Their Queen

Chapter Eight; King of the South Part Two

FELIX’s POV

He watches her as she’s writing in a notepad.. She’s been here a month and she’s been exploring the palace along with the people here.. She wasn’t too keen on the blood den but she understands the purpose of it.. She’s been in the library a lot as well, she said despite him saying she doesn’t need to she likes getting to the root of the lands. He won’t stop her, she dresses formal in the public while I’m comfort if she stays in the library or with little public.. She normally has tailors in and out of their room so they can size them both.. She said she wants to throw a formal party but Felix thinks it’s the mother who wants to throw a party and say it was her.. He knows the mother is jealous, the sister as well..

“You look comfortable.” He calls out as she wears a black turtleneck shirt that clings to her chest, and thick black leggings that cling to her for life.. she’s wearing thick red and black socks while she has a glass of wine on the side table near her.. The library doesn’t have desks, well they’re off to the side if needed.. It’s a couch and a side table.. Felix always found it comfortable to read on a couch instead of hovering over a hard table as well as sitting on a hard chair. If needed the tables could be pulled to the couch that is surrounded by towers of books. Candles lighting the room as well as the window that’s usually covered is now open to let in sun light.. And the room doesn’t smell old and like death.. No it smells clean.. Like someone came in here and cleaned it.. Now that he’s looking at it.. The books have been dusted, the tables covered by linen sheets, the couch even looks cleaner.. The candles look newer..

“Yes I am.. I’m reading a fairytale.. I got distracted while looking for the book I wanted.. You look alarmed.” She tells me then she stands up walking to him warily.

“Did you clean?” He asks then she looks around and she’s turns back to him and smiles.

“Yeah, I cleaned it.. Opened the window to let in natural lights.. The floors needing waxing as well as cleaning.. I didn’t do that by myself.. A few servants came to bring me wine and they saw and helped me.. I put new sheets on the table so it wouldn’t get too dusty.. I had Evelyn dust the books off, she did a good job.. We found new candles down in the basements, there’s a lot.. Put them in..” she breaks off as she looks around the room to see what else she’s done.. And she has changed the palace, not a lot but enough to not make it so gloomy.. She’s opened windows and at sunset they were to be closed as well as candles magically be lit, but he’s seen her walk around the palace and even outside.. He’s guessing to count the candles to turn them on at once.

“It looks nice. I’ve seen you’ve done a lot within the palace.” He tells her and she smiles at her, he noticed she likes the appraisal, it might be lack of it at her parents house. It’s probably a kink. He runs his fingers through her massive curly hair, he’s staring down into her almond shaped green eyes.

“Thank you.. I want to do more but I’m not sure what else. I don’t want to overdo it. It looks nice the way it is.” She tells him then she sighs softly as she walks away from him to sit back at the couch. He looks at her then sits beside her, he loves her curls.. He loves how her lips purse up when she’s stuck on something.. How she bites down on her bottom lip when she’s thinking about something. Her. Just her.

“You’ve done good so far, whatever you want.” He tells her which makes her put the book down then she rolls her eyes as she smiles.

“I was thinking maybe pink.” She tells him, he laughs because he knows for a fact she despises the color pink. She hates that it’s associated with girls, feminism about the color. She adores the blue but she was confused of why the red cape and why his room is red as well so the blue and red confuses her.

“You and I both know you won’t even put pink on your paintings. Unless it’s a cherry blossom tree.” He tells her then she laughs and nods slowly.

“This is true.” She tells him then she leans against him as she opens her book again, he stares down at the book seeing it’s about a fairy falling in love with a demon, how the demon tried to take her away.. The ending is very sad.. He gets the fairy pregnant with triplets and he dies after fighting in a demon war.. She never finds love again and raises the three beautiful pieces that he left with her.

“Have you read this story before?” He finally asks her, she looks at the book then at him and she smiles a little.

“I’ve read it a long time ago.. I forgot how it ends.. And I love how they fall in love..” she whispers the last part.. She sighs softly then she looks up at him and smiles at him.

“You’re into romance?” He asks then she shakes her head.

“Some of them yes, but some writers write their experience with love.. And I think that’s better than imagining it.. For them to write their experience.” She tells him then he nods slowly and smiles at her.

~ Morgana’s POV ~

It’s been nice.. Having Felix pay attention as well as talk to me about how he goes about strategizing.. How he goes about politics.. He’s given me the space to do what I want, of course I dress with him and walk around with him, he usually goes about his own thing and finds me in the library and talks for awhile then he pulls me out of there and we shower and bathe or lay in bed together and we talk. He tells me things about himself.. He’s easy going but he’s not too carefree. He’s responsible and sometimes stoic.. He watches as well.. He’s an observer..

“You know, it’s a shame you’re leaving us in a month.” The maid Isle tells me, I look at her as she’s wearing a long black dress with white ruffles, she has a collar on her neck, I asked Felix about that and he said she was a murderer, she sought refuge here, he asked what she did and she confessed to murdering her husband, mistress and his family all for the sake of her name and honor..

“Well I do have to go spend time with my other husbands.” I tell her and she laughs softly and nods slowly.

“You’re right.. And you’re lucky, all four Kings at your beck and call..” she tells me with this swooned look and I shake my head.. Two months gone by fast.. Felix and I often meet in the library, he has little snacks and he had them open the fireplace that was hidden behind a stack of chairs.. He often has me light it while I look out the window at the falling snow.

“The kind has visitors tonight Queen Morgana, he said that he’s requested you be there.” Another maid walks into the library. I look at her and nod.. I wonder who it is.

“Rumors have it.. It’s the Alpha of the winter pack.. I find it disturbing that they’re here.” She tells me and I hear Angie clicks her tongue.

“Isle it’s vile to whisper such rumors! Plus who else is suppose to be here?” Angie rushes to her and I smile slightly as I look at the crystal chandelier that’s going to go in the grand hallway.

“The alpha, his Luna and their beta? Omega? One of those.. Anyways those three are the main three that need to be worried about.. If I were King Felix I’d just behead the alpha and Omega… Throw their Luna away and burn down the pack.” Isle tells her and my eyes widen slightly at how left this conversation went.

“Hush Isle!” Angie whispers.

“If I were in power, I’d kill them and anyone that stands beside those werewolves.” Isle tells her and the anger and venom in her voice makes me wonder, there’s no kindness in there or joking like five minutes before.

“Well it’s a good thing you’re not, you’ll be escorted down to the prisons until I talk to the king and we decide what we’ll do from there on.” I speak up after clearing my throat, both maids eyes widen and as soon as I stop speaking, I hear footsteps.. It’s the guards that surround me. They don’t hesitate they take Isle and she screams and tries to get away but to no avail.

“I just don’t think what she said was right..” I tell Felix as he ties my corset, he pulls slightly and I sigh softly. I wear a black dress with red glittery swirls on the skirt of my dress.. My hair already pinned up and a few curly strands of hair falling onto my shoulders.

“No, you were right to do it, you’re the Queen, you needed to assert your power somehow. The wolves are our allies and it’s nice you stood up for them. Chris will be upset when I tell him.” Felix tells me and I frown slightly. I turn to look up at him, Felix wears a black suit with a red button up shirt.. As to match me..

“You call the Alpha by his first name?” I ask and he laughs and nods.

“I’ve been around a long time, the winter pack and I made treaties long before. I’ve watched Chris grow into a man and we’re good friends.” He tells me and my eyebrow arches slightly and I smile at him.

“Of course, I don’t know why I thought it was a formal relationship.” I tell him and he laughs softly and kisses me softly.

“Of course it’s not. Anyways, they’ll be eating and we’ll chew on some stuff to be polite. You’ll be introduced to them, they’ll love you.. They’re good people.” He tells me and I smile at him at how he beams with happiness. I nod slowly as I kiss him again.

We all sit in the grand hall that is decorated for the special occasion, I stare down at the silverware as Chris and Felix talk excitedly.. About a hunting trip.. The Luna just stares at me.. Something’s off about her scent but I’m not sure what it is, nor do I want to dig too much into it.

“The place is lovely.. It’s more lively than it was months ago.” She finally speaks up, Felix grabs my hand and kisses my knuckles and smiles proudly at me.

“Yeah, Morgana has been decorating and giving the palace a brighter side.. Nothing too bright but opening windows and cleaning does change how the castle looks.” He tells them and I smile at him.

“It does smell cleaner in here. I couldn’t help but notice a crystal chandelier?” Chris asks and I smile a little gleeful.

“Well some of the witches here enchanted some ices after Felix carved them.. So in the sun they’ll sparkle.. Like solar panel lights, they absorb the sun and at night if needed it glows a nice lighting.” I tell them and the Luna Ally smiles at me.

“Wow, an enchanted chandelier.. I might have to steal that from you. Not the chandelier, the idea..” she tells me and I nod slowly.

“So how’s it going so far? You’ve seen the western kingdom, how’d that go?” Chris asks and I shake my head.

“Very colder here, in the west it rained more than anything. But it’s beautiful here and ruled differently.. History here is different.” I tell him and he nods slowly.

“You feel the cold?” He asks and I nod slowly.

“I’m a mixture of two creatures, I feel the warmth of the sun, the cold of the winters..” I tell him and he nods slowly.

“She’s a great Queen already, speaking of, you know Isle?” Felix speaks up causing Chris to look up from his plate then at Felix.

“The one who survived riverbank wolves yeah?” Chris asks and I frown slightly at that.

“The riverbank wolves?” I couldn’t help the question as i was much too curious.

“There was a pack of rogue wolves who were gathering an army to take down all the south and eastern packs, any packs that stood in the way.. Anyways, they would kill anything and everything alive.. It wasn’t until we asked King Felix and his brothers to come to our aid that we survived.. Felix came across a town slaughtered by them before we got there.. They came across a town that was run by vampires so the wolves attacked when no one expected it.. Isle was the sole survivor because she was in a grave.. She survived while her family and friends died..” Chris tells me and I tilt my head to the side slightly.

“We watched her growing up, I didn’t think she had a prejudice against ALL werewolves, just the riverbanks.. But I guess that’s not true.. She grew up, married and it was bad enough for her to be known as the sole survivor of the Riverbank attack that her name was being humiliated by her husband running around with his mistress.” Felix tells me and I nod slowly.

“Anyways, what about her?” Chris asks steering everyone back to the topic he was on about.

“Oh yeah.. So as Morgana and two maids were fixing the grand hall, Isle was telling Morgana about what she would do to you. Beheading you and killing all of your wolves.” Felix tells him and I see the Luna jerk.

“And what did you two do?!” Luna asks angrily. Felix looks at me with an arched brow, he’s literally throwing me out to the wolves.

“Well.. I had thrown her into the prison cells so that the King and I could come up with a plan on what to do with her.. But I’m thinking, maybe she’d try to do it if given the chance.. So.. The punishment should be up to you Alpha Chris since it was a threat meant for you and your pack.” I tell him and he nods slowly at every word I utter.

“Wow.. Impressive.. You’re willing to give her up?” Chris asks me and I pick a piece of red meat up with my fork and I look at him.

“Of course.. Like I said, if she had the chance I’m sure she would act on those feelings.. What if we had a gathering and a child ran by her? No one watching him.. And she were right there and knew it would hurt you all?” I ask and he smiles wide at me. I feel Felix kiss my knuckles again.

“You have an amazing Queen on your hands here, well all of you do.” Chris tells me and I blush slightly and chew on my steak while Felix just glows with pride.

“That we do.” Felix tells him as he kisses my knuckles one more time before he and Chris start talking excitedly.