Anastasia’s POV
“Natalia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed again.
I had been raging since the mating ceremony in the east high pack. Why? Jake was going to take another mate. That was not possible at least while I was alive.
I recalled the moment I saw Arya and Jake being all sweet. The love between them was lovely and all but I didn’t care. I wanted a new life I wanted fame and money. Just like mum when she married Arya’s father. Though the man is washed up now, I could see how strategic mum was in bagging him. I knew if I didn’t act fast, I might not be able to get a chance at a better life. It felt like I would have missed out on the only opportunity in my life.
While I plotted on how to take Jake away from Arya, the only thing that kept me on track was my dream. I always fantasized about how I would be Jake’s mate. I even boasted to my friends that my coronation ceremony would soon be happening. And when it finally happened, it was the talk of the town. Everyone was talking about how I and Jake were a match in heaven.
Now Jake wanted someone else? No way! What I will go through could make me want to kill myself. The Utter embarrassment and pain. It’s going to take me ages to stop crying. That evening, I kept my ears to the ground, to find out who had taken my place, who had taken what rightfully belonged to me.
To my utmost surprise, I found out that none of them was his mate, and I became elated. I then decided to find a solution to my problem. I decided to speak to a friend.
“So babes do you know anyone who can make his mark, appear more prominent on my skin?” I asked.
“Well, I have a few suggestions in mind but I know of only one person that would do a good job. “Debra said. But what if you can’t manipulate your skin, what will you do?”
“Simple. I’ll find his new mate and kill her. No one would have Jake if not me”
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The day had not yet begun but I already felt like I was in the dark.
After my talk with my best friend Debra yesterday, I decided that we were going to visit a witch who lived on the other side of the woods. The other side of the woods was like a world of its own. It was home to humans, vampires, and witches. It was like a free world but it was more of a survival of the fittest kind of thing. The werewolves were not welcomed, so any werewolf that wanders to the other side is always considered dead on arrival. Hence the werewolf kingdom made a rule prohibiting their kind of passing through.
I knew this but when I imagined another female in the arms of Jake, my stomach twisted and it fueled her zeal to do the impossible. The plan was to sneak out of the palace but to do that, I needed an ally amidst the maids. Since Jake moved to the ice palace, I had not been in touch with my first maid and ally.
“Natalia?!” I called out softly to my Servant.
“Yes your Highness” Natalia answered as she opened the room. She was already breathing hard. Natalia didn’t want to give me a reason to report her to my husband like I did to Hilda, who was whipped to unconsciousness, last week.
“Oh I’m so sorry, did I interrupt your washing” I said softly. I saw the weird look on Natalia’s face and fought the urge to laugh.
“I want you to have these clothes. I don’t want them anymore” I said batting my eyelid innocently Natalia stared at me like I had developed a new head.
“Come on don’t stare at me like that. Take them” I urged her smiling. Natalia stooped and began packing the clothes. Natalia kept glancing at me, probably I could tell her that this was a joke and I wanted her to wash them. When she picked them all and I didn’t say a word, Natalia left. And that was how it was for the next two days that Natalia began to open up to me. I loved that my plan was working.
Two days later, I was ready to embark on my journey. “Hey girl are you ready?” I said into my phone.
“Alright I’ll be out soon,” I said and got off the phone. Then I called Natalia to my room “Listen up Natalia, this is the deal. I have a business to run and you have to pretend you are me ”
“What? Your Highness is that even possible, how will I be able to do that?” Natalia was this close to crying. If they found her in my bed, they would kill her.
“That is your freaking fucking business. “I spat as I raised the hood to my head and left my room through the window.
Things had taken a different turn for me and Debra. After we had successfully left the palace, with the help of my ally, who was a high-ranking security official in the palace, Debra forgot the road to the boundary totem that marked the end of the werewolf kingdom and the other side of the woods.
“Please tell me that you are joking “I gritted my teeth. We were already running late and we were yet to leave the werewolf kingdom.
“No, I am very sure it’s here. I am sorry for putting you through all that stress” Debra begged.
“You better be right this time, or else, we’ll march back to the palace and I’ll tell my husband that you tried to kidnap me” I glared at my friend before walking off. “We are here” Debra announced.
We walked in and successfully located the house of a witch.
“What do you want?” she asked pointedly. She directly at me.
“I want him not to have another mate beside me,” I said. She looked down and back up, shaking her head.
“No, I can’t do that”
“What?” I snapped. “Then why did I-”
“Aren’t you impatient” she interrupted me. I shut my mouth and decided to watch her.
“You can’t stop him but you can kill every woman he has been with him aside from you”
“Yes, I want that,” I said immediately. She did some spells and looked me in the eye.
“It’s done” I stood up and dropped her the fee. I promised I would come more often as more women would die in my hands. As soon as we got out of her house, Debra tapped me.
“What?”
“Your phone has been ringing like crazy,” she said.
“Who is it?” I asked.
“Nia,” she said. I smirked.
“That’s good. It’s about time I visit my sister.