The Hidden Princess

Cutting ties

Chapter 7

Malachi’s pov

1 year ago

I have spent the past year roaming around Elysium yet again, and there is still no sign of that girl. How can someone hide a person so easily. I mean, it should be easy enough to find a person who just appeared somewhere one day.

There is no news about a witch being in any of the kingdoms other than in the magic one, of course. Other supernaturals would be able to sniff her out, as she would have undertones of sage in her scent like all witches and wizards do.

Any measures to hide it wouldn’t last this long, especially with her powers soon reaching their peak. There are no rumours at all of a magic person being born into a non magic family, and Arai has not been able to get a bead on her either.

I have also had to cut ties with that bloody dragon queen Katerina. It is a shame as she was one of my best customers throughout the years after my little white lie to her that she was the second chance mate to the king and handed her a scent booster. She fell for it easily, that woman thirsts for power so much I could smell it. I knew she would believe whatever I said even though it was obvious she would not need a scent booster to attract her mate stupid woman.

I have made a fortune from her making potions for her throughout the years and getting to fu.ck that sweet looking niece of hers as a sweetener. She knew the only way that girl would get anywhere was with deception and potions. Her niece Casandra was more than happy to pleasure me to get where she wanted in life. She is just as ruthless as her aunt.

That woman should have known better than to have used my potions on the pregnant mate of the future king. That was just bringing too much heat to me, especially since she turned into a phoenix of all things. Even Arai doesn’t know if she can stop me, and that makes me nervous for the first time.

A little bit of magic on my part after I told her I was out made her unable to contact me any longer and cut off all ways of contact if she does say my name. I was relieved that she killed that niece of hers. That’s one less person who knows me, even if the stupid bi.tch tried to take out the Prince at the same time.

It was a big relief that she was executed for her crimes, and all she could now give them was a name, nothing more, even if she did give away my part in her other schemes. The biggest problem was it put me back on that seers radar, Arai was still able to shield me from that old bi.tch, but she wasn’t sure for how much longer. The gods have great power, but they can only interfere so much in the mortal realms, even if Arai does bend the rules somewhat, she has to watch that she doesn’t alert the other gods to her business.

She has been demanding more followers lately, every job I do for some miscreant. I now have to do a blood bond with them to follow her her for the rest of their long life. She receives their souls if they stop believing in her as they die instantly.

Blood magic is the most powerful dark magic there is. It is devilishly genius of her as their souls give her even more power than their belief in her, and several have fallen at the hands of the blood bond, stupidly not thinking it is that powerful, and that it does actually have your life and soul in its grasp.

The more power she gets the more she will give me and be able to protect me until I have what I want, Morgana’s daughter as my beloved, her strength will power my own and together we will rule over them all and pay back those who have hurt me.

We both can get what we want, and Arai wants to have the same strength as the other gods so she can stand next to them as an equal and no longer hide in the shadows waiting on them to put a stop to her before she is strong enough.

It works in my interests to help her achieve that. She is the only one who believed in me and stuck by me in my life. Besides, if she goes down, all the power she has given me will be gone, I need to mate with that girl to hold on to it without needing Arai’s help. The last thing I can go through is to become that weak boy again, so I will do anything she needs me to, to keep this power.

I have several bands of rogues from all species who are loyal to me and to her. They are useful for any grunt work, or going places and doing jobs I can not be seen at. All we have to do is make sure they have shelter and all the women they need.

Female rogues are more vulnerable being out on their own, so really, we are just doing them a favour by giving them a group to protect them and a roof over their heads. So what if they have to share their body with any of the men there who want them.

They should be grateful they are even alive and not complain about what we expect of them. We have even managed to make some of them mothers which is definitely not something they would have on their own and if they did the child would not have its father there and they would have no protection the baby would most likely die.

Still, these stupid, selfish women have tried to escape from their homes. That’s where I come in, a simple spell to keep them from trying to escape and be a bit more compliant to the men. Having the women there makes the men happy, and when the men are happy, they do everything I ask.

Talking of mothers that little she wolf mate of mine had a daughter, the warrior she ended up becoming chosen mates with her so far is being good to her and treating my daughter like his own. He heard my curse, so I am sure that he will not want to be at its mercy for rejecting my child.

I will still keep tabs on them to make sure that my child is not hurt. I may not care for her mother, but the girl is my blood even if I don’t want her or to bring her up. A child just won’t fit into my lifestyle and will disrupt my plans.

Right now Morgana’s daughter is more important than my own, besides I can always have more children, I am sure my soon to be beloved will give me many strong daughters and possibly a son or two. I will keep her pregnant, and she will never fight against me for fear for our children before I twist her to my ways.

As soon as I tell her my version of events and how her mother so easily got rid of her out of her life just like she did me, she will never want to know them. And when we get in power, we will kill my beautiful Morgana and that stupid beloved of her just like I did to my own useless parents.

My parents had to go, I didn’t want to ever be reminded of who I was because of them and their weak magic. I also didn’t want their to be any links left of me in the kingdom so that they couldn’t use it against me.

All traces that I was ever there were gone and could not be used to track me down, I was the last of my blood well apart from my daughter now, but none of them know about her yet. She is my little fail-safe. Even if they find a way to stop me one day, the curse will be released, and I will cause pain and misery long after my death.