From Princess To Queen

There is no Rest

“Glad to see that you got some rest, Kelly. Where is Max?” Clara asked.

“Showering, princess, we are so sorry we slept all day yesterday, but please understand...”

“I completely understand and would never hold anything against you for doing what you did. With that, we need to meet in my room in thirty minutes.” Clara gives her a piece of paper with her room’s actual time and location.

“Babe, we have a meeting here; read this silently.”

Max looks at her with a raised brow, reads the paper, and tucks it into his pants pocket. He nods, takes her hand, and heads to Clara’s room as they leave. Two guards let Kelly and Max in the room when they arrived at her door. Xavior, Dunken, Clara, and her mother were in the room waiting for them.

“Please sit wherever you like; we meet here because I had it soundproofed years ago. I wanted privacy, and the only way I could get it was to do it myself, with help.”

“It is also where we can conduct business meetings, take phone calls, and such without her father or anyone else eavesdropping in our conversations, plus no cameras are allowed here,” Xander added.

“We understand completely, your Highnesses. We understand that Felix and his mother are coming here again. Do we know when and what their visit is for this time?”

“Yes, and we do not know, but the only thing we can think of is they, especially Libby, are coming to see Father and why he has fallen ill. Too she may cast her original spell back onto him to keep him under her spell, leaving Felix trying to make a move on Clara. We will not let that happen. Of course, we will always be with her, which will piss him off to no end.”

“What do we need to do in the meantime?” Max asked

“We all sit and wait to see what happens, we have guards that we can trust and will handle security inside, and we also have guards outside who will help if needed. Plus, we have Mom and me to go against Libby if she tries anything.”

“Wait, what are you talking about, Clara?”

“Mom is a witch, and so am I. She has been teaching me for years as well as my siblings.”

“You have siblings?”

“Yes, Kelly, I do have two brothers and a sister. One is older, and the other two are younger. None of them want anything to do with taking over the family business because of what their father had done. Mom had my brother and me here, but he left, and Father kept me. It is a long story, and I don’t want to get into it right now because others do not know anything about them, and we want to keep it this way. So all they know is that I am the only child.”

“Wow, when this is all over, you have to tell us what has happened, but we respect your wishes to keep everything a secret and will not tell a soul as it is none of their business.”

They agreed, but Xavior received a text from a guard telling him that Libby and Felix were at the front gates in disguise, trying to enter. Then another text with the same message but at a different location. Several more came through saying the same things.

“We have a major breach; they are sending people disguising themselves at each entrance as we speak.” Xavior shows the text to Clara and Max.

Dunken and Kelly take off to assess the situation, and guards and other warriors do the same. Mind-linking the guards around the grounds, they are looking for the real Libby and Felix and to keep their eyes open. They also link the people in the hospital, especially those on the same floor as her father.

Meira flashed into her husband’s room to wait for Libby to come forth. She wanted to be ready for her nemesis and get what she would do on video and audio to prove that she unknowingly forced King Matthew to turn against his own family. Any information she obtains will go to the high council, which the king is partaking in, but because this is against him, he cannot sit on the council committee for this one. His Beta or Clara will have to stand in his place, depending on what Clara and the King’s Beta decide.

“Hello, my darling; how are you doing today?” Libby saunters in.

“Why are you here, Libby? I do not want ever to see you again, now get out of here before I call my guards.” King Matthew reamed.

“Oh, darling, I told them to get something to eat and leave us be.”

“YOU DID WHAT?” King Matthew bellowed.

The king was seething, and Meira linked the guards outside the door, and they were still standing guard. She asked them if they had seen Libby come walking in, but she never walked through the door, so she knew she flashed in like her but in a different room area. Luckily Meira got that on video, so she knew, and so would everyone else, that she was lying through her coffee-stained teeth.

“Here, my love, drink some tea I made especially for you. You look a little weak. Are they not feeding you in this place of hell?”

“Get out, Libby, and do not ever come back on these pack lands again. Felix is not welcome either, so take that piece of shit with you. I eat my food in this hospital, I am healing perfectly fine, and you will go to prison. GUARDS!”

“Yes, your Highness?” they echoed.

“Take Libby in cuffs, and do not let her out of your sight. They will bind her wolf, anything, and everything else she is and has, so she will not be able to leave. Ensure she is secured in chains in the dungeons made for bitches like her.”

“Yes, your Highness,” they claimed.

They took her away, and as they were walking out, she was starting to whisper something, but Meira caught her on video with the sound homing in on what she was saying, and she linked the guards and mouthed a counterspell against Libby to disarm her so-called spell she was saying. Meira saw what her husband was starting to do and sent a little gust of wind to make his handshake which in turn made him drop his tea and spill it all over himself.

She teleported out of the room without being detected. Meira entered back into Clara’s room, where she was waiting for her mother along with Xavior and Dunken.

“Did you get the video information?” Clara questioned.

“Here, got it, and then some, she is in the dungeons. But your father told the guards’ to put her in the ones made especially for her? What is he talking about, Clara?”

Clara looked at her mother in bewilderment before she spoke, “Those dungeons are made for witches of all kinds, even if they are not full witches but hybrids. They cannot use magic, shift, or anything; human witches also go there. They are all put in the heaviest of enchanted chains made of silver and other poisons that can and will kill any beasts wrapped in them or trying to escape them.”

“OOOhhh, is...that harmful to you?”

“I do not go down there without protection which I make sure I have if and when I go down. These two guys will hold it this time, but I will ensure they are protected when they go down so they are not hurt or weakened by the magic when they enter. I will be in the room where the cameras are while these men interrogate her. Felix will be held in a different dungeon that will subdue his wolf when he is taken into custody at some point.”

“Okay, so when will you two go to her?” Meira chirped.

“Once we view the videos that you took and we get the information needed and transcribed, then we will go in and do the interrogations, which should not be more than twenty-four hours,” Xavior told them.

Dunken took the recorder with him and went to have it reviewed and transcribed so they could start their interrogations against Libby. He watched the video as it was being transferred to a thumb drive. When it was done, he took it back to the room, and they viewed it on TV and watched what Libby had done. They agreed this was good information but needed more information from Kelly, Max, and his Beta, implanted as a spy in Felix’s pack.

“What other information is needed that we do not have already,” Kelly asked, unsure what else was needed.

“They need to be caught in action. We have your testimonies of what has happened, and those who returned to our pack for sanctuary also went to other packs.

“Xander and Dunken will interrogate her later today and video the questioning with Libby to see what we can use. As for Felix, we need him to make more moves on other packs for which they survive and testify against him. Then there is me that he is after but only for the crown, which is what Libby is also after.”

“We have to prove all of that and then some?”

“Unfortunately, we must prove it and take it to the council. From there, they will do their investigations against Libby and Felix.”

“Well, this is just crap because we know what they can do.”

“Let us remember what they have done thus far and plan to do. We have to stay alert.”

Both women hmphed before they left the room to do their duties for the rest of the day. Xavior and Dunken went to the dungeons to interrogate Libby. Clara walked over to see her father, and when she entered, he was sleeping with his mouth open, but something seemed to be off about him. He was not quite asleep all the way, and when she approached her father, his eyes opened, but they were glowing yellow. He turned his head to stare are her.

She took out her phone and pressed record to tape the scene unfolding before her. What happened next threw her for a loop that no one could fathom.

“Darling, your father is healing and will be able to take back his seat as king in two days. Once he does, he will take Libby on as his queen one month later. If you plan on taking over, you and Xavior better start planning your wedding to happen before then, but only some of you have to fight your father for the thrown no less than two weeks from today. Do you understand, Clara?”

“Yes, I understand, but what will happen if we do not do this during the time you say? And who are you?”

“You will never get the crown you are entitled to, and I am your father’s wolf, Harry. Libby has put a spell on your father, who does not affect me. I have been trying to fight it off for him, but it is too strong, and it turns out that you are the only one who is strong enough and powerful enough to kill him and release me back to the Moon Goddess. It is time, my darling; I have always loved you and my children. It is a shame that he could not see what she was, but he did love your mother once, and I still do.”

“Why did he shun me away from my family and make them leave? They deserve to be here, not that godforsaken bitch or her ratchet son Felix.”

“No, he does not deserve any of them, and he is under her spell and has been since you were small, two years old, to be exact. What you are doing now and preparing to take over as queen of our people, your people. You will do what is right, my darling; I will do my part to ensure you get all the necessary information. Do not worry about me. Just kill him, take over, and set things as they should be.”

“Okay, Harry, I will do that. Will I ever see you again?”

“I think so; when we meet again, you will know me.”

With that, the light went out, and Matthew was back asleep like nothing had ever happened. She turned off her recorder and held it too close to her chest, with tears falling from her cheeks. She kisses her father; “Dad, I will always love you but don’t hate what I must do to save the kingdom. You know this and have known this was coming. You will lose to me two weeks from today, and I will rule the kingdom.”

With that, she gathered herself, and things started to walk out. She looked over her shoulder and saw him stir, fluttering his eyes open as she walked out the door. She did not know that her mother was there watching the whole thing unfold before her eyes, thinking that her daughter would be queen and take the reins in a few short weeks. There is no rest for the weary now.