{Alice}

When I saw the news about my ex-boyfriend being a Prince and my bastard daughter Mary being a Princess I was fuming. Yes I know my ex-boyfriend is Mary's father because he was the only guy that I had been with before I got pregnant. Not to mention I did a DNA test just to give him certainty that he was the father. Why he didn't tell he was a Prince I have no idea.

Yes I know Mary's name has been archived and changed to Trinity but she will always be my bastard child Mary to me. It wouldn't matter how powerful she is and what her social status is! I could swallow my pride and try and win back my ex-boyfriend's love but no, that's a really stupid idea.

I had already moved on and married the previous High Priest and had my second child Ariel. So I'd be lying if I went back to my ex.

I never wanted Mary to have a father growing up and the same went for Ariel. That's because I never had a Dad growing up so my children will never have their father's growing up. So shortly after I married Ariel's father I poisoned him and when he died I took his position as the leader of the coven.

It's one thing for a coven to go to war against a werewolf pack. That's normal and the King and Queen of the werewolf kingdom don't get involved unless the attack is directed at the Royal Family personally.

So that puts me in a hard spot. I could attack the Celestial Kingdom but that would start a war and that's not the type of war I'm ready for and there's no way that I could win. Celestial's are ten times more powerful than Werewolves any day. Not to mention I've been monitoring Mary's powers ever since she casted her first spell and they've only gotten stronger by the day.

She could be killed by her own powers depending on if she finds a way to control them. I'm not about to let her die on my watch not until she gets married to No Name. After she's married to No Name she can die then. I'm a servant of No Name so I have to do his bidding no matter what and he wants Mary for whatever the reason. Now I have to worry about Mary's mate getting in the way of her getting married to No Name.

I'm going to figure out a way to get rid of Mary's mate and get rid of Mary's father if it's the last thing I do! So Mary better enjoy the time with her father because he will be a thing of the past after this.

I'm going to make Mary's life a living hell full of heartbreak and I don't care if the heartbreak kills her. As long as she's miserable, that's fine by me!

***

{Ava}

Ever since Sasha was banished from the pack I felt like a part of me was banished too. But I totally understand why Alpha Tyler did it. I would've done the same thing for my mate's safety if I was in his shoes.

However, I will never fully understand why Sasha won't do the right thing and stop wrecking people's lives like she did with mine. I made a mistake sleeping with her and even though my mate wants me back, I can't accept him because I gave my heart to Sasha. I can't understand why I fell for Sasha but I did. I guess the only reason why I fell for her is that she's good in bed and she's pretty sexy.

After Sasha left because of me failing to control her, I've been trying to get my brain screwed back into my head. Even if I did accept my mate, would he ever forgive me? Maybe I should ask for his help to help forget about Sasha?

As my thoughts continued swirling in my head, I didn't notice anyone coming into the room until they sat down on the bed and put a hand on my shoulder. I rolled over to face my mate Josh giving me an annoyed look. "Do you have to stay in bed and sulk all day? You know it's very obvious that Sasha is a selfish person! I mean hey, if you look up the word 'selfish' in a dictionary, you'd probably find a picture of Sasha next to it!"

I snorted. The joke cheered me up a little bit but not much. Josh surprised me by pulling me into his arms for a tight hug. "I think you should work on forgetting about her. I'm not above begging you to take me back. I will beg for you. I will move mountains for you. I will go to Hell and back if it means that I can be with you!"

My jaw dropped and that's when my wolf named Megan stirred for the first time in five years.

Our mate wants us back! Megan cheered.

I didn't know how to respond to that because I was too stunned that Josh would even want me still even after everything I did to him. I blinked and regained my composure, "Are you sure? You want me back? Are you sure Alex wants Megan back?"

Josh smiled and his eyes had a twinkle in them. "Yes Alex wants Megan back! He's been wanting Megan back from the very moment you left us. Please come back to us and we will help you forget all about Sasha. You can break the bond with her and we can pick up where we left off. Please?"

The look in Josh's eyes made my heart melt and from that moment forth I broke the bond between Sasha and I. Sometimes breaking a mate bond even if it's a forced mate bond can be painful for the one receiving the rejection. But at this moment I didn't care so I uttered the words to free myself of this bond and whatever 'love' I might have had for Sasha. "I, Ava Monroe, reject Sasha Lewis and I declare myself free from the mate bond that I have with her!"

I smiled after I said those words because I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. So to add insult to injury on the rejected mate bond I said, "Sasha, wherever you are, I hope this mate bond rejection is so painful that you die!"

Josh burst into laughter at the comment but when he saw I was serious he frowned. At that moment, all of my love for Sasha turned into hate for her. I shook my head. "I can't believe it took me this long to come to my senses! Honestly, I don't really know why I liked her so much in the first place. The only two things I could figure out is that she's sexy and good in bed. But from now on whatever love I had for her is now hate.

"I hope you and Alex can forgive me one day but I'm sorry for what I did to you. Even if you say you forgive me now I swear I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you!"

"Well you can start working on making it up to me by accepting the mate bond between us again. And want us to get to the point where I can mark you and make you mine again," Josh said. "I'll start. I, Josh Monroe, accept you Ava Monroe as my mate again."

I grinned. "I, Ava Monroe, accept you Josh Monroe as my mate again."

"Awww I was hoping you two would get back together!" I heard someone sniffle.

I laughed when I saw Max standing in the doorway crying. "Are you crying, Max?"

Max rubbed his left eye as if it was acting up from allergies or something. "No I'm not crying, I uh… I…" He sniffed again. "I have dust in my eyes, that's all."

That made me laugh even harder and Josh joined in. When Josh composed himself he said, "So you have dust in your eyes huh? You know it's okay to cry right?"

"Anyway, it looks like it's a happy ending for everyone as long as Sasha stays out of the picture," Max said. "Unfortunately since the mate bond was a forced acceptance bond it won't affect Sasha that much."

"Well that sucks!" I exclaimed.

"Let me guess, you want her to die don't you?" Max asked.

I nodded. Max's jaw dropped. "Wow, I didn't think you'd actually wind up hating Sasha instead of liking her!" He gave me an evil signaling to me that he has something up his sleeve to make Sasha pay. "We can't kill Sasha just by rejecting the mate bond, but we can place a curse on her."

I perked up at that. "A curse? What type of curse?"

"A curse that can deny her true love," said Max. "To me that's a fitting punishment for Sasha don't you think?"

I clapped my hands together with excitement. "Sounds good to me! When do we get to place this curse on Sasha?"

Max smirked. "Well someone's a little eager to get revenge. We can start working on it tonight. We just have to gather up some of Sasha's things first."

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I nodded. "Alright then. Sasha doesn't deserve to have a partner. Not with all of the damage she's done to other people's relationships."

Max and Josh nodded in agreement and once Max left Josh turned to me. He gave me a flirting look. "Just in case you're wondering, I want you and yes I forgive you but you will have a lot of catching up to do when it comes down to our relationship."

Josh reached over and kissed me and we started making out. Right when I thought he wasn't going to have sex with me, we had sex.

***

{Trinity}

"Okay then, I think what'll do with you today is what my trainers do with me," I said.

Brandy and I were standing in the training area getting ready to start her training.

Relax Trinity! It's no different than training the new rookie cops for their first day on the job! Danger thought.

Are you kidding me? It's no different than training a rookie cop? Now this is A LOT different! I thought, But thanks for the encouragement anyway.

Danger chuckled and I turned my attention back to Brandy. "We're going to do an evaluation fight. But before we start I'm going to ask you this, what are the three rules of combat?"

She looked puzzled as if I had asked her the question in another language. "Did I just hear that correctly? You want me to tell you the three rules of combat?"

I nodded. "Yup, all of my trainers have this question before doing an evaluation fight with me. So I'm going to ask you again and I don't want to have to repeat myself. What are the three rules of combat?"

"Alright then the first rule is stay grounded because your body is your weapon," Brandy said.

"And the second rule is?" I asked.

"Never give your enemy an opening, and the third rule is keep fighting until your enemy is disabled or you are disabled," Brandy replied.

"Alright then, let's get started, show me what you got that way I can figure out how to help you get better," I said.

She nodded and just like every other fight we circled we each other like sharks sizing up their prey in the water. She charged at me and threw the first punch that I dodged effortlessly. She tried to attack again by trying to land a kick to my stomach that I blocked with ease. Just about every kick and every punch I was able to dodge effortlessly and it was starting to get kind of annoying. So halfway into the fight I decided to try and hold myself back and hopefully she would be able to land at least one hit on me. But even with me holding myself back she wasn't able to land one single hit!

"Okay stop fighting, I think I know how to help you improve!" I commanded.

"But I haven't even disabled you yet!" Brandy whined.

I groaned, "And it's clear that you won't disable me! I was even holding myself back so you could."

"Okay then," said Brandy. "What do I need to improve on?"

"Speed and strength," I answered. "Strength can manifest itself in different ways. From what I've noticed during our fight you have to give your all when fighting. Because if you don't then you've picked on an enemy who's stronger than you and it could cost you your life in battle."

"But I am giving it my all!" Brandy protested.

I shook my head. "No you're not and I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm being mean but it felt like your kicks and punches were a little bit weak. If your basic fighting skills are weak then you're not giving it your all. But don't worry I will help you improve. And in case you're wondering, my trainers are tough on me too and they even try to insult me any chance they get," I laughed, "As if they think they're insulting me!"

Brandy frowned. "Okay why are your trainers insulting you? That's not cool."

"Because they believe insults fuel a student's anger and that students fight better when they're angry!" I said, "Their insults didn't make me angry, I just found it funny."

She nodded slowly. "I see."

"Don't worry I'm not going to insult you. Even if I'm being harsh on your fighting skills I only want what's best for you," I said. "I will start with building up your strength and I do believe once you get your strength up to par speed will come along with it."

Brandy was getting ready to say something when I heard it coming before it could even land the mark. It was an arrow heading in my direction and I pushed Brandy out of the way and caught the arrow in my hand.

I saw another arrow coming and I shouted. "WEAPON RETURN!"

Three arrows stopped in mid air and turned away from me and went back to whoever fired the arrows. I heard someone shriek, "Are you fucking kidding me? How the hell did that happen?"

I looked over at Brandy confused because her eyes were bloodshot and she yelled, "Prince Homewrecker show yourself right now! Or I will have the guards escort you to the dungeons for an assassination attempt on Princess Trinity!"

Prince Eric stepped out of the shadows and growled, "I was trying to put that bitch in her place!"

Brandy snorted. "Hmm, it seems I should change your nickname to Prince Salty! Princess Trinity won that fight fair and square! You're just mad she's stronger than you!"

I went from being in shock to laughing my ass off and I was on the ground rolling on my stomach in laughter. I couldn't believe someone would try to kill me just because they lost a fight against me. I stopped laughing after a moment or two and composed myself the best I could, "Let me get this straight, you were trying to kill me because you lost a fight against me? Are you stupid or something?"

Before Prince Eric could respond, Brandy said, "Yeah I think he's stupid if he's going to go this far because of losing a fight. Maybe his mother dropped him on his head a couple times and that's why he can't figure out what's right and what's wrong anymore?"

"Hey!" Prince Eric protested, "I'm not stupid. I'm just angry!"

"Well that makes it even worse! Now you're just being a dick! A salty dick for that matter!" Brandy scolded.

Prince Eric rolled his eyes. "Anyway, what was that cool trick you just did Princess Trinity? You just turned my own weapon on me, cool!"

I shook my head. "The only thing I'm going to tell you is that spell is called Weapon Return. It's a spell that turns an enemy's weapon on them. And no I will not teach it to you because a witch never shows someone how to do their tricks. And no, I will NEVER go out on a date with you because I'm married."

"Okay, okay I'll stop asking you out on a date," said Prince Eric. "But after seeing your awesome fighting skills, could you… Train me?"

I paused. "Huh?"

I looked over at Brandy and saw that her jaw was dropped. When she composed herself she said, "Yeah you're stupid Prince Salty!"

I put up a hand to silence her. "Prince Eric, as far as training you goes, I'll think about it…"

I jumped when I heard Tyler say, "She'll train you but I will be present at each training session Prince Eric!"

My jaw dropped. "What? You want me to train him? I said I'd think about it."

"I think the loser over here should learn how to fight from someone who knows how to fight!" Tyler said with a smirk. "I will be present so no funny business Prince Eric!"

Brandy and I both went into a fit laughter. I stopped laughing but once I saw the shocked look on Prince Eric's face, I burst into laughter again. Brandy on the other hand never stopped laughing. Brandy and I laughed so hard our stomach's hurt. It wasn't until my stomach started hurting that I stopped laughing.

Prince Eric clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Okay, then I agree to your terms as long as I get to train with Princess Trinity I'm good. And maybe…" He looked at Tyler. "I can train with you as well?"

Tyler blinked. "Huh? You want to train with me? Why?"

"Before I became the Head Trainer for the Warriors of the Royal Guard, I trained under the best fighters at that time," Prince Eric answered. "Princess Trinity has already shown she's one of the best fighters and I've seen you train with the King! So you and Princess Trinity are the best and I only train with the best! So what do you say?"

Prince Eric held out his hand and much to my surprise Tyler shook it. After that, Prince Eric nodded and walked away.

"Okay why the fuck did you agree to train with Prince Eric?" I questioned.

"Well like I said about him training with you," Tyler said. "He needs to learn how to fight from someone who actually knows how to fight!"

I snorted and bit my tongue to keep myself from bursting out in laughter. Mostly because at this point I don't think my stomach could take anymore laughter at the moment.

Tyler looked at me with a proud grin and puffed out his chest. That's when I burst into laughter again. After a moment or two I finally stopped laughing and switched back to serious mode and turned my attention to Brandy. "Alright then, all jokes aside, I have an idea on how to improve your strength."

"How?" Brandy asked.

I walked over to a set of ankle weights and wrist weights. I brought them over to Brandy. "You will train with these on when you're fighting me! It's the same way I trained this way when I first started training after I casted my first spell."

Tyler seemed confused by this and I don't blame him because that's not what we discussed before I started training Brandy.

"Okay how were you when you first started training?" Brandy asked and I could tell by the look on her face she was very curious.

"I was fourteen when I casted my first spell," I answered. I didn't want to get into the details of exactly how it happened because I didn't want to trigger the memory again.

Brandy gasped, "That's way too young to start training someone! I didn't start training until I turned eighteen after my first shift!"

"Yeah the IronClad Coven believes that it doesn't matter what age a witch casts their spell the moment they do any sort of magic is the moment they start training!" I said, "My best friend Sharry started training when she was twelve!"

Tyler and Brandy gasped. I nodded and smiled. "Yup! And she's one of the most powerful witches in the Coven! Anyway, Brandy, starting tomorrow you'll be training with me wearing these weights."

"And when will I be able to take them off?" Brandy asked.

"When you can get a couple of good hits on me in a fight and only then we'll stop training the weights and work on something else," I replied. "I think that's all for our training session today. I would've gone longer but you can thank Prince Salty for interrupting us today!"

Brandy chuckled, "Alright then, we'll train tomorrow at the same time?"

I nodded. Brandy shook my hand, gave me a short bow and left after that.