The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 84

Princess Sophia's POV

It'd been two long hours since I was brought into that stupid dungeon and I was so full of anger. It was already getting dark and my hopes of being allowed to spend the night elsewhere were vanishing into thin air with each passing second.

As the guards brought me inside, I noticed something. The cell where my mother was kept was just opposite that, which they put me inside. I did my best to plead with them to put me in another cell but my pleas fell on deaf ears.

"So bold of you to try to pick out the cell you'd want to be locked up in, Princess," one of them mocked as they dragged me into the cell and began to chain me up.

"She still thinks she's a Princess," said another, as they all laughed in unison. "The earlier you realise that you're no princess, the better it'll be for you. You're just like us; the daughter of a maid. You should have spent all these years working with us and helping out with so many things but you were up there in the Castle parading as the Princess…"

"Hopefully," the first man cut in. "If she's set free; and that's a very big if, then she might be quite useful as a maid in the palace. At least, she'll be able to have some relevance."

They laughed and left the place after properly chaining me up, while I thought hard about what I was going to do to them. "You'll regret this, all of you," I swore in my heart. I was determined to make them pay at all costs. They had written me off too soon and they were going to be sorry. I was so sure about that.

As I stared at the ceiling, I was quite happy to know that luckily for me, there was a wall demarcating my cell and my mom's. Although we were close, there was no way she could have been aware that I was just in the cell opposite hers. She'd have been so elated if she was aware. She'd probably think she'd won some sort of a lottery.

Ever since I arrived at the cell, I did nothing else but cry. I didn't try to hold back the tears. I let them flow freely from my eyes as I was overwhelmed with pain and anguish.

It hadn't been so long since I was freed from the dungeon in another Pack. Now, I was being held in chains in yet another dungeon in my Pack. I wondered how I let my life move from being a respected royal lady to a prisoner.

If only I had just stayed away from that woman that called herself my mother. If only I didn't visit her in the cell to convince her to make a sacrifice for her child whom she claimed to love. There was no way that I would have been exposed. I regretted my every act. Perhaps, it'll have been better to pay someone to do it for me. That way, no one would have suspected.

I didn't know what next I had to do to escape my predicament. There was no way that I was going to let myself stay there for far too long. It was almost a certain death or banishment; two outcomes that were unfavourable to me.

In a few days or weeks, a judgement would be pronounced by the Alpha to determine my fate. That stupid Aurora and Alpha Bane would be there to witness the fate that they had brought upon me. I had to do something to prevent that. I needed to find a way.