Alpha Princess's Possessive Mate

Chapter 165 - Under The Moon - I

Note: This chapter is in the third person's point of view.

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*Inside the Castle*

The halls were dimly lit, and the lights were all turned off except for one small torch that a man carried in front of him, rushing through the castle doors. He entered the main hall. At the far end was the throne, where the queen sat in all her glory. It was after hours for the castle court to run, yet the queen had come here from in between her sleep cycle to meet with the spies she had planted across Selene's house. 

There were already two men standing with their heads low and the queen was frustrated about something. When the third man entered with his little torch in his hand, the queen clicked her tongue. 

"Now what brings you here?" The queen hissed at the new guest to her temper, which was over the edge right now.

The third man bowed his head low. He saw the other two men and realised the mishap, "Apologises my qu-"

"Shut up," the Queen roared. "I keep three spies behind Selene and one of them comes with news that Selene is the new beta. Another one comes bringing an unknown girl directly to the castle and you are here too," Queen pointed at the third man who had just entered. "Who is looking after Selene, then?" It was utterly infuriating for the queen to see all of them lacking a minute amount of coordination, which was supposed to be a given. How useless, the queen thought in her head. 

"P-Pardon me my queen, but I come bearing news about Selene," the third man tried to cover up the mishap. 

He should have known that the other two were missing and might have gone to the castle to report something to the queen. But he had missed out on that very simple fact like the idiot he was. 

"What is it?" I Queen asked as her brows drew in together and her head was beginning to ache. 

The third spy spoke without daring to raise his eyes, "I saw her speeding off to the Waterwoods." He had gone to eat food during the time Fang had passed from there to enter Selene's house and when he came back, he saw Selene at the far end of the castle, riding on a wolf. But he couldn't tell that to the queen, since it was his foolishness to go and satiate his hunger when no one else was there to spy on Selene.

"Did you see Selene's wolf?" the queen questioned casually as she closed her rubbed her head. The lack of sleep was catching up to her, and these idiots were all here. Not that they could spy near Waterwoods but alteast some useful information was what she had been waiting for. 

"No, she was riding on someone's wolf," the third man replied. 

It immediately had the queen on alert as she opened her eyes to look at the man, "What colour was the wold she rode on?... Was it Black?" She had her own doubts as last time she had heard that the carriage of Minister Fang Warchild had brought Selene here. Her mind thought of this as some very important news, and it could mean that Fang had understood of Selene's identity and was helping her with the mission, possibly to help with completing this condition for the marriage. 

Somewhere the queen had landed on a bad foot with Fang, and the worst part was that Fang was the foreign minister where he used to interact with Selene's in-laws-to-be as a mediator.

Unfortunately, the third spy had not seen the wolf, "It was very dark in the night. They went out of my sight before I could see."

The queen closed her eyes in irritation, and when she opened them, they were golden in colour. "How useless can one be! You can confirm it was Selene in the dark, but not the colour of the wolf. Maybe I should replace someone with a better eyesight than you on the job," the queen growled in the back of her throat as she spoke in her fury. 

The man was worried about this only job he had and talked hastily, "Maybe it was dark in colour, like chestnut.. So I couldn't spot out my queen. I am so sorr-"

"Useless!" the queen's voice boomed in the empty hall, "all of you are pathetically useless." Luckily, the resting chambers for the king and her son were on the other side of the castle. It would have surely disturbed their sleep. The queen took a final look at the three men standing shamefully, bowing their heads and waved her hand, "two of you rush off back. See, when does she return? And you wait here," she pointed at the second man who had brought an uninvited guest here.

Queen wasn't aware that Selene was given a condo by the king and thought that the rundown house which originally anyway belonged to Selene was her only residence.

The spies were yet to tell her that the house was renovated as they thought it would be a piece of irrelevant information and the queen might get angry. Rather, their useless minds had missed out on this important piece of information. Selene was a Princess, they thought, so maybe the crown had renovated her abode. 

"You," the queen spoke when the other two had exited the hall and there was only one of the three spies standing here, "what girl did you say again?"

"Her name is Ellie, my queen." The man bowed deep without any fret in his voice. He was aged and quiet, experienced with spying, also taking assignments for the crown. May it be simply spying or an assassination. The man belonged to one of the esteemed clans that was an expert in such assignments. The man continued, "She said she overheard the princess talking to the alpha of Winterwells-"

"She is no princess," the queen was quick to interrupt, "call her Selene, no need to respect that bastard child."

The man bowed immediately following the orders as he was trained to, "The girl I met said she overheard Selene talking with the Alpha of Winterwells and the pri- Selene revealed about her mission there to him."

"Did she reveal her true identity?" The queen asked hurriedly, as if he was the girl who had come bearing the news. 

"No, just the mission," the man said nonchalantly, like he knew everything. Of course, he knew the entire story that Ellie had said to him and before he worked for the queen, that man was to follow Ellie's orders since their Clan heir had gone missing a few years ago. The man made up a lie as to why he had brought Ellie here, "But the girl, Ellie, spotted me spying on Lady Selene's house and came to me with a prospectus."

The queen clicked her tongue, "It better be good for which you revealed to someone unknown that Selene comes from the castle."

"I did not reveal Lady Selene's identity, my queen," the man spoke in a respectful tone.. "but the girl says she can help with spoiling the mission that the princess has planned on."