your highness” he said bowing his head. “If you would see it from my view, just trust me on this. Please” he added when he saw that his pleas were doing nothing.“fine” I said despite my inner battles. “but you should know, if anything happens, it’s on you and you know the punishment.” I said and walked out on him. I needed a breath of fresh air at least to clear my head a little. 4I walked around the garden hoping to calm down a bit but it was a futile attempt. My beast kept raging to get out and go and look for Allen to claw out his eyes. “What was he thinking!” I growled out. My name is Deloris and this was my pack. We’ve been hunted for centuries and decided to create a kingdom to blend in with the rest in order to stop getting killed. It was not easy to gain the trust of surrounding kingdoms, but we made it work. We were known as the strongest kingdom among the seven and it was going great until the fool I call my second in command, Allen decided to go for the pageant and get a 'bride' for me. If words were to go out that we were not exactly human, words would spread like wild fire and I don’t think we would be able to handle it at this point, we just started increasing in number. “Goddess!! That idiot!” I growled out in annoyance. I walked passed the grave of the girl that at one time, held my heart in her palms. “Greetings” I said with that cold voice I suddenly come accustomed to coming out of my lips in the recent years. I stood in front of the grave, reading the words engraved in the stone that I already knew by heart. In loving memory of Solaria Denovale,A loving Daughter, sister, mother, friend and mate. Yes mate. She was my mate, my world. The one who made me want to see a new day just so that I could see her smile. And she was gone.I could still remember the day like it was yesterday. “dearest, I would be going for a walk around the woods. I would like to pick up some fruits for the winter” she said looking at me with deep blue eyes that always found a way to drive me crazy. “you know, you could always get the servants to do it. I don’t like you wondering about. It’s not safe.” I told her walking up to her to wrap my hands around her waist, and sniffing her as I was not able to get enough of her sweet scent. “Oh hush now, we both know that the lands are quite safe. And I would be gone for just a bit” she said smiling at me. “Fine, not too long okay?” I said letting her slip out of my hands. I should not have let her go that day. But I did. My stupid self let the one good thing I have ever gotten, slip through my fingers. I let her go to the woods and the next thing I knew, I was receiving her dead and skinless body back into my arms. I could not take it, neither could my beast. She was murdered. my beautiful mate had been murdered. I felt limb. It felt as if my body could not move even for a bit.“Your highness, we would need to clean her up.” One of the physicians said. I looked up from the body I had cradled in my hands for goddess knows how long. “What do you want.” I said even though I heard him perfectly well.

“Your grace, we, we… we we” “Speak!” I raised my voice at him causing him to flinch in fear. “We need to clean her up sire” he said. I squeezed the skinless body of my mate before I handed her over to him. It wasn’t as easy as it had sounded. I had to fight my beast from trying bro snatch back her body from him. He believed that if he held her tight enough, placed her just a little bit closer to his heartbeat, then she would wake up