Plotting against you, my love

I was lying.

I was afraid to fall for Lucien and betray him in a literal sense. I don't want to be the one to break his heart over everyone else, leave alone hurt him in the worst way possible by rejecting him. This could turn out to be much worse.

As he parts from me after stealing the kiss and whispering the words, I look at his gleaming brown orbs and find the destiny of ours written in them. It wasn't a happy one. Rather, it was to be filled with hatred and wars upon each other.

Clueless that Jasmine was still witnessing our PDA, I kiss his cheek quickly and leave the room, thankfully he wasn't following me when I began running towards the room and see the clouds to clear my mind. To clear my mind from everything that's happening and also to...

Should I terminate this mission? It shall be great if someone else took up my job, but according to what I've seen of Lucien, he will shred anyone into pieces if they least trespass against his land. The borders as so protected like an entire community of presidents are living in this pack. Maybe it was just how the kingship works, but Lucien had built such a great army alongside with Gorius that even a fly shall be cut into pieces by the laser beams.

Laser beams...

I know it because I've seen it.

Suddenly, something deviates me from forbidding my plan on abducting the King of werewolves.

I close my eyes to recollect all the tids and bits of what my mind flashes to me and format a plan, a clear plan. Borrowing some of the very rough stationary in this room which was a chapped off wall decoration piece and charcoal from burnt wood from the side of the room, I begin to draw the sketch of the entire building.

I know that I cannot do it alone. I need a distraction to be presented to him so when he is distracted, I shall inject him wolfsbane or something, maybe silver in his veins and I was so sure that he wasn't going to die.

I plan all this because I don't want him to see me backstabbing on him.

It takes me a few minutes to draw the sketch as I take a deep breath and look at my masterpiece. It's not much but it's a modest architecture thing, the one that engineers draw for an outline. Soon, I shall start filling it in when Lucien allows me to roam around the whole palace without his guards glaring the hell out of me.

But how should that even become possible?

As I realize, the piece of wood comes down and my head has a cartoonish bulb glowing upon my head.

"Of course..." beginning to smirk to myself, I put the plan to use. But before everything, I need to find a place to hide this stuff, along with the charcoal and if I am allowed to draw things, I'll upgrade this blueprint.

To allow Lucien to let me explore the deepest parts of this palace, I need him to trust me. The first and foremost thing I'll have to do is entrust my body with him, show him that he deserves my love but at the same time, I should not let him mark me or mate with me.

I cannot risk my virginity to this beast. It shall be staying with me or given to someone worthy of my love. I wasn't exactly bent upon proving that Lucien isn't worthy of my love, it is just that I don't want to loosen myself up to him so much that I mess my plan.

Finding the perfect space of hiding the wood and charcoal behind the false ceiling of this room, I cover it up and patch it up the exact way it seems to be. Now, my plan begins.

Slowly opening the door of my room that was closed, I suddenly catch the sight of the King himself walking down with a tablet in his hand and Gorius beside him. Panicking like a chicken, I hide back into my room. I'm sure they've seen me act strange. Suddenly, I hear footsteps coming towards me.

Oh no!

Gorius already doesn't like me enough!

Think, Laura! Think!

Pressing my eyelids close, I jump out of the room and directly fall into the King's embrace where he catches me with his fast instincts. When I open my eyes, I point to the doorframe and say, "I- I saw a spider there."

Nice excuse, Laura. Well done! Stupid.

"Where is it?" I look at Gorius when Lucien asks me about this imaginary scary spider.

"Pft. Weak humans. Is that spider going to eat you or what? You're being so dramatic." At least they've bought it. Shaking my head vigorously, still somehow enjoying the male who smelled like fresh ocean water and pine, I see that he was in a suit.

Taking his help to stand back up on my feet, I pretend as though the spider is somewhere closer whilst acting scared. Ha. Scared and me are opposites, actually.

"Where- Where are you going though?" I ask Lucien, taking the step to be casual with him after our 24 hours of being together has ended around the clock.

"I'm going to meet your president." He says, making my jaw fall to the ground.

"Can I accompany you?" I feel Gorius staring at me and digging holes through my head.

"Why is that?" The question even makes Lucien raise an eyebrow at me as he stylishly tucks his hand inside the pant pocket. The blue suit and the red tie was really making me weak for him. I really liked him getting dressed up formally. Actually, I've taken him as a person who goes to the UN wearing pajamas and all, being as arrogant as possible to the humans. But hey, a man's gonna flaunt his dressing skills at some point.

He catches me staring up and down at him as an expected smirk comes up his lips.

This is the one thing that doesn't suit him, even if he looks stunning and breathtaking.

"Be- because I'm a huntress and they'll regard me as such. They know that hunters can enter the assembly as audience and sit in the first seat with the reporters." I say in a hurried tone, showing to him that I'm overly excited about going outside this dark palace already.

He lifts his hand from the pocket which was warm and somewhat sweaty. Lifting my chin up to face him, he smiles like a chucky doll. Everything about that smile was super creepy and horrible. But I stay put.

"Are you sure you want to come with us as an audience? Because your president isn't letting the media know about our secret mission." Says Lucien as I tilt my head to the side, despite him in control of my head.

"Why? What's the secret mission?" I ask him like a curious child.

"It won't be a secret if I tell you now, would it? I'll see you later, princess. Stay with Jasmine if we come back home late." He says and finally sets me free, but I've forgot the actual thing as I stop him by calling his name.

"Lucien! Wait!" Catching upto him with my short but strong legs, I reach upto his lips and steal a little peck from him, rendering him speechless as I run in the opposite direction as quickly as possible for me.

I don't see him, smirking and wiping his lips with his thumb. And I certainly don't see Gorius planning to murder me that instant for turning his Alpha into the softest man the world has ever witnessed of him.

It was evening time and as I don't have my regular watch on my wrist, I've lost track of time and depend solely upon the rise of the sun and moon. Yet, I carry on with my daily tasks as usual and visit Jasmine at the end of the day, knowing she will be in bed soon.

It was currently just quarter past nine when I knock on the door and open it to see Jasmine yawning cutely and stretching her body.

"Did he teach you a lot of concepts today?" I ask her, slowly approaching her bed and sitting down.

"He's always ruthless. It's a daily habit to exhaust my brain now." She says as I aw at her and pat her hair softly.

"But..." she says, something that is not the current topic, "I've never seen Lucien smile ever so often. You've only been here for a day, but my brother has already found his forever in you. Do you promise that you will keep him happy?" The girl asks me so innocently that I begin regretting the choices I've made in my life.

My birth was a mistake, me joining the academy was a mistake and becoming a huntress was even a bigger, irreversible mistake.

But I smile at the girl and say, "I'll keep your brother the happiest for as long as I'm here, sweetness. Trust me." Trust me, but not for too long, Jasmine. Because your brother will not stay happy for too long with me.