26. Mother?

**Narrator’s POV.**

The doors to Desiree’s chambers were pushed open abruptly, startling the living daylight out of Alec, he was extremely confused as to what had happened but confusion turned to shock when he felt two strong arms hold him down, restricting his movement.

“What in the world is going on?”, he turned around to see it was his best friend that had confined him, DJ ignored his inquiry and turned to face his sister that was still in the room,

“Go Desiree”, she nodded and ran out of the room as fast as she could. Realizing what was happening, Alec’s eyes widened and he began to fight for his freedom by thrashing around,

“What the hell DJ? Are you trying to get us killed? Your father would skin us alive if she goes anywhere”, Alec was desperately trying to reason with his friend, letting Desiree go was a suicide mission.

“It would be worth it, we have to stop the war, stop fucking fighting me”, he held unto Alec’s hands tighter before facing Desiree, “Hurry, we are running out of time, let me know when you are leaving the castle, with or without our mother”, she nodded in understanding and ran quickly to where she knew her mother will be, leaving behind the screams of an agitated and frustrated Alec,

“You will get us killed- the both of you-“, she found a way to block out his words as she approached the northern part of the castle and as she had guessed, the whole place was heavily secured by the palace guards- there was only one thing she could do; take them out.

She took a deep breath, knowing how much of a risk she was about to take on both her and her unborn baby before sprinting towards the guards. It took a second for them to realize who the person charging crazily at them was, “Princess?”, one of the guards pointed in surprise,

“You should be in your chambers, your father would not appreciate this”, another guard was about to touch her but she hissed at him in warning,

“Do not touch me”, her tone hardly did anything to the guards since her wolf who carried most of the power was absent,

“Princess, you should leave, now. A guard will escort you to your chambers”, he touched her shoulder, leaving her surprised- did this guard just go against her warning? In the blink of an eye, the man was on the floor, gasping for air as she held unto his neck.

“Never, I repeat, never test me that way again or I will end you, do I make myself clear?”, if she had her wolf, she would have been growling dangerously in the man’s face but unfortunately, that was not the case.

“Yes, princess”, she smiled at his reply but left her hand on his neck, holding it until he passed out- one down, eleven to go. The other men gasped in shock and charged at her, not with the intention of hurting her but to contain her enough to drag her back to her chamber.

She had been hoping that with her little display, they would let her in but as it turned out, they weren’t letting her have her way so easily, “You want to do this the fucking hard way? Fine, we’ll do it the hard way”, she moved away from the man in time to dodge one of the guard’s hand reaching out to grab her,

“We do not want to hurt you your highness”,

The luna princess placed the most devilish, threatening smirk on her face which managed to make the guard shiver in fear, “Too bad, because I want to hurt you”, she swung her fist at the man, knocking him out cold, the adrenaline rushing through her body was apex, she did not feel a thing while kicking and punching them all into an unconscious state.

Without a second to waste, she pushed the doors to her mother and father’s shared chambers open, she headed into the bedroom but stopped once she noticed her mother was not alone, “Aunt Sarah?”, she stated in surprise, “What are you doing here?”,

“I should be asking you the same thing young lady”, Sarah stood up from the chair she had been sitting on and crossed her arms over her chest, “What are you doing here, Desiree? Are you not meant to be in your chamber?”,

Desiree nodded, “Yes, I am but I heard about the war”, she took a few steps closer to the bed but Sarah was blocking the view to her mother’s face.

“What about it?”, the older woman cocked up an eyebrow in questioning,

“I cannot let it happen, my mate will be crushed if anything was to happen to his people- I would not be able to live with myself, knowing I could have stopped it”,

“I am sorry but the only person that can stop it is not conscious”, Sarah pointed out and finally stepped away from Desiree’s view, she let out a gasp in surprise and tear started to sting her eyes, “She is not showing any signs of waking up, I miss her so much”, a sob left Sarah’s lips as she looked down at her best friend, “Seeing her like this has gotten extremely painful”.

Seeing Sarah in such a state made Desiree much more determined. She wiped away her tears and moved towards the bed completely, “I can do something, I think. I have been reading these ancient books that I gathered from the library before my father locked me up, I took them when I just started seeing my mate, I wanted to know what sort of creature he was- he was so different”,

“Oh”, was Sarah’s only reply and Desiree knew in an instant that something was wrong- she knew exactly what it was.

“Aunt Sarah”, she took the woman’s frail hands in hers, “I am so sorry that I hurt your son, if I could, I would do things differently but I cannot. I do not love him that way- I see him as a brother, do you know how uncomfortable a mate-ship would have been for the both of us?”,

“I understand you Desiree and I do not blame you for anything. In fact, I should be the one apologizing, I know how my son can get sometimes and I still do not know where he got that attitude of his from”, she said, squeezing Desiree’s hand in a comforting, motherly manner. It was exactly what Desiree needed at the moment- motherly warmth.

“Thank you, aunt Sarah, that meant a lot”, she placed a sad smile on her face, “As I was saying, I saw a part about humans in the books but did not bother reading since I thought they were extinct-”,

“Didn’t we all?”,

“Exactly why I didn’t read the sections. Then during this past month, I got bored and decided to give the books a second reading- you would not believe what I read”,

“What did you read?”, she had gotten Sarah’s full, undivided attention at this point,

“All this, it had been predicted centuries ago by a soothsayer named Yibanathi, he was of the Zulu tribe and after he predicted this, he was executed by the Alpha king at the time; Alpha King Barrett Edward”, she took a short pause before continuing, “Yibanathi predicted that there would be a time where the werewolves would take over the world but not completely, he also said that there would be a union between a male human and powerful female lycan- which for centuries has been illegal. They would produce a child- a blessed child whose unique powers would save the humans and the werewolves from meeting their certain doom”.

“Wow”, Sarah said in surprise,

“At first I did not think much of it but once I heard about the war, I knew the prophecy was taking place- we have to stop it, before it is too late”, Desiree took a seat on the chair Sarah had been sitting on and took her mother’s hand, “I have to channel my energy into her and let the baby do the rest”,

“But how?”, this information was just too much for Sarah to comprehend, all these years on earth and in the castle, she had for once heard anything about all these predictions and prophecies- he never even thought they were real.

“Sadly, I do not know but we are about to find out”, Desiree said before closing her eyes and blocking out all the sounds around her, it helped her focus on the only sound she needed to hear for this magic trick to work- the sound of her mother’s slow heartbeat.