WEREWOLF PRINC'S POSESSION

Chapter 4 THE ROYAL BALL

it was a dark night, with a moonless sky. and I was running through the unfamiliar forests, running from something, or someone, while twigs and rock giving me bruises and making me bleed while I was running.

I'm not certain of what has happened to me that led me to this situation, but all I know was that no matter what, I couldn't stop running.

I knew if I stopped running, something bad will happen to me. that's all I knew.

something yanked my hand all of a sudden, making me come to a halt in my rush, hurting my hand at the same time. I got yanked to the dirt, making some stones rip through my skin, formulating it to bleed even more. as I slowly start to look up to the thing or person holding me.

I don't see much, the only thing I see is b****y-red eyes, starving hungry, and eagerly down at me smiling.

as I woke up startled and scared from the sleep I had. my body was covered with sweat from the dream that felt so real.

I got up from my bed and went to the closet to get some cloth, the first thing I saw, was a ball dress in My Closet. it was the beautiful floor-length dark-blue gown with spaghetti straps on the shoulders, I saw it yesterday as I was unpacking my thing from my suitcase.

"Are you ready for tonight?" Abby said looking like she just got out of bed. "not really" I said as I took a white blouse and blue washed denim pants and went out of my room and straight to the bathroom for a shower. ignoring Abby who has laid down on my bed while tapping on her phone.

I took off my clothes and went into the shower. thinking about the weird dream as I waited for my hair to get wet. I was done with the longest shower I ever had, wore my clothes, and went into the kitchen to make breakfast, only to stop and see that Adrien has already made it and, even set the table with flowers and made it nice and delicious. the day went by rapidly and before I knew it, Abby and Adrien had to get ready for the royal ball.

As I was done with my makeup, I saw Abby wearing her black knee-length body thigh dress, already done with her hair and make-up. she came to me zip up my gown and did my hair in a low bun.

I haven't seen myself so beautiful in many years. I had to stop caring about my appearance after the accident.

we were on our way to the castle, we could see the outline of it. the castle was like any other castle in a fairy tale, but twenty times bigger, and with its own forest and the biggest garden, I coun't see where the garden stopped, and there was every kind of flowers you could think about. having it's own place in the garden, with clearly some people looking after it.

as we went inside of the castle, a maid was showing us to the ballroom. it was beautiful, a big crystal chandelier was on the ceiling. as we came down the big stairs with others.

Adrien nudged me on the side

" look over there" I looked the way he was nudging me, " wow, they even sits on golden chairs" he said while looking around. we got to the ground floor and begun to talk, waiting for the royal family to show up, and finally, at 10 pm they did." behold the royal King and his Queen have arrived" the royal speaker said.

"will he never lose his voice, he said all the names of the guests when they were coming in too". I whispered to Abby and Adrien,

we all bow down to the king and queen until they got to their seat and sat down. the king got up again and begun with his speech,

" welcome everyone to this ball. now for the reason why I've asked all of you here is because of my son the crown prince" 'now this is getting interesting' I thought to myself. " the crown prince Jack, my first born, is among you all to find himself a chosen mate. that was all, now everyone enjoy yourself" he said while sitting down on his throne again, beginning to talk to his mate., like he didn't just throw a bomb of information on us all. I looked around and saw shocked, exciting faces on almost everyone. many of the women we're trying to make themselves more sexy and beautiful.

everyone began to mingle with each other and dancing. while I was talking to Abby, someone came and took their hands before my eyes, " guess who" a masculine voice said close to my ear. I quickly turn around out of sudden fright. and before my eyes, is the annoyingly handsome royal guard I met at the diner.

" well hello there little one" he said with a deep voice while looking me intensely in the eyes.

"what do you want," I said while putting some power in the world you. " nothing much, just a little dance," he said while exchanging his left arm " or are you scared little one"

I looked back trying to find my brother or Abby but Adrien was at the sweet eating to his heart's content, while Abby was dancing with another man. " no thank you, I'm not interested." I said trying to get away from him. he came in front of me quickly " come on, little one, just one dance, please"

" stop calling me little one, I have a name," I said irritatengly " okay, okay, little one, you can tell me your name while we are dancing" I was thinking about his offer until I thought, why not. I gave my hand to his still outstretched hand. he took me to the dance floor, sat his right arm on my back while I sat my arm on his strong biceps while having my arm in his left hand, and we began to dance to the song.

" So what's your name," he said to me, gazing deep inside my grey eyes while smiling sweetly at me.

" my name is Emma, what's yours?"

I asked while looking to the side, still feeling his stare on me.

" The name is Jack, little one," he said still smiling.

" Tell me about yourselves?" Jack said pressing himself a little closer to me.

"what do you like to do," he said enthusiastically, while holding me in place while I'm trying to get a little space between us.

" None of your business Jack, could you please allow some space between us?

your basically squeezing our bodies together." I told him feeling his abs and muscled through the ball gown and the suit he is wearing. " no" he said straight out, with no hesitation in his voice " what why you're technically squeezing the life out of me" I said shocked because I didn't expect the answer like that. " because I like it like having our body squeezing together like this" he said while I watched his smile turned into a smirk while he Said his world.

Jack keeps weirdly looking at me while we were dancing in the middle. after about an hour the dance finally came to an end so I was about to let go of him, but he won't let go of me " eh Jack?" I said looking awkwardly at him

" what is it," he asks like his not holding me in a death grip.

"the dance is over, you have to let me go," I said while trying to get him away from me. As we were arguing, well more like I was arguing while he just stood there and listened, I bet he didn't even hear a word of what I was saying. a guard came over, tapped him on the shoulder, and whispers something in his ear. huh, maybe a co-worker since the man was also wearing a royal guard uniform. what the guard said had to be important because as soon as he was done telling something to Jack, he turned back to me while the guard walked away " I have to apologize, but I have to leave. something important suddenly came up" he said while bowing to me, kissed the back of my hand and left.

"Finally he went away," I said out loud walking to Adrien who's beside the window talking to a lady. 'hmm Adrien talking to a girl, that's new' I thought as I went closer to them to listen to what they're talking about, but not close enough for them to notice me.

"please just one dance, handsome, maybe we can find a room later too, for a little fun time for me and you baby," she said in a flirty way " Jack looked disgusted at the slutty girl grinning herself on his hand, " get the f**k away from me, you damn b***h, I'm not interested in someone that's a slutt and an easy target," he said in the meanest way I've ever heard him speak to anyone. the girl rushes away from him in humiliation. " you can come out now Emma," he said with a smirk on his face ' what is it with guys and smirking?' I thought to myself while walking to my brother. " well what was that about," I said going straight to the point. " well she came up to me saying things like your majesty and crown prince, and then she said that she wanted to have s*x with me, that's all," he said while giving me some sweets to eat. " hey whats up guys," Abby said coming towards us with a guy beside her. " nothing much Abby, mind introducing us to your friend," Adrien said while readying another spoon full of cake. I'm eating finger sweets while taking a look at the man Abby came with. I looked up and greet him.

' he looks familiar' I thought to myself as I greeted him.

" my name is Ron, it's a pleasure to meet the friend of this beautiful lady," he said while wrapping his arm around Abby, in a possessive way. I look over at Adrien " maybe it's a werewolf ting" he said whispering inside my ear. we talked for a while until I spot Jack all of a sudden, talking to other women, Kissing their hands the same way he did to me, and began to dance with her.

" What a bastard, a real lothario," I mumbled under my breath while looking out the window.

" Yeah, he's a real jerk right, after dancing with you he went right to someone else" I heard Adrien whisper beside my ear.

" what are you talki-..w-wh-what do you mean Adrien," I asked him while blushing all red all over my face.

" I saw you two dancing and chatting together, so you can't deny it, sister," Adrian declared while looking at something outside the window.

"it's probably nothing Adrien, I just told him to not bother me anymore and mind his own business," I said.

I suddenly felt a scary chill running down my back like someone is staring daggers at me.

"Yeah, like you did in the diner we ate in before coming to the capital, and damn if looks could kill, I would be ten feet underground by how he looks at me thanks to you Emma" I heard Adrien proclaimed as he held eye contact with Jack who's still dancing with girls.

I took a look at where Adrien we're looking and saw Jack looking mad at my brother. I pushed Adrien away so his attention could come to something else, but while I was pushing him, my grey eyes met His crystal blue ones, he had a sad but angry look on his face, like he regretting something bad he did, but still angry for something I did, promising me that his coming for me later.