The Abandoned Princess
Luna Clara
Something bad happened, I just know it. Amanda and Stefan would have gotten ahold of me if something was wrong. This is something we didn’t plan for. I look at my children and Millie and knew they wouldn’t tell the Alpha anything other than we found her by a couple of dead rogues. I hold the little bundle in the crook of my arms as we walk. Her eyes flutter sofly before opening to reveal bright pink and purple swirl, fading to a bright blue then settling into an emerald green. Her eyes… I know instantly I have to protect her from my mate. Those eyes mean that the prophecy has begun and the Realms are in for a whole new way of life. I think as we walk trying to remember what it say but to no avail, I’ll have to sneak a look in the archives. The pack sight comes into view and we stop.
“Luna, do you want me to take her? Maybe we can keep the Al…” I stop her and look around.
“Millie, shh, he has ears everywhere. Don’t let him catch wind of what I think you were going ot say.” I rush out as quiet as I can next to her ear. She stiffens and I know she understands.
“Marucs, run and find your trainer, I dont want you to miss your afternoon lesson.” Marcus rolls his eyes and wanders off to the training fields.
“Ada, you will go with Millie and see what old baby stuff we have left and see if any of the other parents have anything that we don’t. I’m going to talk to Dimitri and hope he believes me.” I hope he doesn’t see her eyes either. I add silently to myself. I give myself a moment after Ada and Millie leave to their task.
‘Darling, where are you? I need to speak to you about something important.’ I reach out through our mindlink.
‘In my office, Clara, but hurry up, I’ve got shit to do.’ He growls in return. I close the minlink and roll my eyes, making my way to his office. I knock twice and enter when hes grunts at me. I stop in front of his desk and wait until he decides to look up. Shock registers on his face.
“What the fuck, Clara? Where’d you get a baby?” He shouts, eyes locked on the bundle in my arms.
“We found her, Dimitri. Millie and I took the kids to the river for a picnic and we smelt blood. Millie hid with the kids and I checked it out. Dimitri, someone killed her parents. I found her laying in a basket crying and her parents were torn to pieces all around her.” He looks at me, eyes narrowed as if he doesn’t believe me.
“Why didn’t you call for guards when you smelt blood? You had my son with you , Clara!”
“Your daughter too! They were safe, I’d have called someone if I felt I needed to.” He stands up so fast, his chair slams into the wall behind him.
“My son doesn’t leave this floor without a guard from here on out, am I understood?”
“Yes, Alpha.” I growl. He looks at the baby for a second.
“What is it?”
“A girl.” He sits down and waves me towards the door.
“Keep it out of my way like the other one.” Knowing I was being dismissed, I left, feeling excited to have gotten away with my lie. I rush off to meet Millie and Ada in the nursery. The both stare as I quietly close the door, leaving my hand on it a moment longer than normal to secretly put a sound proof barrier up. No one here knew I was a witch outside of my mate and I wanted to keep it that way. Mates were a sacred thing to us wolves, so you didn’t just reject your fated mate here unless you planned to live as a human. The Goddess didn’t take lightly to anyone messes up her divine plan. She paired us with our perfect match and by doing so created the most powerful bonds. To reject her plan pisses her off that she not only takes your chance at true love away, but also your wolf and if you’re a wolf in power, you lose everything. I mean you can’t be an Alpha wolf if you don’t have a wolf. After the Gods war, the witches became the scape goat for the God’s that couldn’t stay out of the war. We we’re hunted and killed almost into extinction. Luck enough, some escaped and went into hiding to survive. My family was one of them, but my mother was mated to a wolf. He hated her so much but refused to let go. He tortured her, rape and beat her and eventually killed her and himself, but not before she gave birth to me. The King and Queen of the In-Between, King Orlan and Queen Lila, found me crying and covered in their blood and decided to take her in. King Orlan was a fierce Dragon who ruled with a heavy fist but a kind heart alongside Queen Lila, the most softspoken Dragon the world had ever seen. They had a son, Stefan, who was my age and raised us together as siblings. When we came of age, our parents threw the biggest party and invited people from across the Realms to celebrate with us. That’s where I met Dimitri and my life went to shit. I’ve been hiding my witch half since that day, and I’m lucky I was blessed with wolf spirit, even though I can’t shift. When Dimitri told me he wanted kids, I was scared but I was really lucky with Marcus, he was blessed with an Alpha wolf spirit as he was meant to, allowing me to continue to hide my powers. I look at Ada and am thankful she’s a girl and her father wants nothing to do with her. She’s already showing signs of having strong witches blood and that wouldn’t be easy to hide if she was a boy and had to go through the same training and scrutiny that Marcus does.
“What did daddy say?” Ada asks, breaking me out of my thoughts. I look at her sadly.
“She can stay but we have to keep her away from him.”
“Just like me.” She adds softly, looking down. I set the baby down and hug Ada to me.
“It’s his loss.” She lets me hold her for a second then wiggles free and turns to stare at the baby.
“Whats her name, momma?”
“Well, I don’t think she has one, little miss. She looks like she was born not too long ago.” Poor Amanda, didn’t even get to name her. I feel my heart breaking as I remember something Stefan said shortly after they found out.
“We’ll call her Kara, I think thats very fitting, don’t you?” I ask my daughter, smiling as she nods exuberantly.
"She's gonna be important one day, momma, and she's gonna need us to protect her." You have no idea, little one.