Audrey’s POV:Back at the dungeon, I sat down frustrated, trying relentlessly to free myself from the shackles that bound my hands and legs. I had grown really frustrated with everything that had happened; from the events with the council elders at the court and even Erik’s disturbing glances at me. I had barely spoken much since the elders decided that I was guilty without granting me a proper trial to hear my own plea. I was certain that there was nothing I could do to prove my innocence as they all were bent on ending me so I did not bother to put up any fight at all, I just remained calm as they dragged me back to the dungeon.Seated there, since there was nothing I could do, I simply began to entertain the idea of an escape somehow. I started to work tirelessly to unlock the chains around my wrist first. I twisted and squeezed with the hope that my powers would return to me and shatter the metals. As that seemed not to work at all, I bit with my teeth but that also was not mu
Audrey’s POVI woke up to find myself lying on the floor with my body completely drenched in water. I tried to sit up but I could feel my head spin so I held it with both my hands, my chains clashing together. As I struggled to revive, I wiped water off my face, my shackles clanging noisily. I tried to remember the events before then and I recalled being taken out of my cell room and to the courtroom where I was told by Erik and the nurse responsible for Kaden’s care that Kaden had died. I could still hear the nurse’s voice breaking the news to me ringing in my mind’s ear and it brought a feeling of sadness to me, my atmosphere suddenly changing. I could not know for sure if Erik had killed Kaden as I suspected he would do or if Kaden had truly died from his condition, all I knew was that he was dead, taking my only hope of freedom and survival along with him. My sadness overwhelmed me as I thought of Kaden and soon I burst out in hard sobs.“Oh Kaden!” I called out, letting out my
Audrey's POVI couldn't understand why Erik wouldn’t stop plotting against me, and now he had won me in the presence of that obnoxious council.I wrapped my arms around my body and squeezed myself into a dark corner of the cell, knowing fully well that today was the day of my death. A voice caught my attention and when I stood up, I immediately squealed in shock because there was someone hovering over me and it was no other person but Kaden himself."What are you doing here?" Kaden inquired as he tried to free the silver shackles off my wrists. I watched him quietly, observing how he struggled with the object."Well I'm serving the punishment for your death I guess and I'm satisfied with this punishment I guess, but I still have the feeling that you would open your eyes one day, but when you open them, just know that I was killed for your sake simply because your cousin decided to frame me up and kill you in order to have your throne.”“I know you never trusted him though but be more
Audrey’s POV:I could not believe what I was seeing, or who I was seeing rather. It had to be a dream, it just had to be. Kaden, whom everyone thought was dead, just stood there looking at everyone but me especially. I blinked my eyes twice thinking that it was just my imagination playing a trick on me, but Kaden still stood there. I raised my shackled hands to my face to rub both my eyes and when I opened them, he still stood there of course. I thought this had to be some trick most definitely or that I was simply running mad. I still could not believe it for ever since he was hospitalized, ever since he was pronounced dead, and considering with little strength in me, I had been having visions of Kaden; especially when I was told he had died. Sometimes I even saw him appear in front of me just as I was seeing that moment so it was difficult to believe he was actually there. I tried hard to rid my mind and eyes of the image of him there but he failed to vanish as he always did the
Audrey’s POV:I was euphoric about my newly earned freedom; so happy that amidst what I had imagined to be my brutal end turned out to be sort of another chance given. The thought of being vindicated from all that I had gone through and most especially the problem with the council elders filled my heart with immeasurable joy. I was also happy about Kaden’s survival, for a minute I thought I had lost him forever but it seemed unlikely as he turned out to be my hero after all.I pulled Kaden into a hug, not being able to have enough of him. Reveling in the good feeling of being in his arms after a long time, far too long; I remained there for a while. He knew this too and he comfortably accommodated me every time I threw myself at him. It was obvious that he had missed being with me too but not as much as I had missed being in his arms, I thought. Having just one thing in my mind now, I finally broke off from the hug and looked up to his eyes. I was willing to make everything right an
Audrey’s POV:Fear was the only feeling that I felt as Shantel pointed her gun at us. I knew that Shantel would not pull the trigger on Kaden which meant that she only wanted to shoot at me and that was why Kaden had pulled me behind him to protect me in the first place. It scared me though that Shantel who was obviously unstable could pull the trigger on impulse and out of her anger. Kaden tried to persuade Shantel to lower the gun so they could talk about whatever the problem was but she would have none of it, she was just bent on killing me. Kaden then began to plead with her, sweet talking her into listening to him.“Shantel please listen to me. Come on, lower the gun please so we can talk about this okay?” he said to her as he took some step towards her to try convincing her to listen.“No! I won’t!” Shantel screams, shaking her head continuously.She seemed mad with anger and was going maniacal which made her unpredictable; she refused to give in to Kaden’s pleas, instead, she
Audrey's POVHaving escaped from Shantel's threat, I was sick worried that she would definitely love to be in this position again, making us to be at her mercy, and if that happens again there would be no listening to our words or lowering the gun. I knew she would take her shot after we just deceived her into lowering her guard down. I guess she would be full of regrets after listening to us. This was quite what I never wanted."That was close, she would have taken her shot if given the chance" Alpha Kaden sighed as he wore his robe, I knew he was definitely going out to address some issues precisely about Shantel's behavior and obsession towards him. "She would have definitely loved to put that bullet through my skull… I wasn’t scared for you because I knew she wouldn’t do anything to you. But me…" I trailed off. I knew how weird Shantel could be and her intelligence was quite beyond, to have passed all the guards and walked into that part of the orchard without being spotted. She
Audrey’s POVI breathed out heavily as I raised my hand above my head and knocked on Kaden’s large mahogany door and almost as soon as I knocked, it flung open revealing Kaden with a newspaper in his hand and a reading glass sitting on his nose.Asides the low waisted joggers he was wearing, he was completely bare; I gulped.“Come on in!” He offered, gesticulating with his arm and as soon as he said those words, I didn’t wait for him to repeat himself before I stepped in quickly and shut the door behind me.The room was a mess. He had tons of books lying everywhere, ranging from his table to the floor and sofas. It looked too disorganized.“Why do you have so many books lying about?” I asked but when I turned to look in the direction he was once standing, I was shocked to see that he was no longer here.“Where is he?” I thought to myself but then sighed when I heard sounds coming from his bathroom, which signified that he was there.A few minutes later, he walked out of the bathroom l