The Queens

One week later
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Hunnie






My eyes fluttered open to horror this morning.





Bahm hovering over my bed after not seeing this betraying asshole for almost one week!



"There's an important party tonight, introducing the Queen and you mustn't act out tonight. My mother's finest comrades will be there to judge us all." He says flat out, as I grip the blanket closer to my face.


I stay there underneath him, staring evily into his eyes with disgust. Wanting to cry under the blankets, but wanting to also scratch his eyes out. My body starts to react to him being this close to me in a while.


"You are my mate still, and shall not be disrespectful to me in anyone's presence. My Kingdom won't take lightly to it." He continues and eyeballs my face.


"Azalea will be introduced there too, so no fighting Hunnie." He comes off the bed and stands up. Walking towards the door.


My heart shattered. Thinking it was going to just be a party for us two to attend. His Queen, not the both of us! I was more emotionally embarrassed to be looked at as a woman sharing her mate...her soulmate. Bahm was my mate first!



I've been in so much pain this whole week, mostly in my heart as it felt like it was ripping in two. Is this what betrayal feels like? Not once had he came to check on me, only giving demands to his maids yesterday to not feed me until I came out on my own.



How could he do this to me!



"Why are you being this way? Are you...have you....been...sleeping with this woman... the whole week you haven't even visited me once?" My eyes became teary as I already knew the answer. My lips trembled.



He ignores me and continues to grab the handle of the door. "I can do as I please with you both, and you needed to be punished for acting like a child." He opens the door and shoots me a blank look.



I lay there, repeating his words that seemed to move my heart unsettlingly. I watched him enter through the doors, but he pauses and lowers his head.


"And if you refuse, I'll throw you in the dungeons for disobedience. Don't ruin the bond by being selfish.


My heart racing from the animosity of it all, boiling over with blood. How would I ruin the bond! He's ruining it by casting me out. I basically mean nothing to him anymore. Even the way he looks at me, it's not his usual look of love.


Had he been bewitched!


Making my way out of bed and towards my bathroom


After I showered, I stayed in the room for some hours, until I decided to go to the dining hall and find food finally. In search of some sweets mostly.

Kris texted me on my phone earlier about the castle chef baking lots of desserts for tonight. I had finally gotten my phone back three days ago. Bahm still kept my journal and it made me extremely agitated! I'm sure he was reading everything in there!


I felt violated once again, shunned, invisible...


I dragged my feet to the dining hall. Ignoring everyone in the halls and not even glancing their way, mostly maidens and guards. I was too embarrassed to look at anyone when I had a mate whom marked another woman. They all included her in their every day lives and it furiated me! Yet, they were all fine with me locking myself in my room.


I am his destined mate! Does anyone not care about how I feel in all of this!!! I was violated more than once, betrayed, I took care of him when he was stuck as wolfy...



Turning the corner of the dining hall, sniffling at the memories, I accidentally bump into someone walking through the walk way.



Azalea!



"Your Majesty..." She bows to me and I actually wanted to smack her for this mockery.


I place my hands on my hip, ready to explode at just her appearance alone.


A light purple, silky gown that flowed to her feet, with a long slit running down between her breast and stopping at just the top of her lady bits. Thinking she might've worn this for Bahm made me feel incredibly jealous. As I only wore a black sweater dress with high white socks.


"Hmmph!" I snorted and proceeded to walk passed her and toward the kitchen, ignoring her body still bowed.





"You...you should sleep in his chambers with us..."


I stop in my tracks, taken back as to what this tramp even said.

"US!!!"

So he has been bedding this skank! What if she bears his children before I even do!!!! My eyes stung and my heart raced rapidly. I didn't even hear her other words flying out of her trembling lips.


Without thinking, a dark infertility spell came to my mind, ready to be summoned by my finger tips. I lifted my hands slightly to her direction. My jaws clenched to hard I was ready for my teeth to break.



I groaned before feeling a constriction to my neck within seconds. I couldn't breathe! The room began turning dark and before my hands raises to my neck. Feeling hot hands around my throat, my eyes opened...meeting Bahm's black, onyx and fierce eyes.


With my eyes rolling back, everything went quiet and dark.


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Grabbing my throat in a hurry, I sat up from the bed and began coughing. Wearing a light blue, spaghetti strapped, silk dress that came down to my ankles and long, white satin gloves on my fingers.


I looked around and saw I was in my room. Half of the room had its light on, while the light above my bed was off. A figure sat on the sofa across from the bed and I blinked a few times before squinting.



It was Bahm. Fear and sadness filling my chest heavily seeing him here. HOW DARE HE!


I rubbed my neck and stared at this demonic stranger.



"Do not provoke me Hunnie! I will protect you both at any cost!" He sat up in the sofa and gritted his teeth to me.


"I don't....I don't want to be introduced as Queen..." i mumbled and looked away.


Hearing him stand from the sofa, I bring my hands down from my neck and almost shield my body for any sudden impact.


Why was I thinking likw this? Why is he like this?!! He's never laid a hand on me and I didn't understand why using my magic would disturb him...I wasn't hurting him!

I was only going to cast an infertility spell on Azalea. As selfish as it sounded, I didn't deserve to pass out under his hands.


He takes a step towards the bed, his eyes filled with menacing anger. His fist balled at his side and his chest heaved in and out.



Kris walks in just in time, my head whipping towards the door watching him examining Bahm.


"Just leave her. Everyone will see her with you when you walk in-"


"BUT!" I bark and sob at the same time.


"I'm not walking in with him... and another woman by his side! HE WAS MINE FIRST!!!" I lost it, patting my chest and not trying to fully direct my anger towards Kris, as his face changes nervously.





"NO!!!
YOU DONT GET TO MAKE ANY!
ANY REQUEST!
SINCE I ALMOST DIED BY YOUR HANDS!!! YOURS! NOT ANYONE ELSE!"

Bahm growls taking steps around the bedside, staring at me intensely. Referring to the time when I rejected him in the woods. Leaving him for dead...


"I was vulnerable by you, and won't ever be again. You will do as I say, as my mate!"

He leaves out the door, pools and pools of tears flowing down my face.


Lowering my head in my hands, I bawled my eyes out. Why is this my life! I am so sorry for rejecting him and putting us in this predicament. My chest pained horribly.


Hands come over my shoulder before I feel the bed cave in next to me. I flinched involuntarily, hearing Kris coo in my ears and kissing the top of my head.


How stupid I must look for obeying him still. This is all my fault and I've turned him into a monster. We should've let him expressed his self back home, because then....we wouldn't have came back here to see his other mate.


I felt numb. This is my life now.