+CHAPTER 40+ Choose

"Leave them Little Girl. It's not your place to interfere." Amber's eyes snapped towards her father, his ragged form didn't go unseen by her. 

So the King of Beasts had finally grown balls to face his own daughter~

"I am not your little girl!" Amber growled.

"You are my little girl no matter how much you deny that. You are my blood." Aric said while exhaling a long breath as if he was already anticipating a fight from her.

Amber glanced at her father. He looked like a Greek God. He wasn't wearing any shirt, just pants. No doubt people still remember him. He was otherworldly glorious. His presence in her Queendom had raised a storm of questions within Amber all related to her people.

A large portion of her territory is occupied by the Lycans and her father is their Rightful King so Amber doesn't know where the loyalties of her people lay know with his return. Amber had a doubt that they had more faith in Aric than her and if Aric reclaimed his throne then they will leave with him and that was making Amber furious.

The thought of someone protecting her people better than her made the beast residing within her soul rattle. Her Queendom was her territory but besides that, the people residing within her Queendom were her territory too. For her to protect and for her to provide.

For the first time in her life, Amber felt a bitter feeling creeping up in her heart.

She was jealous~

Jealous from her own father. . .

"I am a Queen, not your little girl. Did my personality or abilities give you any indication of me being little in any way? There is nothing little about me. I am a grown-ass woman." Amber announced, clearly getting offended by Aric for more than one reason.

The beast within her was extremely territorial and was assessing Aric as a threat.

"I don't think that calling my daughter by the endearment 'Grown-Ass Woman' would be appropriate for me as your father." Aric said with a faint smile on his lips.

Amber noticed that the curve of Aric's lips was making the dark circles under his eye to stand out.

He looked exhausted~

"You are so eager to call me your little girl but are you ready to pay the price for calling me that?" Amber challenged.

One look at Amber and Aric's heart swelled with pride. She was a replica of her mother. Courageous, dominant, stubborn and beautiful just like Emmeline.

Aric can sense her beast just below her skin, her beast was seeing Aric as a threat and Aric felt proud because he can feel dominance seeping out of his daughter's small form and she was completely oblivious to the fact that her beast was trying to dominate Aric, staking her claim on her marked territory.

The beast protects and respects their own and Aric hadn't earned respect and the position of a father in Amber's beast's eyes.

He was as much of a threat as any other newcomer in her territory.

But her beast had to learn and train properly in order to overpower Aric's beast. Aric's beast was the King and he doesn't bow down to anyone but currently, his beast was trying to get out to touch his daughter, to bond with her.

Her beast was cut from Aric's beast's soul~

Without a bond, Amber's beast will always consider Aric as a threat even if Amber accepted him as her father which was not going to happen anytime soon.

He had to work to prove himself in his daughter's eyes.

At this moment Aric wanted to give her anything that she wants, he was ready to pay any price to call Amber his child.

His daughter~

Aric had never thought about being a father, Amber was a surprise to him and he was stunned by the fact that how much he loved the surprise fate had given him.

He could do anything to win his daughter's love and trust because he craves her affection, his beast admires Amber, her strength and every single thing about her.

Aric wanted to keep her in his arms and protect her from the world. She was a Princess by birth and the hier of his throne.

But above them all, she was a self-made Queen.

Amber was so small compared to Aric, she barely reached his chest yet with her chin up and head high she looked like the true Queen that she is.

She carried an air of dominance around her even with her small height she looked at everyone under her nose as if no one was her equal.

It was hard to believe that his daughter was capable of so much violence, his little girl was the woman Aidan had told Aric stories about. . .

The Cold Queen~

Aric can't even comprehend the hardships she must have gone through to make her mark in the supernatural world that even a Dragon like Aidan fears her wrath.

How many demons she must had chased off all by her own self~

"Name your condition and consider it done. It's a father's promise to his daughter." Aric pulled his shoulders back in determination.

"Don't you want to know what will be the price you will have to pay to be a part of my life?" Amber raised her eyebrow in question. Doubts filled her mind, she didn't expect Aric to blindly make a vow to her.

"I don't care about the price, my girl as long as I'm winning you." Affection shining in his eyes.

The wheels in Amber's mind started running at a double pace. Aric had given Amber a chance to make things even between her and the Fey Princess.

Panic began to fill Aric's heart. Aric didn't like how Amber's eyes started shining in a shade of green color from the flame-like color. Her eyes were mesmerizing when they were flamelike but they terrified Aric when they changed into green colors.

But Aric did not back out from his words. He was a King and a true Lycan King will never back out from his vows.

"I want you to break your Mate Bond with Emmeline." A cunning smile pulled on Amber's lips when she declared that. Aric's heart stopped at her words. He watched her black hair turning into Platinum white shade in front of his eyes.

She looked like a true Fey~

Like her Mother~

Green calculating eyes, white hairs with a scheming mind. Everything about her reminded Aric about his soulmate. For the first time in his life, Aric wanted to back out from his words but he knew that his daughter would hate him if he did that and he will lose her forever.

Earlier Aric had sensed anger in his daughter, anger that she held against her mother.

But now after listening to her demands Eric had realised that his daughter holds a lot more things against her mother than anger.

Hate. . .

Resentment. . .

Rage. . .

His daughter was filled with them all. The way Emmeline had treated her had left scars on her soul and Aric was afraid that a lifetime of love won't be able to fade those scars away.

"Can you give me that? Oh, you don't have to answer it because I already know that you can't. Pack your bags and get the hell out of my territory there is no place on my territory for a person who is on her side. I knew you were never going to choose me over her." Amber turn her back towards her father.

All her life she had yearned for her parent's love, she had longed for the affection of a father and now when she was getting all this Amber's hatred towards her own mother was too big for her to grab the happiness that fate was offering her.

She wanted to hurt her mother as bad as she had hurt Amber but not at the expense of her own life. She was not going to attempt another foolish suicide attempt in order to harm the Fey Princess.

This time she was going to use her powers against her mother. Amber wanted her to be in as much pain as Amber had suffered.

Forgiveness was never one of her strong pursuit~

Anyone who was friends with the woman who had thrown Amber in the wastelands, the woman who is responsible for the scars on Amber's back is the Cold Queen's enemy.

Her scars had healed but her heart still bleeds~

The Goddess had warned Amber not to light the world on fire with the flames that are burning inside her soul, the flames of rage against her own mother~

But Amber was doing exactly what the Goddess had told her not to do. . .

"She's your mother don't you feel anything towards her? She gave birth to you my girl don't you feel a connection to her?" Aric asked in a hopeful manner.

"There was a time when I felt so much that I started to feel nothing. She's no one to me and it's okay if you want to choose her it's not like I have any bond with you anyway." Aric flinched at Amber's sharp words.

Amber had closed all the easy roads leading to heart when Darach left her. Now she is only reachable if a person is willing to go the extra mile to be with her. She is not going to make it easy for anyone, not even for her own father.

Aric gulped, he watched Amber's back keenly. He can detect hurt in her voice no matter how much she tried to conceal it.

Panic filled him at the mere thought of losing her. . .

"Consider it done! If that's what it takes for you to accept me as your father then fine! I'll break my bond with Emmeline." Aric's voice was thick with emotions.
A triumphant smile decorated Amber's lips after the King of Beasts gave in.

"Thanks father!" Amber said, turning her face towards Aric. Her father's sharp intake of breath at listening father from her lips didn't go unnoticed by Amber.

Her heart was beating so fast as if she had run miles. Her father had chosen Amber over his soulmate.

He has chosen Amber over Emmeline~

Taking her by surprise, Aric pulled her in a warm hug but Amber didn't relax in his embrace.

"She felt like home and you smell like home." Amber stiffened even more at his words.

She was as stiff as a wooden board which Aric noticed too and let her go.

He didn't meet Amber's eyes but she caught tears shimmering in his eyes.

"I'll go and find them. Hopefully, the Oracle hadn't killed Aidan." Aric pointed towards the direction where the Dragon King had chased after the Oracle.

When Aric turned his back on Amber all the blood drained from her face. There was a long horrible scar on his back.

It reached to the base of his spine from between his shoulders. It was not an even line. The person who gave him that scar had literally taken his pretty time in rooting the Blade in his spine.

And then abruptly it clicked in her mind!

It was her mother. The Fey Princess had embedded the dagger in Aric's back.

The dagger must have been a silver one to leave scars behind. How could he still want her after what she did to him?
He still thinks that Emmeline felt like home even after she had stabbed him in the back.

What was he? A fucking Saint!

Pretty ironic the Fey Princess had left her mark on both of them while Amber hates her, Aric worships her.

Aric still loves Emmeline~ And Amber was ripping them apart.

Amber knew that what she was doing wasn't right. She had the power to break the unwanted bonds and what she was doing was wrong at so many levels.

She was hurting her father who had no part in her miseries. He had no idea of Amber's existence until they came face to face.

But her inner Fey didn't care about anyone. Her Fey just wanted to hurt Emmeline where it hurt the most.

If Emmeline was heartless enough to leave her unprotected daughter on the lethal snow then Amber was doing what she had learned from her own mother.

She was giving Emmeline back the hate that she had so generously dished out to Amber.

Amber can't forgive Emmeline for forsaking her in the dead of winter on the wastelands.

The Fey Princess knew that Amber won't be able to survive but Karma is a bitch because Amber survived and now she had taken matters in her own hands, she's not gonna wait for karma to knock on the Fey Princess's door because Amber is going to break Emmeline's door down by her own herself.

Because of Emmeline, Amber had spent her childhood among the lost souls, death, violence, rape and much more.

She had roamed among the creatures and witnessed things that no child should have witnessed.

Amber had lost count of how many times she had her bones broken by the lost souls until she had learned to fight them off.

The lost souls had mocked Amber, they had pushed the little girl around showing no mercy to her just because her mother had left her at their mercy.

The Goddess had given Amber her protection but that doesn't mean that the Goddess had fought Amber's battles. She never stepped between Amber and the Lost souls not unless Amber was on the brink of death and that happened a lot awful times.

Amber can't let off the past~

Emmeline had snatched her Childhood, Amber was going to return the favor by snatching her Mate bond.

It's finally time for Amber to officially meet her Mother.

She had waited so long for this day~

Let's see how the Fey Princess will feel when Amber will make her mate forsake her.