The Hawk Castle was engulfed in silence, the only noise echoing through the beautiful dining room was the utensils being banged together.

Lord Rodriguez, who was perched on the high-backed chair, was offered the first meat plate by the serving boy.

The silence was depressing, the ignorant stepbrothers, and the hatred carrying luna's, there was no peace found in eating together.

"Father!" Kaiden, who was making the most noise while banging the spoon against his plate, mumbled to get his father's attention, "Where are those TV's?" he had a frown over his forehead. He didn't like the fact that his father had ordered to keep such a great invention away from the Nobility to cherish them.

"Those were invented by the Peasant humans; why would you want to be dependent on something that was made by the peasants?" The Alpha King had a completely different perspective over life and the world than his son.

From what he remembers, the humans when finding out about supernatural beings, their hunters used modern technology to capture them, torture them, and to perform many torturous experiments on them.

The wolves and vampires worked together to get the world over from the humans and rearrange the manner of living. They hide all the inventions and forbade them from being used, hence they brought the medieval way of living back.

"Wouldn't it be fun that we get to enjoy their luxuries while they droll over us?" Kaiden didn't care about anything. To him, the most important thing was power, the throne, and his entertainment didn't matter the source if his family got all of it.

"No! You have asked about it countless times and I have said no to that, I don't want to ever hear about it again," Lord Rodriguez had to raise his tone a little so that his son, the future alpha king understands it better.

"As a future Alpha, I believe it doesn't suit you to have so much desire for the human-made luxuries," Beatrice, spoke with her eyes drenched in vengeance. All she ever desired now was her son, the eldest son of the alpha king, Gideon to win the throne.

"I am right here to teach my son what's better for him, and God had blessed him with a strong alpha father to make sure he doesn't steer off the right path," Monica responded almost immediately, she was proud of being an accepted Luna.

The 37-year-old Queen Monica was an emblem of beauty. Although she didn't share royal blood like the rest of the members, she had gained enough power to shut down anyone who had ever questioned her background.

"Mother didn't mean t---," As Gideon saw his mother's raging, he wanted to make peace but was swiftly shut down by the harsh glares of Monica, who was too proud of replacing Beatrice.

"Speak when you are asked to," Monica's harsh words made Beatrice watch Lord Rodriguez's face in hopes of some response from him, but he simply did not care.

How was he letting Monica get away with disrespecting his first-ever born? That mystery was beyond Beatrice.

"Mother!" Kaiden, who had been silent so far, stared at his mother in disbelief, "Brother was only trying to bring peace to the table," Kaiden tried to defend his brother but in their mothers' eyes, he only wanted to look nice in front of his father.

The dinner soon ended and they were escorted to their rooms.

"Why do you have to teach Kaiden anything. He is not your problem!" Beatrice started to complain about her son as soon as they came back to the chamber.

Gideon didn't like the treatment his mother had received in previous years. It was unfair to blame all to his mother for his father turned into a hybrid.

That was not her fault and even more his mother was the one who stayed with his father and helped him during his transitions. However the first thing his father did after getting a good hold over the power was to find himself a new mate.

Gideon didn't understand his father's choice, but there's nothing he can do to change.

"Lord Rodriguez needs to know the new alpha doesn't even care about the rules that his father had made," Beatrice rolled her eyes, letting the personal maid to loosen the corset from her back.

"You don't need to do this, mother, Kaiden is a very responsible a--," Gideon too wanted to defend back his brother like Kaiden did at the dining table.

He paused once his mother's harsh glares warned him to not show an affection to his brother.

Obviously, his position was not similar to Kaiden's, he was more like a rejected son who had to walk around eggshells to not offend anyone. He felt terrible.

"I'll go take a run now," Gideon had to take his mind off things, and the best way to do that was to run up to Ophelia's house and stay outside the whole night in hopes of catching a glimpse of her through the windows.

"Make sure you return back soon; I don't admire your activities these days," Beatrice wasn't inattentive to her son's interests these days, but she still has to discover the true reason behind his son's habits.

"Don't fret, nothing wrong is going on. Good night!" Gideon walked out of the room and left the castle.

Things were not so well for Monica and her son, Kaiden, either.

"Why did you have to bring it up again?" she slammed the goblet she was drinking from on the floor and raised her tone at her son, who was sitting on the chesterfield, his one leg over the other and rocking his foot very ignorantly.

"Stop!" she yelled at her maid, who was struggling really hard with taking off the jewelry from Lady Monica's beautiful neck as Monica was dancing around throwing the goblets and using her gestures aggressively.

"I don't understand father's obsession with medieval times. The modern world was so much better than the dull world we are living in now," Kaiden wanted to rule the world but the modern one, this manner of living bored him. "You know ego is your biggest enemy, can someone tell that to father?" Kaiden had no shame in saying whatever he felt like saying.

"I could truly use a cellphone right now," he muttered under his breath, "How long could a person live like this? What's wrong with using humanly invented goods when we are literally making them to prepare our foods, clothes and do all these chores now? We are still dependent on them. They are still inventing for us, whether it be better crops or new foods to feast upon," He found hypocrisy in his father's statements, he thought the alpha king could do better by accepting the time and the inventions that could ease up their lives like before.

"Bring me the finest silk gown," Monica had calmed down now, she had a mating night with the alpha king, she couldn't wait to rub it against Beatrice's face in the morning.

"Don't you want to wear lingerie for father?" Kaiden had to go off-limits to grab his mother's attention. She ceased whatever she was doing and gasped at the words his son has used for her.

"You---," she muttered, picking up a pillow and shoving it in her son's face, "this is why we don't want those inventions back, look at you using foul language to your mother," she wasn't the lady like she was pretending to be. She would just sacrifice anything to please her mate, her king.

"I would love to watch some sexy she-wolves in lingeries," Kaiden sighed in exhaustion and that's when his eyes caught the sight of a very beautiful green emerald in a pendant.

A smile crept over his lips as his mind signaled this pendant would look so good around his gorgeous Rosalie's neck.

Just when his mother was busy getting ready to visit her lord's chamber, Kaiden sneaked the pendant into his pocket.

Kaiden had been waiting outside Rosalie's house and now it was 9 am, who had not met him after he had asked her to leave his castle a few nights ago.

He knew she was upset, so he had stolen his mother's emerald pendant to gift her.

He gently tapped his fingers on the window, making Rosalie's strong sense of hearing wake up and look in the direction of the window before her father does. Her eyes shone in surprise and fear to see the future alpha king in the woods, outside a vampire's house.

"I'll take a round outside," She excused her father, panicking at the sight of the future Alpha King outside her window.

"Make sure you remain in shelter," her father lazily advised and tracked back to his room.

Kaiden had pulled away from the window after watching Rosalie acknowledging his presence. She came outside the house, thanking mother nature for the shelter these trees were providing over her head to prevent her from burning her skin under the sun.

"Why are you here?" She narrowed her eyes, rushing at him, using her vampire strength and pushing him away from her. Had she applied the same force on any normal wolf, they would have landed miles back but Kaiden was a hybrid alpha, he didn't even flinch.

"What do you mean? I was missing you," He argued back, they were hiding behind a big tree from the eyes of the neighbor vampires.

"Oh! Or you were missing my body!" she was bitter about the fact that he had kicked her out right after they had se* with her.

"Rosalie, please don't say that. You know my feelings are beyond that, if se* was the only thing that mattered, I would have gotten it from any she-wolf with their full consent involved," Kaiden approached her again but she had turned her face to the side.

In her eyes, what he said meant nothing as they would not end up together even if they want to since the Lord had made it very clear in the rules that this relationship was forbidden.

"Rosalie!" he gently caressed her arm, "Just wait till my coronation, I'll slowly bring changes, trust me," He desperately wanted to make her his Queen, she was his true love, despite what he had been told about the Moon Goddess choosing a mate for him who would be a she-wolf, he knew what his heart craved.

"And what about me not being able to give you an heir?" She finally turned her face to look at him, there was love but mixed with hopelessness.

"I'll do something about that as well, you don't worry about it," He ran his hand down her arm and gently pressed her hand between his hands, "Trust me, okay?" he reassured her, not stealing his eyes to prove his commitment to her and their relationship.

"Really?" she was satisfied to hear those words from his lips.

"And! As an apology for my behavior from nights ago, I brought you a gift." He pulled the beautiful pendant out of his pocket, making Rosalie's eyes to grow bigger at the beauty of the gift he had brought for her.

"Oh My God! This is so beautiful," she gently held it in her hand and stared at it, admiring it.

She was wearing a black trousers and a black high-neck sweater, she topped the sweater with a black long overcoat, the usual attire for the vampires. While Kaiden had to wear the medieval dress code to please his father, which was a black tunic and black trousers to blend in with other members of the wolf packs and not stand out as royal. Although, it wasn't something modern, but the charming hybrid looked stunning in it.

"Nothing is more beautiful than you, my queen," as his lips uttered the precious words to Rosalie, she blossomed with happiness and satisfaction.

"I love you, Kaiden!" Rosalie bring him close and gently filled herself in his strong, muscular arms. It wasn't only Rosalie, every girl wanted to be Kaiden's Queen or lucky enough to lose virginity to him.

"I will go now and meet you again soon," Kaiden parted his ways after he had planted a kiss onto her forehead.

On the road, there were still some annoyances lingering in Kaiden's mind. He would probably experience many more times like today, you know, appease Rosalie, before he became the next Alpha King, but he had no other choice, he had to remain patient until the coronation came.

He needed to do something now to release the pressure, but... where he could go?

Suddenly, the figure of that bold girl popped into his mind, and Kaiden let out a light chuckle as he ran towards his destination.

***

The sky was clear that day, the bright day had arrived with many new challenges for humans. As the Hawk family prepared for a Royal tour of the parks, inns, and taverns and the humans had to work extra hard to please them.

Ophelia and her mother had been indulging hard in making sure things were perfect in the tavern they run. The dress code for all the humans, otherwise known as peasants, was fixed as well.

Emma and Ophelia wore a brown muslin underdress as they ran the tavern without any support and help from men.

"I hope the Alpha King doesn't decide to barge in here, I can't tolerate their bullsh**," Ophelia mumbled to her friend, Athena, who was a she-wolf.

Unlike others, Athena didn't agree with treating anyone like a peasant, she was a red-headed she-wolf with beautiful brown eyes, who was very gorgeous and also courageous.

"Well, you know they are like those demons, you think about them and they appear," Athena drank the bear from the metallic goblet, sitting a little away from the men.

As they had only done talking, the door flew open, revealing the spoilt Future Alpha King; Kaiden, along with his friends.

Emma and Ophelia never liked him, he was a mischievous one, always picking up fights when he drank too much.

Kaiden had changed into a noble attire, he was wearing a silk white tunic, white breaches, and a blue surcoat.

"Get out of my way," Everybody who saw him, hurriedly got up and bowed before him. They knew he was the one to be the alpha king in the future, and they knew well he wouldn't spare anyone who ever defied him.

Emma booked to them anxiously, making them comfortable around the wooden table on wooden chairs.

"Bring us food, and make sure it's cooked well," Kaiden raised his brow, watching Emma nodding obediently before his sight.

"Wait!" as Emma was about to leave, his voice stopped her in her steps, "Is there no women to entertain us?" his question made the wolf customers nod and cheer him up, "If there is none, bring us your daughters and sisters," Kaiden liked the attention he was getting.

Ophelia was watching him from afar, knew he wanted to pressurize Emma to hire ladies, who would please them.

"Did you hear me? I said, my friends here need entertainment," He raised his voice this time, the customers that were cheering him on went silent.

It didn't take them long to realize, the future Alpha wasn't in a pleasant mood.

"Leave it to your mother Ophelia, she can handle him without even causing any damage. If you go there, things might turn bad," Athena grasped Ophelia's hand, once she saw her friend getting ready to March towards Kaiden.

"I just--," Ophelia's anger didn't let her finish the sentence. She knew what Athena said was true, they were standing in the small corner with a curtain preventing it from the outside eye. If she were to make her presence known, the werewolves would probably demand her to please them.

"Don't underestimate your mother," Athena turned her head to Emma's place, "She is not a weak woman. "

"I'll try to get you angels someday," Emma being a pro in bypassing challenges, giggled playfully and played with one of the guy's tunics.

"And mother likes the attention as well," Ophelia saw the shimmer in her mother's eyes and smiled while shaking her head.

Emma was a cheerful woman, she loved men's attention, but that doesn't mean she would sleep with anyone she sees.

"See, everyth---," as Athena had only able to open her mouth, one of the boys from Kaiden's friends got up and stood behind Emma.

The moment he did that, the smile from Ophelia's face faded away. There was something sketchy about his action. He rested his hand on Emma's butt and squeezed it as harder as he could, making Emma to yell out a shriek in shock and pain.

The whole tavern was filled with the laughter of the powerful creatures called werewolves.

"As*holes!" Ophelia bit her tongue, clenching her jaw in frustration and her inability to punish the boy.

"Imagine how loud she must yell in the bed," The boy, commonly known by the nickname clumsy by the werewolves, commented to entertain Kaiden.

Everybody laughed while Emma adjust herself and forced a smile on her lips.

"I want to see it," Kaiden lifted the goblet in his hand and announced, once again making the crowd go silent.

"I don't have a good feeling about this," Ophelia uttered in her mouth, her eyes watching her mother from afar.

"I want you to lift up her dress and bite her as*cheeks to turn her red." He had no shame, his words brought goosebumps to Ophelia's skin. Her mother awkwardly tried to avoid the eye contact, knowing well this was all happening in front of her daughter.

"Lewdness," Ophelia whispered in her mouth, her eyes forming tears as she felt her mother's misery.

"I will gladly do that," clumsy being a lazy werewolf, would never let go of a chance to be the center of the attention.

He hurriedly rushed behind Emma and grabbed her dress from the bottom, looking around for the crowd to cheer him on.

Kaiden had a slight smirk on the one corner of his lips. He was getting excited, will that stupid upright human girl come out for this? Ophelia's mother was his source of entertainment that day. He was leaning to the side very lazily, holding the goblet up in the air, closer to his lips.

"I can't let this happen," Ophelia decided she cannot hide behind the curtain while her mother gets humiliated in front of everyone.

Before clumsy could make a move, a beautiful, sultry voice filled the surrounding, grabbing everybody's attention.

"What can I do for you today?" Ophelia stood in front of them with a tray in her one hand that she had lifted to her face level, her other hand on her waist as she stared at the boys.

"Who is she?" clumsy let go of the dress and stepped ahead to get a good look at the sexy lady in front of them.

Emma's eyes widened in disbelief to see her daughter appear in the wrong timings while she used to stay behind the curtain and only prepare food all these years.

"I'm Ophelia Nightingale," she made sure to sound and look as sultry as she could, to make their attention go from her mother to her really quick.

"We will go cook you the best lamb ever," Emma anxiously wanted to hide her daughter from the hungry eyes of the werewolves as they all unbelievably scanned Ophelia's body.

"That is your daughter!" Kaiden smirked, who was silently observing this whole chaos occurring before his eyes. He finally caught her.

Ophelia kept the forced smile on her lips while Emma's face changed the color. The werewolves obviously knew of Ophelia but didn't know her appearance would be this alluring when come face to face.

"Can I do her instead of the old one?" Clumsy excitedly asked, his eyes watching Kaiden's face for approval while Ophelia's smile began to shiver off.

"No!" Kaiden responded immediately.

Ophelia let out a sigh secretly. "Maybe he's not that terrible, he has to care about the reputation of this royal identity."

Kaiden somehow got a little annoyed when he heard that offer earlier.

She's pretty, she's a "smart" talker and every words she said to him that night still echoed in his mind from time to time. That night she hid behind the curtain, but now that they were face to face, he wondered what other bold words could leak from her tempting little mouth.

"How about your daughter serves us completely stripped naked to all of us?" he continued with an appreciation hoot from the customers that got excited at the suggestion.

Ophelia's smile faded away the moment Kaiden finished the full sentence.

Kaiden noticed the color change of both mothers and his heart puffed in pride. That's the price she had to pay for she dared to defy him before.

"I can do tha---," Emma awkwardly continued with Kaiden cutting her words in the mid-way.

"Nobody wants to see you, we will wait here for the food and your daughter's naked body," Kaiden declared with a smug face and gestured to the mother and the daughter to go and prep their meal.

They briskly walked behind the curtain and the first thing Emma did was to grasp Ophelia's arm and make her turn around to face her mother.

"I---," Emma lifted her hand and stopped it midway, gritting her teeth and glaring her daughter with rage filled eyes. Ophelia flinched but when saw her mother's hand stop mid-air and tears leave her eyes, she pulled her mother close to hug her.

"Why did you do that?" Emma sobbed, holding her daughter in a tight embrace.

"I couldn't let you get humiliated while I stand behind a curtain like a coward," Ophelia replied, tears of anger forming in her eyes, "And it's fine. I can strip in front of them, it wo--," as her mother began to speak something, Ophelia shook her head to silence her, "It won't be an issue mother."

"Oh! Ophelia..." Emma burst into tears. Why did God make them face such a predicament?

"Mom, don't cry, they're still waiting outside, let's prepare the food first." Ophelia tried hard to calm herself down and started to prepare the food. Emma nodded and started to think of countermeasures in her mind while preparing.

While the mother and the daughter prepared the food, Kaiden and his friends waited while drinking bear.

"Her mother thinks she is sharp, I can't believe she had hidden her daughter from us for so long." one of his friends complained, if Kaiden allows him, he would go and grab Ophelia outside, bend her over the table and fuc* her in front of everyone.

"This is so disrespectful to Kaiden," the other friend decided to be sneaky. He knew Kaiden, despite being a heartless beast, would not let them forcefully sleep with a girl, even if she was a human.

"How?" Clumsy asked, scratching the back of his neck.

"Don't you think Kaiden deserves to taste her first? He is the soon to be alpha king, he should be allowed to sleep with whoever he wants," that guy was not stopping, he wanted Kaiden to make the first move so that he can follow in the heat of the moment.

"I'm not touching nobody," Kaiden, even though, felt coerced into fu** the girl, held his desires at bay when thought of Rosalie crossed his mind.

He had promised her to not give her place to anyone, and an alpha king never breaks his promise.

"You can strip her with your own hands," The guy instigated.

Kaiden watched his face and then zoned out. That wouldn't be considered as cheating, would it be?

Kaiden was a handsome, young man, he too had desires and it wasn't a lie that he had not seen a beauty so tremendous like Ophelia before.

It troubled him that he was even able to notice her beauty, but that was the truth. Ophelia's beauty could make anyone skip their heartbeat with just a single glance.

"That I can do." now that he wasn't fuc*king her, making her strip won't be considered as cheating, he thought.