Chapter 5 Troubles

AVA'S POV

This might as well be the best day of my life. I have finally gotten rid of my stupid stepsister and also got engaged to the most powerful and wealthiest beautiful being of our kingdom.

We will be getting married in a few months and I will be the queen. I'll finally live the life I have always craved, full of wealth and power.

But even with all these achievements I can't help but worry that the prince's true mate might show up any day before we get married. I can also sense that the prince is not every taken with me as much as he would have been with his mate.

I have always claimed that I'm his mate even when I know there is no mate bond between us. There are things that are irresistible even when you want to resist. Who wouldn't want to be the queen, so rich and powerful. Not to mention to be married to the most gorgeous dream man of every girl in the kingdom.

I can't help but to worry that his mate or my true mate will show up any day and destroy my achievements. I have to find them first andIl and make sure they don't destroy what I have built

I can't have a son of a poor peasant claiming I am his mate before my wedding day or the price finding his mate and getting rid of me.

I have gone to refill my mate's second glass of wine myself. I want no girl close to him, this is when I see my mother motioning me to join her on the other side of the dance floor.

I take the drink to my mate first before asking the guards standing by not to let any girls anywhere close to him. I can't help but worry that his mate might make an appearance at any of our parties. The guards smile and nod politely.

I make my way across the crowded dance floor, people quickly move aside to make way for me without me asking. The extra show of respect is one of the good things that comes along with power and marrying the price.

My mother quickly holds my hand and pulls me I'm a secruded place away from the crowd when I get to her.

"Careful! Don't tear my beautiful dress. I don't want the price to dislike me." I snap at her as I focefully pull my arm away from hers.

"I think he will dislike you more when he finds out that your stepsister is his real mate." She whispers back angrily.

Her words make my body stiffen in both anger and shock to a point I feel like I will throw up. What! It can't be! That stupid worthless girl can never be mated to my powerful prince.

"How.. I mean, she phased into a wolf today, right? She didn't look like an angel when the guards brought her in here. What are you talking about?" I ask urgently. Damn the woman can be really slow at processing an answer. I feel like beating the information out of her. It takes her more than a minute to form words to explain.

"She is not an angel, not yet anyway. When the guards arrested her did confess that she didn't phase." She affirms.

"Then that does not make her an angel or my man's mate." I state.

"All werewolves phase on their seventeenth or eighteenth birthday. Anyone who phases after that has very high chances of phasing to an angel." She answers in an impatient tone, like she is wondering if I hadn't figured it out and had to ask.

"Or she is just a worthless wolfless girl that will never phase into anything." I once again snap at her. I would rather die than watch my stepsister phase into an angel more powerful than I am. Or watch her get married to the price and take my place. "But she's loocked up and waiting to be sentenced."

"Or Talia will recover soon and tell out what exactly happened." Mother snarls back at me. Oh s**t I didn't think about that.

I see my mother looking around with a worried expression and I realize our dramatic conversation had attracted the attention of the guests.

I turn to them and smiles politely as I walk away to where the price is seated.

"Is everything ok my love?" He asks immediately I settle down beside him.

I forge the brightest smile and hold his hand in mine to assure him. I sit by him for the rest of the party. I try to distract myself by trying the delicious food that are being served but whenever I think of my stepsister phasing into an angel and taking everything over I feel sick and lose my appetite.

She might never even phase to an angel or even have a wolf but I just can't take the chances, I have to get rid of her as quickly as possible.

The problem is that the only person who can get rid of her permanently is the price and it gonna take a lot to convince him to do that especially now that I wouldn't want him to go anywhere near her with the fact that he isn't madly in love with me as I would have liked.