The meeting
1531 Words
Ethan's POV
A video of my grandparents right beside that of my uncle appears and I blink very quick to compose myself well.
"Hello dear, it's been a while." My grandmother smiles and I reciprocate it.
My grandparents are in retirement, basically they're where every royal disappears to after their duty to the kingdom.
"Okay, down to business." My grandfather comes forward and I nod respectfully.
"There's news circulating about the arrival of the Luna. Is it true?"
"Yes, it's true." I nod at my grandparents.
"So what then are you waiting for? There's still a curse upon us!" My uncle speaks with the usual anger evident in his voice.
"Calm down Elric. Yes the new Luna is here but we still await Stephanie from her travels." He rolls his eyes at my mother and I clench my fist by my side.
"All this is wasting time Katherine. Call for the seer and tell her she is needed. We have to know the next phase of breaking the curse." Maa nods at my grandparents.
"Is she of royal blood?" I snap my neck at my uncle and I feel my anger hanging on a thread.
"No, she's not of royal blood but we have that covered as always." Maa moves to my side and holds my clenched fist whilst looking at the screen.
I stare at her and I sense she's trying to tell me to calm down, so I let a bit of the anger go.
"Well what is she then?" My grandfather asks.
"She's a werewolf from a distant pack." I tell them what they want to hear, nothing else.
"What about an heir, you can't just have a normal wolf bearing your children. It would kill her." My grandmother speaks with great concern.
Honestly out of the faces I'm staring at she is the only loving and truly caring person.
"Well she's an Alpha's daughter." Maa adds and my grandmother slightly nods.
"A werewolf is good enough, if we're lucky we might even get rid of the abomination in the family."
"Elric!" Maa shouts at my uncle and stares at the screen with rage.
I hold her back until she calms down.
"If that is all then can we please dismiss this meeting." I step forward too and my grandparents readily agree.
"Wait, one last thing though." My grandfather suddenly changes his mind.
"Your cousin will be coming to join you, he will assist with breaking the curse." At that I lose control.
"He's not needed!" I yell then come back to my senses.
"Sorry, what I meant to say is, we can handle it by ourselves."
"We hope you can, but your cousin is not to only assist you, maybe breaking this curse together will put out the fire between you two and the people who follow you respectively." I nod at my grandfather's words of wisdom but a glance at my uncle and I know there's more to it than they're telling me.
He's probably just going to be here reporting my every move to them.
King or not I know deep down that they think I brought about this curse which happened to coincidentally appear on the day of my coronation after I won the throne fair and square from my cousin.
And I don't think it's coincidentally at all.
"And, Ethan, warn you, make sure you do everything that must be done to break this curse once and for all. You know the consequences." Elric warns before the video call ends.
Both Maa and I exhale a big breath of relief.
"You did well Ethan, as always." She pats me on the shoulder and heads towards the door.
"Maa." I call and she immediately turns around.
"There's something you don't know, something I didn't tell them." She looks at me concerned and I swallow my nervousness.
"Claire is not only a werewolf, she's a hybrid too." Her eyes widen and she walks back to me.
"What do you mean?" She questions.
"She's a hybrid Maa, except she's half wolf, half witch." She pinches her brows then collapses into the chair nearest to her and I super speed to her side.
"Oh Gosh." She exclaims then moves her hand over her face.
"That explains the dark vibe that I was getting from her." She whispers to herself and I look on bewildered.
Vampires are creatures of darkness so I guess they can sense it to.
"Not to worry about that because it's in line. She has this bracelet that she must never take off."
Maa stands and looks at me confused.
"What are you talking about? In fact I'm more concerned about the other side of the family. Ethan they won't be pleased." She voices her most concerned thought and I hold her hands.
"They don't have to know Maa. At least not until she is finally queen."
"And what about your cousin?" She continues to look me in the eyes with concern.
"There's not much to worry about Maa, trust me." I assure her knowing very well that Claire hasn't used her witchy powers in months.
I just have to talk to her.
"Well then I suggest you mark her quick to get this whole process started." She cups my face and I nod.
Except there's one small but big problem.
I don't think my mate is ready for that or that side of me.
But like I promised, I'll wait. I'm not going to hurt her or make her feel pressured into doing something like that.
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Claire's POV
We arrive from the tour and I feel very exhausted.
The door opens for Lucas and I and we alight.
He continues to stare at me with that look which says he wants to talk to me but I just shake my head and start walking towards the castle.
It's late afternoon and I'm starving.
"It was nice showing you around Luna." All three of us stand at the entrance and I smile at Michael's words.
"Thank you too for the loads of information. I hope I don't forget anything."
"If you do then I'm at your service to let you know anything you need at all. You know where to find me." I smile at him again before he disappears inside.
"Luna." I take a step inside but Lucas calls for my attention.
"Yeah." I look at him and I see the sorry look replay in his eyes.
"About our first meeting, I'm very..."
"There's no need for that Lucas." I interrupt.
"But.."
"I won't hear it." I smile and walk inside.
"You didn't have to defend me, especially after what I did. I'm just very grateful." I paused at the stairs as he began talking then turned and smiled at him when he finished before walking up.
That was nice of him. But if he doesn't mind I'd like to put the loads of information about the two other capitals and everything else about this country to sleep until the next day.
I walk into the room more exhausted and throw my purse on the bed before falling down back flat onto the comfortable sheets.
"You seem exhausted." A familiar chuckle accompanies the voice and I sit up smiling.
Ethan leans onto the bathroom door frame with his arms folded across his chest and I let out a breath of relief at just this sight.
I sigh then fall back only to hear another chuckle then footsteps.
"So how was the tour?" The voice gets closer until I feel sparks shoot up my legs.
I quickly hug my legs on the bed like a reflex action and Ethan laughs.
"Woah, calm down. I'm just giving you a massage." He smiles.
"Sorry." I blush and make my legs available.
Ethan slowly takes off my shoes and I smile at him when he begins to massage my feet.
I fall back onto the bed to enjoy the sparkling sensation and the feeling of my feet muscles relaxing.
"I really learnt a lot today." I speak whilst still lying on the bed.
"I'm guessing Michael filled you in." He says and I give him a yes sound.
"So what do you think about Artea?" I immediately sit up and look into his eyes as he kneels before me.
"It's beautiful." I smile then kiss him on the lips.
He cups my face after and stares into my eyes with deep emotions.
"Something is wrong." I say then cup his face.
"How did the meeting go?" He sighs then adjusts himself before standing in front of me.
I also stand and look on concerned when he grabs both my hands and brings them to his lips.
He kisses them softly and I smile.
"I'll never hurt you, Claire. And I especially don't want you to feel pressured about anything."
I crease my forehead as he continues to rub his thumb at the back of my hand.
"Where is this coming from?" I get him to look me in the eyes and he smiles.
"I promise you." He kisses my forehead then pulls me into a hug.
What happened to him? What was that meeting about?
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