Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 222

Chapter 222

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The air in the room that we’d gathered in was stuffy. Was it because of the number of people in it? Maybe. It was more likely it was because my mother, the Queen of all wolves, had just dropped a truth bomb on everyone, made her mage knock out a student and then had just left like it was any other day.

At least I learned where I got my flare for dramatics from.

I could tell everyone was uncomfortable by the way they were all fidgeting. Valentin looked like he was two seconds from tearing off Thorne’s head. Thorne, himself, was half awake and trying to stay that way from the way he was blinking erratically. Maximus kept shifting his eyes back and forth between me and my mother. Kairos looked smug as fuck, probably bitter he had to share me.

My mother, however, looked as prim and proper a Queen as usual. She sat at the desk of the small office we’d commandeered, one leg crossed over the other in her long purple–red robe. She sipped a cup of tea one of the guards had brought her and seemed to be entirely unbothered by everything that had happened in the atrium.

“Val,” she said before lifting her cup to her lips. “Where’s Finare gone?”

“He wanted to see the school’s alchemy labs,” Valentin grunted. “He was under the impression a position may be opening soon.”

Victoria hummed and sipped her tea. She gently put it down on the saucer and folded her hands in her lap. She turned her attention to the rest of us. She didn’t wear a smile but her tone was less ominous than it’d been during her lecture.

“I assume you have questions,” she drawled.

“Did they know?” Kairos bit out. “When you made the deal with our father’s for the Princesses hand, did they know you weren’t talking about Amara?”

“No,” Victoria said plainly. “No one knew about Zora except for Valentin. It was kept that way for a reason. The more that know, the more it’s likely for the information to be leaked to the vampires.”

Kairos licked the front of his lips but said nothing in return. He slumped back against the wall and continued to

pout.

“Did you know we were all her fated mates?” Maximus pressed.

“I had a hunch,” my mother said. “There was a prophecy of someone ‘born to royalty‘ and ‘bound to five.‘ Both Valentin and I suspected that the five fated mates would have to be incredibly powerful for Zora to sustain all five bonds.”

“Five?!” Kairos snapped, pushing off the wall. His head jerked to glare at me. “There’s another one?”

“Apparently,” I said. “I don’t know who the last one is, or I would’ve told you when we spoke.”

Karios silently fumed again, standing straight up next to Maximus, who also seemed shocked. “What else does this prophecy say?” he asked.

“I’m telling you this because you are now part of it,” Victoria stated. “But as did we keep the secret of Zora quiet, I’d like you to withhold the prophecy itself. The intel we have said the vampires know of us, but not the exact verbiage. If they do, they could solve it before us and gain an upper hand.”

“Understoor,” Maxitas said. He looked at Kalvon the two added or maker Vestes them then brought her cup back to her mouth. Before the sipped, she nodded at Vilburn the power they borbu s brought his hand up.

A shimmering orb of light materialized in his hand. With it came booming wine that seed to be both outside and inside my head. I slammed my hands over my ears the moment it started to sjede

“Born of royalty, bound to five,

The collison of dark and light,

Remaker of olden times,

Night to his knees,

Light to rise,

Balance is once again in sight.”

There’s a small pop as the light orb shrivels down in size and disappeared from Valentin’s hand. He closed his fist and set it back down at his side before recrossing his arms over his chest. He raises an eyebrow at me, questioning

“That sounds nothing like me,” I scoffed. I turned to my mother. “Are you sure it’s me?”

“Sure as the day you were born,” Victoria smiled gently at me. “I have no other children and have always thought to be barren after an accident in my youth.”

“It sounds like Zora’s a weapon for defeating the vampires,” Maximus stated.

“Precisely,” Valentin finally spoke up. “Which is why we’ve kept her identity a secret and yet had you all training with her. She’s our weapon against the vampires. We’re her defense.”

“You didn’t keep her secret to keep her as your own?” Kairos snapped.

Valentin narrowed his eyes at the alpha. “Despite your obsession with not sharing, I don’t mind,” he snapped.” Zora was kept in the human world away from everyone for her safety. Period. End of story.”

Maximus and Kairos snapped their necks to look at me. I felt like crawling into a hole and dying. They both watched me as if I was something to study. As if everything about me suddenly made sense.

“There’s something else,” Victoria said. All of us turned to look back at her. She cocked her head to the side. ” It’s the reason I’m actually on campus.”

“So you didn’t come to shut down the trial?” I asked.

“Not originally,” she said. “But Val informed me that you’d been detained and I decided I’d had enough of this.”

I frowned, still somewhat disappointed that she’d told the entire atrium and my fated mates about who I actually was. I was thankful she’d made them take a silence vow, but still, the decision wasn’t mine.

“The prophet,” Victoria continued. “He’s coming to us with more information.”

“More?!” Maximus balked. “What more could someone add to that?”

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