Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221

The entire attium was so silent, you could hear a pin drop.

The only sound that permeated the space was the huff of people breathing. But I wasn’t even sure if the half the atrium was breathing. I know I wasn’t when I finally sucked in a breath. I turned to see if Maximus and Kairos were freaking out

Maximus’s lips were parted in confusion. Kairos seemed to be showing no emotion other than the way his face had gone ghostly pale. I turned and locked eyes with Keverow. She was looking me up and down as I’d magically turn into the Princess before her eyes.

Victoria cleared her throat and took a few steps to glance at the atrium again. It shattered the silence and seemed to make everything statt to be in motion again. Whispers started up from the crowd.

“Silence,” my mother demanded. Again, the room was stagnant. “The fact that Zora is my daughter should not matter to you. What should matter, is what you did to a fellow student.”

Victoria looked over her shoulder at me. I could sense the anger boiling in the back of her carefully controlled face. It made the skin on my arms prickle with fear.

“This student,” Victoria extended a hand towards me. “Has been ostracized and broken and attacked since she arrived on campus. Not one of you has had any compassion for your classmate.”

Her hand dropped back to hit her side. “The purpose of Alpha Academy,” she continued, voice shaking with rage. “Was to safeguard peace. It was supposed to be a place for our young wolves to learn the things we didn’t get to learn, growing up under vampire suppression.”

Victoria gave Valentin a small smile. He was still seething and seemed to give very little fucks about my mother’s trip down memory lane. She looked up at the atrium and frowned.

“Alpha Academy was built to raise leaders,” she said. “Not mobs.”

“Your Highness, if I may-” Keverow started.

Victoria whipped around and glared at her as she tried to speak. Keverow squeaked before bowing her head and looking back at the ground. My mother gave her one last scathing stare before looking back at the crowd.

“The jealousy you are all masquerading around as justice is appalling,” she continued your rant. “You saw a wolf with more than one fated mate and thought that she must be evil? Must be put down?”

Victoria scoffed and shook her head.

“Your fear of the unknown is being presented as loyalty,” she snapped. “Loyal wolves don’t turn their backs against their own kind. They bring each other up.”

“She isn’t loyal!” Was yelled from behind me. I turned to see Thorne glaring at me with a hand outstretched in accusation. He looked unhinged and coming apart more and more as time was passing.

“Loyal wolves don’t work with the fucking vampires!” Thorne snapped. “They don’t rat out their Princess for having a drug issue!”

“Watch yourself boy,” Victoria snapped at Thorne.

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“Tin tired of her getting away with this shit!” Thorne roared, “the will be our dat

*Finare,” my mother growled.

The pale man who had cast the secrecy or a few moment ago, stepped forwards. His arm shot out towards Thome and a ray of white light sailed through the atrium to hit Thorne in the chest. He granted before he kesh over and slumped to the ground.

There were several shrieks throughout the atrium followed by chaos. People started dating cut of the room. 1 turned to see if Maximus or Kairos were panicking, Neither seemed to move, both glancing at me then turning back to my mother

Finare stepped forwards again and wound his arms around one another. Another ball of light formed bet his hands. He raised it high above his head, swirling his fingers around it, before he cast it into the ceiling, At once, all the chaos subsided as people were frozen in their spots,

Again, the room was quiet.

Victoria stepped forwards and patted Finare on the shoulder. “Thank you,” she said, softly. “You may release them.”

Finare waved his hand lazily and everyone unfroze. They all tentatively turned to look at my mother and her mage, standing in the center of the atrium where the Wolf Authority guards were still littered. Because of me.

I closed my eyes as the panic started taking over me. I shoved it down my throat and turned back to look at Victoria. She was watching me with a careful eye. She gave me a curt nod before turning back to the crowd.

“The vampires are still a real threat,” she said, softer than her previous tone. “More of a threat than you have been to one another. We have intel they are stirring in our country. Their numbers are rising as they gather.”

She clasped her hands and paced across the floor. “Our enemies know far too much about us,” she continued.” They know all of our weaknesses. They know everything. It’s how they used to keep us barred in cages and powerless.”

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