The border of the Vampire Kingdom was depicting the scene of a war zone, several injured vampires were failed to close the border's gate. Their uninvited death was Alpha Eric Dietor, whose silver wolf was roaring in eternal glory. His sharp claws were stained with his prey's blood, he howled at the top of his lungs to call his mate.

Lying unconscious in the soft bed, Charlotte was jolted awake by the influence of his powerful call.


'Eric!"

Alpha's name escaped from her mouth, her heart was hammering against her rib cage.

'Easy, Kitten. That wolf is not here to disturb you."


Charlotte closed her eyes for a moment to compose herself and then looked around. Off-white gray themed spacious room was elegantly decorated with different expensive articles, portraying the regal taste of the owner.

The soft master bed was up to her liking, she raised her eyes.


'Is it your room, Daniel? Oh sorry, Crown Prince Casper Adino."

Her taunt was highlighted by her smirk, but Casper chose to ignore her.

'Daniel or Casper, the only thing matters is I belong to you. It's our room, Kitten."

Charlotte was quite impressed with all the little details in the interior decoration, her attention was caught by a specific painting beside the glass window.

'Isn't it?"

She rose from the bed and touched the smooth surface. It was the copy of Picasso's famous colorful painting.

'Girl before a mirror."

In addition to being the world's leading art work, this was Charlotte's favorite painting. She was spell bounded by the mastery of the artist, whose brush was fine enough to copy that Masterpiece.

She always felt it close to her heart, an illustration of the most pervasive cultural myth about women in society.

She considered the woman in painting as herself, parted between the polarity of a virgin and whore.

Observing that classic treasure, a query flashed across her mind.

Besides Angie, no one knows about her choice. That could only mean…

'What's your relationship with Angie?"

Charlotte hissed at Casper involuntarily, unknown fire surged from the depths of her soul. His amused smile infuriated her more.

'So finally, my Kitten is feeling jealous. How cute!"

He poked her red nose playfully. Charlotte was startled as the realization hit her hard. The pull of soulmate's bond was in effect, corrupting her emotions and clouding her judgement.

'Stay away!"

She walked away from Casper, clearing her mind from his deadly attraction. Suddenly, the door was knocked, and it revealed an excited Angie.

'Star."

She ran towards Charlotte and hugged her tightly.

'I am so happy to see you safe. News of your abduction scared me."

Despite her enthusiasm, Charlotte was concerned about Angie's presence there.

'Angie, you..."

Understanding her confusion, she explained in detail.

'Prince Casper told me about his identity during my therapy sessions. My emotional damage was unrepairable, so he suggested that his compulsion will erase my bad past from my mind. And see, I moved on smoothly in my life….."

Before she could go any further, Charlotte raised her hand to hush her.

'So, I am the last one to know about your secret. Well played, Crown Prince. I was a fool to trust you."

Charlotte glared at Casper whose toothy smile vanished in thin air.

'I was planning to explain everything. In fact, I booked a resort for your adult age ceremony."

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'To hell with your puny arrangements!"

Out of nowhere, Eric appeared in the room with a flash. He growled at Casper, who was standing too close to Charlotte.

'Stay away from my mate."

Rick was fairly agitated in the Vampire Kingdom, not to mention his rival was crossing the limits.

'You will be rejected soon, Alpha Eric. Just wait and watch."

Casper provoked him intentionally, his charming smile returned with full bloom.

Listening to their usual quarrel, Charlotte yelled.

'Where's my sire?"

As it was the first time to hear her authoritative tone, the whole room fell into the grave silence.

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'Liam went to the punishment ground. A Lyn is punishing her sire."

The announcing voice caught her off guard, Charlotte's jaw dropped at the couple joining the flabbergasted crowd.

'Here is the rascal who dared to kidnap our Queen."

The college bully Rick, adorned with the pet's collar, was kicked to the ground mercilessly.

'Ben is not an ingrate, my savior."

That fair skinned, lanky vampire bowed his head in respect.

'How do you know about your Queen?"

Casper's gruff, masculine voice reverberated the entire room. It was not the soft one that he used for counselling, not the charming one he used to court Charlotte, but it was a typical Master's tone for his slave.

In a second, Charlotte's haze was cleared, she was now watching him in a new light.

'Her Highness lessened my misery during last month's penalty. Our Kingdom is blessed to have such a kind-hearted Queen."

Ben's buttering softened Casper's heart, but his expressions remained stiff.

'To the dungeon, now!"

No matter how much Charlotte desired to save Ben, Casper's resolute command shunned her completely. Even as a beloved, she had no right to interfere in the Master-Slave relationship.

'Liam!"

A Feeling of unease crept up, her heart thumped at the possibility that Liam might be forced to witness the proceeding as a lesson.

'Excuse me."

Charlotte left everyone behind, initiating her mission, 'rescue Liam." He was her only sincere friend in the world of double-faced people.

A gentle soul like him should be saved from any sort of cruelty. In a jiffy, she was in the massive crowd, a large number of sired vampires were there to attend the disciplining rituals.

The ground was no short of horrible gadgets for torture, currently a young girl was upside-down with a metal hook jabbed into her right foot.

Last drops of blood were dripping down from countless lacerations. That sired one was yelping in pain due to continuous whipping with the silver chains.

Even in this terrorized audience, Charlotte was able to locate Liam.

'Sire!"

He cried out, kneeling before her.

'Please save her. Rory is your friend too."

Then she focused on that poor girl, her flaring anger overpowered her mind.

'Stop it!"

Her thunderous order froze that middle-aged woman, Josie, she turned to face Charlotte who was already in murder mode.

'Step back, you bitch! Where were you when Rory was trying hard to survive? Are you even ashamed of your previous behavior?"

'Stay out of it, you pig. This is my personal matter."

Josie warned her and jerked that special whip to resume her vile deed.

Well, that was it for Charlotte's etiquette. She punched that rude lady, who wasn't expecting this kind of lash out.

'Move an inch, I will break your fangs. My friend is not a plaything for you."

Charlotte was determined to teach her a lesson, but Casper's soft voice rang behind her.

'Leave it, Kitten."

Although, it sounded like a suggestion, but Charlotte felt her feet buried in the ground. Unaware of his trickery, she glanced at others, all of them were equally shocked.

'Your Highness! She is Prince Casper's beloved."

Their greetings and kneeling didn't effect her and as a last resort, her pleading gaze met Eric's, whose crimson orbs popped out at this absurdity.

'You, prick!"

Without any warning, he punched the unfazed Casper, breaking his hold over Charlotte.

'That's what you call a bond between two souls? Instead of stopping her, you should be the one to provide her what she wants…"

Eric's rant continued with the werewolves' belief about their sacred mate-bond, but Charlotte was in the storm of disclosures.

She had heard about the jurisdiction of males in the fated union, but experiencing it in person was eye-opening. The film of their relationship in the university then played in her mind, that point too when Casper chose to compel her for the first time.

Her sleeping problem!

It was not medicine or therapy, but pure compulsion that moved her out of the no sleep phase.

'This could only mean that Casper was aware that I am his soulmate."

Charlotte held her head, the whole world was spinning around her. She might have lost herself in the abyss of disbelief, but Liam interrupted her.

'Sire, Rory!"

Charlotte felt a strange rush surging in her veins, she opened her eyes, where two pitch-black orbs were swimming in the pool of blood.

As on a cue, she launched at Josie. Her fragile neck was too tempting to break, and Charlotte did the same as her instincts suggested: tearing apart that ruffian into two.

The satisfying ‘crack' was followed by pin drop silence, Charlotte bit Rory and sucked her sire's venom instantly.

'I always wanted to do this, my friend!"

She dug her finger nail in her palm, feeding her venom to Rory. Charlotte released her after that rage episode and rubbed the remaining blood on her arm.

'From now on, the sire line of Josie Lyn will belong to the rightful owner, Charlotte William."