AEGEN’S POV“This person is supposed to be my protector and be by my side at all times. But Aegen is always away from this palace, and no one knows where he goes. I would not be surprised if he is working with our enemies to bring me down.” I heard my brother the crowned prince says.“Big brother, don’t you think you are being too harsh? Aegen has always been there for you when you need him. He never complains about anything. Doesn’t he deserve to have a life of his own?” My little sister defended me, and I love her for that. but it never ends well.“Christina, you should be focusing on finding your mate or better yet, choose one from a good kingdom so that we can make a good alliance for the good of the kingdom and leave your brother be. If you follow on Aegen’s footsteps you will end up with nothing, like him.” My father said.I walked in and took my seat by my brother’s side as his protector. “Good morning,” I greeted and dished myself breakfast. “Where have you been?” father asked

IANNA’S POVThe week went by fast, with Lissa making sure that Jeyden and I didn’t cross paths. Like on Wednesday, I saw them coming our way during lunch. As usual Christina and I were having our lunch at the football field.When Lissa saw us, she said something to Jeyden, and they turned back and left. I wanted to talk to Jeyden so badly. I wanted to know what he thought about us being mates and what he was going to do about it.I refused to believe that he was going to reject me, not after putting it off for so long and if he wanted to reject me then he would have done that by now. It’s the end of the week and he has not said anything.It did not help that Lissa was doing all she could to keep him away from me. At home, no one talks to me, I know that is not something new but this time it feels different.I almost went to find Jeyden myself yesterday, but Christina talked me out of it. She said maybe Jeyden still needed more time to think and that maybe he had not had the time to do

IANNA’S POVI was sure that Aegen would want nothing to do with me after seeing my wolf but that was not the case, instead. He was more interested in knowing me, the real me and not what people say I am.He was the second person to want to get to know me and disregarded the rumors being spread around about me. Not sure if he knew about the rumors or he heard and like Christina. He did not care what others said. He wanted to know me beside the rumors.When I got home, I still received the silent treatment from my mother and sister. I did not mind it anymore because that meant I was spared from insults. My mother just looked at me with disdain when I arrived.She no longer asks where I have been, it’s not like she cared anyway but she would ask not because she care but because she was hungry and angry that I would be starting cooking late.I did my chores with a song on my lips. Things were starting to change for me. People were starting to take an interest in me despite what was being

IANNA’S POVThe boys dragged me home with Christina shouting and screaming behind us for them to let me go. Lissa was there as well. He kept telling them to take me straight home and not listen to Christina.When we arrived in front of my house, the boys put me down. I turned to look at Christina while glaring at Lissa who was standing behind her. “Go home Christina, I will be fine, I promise, and I will see you at school.”Christina shook her head not wanting to leave. “I will not leave you alone here Ianna, come home with me.” she offered, and I gave her a small smile. “No, this is my home, I can’t leave. please call your driver and go home.” She started tearing up.Lissa pushed past her. “Oh, enough about this!” she went to the door and opened it. she stood there glaring at me. “Are you coming in or do you want mother to come and get you herself?’ she threatened.I looked at Christina with pleading eyes, I did not want her to see me being beaten up by my mother. What I did today wa

IANNA’S POVIt was the Saturday of Jeyden’s eighteenth birthday, and I was still locked in my room and still soiled with blood from last weekend as they refused to let me out of the room.My mother was afraid that I would go to the party and ruin things while my sister was afraid that Jeyden might not reject me after all. She kept coming into my room and asking me to accept Jeyden’s rejection when he does reject me.All that time, I kept my mouth shut, they didn’t allow me to go out of my room and take a bath or bring me water to bath. All they did was to bring me water to drink and a dry loaf of bread.They took my phone that day maybe to prevent me from having contact with the outside world. I was a prisoner in my own home. All because of a mate I was going to reject anyway.I thought of telling them that, but I knew they would not believe me since they think I lied about everything. The only option they had was to lock me up in the room and let me rot. But I was not going to allow