Chapter 76

Her eyes enlarged to the size of a frog's, 'my Queen!! How old are you?!" Her question makes her erupt in laughter, it was so loud that Xerxes heard and when he saw her laughing he felt annoyed. He had been waiting for hours for her and she was having fun with Sheila, he was worried sick that something might have happened to her.
'I'm not so old!!" She pouts cutely, 'I knew your mother, she was….a character…." She remembers the disturbance of a life time she got during her youthful years, Sheila sighed sadly, she missed her mother, 'she was opportune to give birth earlier than I did. It's been close to four decades since the war against demon wolves, it has been long and it hasn't been long."
'Octavia!!" His tone booms and gives her quite a fright, 'I have been worked up since you left!! You didn't take any soldier with you, you just ran out!!"
'I took Sheila." She is quick to point out to hide her mistake,
'Actually father I had to chase after her," she lets the cat out of the bag, she gives the young assassin a bad eyes before laughing sheepishly, she never liked it when he was angry with her,
'Oh Xerxes relax, I can take care of myself, I'm not a weak woman and you know it." She smirks but he wasn't smiling one bit, the child in her arms giggles a little, she must be having a good dream, 'she's so adorable." She coos.
Xerxes moves closer to the Queen and Yanks her hair, she whimpers in protest but he moves closer to her ears, 'I will punish you appropriately for your careless actions."
'I can't wait." She purrs back and Sheila shivers at the old romance,
'Who is she?" He takes her out of his wife's hands very slowly, so as to not wake her up, 'she is beautiful."
'And she was stranded, we were attacked by wolves," Sheila points to their clothes covered in blood, 'demon wolves." She completes.
'They are real?!" Even he didn't believe it and his rise in tone made the shift in his arms, he heaves a sigh of relief before turning to his wife, 'are you sure that was what you saw?"
'I can never mistake it for anything, we have a serious issue at hand. I need to speak to the sage." She moves past Sheila slowly,
'Come to the bedroom when you're done, Arcadia has done something again." And she sighs heavily, the wolves and now it was her daughter. It was so hard being a queen, mother and a wife. She needed a vacation from all the madness.
'I'll be with you shortly, Sheila, get rest, you need it. Xerxes dear, please take the child to Conan, she needs medical attention too." And with that she leaves to seek for sage Sativa.
She throws the whip on the floor, she was done with him, her breathing unstable, anger filled her to the brim. He lay there motionless as the scars burned his skin, the blades took a bit of his flesh each time they landed on his body. He was badly bruised and bleeding from all openings.
'Get a rag and clean him up!! Even the sight of his blood disgusts me." She spits with disdain before leaving the dark prison. They carry his unconscious body and get him cleaned, he didn't even flinch as water touched his wounds. His vision was black.
She struggled to get the blood off her as she came out of the dungeon, she smelled like a stake version of him, and that only was disgusting to her. She attempts to lift her leg but it as held to the ground by a force. She turns back to see Loki holding onto her leg,
'My queen, I beg, where is my brother?" She strives to free herself from his grasp but he was so heavy, 'my queen, please, release him. He hasn't done anything that would warrant him being beaten, please queen!!" He cried at her feet but her heart was stone, the report of the soldier still ached her heart.
Her people were dying and it was because of Mace.
'Leave my feet!" She drags her foot away from him but he held into her shoes, 'he would die eventually, he has taken away too many lives and he would pay with his." She hisses and her first step away was smooth, she takes the second but the third is held to the ground; Loki didn't want her to go.
'Please, do whatever you want to do to him to me instead, he has suffered enough, please let me bear his punishment queen."
Sheila walks in to see her mate begging her half sister, she felt extremely bad to see him in this position. She moves closer to them,
'Rise!!" She commands him and he scurries to his feet in obedience to his mistress, 'my queen, what is happening?" She noticed her eyes were bleeding tears and her fists were clenched in rage, her fangs were visible and so was the pain in her heart, 'Arcadia, talk to me, what is the matter?" She takes a softer approach and she breaks down. She doesn't respond but she runs away with tears in her eyes.
'Mistress why are you covered in so much blood?!" He feared the worse,
'You call me Sheila when we are in private. Go to my room and bring to towels, meet me in the bathroom, we need to discuss." She leaves quickly but the person on his mind was Mace. He prayed he was okay.
And as for Czar, he had no idea where he was. Or what he was doing. The Queen had bee our for hours and he hadn't even come to check up on him or ask how Mace was doing. Mace had been gone for hours and it didn't cross his mind even once to find out where his master was. He was beginning to feel that Czar didn't see Mace in the same light that he used to when he was still on the throne.
Arcadia locks herself in her room, she sinks to the ground in tears, hugging knees and crying at the loss of her people. She felt even worse when she had to hit Mace several times with the whip but she had no idea that she had done something wrong and he was not at fault. Or she thought that he was at fault.
Her cries got louder as the time passed and soon she was exhausted from crying too much, she lays her head on the floor and falls asleep involuntarily hoping that the nightmare would come to an end, and trying to see how she would forgive herself for her cruel actions towards him. A deep part of her knew that he didn't do anything but she did not want to believe it, he had caused her so much pain that even if he told her that she only did it because of a reason she didn't care, she still wouldn't believe him.
The anger that nursed inside of her as she hit him was unbearable, she needed to find a way to release and that was what led to the punishment but little did she know that she had started feeling things for him as she took in his scent, it was intoxicating her and she had nowhere to stop herself from getting attracted to him he felt like a whole new different person and a whole new Alpha.
A part of her wanted to drop the whip and hug and kiss him, and tell the guards to leave them alone for some time to do things together but she knew that that would be wrong. He did kill her people after all, did he? She wasn't sure but the only thing she was sure of was the anger and the pain that was growing inside of her by the minute, not to mention the lust that she felt after she took his scent in.
Her eyes were shutting slowly she was motionless on the floor, as the tears leaked out of her orbs; she was in so much pain but she bets that he was even in more pain. She remembered how his brother begged her, how she held her feet and pleaded with her to let him go, but she didn't listen to him. Maybe she will listen to him, maybe she will release him. Maybe.
Czar was searching the ancient library that was in the palace, he was looking for something, some information, some scroll, that will aid him in his quest to achieve ultimate power. He felt he was getting closer to his goal as he scattered and disorganised everything that was there and to his luck, he found a dusty book which fell from the shelf as he was trying to reach some of the old scrolls. He picks it up, flips the pages and he realizes that he has found what he was looking for.
He found what he was directed to look for.
And soon he will be the most powerful alpha that ever ruled the land, he would make sure to reduce Arcadia to the little wolf that she was and then he will take her for himself and no one will be able to stop him. He would not only take Arcadia but he will also take her mother, Octavia, and he will the keep them as his mates to be used whenever he wishes.
After Mace lost his Kingdom to Arcadia he had never seen him the same way he used to, as a powerful alpha who was ruthless and feared all over the land. He had been defeated by a woman and that was an abomination in his eyes. He has taken it upon himself to restore the kingdom to its glory but not to have Mace as the alpha thought to be the Alpha and to gain the ultimate power Arcadia had hidden inside of her.
He smiled sinisterly to himself, 'I would take this back to them and they will have no choice but to live up to their side of the deal." And an evil cackle follows before he rearranges everything and leaves the library searched but, without a trace.