Chapter 238


    Azalea POV


    One Month Later


    We salvaged whatever we could. The thought of rebuilding led to the inevitable truth, a ce that had


    be but a distant memory would now be our home, where we would rebuild our lives and our


    kingdom. Days we spent sifting through what was left of the castle. I felt a little guilty that I had


    destroyed the ce but as Kyson told me, home is with our people not in a physical ce.


    However, sifting through the wreckage that we once called home, we managed to save a few precious


    things. Though how they survived was beyond me.


    A few of Kyson’s treasured books and rice‘s favorite egg flip survived too. Oh and let’s not forget


    that dreaded apron Liam loved, the one that smelt as bad as it looked.


    And of all the things to survive, I kinda hoped that wasn‘t one of them. But sure enough, it did, and his


    face lit up like a kid on Christmas when he showed me. I had a funny feeling his idea of a fabulous


    Christmas present involved blood and gore. And maybe more aprons.


    Along with the knick knacks was my father‘s sword, the other was a jewelry box my mother gave me


    when I was a baby. However, with finding that precious jewelry box we learned it wasn‘t just a jewelry


    box, and the silver ballerina that twirled on top was in fact a key that unlocked a false bottom, hiding the


    real gift. Inside, what perceived as just an oversized pendant, was in fact the Azure Talisman which


    resembled an oversized Moon stone. Only when held up to light could you see the Azure crest of vines


    within its crystalline depths.


    I learned from Cedric that it was a broken piece of the sword and was used to create Lycan Bloodlines.


    The stone represented my mothers‘ gifts and the sword my father‘s. Brought together they represented


    a sort of yin and yang, a constant bnce, and created infinite power, yet in separate hands they kept


    peace. One never over taking the other, truth in the face of deceit and maniption, love in the ce of


    hate and war.


    Cedric told me my father searched for the Talisman but it was rumored as myth and legend. Yet my


    father believed that it was with my mother and he was right. And all along it sat in a jewelry box right


    beneath his nose.


    It showed how far my father‘s greed went, that he would give her an ultimatum. That she would either


    hand it over or he would force her to marry him, believing he could gain the advantage of her power


    through my birth. It also showed how much she was willing to sacrifice to ensure it did not fall into his


    hands she instead sacrificed herself just to keep the peace. But the most precious thing salvaged of all,


    was our lives and the lives of those we thought lost to us forever.


    Damian managed to find Tandi‘s daughter, she was with Alpha Brock‘s mother the entire time, nothing


    beat the look on her face when Damian came through for her. He was determined to either bring their


    daughter home or get vengeance for her, though he kind of took care of both. Alpha Brock didn‘t want


    to hand her back or give up her whereabouts, it was Alpha Dean who did and Alpha Brock barely


    escaped with his life, though I had no doubt he wanted to kill him. Paige was safe and well and


    returned to her mother. Tandi had her family now with Damian. Abbie had Gannon and Tyson and for


    once we could all breathe, and we were happy.


    Now we would finally find peace when we have known none. So as I looked up at the huge iron gates


    of what was once the Landeena Kingdom, t knew we were finally home. A fresh start. But the first thing


    to go would be the Landeena crest, it would be reced with the Valkyrie one. Home for so long was


    some made up sentiment, embedded in us for so long that we forgot the meaning of it, growing for


    Abbie in me it meant death, we truly believed that would be the only home we would know freedom and


    peace.


    But I learned, home was never a ce or a thing but within all of us. Home was with those we loved.


    So I knew we would eventually find happiness here in this ce thatid deste for so long, forgotten


    and haunted by the ghosts of a past I never knew was mine.


    Yet a future I was indeed excited to live in. One beside my King.


    Arms wrap around my waist as his hands slide up and over my stomach, a growing bump that holds


    our future. “What’s wrong?” Kyson asks as his hands gently trace over my growing belly.


    “Nothing. I just can‘t believe we are here, of all ces,” I tell him as I watch the Landeena guards race


    around and secure the perimeter, almost as if it were muscle memory and they had never left.


    “And where is that my Queen?”


    “Home, with you, us” I whisper, ncing over my shoulder at him. He brushes his nose against mine.


    “Home is wherever you are,” he murmurs, brushing his lips gently against mine briefly before the cars


    start pulling into the circr pebble driveway. This ce reminded me of Marrissa. I had hardly any


    memories of this ce, but for some reason it felt like she walked through those gates beside me. As if


    I could feel her, hear her in whispers traveling in the wind.


    So many sacrificed for the Landeena name, for the Azure name. For so long my mother, the only


    woman! remember as my mother, was viinized for her betrayal yet she was betrayed by everyone,


    including her mate. She raised me, loved me and paid the ultimate sacrifice of her life to ensure one


    day I coulde back here and take the throne again.


    To some she would always be remembered as the viin but to me, she would always be my mother.Têxt belongs to N?velDrama.Org.


    Always be the reason I was standing here and righting the wrongs of my father, righting the wrongs that


    were bestowed on our people. The Landeena‘s are dead. The Azure‘s dead too.


    I may share their blood but I am no longer share their name, I not them. I would do better and restore


    the Royal names, yet I would never take theirs again. Those names instilled fear, ruined honor and


    forged a path of destruction. Praised for the wrong reasons, loyalty given to them blindly not earned.


    Those two names were blessed and cursed and were no longer part of the future I now chose or


    wanted.


    Staring up at the ce we shall now call home Abbie moves toward me, bumping her shoulder against


    mine. I smile looking over at her, Tyson on her hip.


    “Ready?” she asks and I nod and Kyson unravels his arms from around my waist and takes my hand,


    leading me toward the huge stone staircase. Everyone bustled around to get the ce ready, as what


    was left of our people moved in. Reaching the top Cedric is waiting by the door with Trey, the blessed


    sword that belonged to my father in his hand. I couldn‘t imagine what it must be like for them being


    back here, yet they looked almost relieved. Like this ce never stopped being home for them.


    Cedric bows his head and Trey offers me his hand. I ce mine in his only for him to turn me around to


    face the courtyard, to see the hundreds of faces of what‘s left of mine and Kyson‘s people, what‘s left of


    the fallen Kingdoms staring back at us.


    “We pledge our allegiance to Kyson Keller Valkyrie, Emperor of Lycania and the Emperor of Valkyrie


    and Azalea Ivy Rose Valkyrie, Empress of Lycania, and the Empress of Valkyrie, the true heir and


    Empress of the Kingdoms. I bleed for Valkyrie, I fight for Valkyrie, I die for Valkyrie. We are Valkyrie and


    our Empress and Emperor have risen. And so has the Valkyrie Guard. We pledge to serve and


    protect.” They bow their heads and fall to one knee in unison.


    “A the Kingdom shall rise, we shall rise with it. And if this Kingdom falls, we too shall fall,” they finish.


    In awe of their disy and how quickly they would ept this new ce as home. I turned to Cedric


    and retrieved my sword, my finger’s wrapping around the hilt, the talisman was cool beneath my palm


    and I pledged to my people,


    feeling it warm in my grip.


    “I pledge allegiance to Lycania and to my people. I‘ll bleed for them, I‘ll fight for them, I‘ll die for them I


    am now and forever more, Azalea Ivy-Rose Valkyrie, Empress of the Lycania and this is now our


    Kingdom, And my people are more than my life.” I tell them before gripping the de and swiping my


    hand from the hilt to tip


    Yet as my blood washes over the steel it transforms. Gone are the crests and symbols of Landeena. In


    its ce, etched in blue and red carved into the replenished steely the makings of a new one. A


    mixture of all the Kingdoms that rose and fell, the Kingdoms of Lycania. The steel glows and heats,


    branding and forging and I could feel the power thaty within its steel, feel the rightfulness of it in my


    hand when hands moved down my arms from behind and the familiar sparks I loved rushed over me.


    Cedric takes my sword and Kyson lifts my bleeding hand to his lips from behind me, the warmth of his


    chest seeping into me as he traces the slice with his tongue, healing the wounds left. And the scar it


    leaves matches the new crest now emzoned in the steel.


    ‘More than my life. Always more,” Kyson whispers.


    Author Note


    Hey Guys, hope you enjoyed Azalea and Kyson‘s story, Abbie does have her own book Mated to the


    King’s Gamma if you want to check it out. I will be writing Liam‘s story but won‘t be posting it until it is


    eitherplete or nearlyplete.


    Also don‘t forget to check my Face Book Page Jessica Hall Author Page so you can follow for print and


    kindle editions, also I do have my store going online soon too, amongst the merch is Liam‘s apron! Plus


    lots of other goodies.


    Also don‘t forget to check out my other books, I do havepleted ones here but also a heap on kindle


    and in print for those looking forpleted books and not wanting to wait on updates,


    Current ongoing ones are


    Mated to the King‘s Gamma (Hoping to finish that one up this week)


    Tempting Darkness


    Alphas Possession.


    Any way bye for now, hope you enjoyed the book


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    continue reading tomorrow, everyone!