Answers Part 1

Amber's POV

"Are you ready Princess?"

Damien got out of the vehicle and stood there with his hand outstretched to help me out as well. I took in a long deep breath trying to calm my nerves. "Ready as I'll ever be," I whispered as I took his hand and made my way out of the vehicle. After straightening out my dress, I looked over to Damien and asked him, "How do I look?"

He raked his eyes over me from head to toe more than once, with a huge smile on his face. "You look amazing Princess, just like you always do." He placed a small chaste kiss to my lips and took both my hands in his. Looking into my eyes he whispered to me, "Amber, you look amazing and you ARE amazing. There is no reason to be nervous." With that he put his arm around my waist pulling me to him. We made our way up the drive to the large castle.

The castle was not beautiful like I thought it would be. It was made of stone, but it looked so dreary. There was moss growing on the sides of the castle and the garden, if you could even call it that, was overgrown and not maintained. It looked as if it had been abandoned. "Damien, are you sure anyone lives here?" I inquired.

"Yes love. They keep the outside of the castle looking dreary and as if no one lives here so that they don't have many visitors."

"Well why don't they want visitors?"

"Well because the more visitors you have, the more chances for conflict you have as well. Years and years ago, this was a place for Royalty to hide. But then people started coming here to look for the Royals. The last time they came, they wiped out a whole lot of Royals who were found in the castle. The Elders announced that they were moving to a new location and that they would not like visitors. This place had been abandoned for years, but a little while back, some of them came back to the castle. It was not announced to everyone, only Alpha's that are known to have no problem with Royals."

I looked at him and gave him a small smile with a nod. As we walked up to the door, a butler opened it and greeted us. "Hello Alpha Lionheart it's been a long time, and who is this lovely lady with you?"

Damien tensed a little bit; I assume with the added attention the butler seemed to give me. "This is my mate, Amber." He curtly replied.

The butler nodded, giving a quick glance over in my direction again. "Well Miss Amber, it is nice to meet you. Please let me show you to the office. Both of you right this way." He led the way to the office.

Looking around the halls as we made our way, I noticed that this place was the complete opposite on the inside as it was on the outside. It was gorgeous, in an antique kind of way. Marble floors as far as the eye could see, with paintings and statues decorating the place throughout. There was also an abundant amount of crystal everywhere. From Chandeliers to candle holders to figurines. Whoever decorated this castle was obviously in love with everything nice.

Bringing my thoughts back to the task at hand, I glanced at the door we were brought to. "The elders are waiting for you both, I will leave you to it." The butler said as he left us there to go inside.

I looked over to Damien hesitantly; an overwhelming feeling that something big was about to happen. But he gave my hand a small squeeze trying to reassure me. "Love, everything will be fine. We will get answers." He whispered to me and gave me a small chaste kiss on my cheek.

There were tingles where he kissed my cheek and I smiled a great big smile. Well here goes nothing I thought to myself as I opened the door.

As I walked in, I noticed there were seven people in the room all sitting at a round table. It was a mixture of all older men and women, with one who didn't seem to quite fit in with the age. He was looking down at papers in his hand and when he looked up, his eyes meeting my own, I gasped in shock…