Alpha Princess's Possessive Mate

*In the castle continued*

The queen did not want Selene to exactly spoil the mission. It was Selene's father-in-law's wish that their future queen be better mingled with people and understood how the world around went.

It wasn't a matter that the mission fails or succeeds, just that Selene gets her lessons on what the outside world is like. "Bring her in," The queen waved her hand and the man standing in front of her bowed to leave the queen sitting alone in the dark room along with her personal guard, who spoke nothing most of the time.

After a while, the man returned with a hooded figure, who had brown hair that bounced as she walked towards the centre of the room. The queen waved her hand for the man to take his exit and, bowing, he retreated from there. 

"What do you have to propose, young lady?" the queen questioned, coming straight to the point. 

Ellie removed the hood from her head, revealing her true face and bowed to the queen, "Long live her majesty, I am Ellie Cermesi, the soon to be clan heir of the Cermesi clan."

The queen narrowed her eyes before bringing them back to normal as she said, "Congratulations on that. Right now I would love to hear what plan you come here with." The queen's voice had turned polite as compared to before, as the Cermesi clan were some good relations which she needed to maintain. 

Ellie smirked, looking at the desperation that the queen portrayed. She was right to have found and told one of her men who was spying on Selene to bring her to the palace. The man had not revealed of the identity that Selene was a princess but told Ellie that Selene was working for the queen. Ellie stood mighty as she spoke, "I propose to create more rift between the villages and I have grudges against Selene myself, so I want to trap her into it. Create something like what had recently happened with John Walter's case."

The queen creased her brows. Apart from the cases that came to the king's court, she had no interest in other cases, so she was rather unaware of John Walter and his doings. "Pry tell me who this John Walter is?" The queen asked.

Ellie internally sighed before she started explaining the incident that had taken place a month back in Winterwells. "... We can recreate the same case."

The queen rolled her eyes. The last thing she wanted was Selene getting trapped in some courtly matters, but she decided to hear the girl out who had come here with some plan. Getting Selene's records clean can be done as she was the princess, "and how do you plan to do that?" The queen questioned further. 

Ellie took slow steps forward as her voice dropped down in a bone-chilling whisper which reached the queen's ear in the silence of the night, "There are a very few people that Selene has by her side in Winterwells. I have seen that all of them would be patrolling tonight by the border closest to Waterwoods. I propose to kill them all since I would personally love to do that and push the blame onto the Waterwoods, striking the iron when it is already hot. Winterwells is on high alert because of the last attack on their Alpha."

The queen looked pleased with the idea. This way, the mission would rather fall in the opposite direction for Selene. The queen did not care about a few deaths, they were nothing for her. But there was something else that concerned her, "and how will Selene be trapped in all this?"

Ellie walked closer to the queen where the steeps ascended towards the throne and the moment her foot lifted to be kept on the first step, the queen's guard got alert and clanged his spear on the ground. 

Ellie looked at the man, and her foot was left hanging in midair. When the queen gave her a glare, she took her foot back to the ground. 

"Selene has gone to Waterwoods today," Ellie said in a suspenseful tone as if trying to lure the queen too much into the information, but the queen was no fool. 

"That I am aware of," the queen responded, showing the girl her impatience.

One corner of Ellie's lip pulled up as she said the next statement deliberately slow, as if hinting onto something, "along with Channing, the Alpha of Winterwells." There was jealousy in her voice that the queen did not miss, and it looked to her like something was going to go on wrong between Selene and Channing. But Ellie continued before the queen could ask that question, "I say we can push them both under the wheel. 'The Alpha and the Beta started a war overnight, a few of the men died, creating more rift in the already present war' sounds like a good headline."

The queen already imagined the outcome that her daughter might have to face for that.

But she did not want to create such big headlines that would actually cause a war and bring more load to the crown. "That won't be necessary to involve both of them. Make it so that only Selene is cornered."

"I have my right connections," Ellie said, agreeing with the small deal that had stricken between the queen and her. With the queen behind her, there was no need for Ellie to fear the law. She turned to take her leave and said, "rest assured my queen, Selene will be cornered." Ellie walked off where her boots clicked against the tiles of the castle floor. And the queen smirked as she looked into the distance at particularly nothing. 

Her eyes moved to the window, from where the moon was visible, shining in all its glory. 

On the other side of Adalolpha, the hazel eyes looked at the moon and a shiver ran down her spine. "Are you cold, Selene?" Channing asked Selene as he saw her suddenly grip her arms.

Selene and Channing were sitting side by side where Fang had gone to help with increasing the fire. The group of Waterwoods that had gathered here was one of the open-minded folks mainly consisting of the youth who did not believe in the war. Selene could tell they would have quite a gala time with the ukelele and some large bottle of unknown liquid that was being prepared with the help of Bane, one of the Betas of Waterwoods. 

"I am fine," Selene responded to Channing, "I just felt a little nervous."

Channing gave her shoulder a little nudge and smiled, "That's totally fine, they are all friends here, come let me introduce you to each one of them." Channing got up, dusting his bottom. 

"That would be great!" Selene beamed as she got up with a wide smile on her lips. 

But somewhere in her heart, Selene could not shake this ominous feeling that something bad was going to happen soon.. She just hoped nothing here was ruined and brushing the thought off from her mind, she went ahead with Channing to meet and greet with people.