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Chapter 2: Was That Him?

“What? The prince’s Luna?!”

“Prince Theo is the King’s favorite son, and it’s most likely he’ll be the next king.”

“Then that makes his wife…”

The crowd buzzed with excitement at Beta Xavier’s words. The girls seemed overjoyed to think of themselves living in the palace as nobles, maybe even as a Luna Queen someday.

Some of them were so excited that they started clapping their hands.

Sophia glanced at them and sneered. “Foolish! They think they even have a chance!”

“Of course not! Miss Chambers, they are nothing compared to you!” Sophia’s followers flattered her, which brought a proud smile to her face.

“What if the prince doesn’t need our… our service?” one of the more composed voices asked Beta Xavier.

“Oh, yes, an important question,” he said, raising a finger in the air. Everyone quieted to hear him. “Those of you who are not successful in securing the prince’s favor will return to your packs after three years, with your payment of riches beyond measure.”

As he clapped his hands together, the girls cheered once

again.

Doubt rolled over me as I looked at Beta Xavier’s face. I didn’t believe him. People couldn’t just come and go from the royal palace. In fact, many rumors had arisen over the years regarding the disappearance of palace visitors… or their untimely deaths.

I was sure the truth wasn’t as glamorous as he was trying to make it sound.

As expected, he added, “However, His Majesty, our King Sebastian, would love to see you all try your very best, or-” He smirked, and the glee in his tone suddenly was replaced by an ominous warning. “Not only will you be thrown in prison for your negligence, but also you’ll bring shame and disgrace to your pack!”

My eyes widened. Beta Xavier was threatening us with our own packs! He was implying that if we failed to please the royals, we would bring destruction to our packs!

be bothered by his latest comment and were simply glad that they weren’t sent to the palace to work on

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Xavier declared. “Let us go meet the

crowd as we all began to move again. I exchanged a look with Brook. We had no

we took in the beautiful roses, gardenias,

few steps of the royal garden. It

had been much more lighthearted. Being away from that

getting into the beautiful courtyard certainly eased most of

of Prince Theo. His ruthless reputation somehow seemed

behind me declaring herself the winner again. “No one else is nearly as qualified as I am. Especially not that mouthy little bitch in front

about me, but i’d decided that she

gold, which made the palace seem warm

it sound, the palace was nothing more than a prison to me. Being

I wanted to do

 were required to get intimate with the most terrifying man

way! I had to come up

you looking at? You’ve been so quiet.” Brook caught up to me and asked, “What

don’t know, Brook,” was all that

whether it would be good or bad. I didn’t want to make my already worried friend even more

the living quarters. Make sure you are on your best

we all nodded in unison. At this point, I was used to this Beta’s quickly changing

garden. It was even more luxuriously decorated, and the flowers were more

to the layout of my surroundings. The importance of knowing all of my options where I was, and what obstacles I might confront-was ingrained in my mind as a small child by my adventurous

cautious father.

the distance, and I tried to see if there was a gate nearby. At that moment, I felt a sharp shove in my back, and the next thing I knew, I lost my

Sophia’s face. She’d pushed me! For Goddess’s sake,

collide with the pavement, and I anticipated the sharp pain I’d feel hitting my nose on the ground. However, that wasn’t my worst problem. My biggest fear was that… hadn’t Beta

with a plan to explain myself to

I’d expected never