+CHAPTER 25+ The Rise Of The Cold Queen

"Black Hearts Are Not Born Black, They Are Burned."



Amber glanced up, clouds were moving in, just as they had yesterday afternoon. They reminded her of the idyllic time spent with Darach. Which made bitterness churn inside her.

She doesn't want to ask him why was he treating her like this anymore. Because Amber knew his reasonings already.

Amber knew his intentions. . .

The King of beasts wanted to bound her but he didn't know that Amber can't be bound, not even by the Goddess.

Today she has to make a choice, the same choice that every lycan in her Queendom had made. 

She had to choose between love and respect just like others but Amber wasn't any regular person, she was a Queen and Darach had hurt her pride.

She had to choose between love and pride. Amber was definitely going to walk out of Darach's life with the pride and respect that she deserved, respect that she had earned.

Amber eyes caught the sight of a lost soul who was standing outside the boundary of Amber's territory. They weren't welcome within her land.

How many times she had seen death toying with lost souls as a child, how many times she had seen the lost souls reliving their own deaths, she had lost the counts of how many times she had felt their pain clawing at her heart.

She didn't know how many times she had listened to the pleas of a lost soul that tried to reach Amber for help. They seek help from her but Amber had no idea how to help them.

She can feel the power within her, the power to help the lost ones but she can't seem to tap on those powers. It was like they were dormant.

Amber looked towards the lost soul, this one was different from the others. She wasn't reaching out for Amber's help or trying to kill her.

A warrior's soul~

Her head held a feather crown that was often worn by the warriors of multiple tribes. Her waist-long hairs were styled in two braids, she was looking at Amber with her soulless eyes but the thing that caught Amber's attention was her lips.

Amber's eyes zoomed on her pale blue lips~

Her lips moved. "You don't need that kind of love." The lost souls that are known for whispering to the darkness were now talking to Amber because her inside was filled with the darkness that they craved.

Amber had no difficulty in understanding her words. It felt like the lost soul had whispered those words in Amber's ear.

The lost soul was right, Amber didn't need this kind of love where she had to beg for affection. No one should beg for the love and affection that they deserved and if they have to beg someone to love them then that love wasn't worth it.

The pressure of Darach's grip on Amber's neck pulled her out of her starry thoughts. Amber watched the lost soul fading into the wasteland.

Darach, her stupid mate. . . .

He had no fucking idea that he was toying with flames. Amber had nature in her eyes and wildness in her veins. 

She can't be kept in gilded cages and convention. 

With a flicker of her fingers, Amber threw the Big Bad Wolf on the ground and to her surprise, her powers worked fine on him. 

Her lycan was making no effort to save their soulmate. Amber had always wanted her lycan to stop bugging her and now when her lycan was silent Amber understood why people feared silence. The absence of her lycan left an emptiness within her.

Maybe even her lycan didn't want Darach anymore~

But then why was she still feeling a pang in her heart while thinking about hurting him. . .

It was the first time Darach was having a taste of her powers. Amber was a Queen and not just a regular Queen, she was a self-made cold Queen with a cracked crown on her head that she wore proudly. 

Darach had broken her heart, she gave him the power over herself and he had hurt her but he didn't know that the more he will hurt her the more evil powers will course through her veins. 

She will retaliate with a vengeance that he had never witnessed in his whole fucking immortal life.

Today Amber was going to give him memories to remember her for the rest of his life because after today he will never be able to find her for the rest of their lives.

It will be their last encounter. He will not be in the next chapter of her life, it will hurt but it has to be done for the betterment of her scared soul which was unable to withstand another heartbreak.

Amber looked at her mate who was now standing on his feet again and was ready to attack her. "I command you to freeze right where the fuck you are standing!" Amber commanded before Darach had the chance to attack her.

Amber might have felt guilty before for hurting Darach but all the doubts evaporated from her mind when he had tried to attack her again.

She was immensely pleased when her mate's face decorated with a confused look. He was probably thinking that why his body wasn't moving from his current position.

Served him right! 

The bastard wanted to make Amber his whore. Amber will make an example out of him. After today no one will ever dare to cross her.

Amber noticed the few people who were standing at a distance watching the show silently.

They won't dare to interfere. They were standing alive because of her. They were loyal to Amber to their bones.

Amber had earned their loyalties and respect, unlike Darach.

Amber smirked, she will give them all a pretty good show that will have a lifelong impact. "Call everyone and by everyone I mean every single person! Tell them to come here within two minutes if they don't want their asses thrown out of this Queendom." Amber shouted at them.

The Cold Queen was back. . .

It was show time bitch~

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Darach watched the crazy witch. He was unable to move his body even an inch, all thanks to the bitch. Darach regret not killing her when he had her neck in his grip, the neck that had his mark. 

His claiming bite~

After shouting at someone behind him she turned towards Darach with an evil smirk which raised the hairs on Darach's neck.

Darach can feel waves of power flowing through her, pure dominance dripping from her small frame. She had a lycan, an actual lycan no illusion and her lycan was fucking powerful.

With dominance stronger than Darach's own. 

He was having a hard time digesting the fact that her beast was more powerful than Darach's which raised an important question that who was her father?


Her beast's dominance was fucking unbeatable.

He was having a hard time not submitting to her. Even standing on his feet in front of her took a great effort. 

She took a few steps towards him, the ground was channeling her power, sending waves after waves of power in Darach's direction. Darach fell on his knees, the power was too much to bear. 

Standing a few feet away from him Amber lifted her right hand and started wiping her tears with her middle finger, the evil smirk was still intact on her face.

"Release me and I promise I won't give you a painful death." Darach gritted against the hold she had on him.

At his words, Amber let out a crazed laugh. "For a person whose life is at my mercy, you are fool enough to threaten me again. Listen to me dog and listen carefully because you won't be alive if I have to repeat myself." Amber squeezed Darach's face between her fingers, her nails digging in his cheeks, breaking his skin. Droplets of blood fell on the ground, dripping from Darach's chin.

"I'm going to teach you a lesson that you won't forget for eternity. I will make you witness the fall of your kind. Your dogs had just fallen from grace but I'll make them fall apart and that's a Queen's promise to a dog who had a chance to be a king but it's such a shame that your kind can't digest any good thing that happens to them." Darach was stunned it was an understatement. Her words had shaken him to his core.

"Where's your Queen?" He asked dumbfounded.

"You are looking at her right now." The witch actually had the audacity to wink at him.

Comprehension dawn upon Darach. Amber was the Queen here, that was why she knew so much about the Queen.

Eva is Amber and Amber is Eva~ 

Darach's eyes fell on Rome who gave him a look of disgust. Behind him creatures where coming, creatures that Darach had never encountered before.

Darach took notice of a female fallen Angel standing behind Rome. 

His eyes caught the sight of an actual dragon flying above them. The dragon landed on the ground with a thud.

When did the dragons start coming out of their kingdom?

He looked around the once empty ground that was now filled with people, hundreds of people and a majority of them were his people, Lycans. But not a single one of them was coming for his help, to their own king's help.

"Huh huh... Seeking help from your kind? How adorable. Come on call them, call them. Let's see if they are willing to help their king." Amber said in a mocking tone.

When Darach looked towards his people they looked away not a single person was willing to look at him in the eye. 

"Oooh poor you. Does no one want to help you? But why would they do that to their own king? Ask them if they want to go back with you." Amber mocked him again. She was enjoying it a way too much.

A thought occurred to him. Amber was evil, a woman who planned to kill her own offspring. She must have threatened his people that was why no one was coming to his help. They were afraid of her.

"You don't have to be afraid of her. I assure you your safety will be my responsibility. This vile creature won't be able to hurt anyone." Darach announced with a sneer at the end of his sentence. 

For a tiny second Darach thought that he saw hurt flashed over Amber's face but he dismissed his thought because this creature did not have a heart so it was impossible to hurt her.

"Don't you think that you and your kingdom's rules have damaged our lives enough? No one here in their right mind will ever think about returning to that hell hole ever again!" Someone shouted from the crowd.

"You and your followers are sick and twisted who don't care how much they are hurting someone who they claim to be their soulmate!" Another voice echoed from the crowd.

"The audacity of this man! He's calling our Queen a vile creature. The Queen who had saved us all from his black rules and fucked up traditions. The Queen who saved us and gave us protection." Darach caught the sight of a tiny female shouting from the crowd.

"I don't know why the Queen hasn't beheaded him already. This disrespectful scum needs to die!" This time a male shouted, who wasn't standing too far from Darach.

"Where the fuck was you when we needed your help? Now when we are happy in our lives you want to drag us back to that hell hole?" Another snapped, hatred lacing his tone.

"Oh, my dear pumpkins. I think you all have created enough drama for today. So dear mate as we have established that I don't have all these people here as prisoners, they are living under my protection with their own free will and they are free to leave with you if they want. So let's just finish your drama." Amber turned towards Rome. "Rome brings the bitch and bastard." She shouted.

At her voice, Rome brought Lucia and Connor forward. Darach watched in horror, his mate walked towards his brother. Holding him from his hair she pushed Connor on his knees.

"On your knees bastard! You are standing in front of your mate's Queen." Amber spat the words at him.

At her words, Connor's eyes widened.

She had everyone's attention now. How the fuck she can be Connor's mate's Queen? Everyone knew that his mate was dead. It has been 20 years since she died in the wild woods near the wastelands.

"Ooh don't look so surprised. She is alive. Do you want to know where she is? Hmm, do you?" Amber mocked. "I guess you will never know and do you want to know why?" Amber traced her nails on Connor's jaw.

"Because you are his brother." Amber pointed a finger at Darach. "Your brother already told you that I'm an evil witch so why not give you a taste of the evil that resides within my heart." Amber whispered to Connor.

Connor's head snapped towards Darach. "Brother stop her! STOP HER!!!" At his brother's helpless look something twisted within Darach's chest. But he was helpless against her hold.


"I, Amber the descendent of an Elemental Witch from the House of Crones curse you, Connor King to a lonely existence, you will never find peace." Connor gave an agonizing roar at her statement, his hands clawing at his own heart.

Amber was hurting his family.

Darach had to stop this before she does something that can't be undone. . .

"You think you have all this figured out?" Darach said, his tone matching Amber's mocking one. "You think I can't take my own people back to where they really belong?" Amber raised her left brow at his statement. Her attention diverted from Connor.

"You still have doubts about that?" Amber gave him a wicked smile. But her smile vanished at Darach's next words.

"As the king of all beasts, I command the beast of every lycan present here to follow me back to my kingdom. It's a royal command." Darach bellowed.

A wave of power and dominance washed over every lycan present there.

Amber watched all the lycans present there falling on their knees, offering their necks to Darach as a show of submission.

They were bending to his will.

It felt like Amber had no power on them. She had taken care of them, protected them, provided them and for what? Just for this day when the king of lycans will come in her territory and command them to follow him back to the hell hole. While rubbing the power of his beast's dominance on her face.

This wasn't the man Amber remembered, he was not the man Amber fell for. 

The person standing in front of her was a foolish king who had no fucking idea what he was going to do to his own people.

He was oppressing his people but Amber was not going to let that happen on her watch.

Hot flames burnt inside Amber's chest, she felt her body growing bigger. She was burning with hot mad rage. How dare he! She watched her mate's attention zooming back on her. The smirk he had on his face a few seconds ago faded. He looked kinda pale as if he had seen a ghost.

At that moment Darach recalled his Mighty Uncle's advice: Only hit hard if you aim true, son. Darach's aim had been false, and he might’ve swung a deathblow.

Because right at that moment he was staring at someone he never thought he will ever encounter in his life.

Someone he had no fucking idea was even born.