The Lycan Kings Trophy

Nova's pov

There has never been a time in my life where I felt like the ground should open up and swallow me than now. My eyes burnt with tears and my hands balled into a fist in anger and pain. Just a week ago, I was just a carefree young lady, living life like a normal young adult would, and today, here I was getting dressed in a fine signature wedding dress from the Lycan pack. 

A wedding dress that wasn't meant for me, but it was my fate to wear it.

Every lady's dream was to get married to that one person they loved dearly but in my case, it wasn't a thing. I dreaded the thought of getting married to that bloodthirsty beast, and the thought of mating with him brought tears to my eyes.

"Should I fix your makeup now, Princess?" Shayna, my maid asked for the second time and I moved my face to meet with her gaze. As I had thought, she had a faint smile on her face and I couldn't believe it.

It seemed like I was the only one who wasn't happy about the whole thing.

"Does it looks like I could wear makeup like this?" I asked in disbelief, pointing at the stream of tears that wouldn't stop rolling down my eyes. 

Shayna must have understood what I meant because the faint smile disappeared from her face, almost immediately. She sighed and dropped the brush on the table. She exhaled before moving her hand to my face.

"Princess, I know how hard it was for you and your family, but I want you to believe in the plan and everything will be fine." balls of tears rolled down her eyes as she said those words, and she cupped my cheeks in her palms, brushing away my tears with her thumbs while she let hers fell freely.

"Everything will be fine?" I scoffed and nodded as if there was anything that four words could do.

"Aren't you people tired of saying those words, when it's obvious it wasn't doing anything to make me feel better?" I arched my brows which made Shayna clamp her mouth shut. 

"I'm sorry, Princess," Shayna mumbled and I felt guilty for raising my voice at her when she didn't do me any wrong.

I didn't mean to shut her up because I enjoyed hearing her voice, her voice soothed me a little but I couldn't just keep up with those words.

"Shayna. Can you just..."

"Princess, Alpha and Luna are here. I shall open the door for them." came from the guard that was guarding my door. 

I exchanged a knowing look with Shayna and she wiped off her tears.

"If that will be all, please excuse me." she closed the makeup kit, bowed and rushed out of my room.

"Greetings, Alpha. Greetings, Luna." I heard the faint voice of my maid greeting my parents, followed by the opening and closing of the door.

I sighed sadly when I heard the approaching footsteps of my parents.

"Novalie dear,"

"Princess,"

"Mom. Dad. Please I don't want to do this." I busted into tears and Mom rushed up to my side.

I did not know what that was for. Was it because I suddenly want to back out of the plan or because I was crying? Because of this whole thing, I wasn't able to read my parents' emotions anymore and it was frustrating.

"Novelie..." Mom sighed, she crouched beside me and took my hand in hers. She shut her lid and let out a sigh. "I also wish I could stop you from going. But you know better than anyone else, we don't have any power to go against him." she let out and I forcefully withdrew my hands from hers.

"Dad?" I raised my eyebrows at Dad who hasn't said a word since they got here, he seemed taken aback at the mention of his name and he coughed slightly.

"I'm sorry, Princess. No one has ever gone against him before." Dad facepalm as he said those uncourageous words to me. 

I turned away from them and rested my head on the furniture. 

"Get out!" I didn't know why I was getting mad at my parents when they weren't the cause of the problem, but I had to take out my anger on them because they were the leaders of the pack and their species were the ones who committed a crime I was going to pay for.

"Leave! The both of you should get the hell away from my room!" I picked up a wine glass from the table and threw it in their direction.

Mom jumped in fright when the glass fell on her toes, she jumped and fell into Dad's arms.

"Why is this happening to me? Why?" I yelled at my reflection in the mirror. I gripped my sleeve and went down on my knees.

"What have I done wrong to deserve this?" I cried out, the tears were just too heavy for me to keep in so I let them out.

I heard muffled cries beside me and then I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders. Pulling me for a hug.

••• A WEEK EARLIER •••

I watched my father from the dining room as he sat across the Royal messenger in our living room. There seemed to be a warning notice from the Lycan King and my father was signing some documents with a shaky hand. He glanced over at my sister, Tamsyn, and shook his head before handing over the documents back to the Royal messenger.

"Since you've agreed to the conditions I shall take my leave." said the aged man, he stood up from the settee and marched out without waiting for my father's response.

Mom scurried out of the dining room to my father who was staring into space. She got to him and sat on the edge of the settee Dad was sitting on.