The Alpha and His Cursed Princess

Chapter 29

When she emerged wearing her dress Archie looked at her asked. "Do you always choose dresses that match your sandals and your bags?”

“Well it never occurred to me I just wear it the way I feel like wearing it,” she said half laughingly.

They drove to the outskirts of the city and entered a very beautiful villa that looked like a castle where his friends made her welcome. They both lived with their two children in a magnificent house overlooking a wide valley with wines and orchids all around. And she wondered whether the orchids at Archie's house were given by them. They were a very good-looking couple, very interesting and friendly, and their whole garden but superb with a blend of beautiful flowers and plants and it looks so exotic that Amelia couldn't move her eyes away from it.

The guest at the launch were  equally important and had traveled from around the world, Amelia enjoyed chatting with the local residents and was delighted to see an old friend, a daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh now she was living in Copenhagen and finishing up with her book which she was about to  be launched  and husband was also accompanying her.

There was another she recognized too. As she sipped an exquisite champagne-style wine at the launch of the organic product they make, she caught the eye of another old friend making his way towards them the handsome and famous Italian bureaucrat Romano Colombo, he swooped her up kissing her on both cheeks.

“Oh my God, Amelia I mean Amy,” he said extravagantly, “ What on earth are you doing in this part of the earth?”

“She's here with me.” Archie said from behind her and Amelia could feel a tinge of jealousy in his voice.

Smile widening, Romania looked up, “ Ah Archie I should have known you would be with the most beautiful woman here apart from a Hostess of course!”

Amelia laughed, “You are still the same old Romano Colombo, who will never forget to give a compliment for every woman,” She said affectionately aware of the trickle of tension that had nothing to do with Romano. “ What are you doing here in Denmark away from Italy?”

“Oh the host and I are old friends he told her, “ and I come often to Denmark just to keep a watch on them you understand but also because I love the place and the weather out here it's so pleasant. And because we still sell a lot of wine here from our vineyard and I need to travel and get the feedback of how it is doing in the market out here.”

“Oh, that’s amazing, I haven’t met you after Harry’s engagement. And why didn’t you come for his wedding?” Amelia asked curiously.

“Well, I was tied up with something so couldn’t make it I heard the wedding was awesome and congratulations Archie on your sister’s wedding.” Romano smiled at him.

“Thank you and the wedding was awesome, you should have come.” Archie said flatly.

“Now that I think I really should have as I could have whisked Amy away but you got lucky.” Romano chuckled.

And Amelia laughed as she blushed.

“Awe…How I miss your smile Amelia, you are still that naughty little princess like you were in school not too reserved and a little wild and the tabloids always write about you for being the ice princess and I laugh it out because the people who are close to you will only know your true self and I am always proud that I am one of them.” Romano said genuinely.

Amelia was touched and hugged him tightly unaware that the man beside her had clenched his fists .

“How dare he touch her? She is ours  Archie.” Casper growled trying to come out.

And Archie’s eyes were flaring with anger and he wanted to pull her away from Romano but he knew he couldn’t do it as the woman had herself gone and hugged him.

“I am so happy that you are there in my life Romano and I always miss our outings,” Amelia said warmly.

“Shall we take a stroll and rekindle our childhood memories,” Romano asked politely.

“Why not sure.” Then she looked at Archie as if she was asking his permission.

“All right, just don’t go too far,” Archie said trying to control his anger as his wolf was going wild watching Romano hold Amelia’s hand and he was freaking jealous of Romano as he could maker laugh so freely but she never laughed so freely when she was with him.

It was very late in the evening when the launch ended and Archie looked for Amelia who had vanished in the big garden.

And he was very furious as it was getting a little dark and it could be dangerous for her to stroll around alone and he happen to see Romano get in the car and leave and wondered where she was?

Amelia had excused herself and walked towards the beautiful garden that was near the lake wanting to get a good view of the beautiful scenery before they head home.

After sitting there for a while she got up to walk towards the villa thinking Archie would be worried but as he walked few steps she heard a strange sound coming from behind and she wondered if someone was making out in the garden and her cheeks turned red at the thought of it.

“Hello, is anyone there?” she called out not wanting to disturb them but when she did not hear any response she walked away but after walking a few more steps she heard a soft growl and wondered if it was a dog but when she saw the huge wolf her eyes widened and she wanted to scream as it looked like the same one she had seen at Harry’s wedding reception.

She slowly began to move backward as its red eyes were scaring her and it made it angrier as it growled loudly.

Her hand covered her mouth to stifle the scream which was about to escape her mouth as she feared that it would attack her.

She looked around for help or something with which she could shoo it away. She was sweating profusely and her heart was beating faster than usual but the wolf was still approaching her as if it had found its prey.

It snarled at  her preparing itself to attack her and his red eyes were focused on her, it jumped forward and Amelia let out a scream.

“Oh, Lord I am dead.” She said under her breath.

But suddenly a howl came through the air and all strands of her hand stood up as the sound was like another wolf was growling and Amelia was shocked. What is happening she wondered. As out of nowhere a huge brown wolf jumped in front of her and shielded her. Amelia watched in horror.

She thought the other wolf was huge but she was wrong for this one was much bigger and it looked very beautiful. How much could she think of something so dangerous as beautiful? Amelia wondered what was wrong with her as it did not make any sense then again nothing made sense to her ever since she had seen that wolf and heard the voice while she was sitting on the flight.

She watched in fear as she saw the two-step back and started to go around in circles growling at each other but out of nowhere another four wolves jumped and joined the fight it seems as though they were on a side of the brown wolf, as the three of them began to corner the single wolf who was trying to attack her and it slowly started retreating realizing he was outnumbered not that it could have won a fight against the brown wolf. It eventually jumped over one of the walls and ran out into the woods and the others started chasing after him.

The brown one stayed behind as he slowly started to approach her. Amelia's eyes widened in shock and she imagined that she was about to be attacked by him but for some reason, she wasn't scared of this one which was way too insane as it was much more dangerous than the other one in terms of strength. It watched her with alert eyes almost as if it was scared She would run off, she felt like it was trying to speak to her trying to tell her that she was safe with him.

Amelia wondered whether she was a wolf in her previous life as she kept on dreaming about becoming a wolf and now she was about to be attacked by a wolf but another wolf saved her. She was probably going mad.

It came and laid down beside her feet resting his chin on his forelegs as he continued to watch her with careful eyes. Amelia slowly bent down beside him and even more slowly caressed her hands on his brown fur. And she realized that it was very soft but soon the wolf licked her neck and she was frightened all of a sudden.

But when she realized that the wolf was harmless she laughed in shock. “ You like it when I ruffle you don't you?”

“Amelia! Princess Amelia!” Someone was shouting from a distance.

The wolf immediately sprang up when it heard  the voice and within a second it was gone.

Amelia looked at its retreating back and thought what did just happen? Ad  should she tell Archie about it. But would he believe her? Because it was too good to be true so she decided not to tell to anyone about her encounter with the wolf.