Chapter 10: Banished

The next day, everyone heads out to take care of Lexie, who still doesn't know about everything that happened the previous day. Everybody except for Oliver surrounds her place to secure the premises in case she or anybody in her family tries to escape. Meanwhile, Oliver goes inside and asks for Lexie, who flies towards him for a hug. He dodges her, and she falls on her face.

Lexie gets very angry. Oliver wants to laugh, but he doesn't want to alert her to the fact that something is wrong. Instead, he gets straight to the point. "Lexie, call your parents. I want to discuss some important matters with all three of you," he says.

"Is this about you and me?" she asks eagerly, thinking that he is talking about mating matters.

"Yes, Lex, it's about your and my future." Oliver purposefully doesn't say the word 'our' and instead mentions them separately. But Lexie only hears the word 'future,' so she calls for her parents to come down to the living room. As soon as all three of them are in the living room, the white witches surrounding the house cast some spells to trap the black witches in the room so that they can't escape.

Oliver doesn't bother to sit as he faces the traitors. He has to wrap this up and then go back to his mate. He can feel her suffering and pain, and he feels terrible for not being with her while she is in pain. But he has to do this so that there will be no threat to Rachel, her family, or Carol.

Without saying a word, he gives the banishing and imprisonment orders to Lexie. Thinking that she is getting something special from Olive because she thinks that he's still dedicated to her as her mate, she happily accepts. "What is this, Oliver?" she asks happily with high expectations.

"This is your and your family's banishing order. You are no longer working for King Enterprise, and you all will be sent to the dungeon with a sentence of life imprisonment for treason," Oliver says without any emotion on his face.

Lexie is taken aback by what she hears. She doesn't want to believe this is happening. "But Oliver, you can't do this to me. I am your mate. How can you put your mate and family in the dungeon?" she yells.

"It's Prince Oliver to you. And you are not my mate. I found my real mate," he replies firmly.

"No way in hell. You can't find your real mate. You shouldn't," Lexie murmurs under her breath. Oliver hears her words crystal clear.

"Yeah, Lexie, your curse broke as soon as I touched her, so drop your mask. We all know you and your family are black witches," he says to her.

"On whose order are you banishing me?" she yells.

"It's my order." Hagon comes in behind Oliver. "It is my order. As King of the supernaturals, I fire you and your family from your positions at King Enterprise, and you all will be sent to the dungeon in my kingdom for using black magic on the royal family to prevent them from identifying their own mates," he says.

"So you all found out… Ha ha ha! Right, I am a black witch. I had great plans and a mission, but they all failed because of you two, Hagon and Oliver. I will take revenge on you—especially you, Hagon. Because of you, I lost many things. If you had accepted my proposal, I wouldn't have seduced your brother. He never marked me because you couldn't find your mate! If not for you, I would have succeeded earlier," Lexie yells at both of them.

"Do you really think it's because of me that my brother didn't mark you?" Hagon asks.

"I didn't mark you because I never loved you. I stayed with you because I thought you were my mate. I gave you everything you asked for because I felt bad for not marking you after such a long time. That's it. Nothing else. But now, I realize that my subconscious knows you are not my mate. Don't waste our time. I have to go back to my mate. Do you know that I already marked her yesterday, and she is resting? I have to go and help her." Oliver is growing impatient.

"No, you can't. I will not allow that. I will kill both of you." Lexie starts chanting, but her spell doesn't work because of the white witches' spell. Hagon calls in his warriors to tie her and her parents up with rope, but at the least moment, Lexie manages to escape the spell. She suddenly disappears before all their eyes. The amount of energy she would've needed to break free from the white witches' spell must've been enormous; she likely has to meditate for at least one month to regain her powers.

After Lexie's disappearance, Oliver and Hagon take her parents to the dungeon and organize a search party to try and find the escaped black witch before she can do something unimaginable. However, nobody is able to find her for a long time.

…

Once 48 hours pass, Rachel discovers that because she mated with a royal, she received the powers from both her witch and werewolf sides. Once she and Carol are all healed, they return to their rooms at King Enterprise. Oliver spends a lot of time in his new mate's room, getting to know her and falling even more in love with her. Over that period of time, she recovers and grows stronger because of his royal mark.

Neither of them expects to see Hagon in her room, so both Rachel and Oliver are shocked when he appears in the doorway. He asks Oliver to meet him in his office at 7 p.m. because he wants to train Oliver to become his successor.

Oliver agrees, and after Hagon leaves, he spends the rest of the afternoon with Rachel, hugging her tightly and kissing her. He is very happy, and he also wants his brother to be happy.

When it's time for the meeting, Oliver knocks on the door to Hagon's office and enters after he gets permission. Hagon immediately says, "Oliver, from today onwards, you are going be my assistant and follow me and learn how to do all of my work." He gets straight to the point, and his words are not a request; they're an order.

"But why? You can do your work. I'll do my work. You know I also have Beta work to do," Oliver replies, suspicious.

"It's because somebody has to learn how to do my work in case I am absent," Hagon answers.

"Why does somebody have to learn your work? Why do you need a replacement?" Oliver asks.

Hagon knows that Oliver is clever and will find out the truth if he is careless with his answers, so he lies, "I am going on a vacation after my birthday. You know I also need a break from this work. It's overwhelming for me, so I am going far away to take a rest for a long time."

"How long? Will you take Carol along with you?" Oliver asks eagerly. Hagon glares at Oliver, who quickly adds, "To help you."

"No, I am going for a long time. I don't know when I'll be back, and I am going alone. I can't take anybody with me to the place I am going." Hagon murmurs the last sentence, and Oliver, who doesn't hear his brother's last words, accepts this explanation. He also wants Hagon to take a rest, but he will have to find a way to send Carol along with him.

That night, Rachel and Oliver finish their mating process. He also starts training with Hagon without knowing that it's a trick. He's happy to help his brother take a rest—but he doesn't know that Hagon intends for it to be eternal.