It wasn't long before Lethia returned feeling humiliated. She had lost half of the troops and many knights were injured. As soon as her return was announced, news of her humiliating defeat spread. The emperor was upset; he trusted her with an important mission and she ruined everything. The lycans now had the advantage.
"Father, it was an ambush... it's not my fault," she says, kneeling before the emperor.
"There are no excuses, Lethia. You said you could handle this mission and you lost half of our troops," the emperor laments.
"It's my fault, Father. If I hadn't been weak, I could have led this mission," Victoria kneels beside Lethia. "Forgive my sister. If only my health hadn't been poor, this wouldn't have happened."
Lethia could feel how sharp Victoria's words were. Although she sounded regretful, her words were meant to make everyone aware of how useless Lethia had been.
"It's not your fault, Victoria. Lethia knew perfectly well that her skills were terrible on a battlefield, and yet she insisted on going. This lesson should be enough for her," he points at Lethia. "Your arrogance cost us thousands of lives. I hope that, at the very least, you compensate the families of the soldiers."
The emperor ends the meeting and calls Victoria to talk, while Lethia has to leave that room where everyone looks at her with disapproval. She can even hear the whispers in the hallways.
"Always boasting about being the best warrior, and she returned defeated."
"His Majesty shouldn't have trusted her. She's just a show-off."
"Princess Victoria wouldn't have failed like that."
"What can you expect from a princess who is just a talker?"
The small giggles resonate in the hallway, causing Lethia greater annoyance. Upon reaching her room, she spent her time throwing everything around, screaming and cursing Victoria. She didn't understand how the lycans discovered the route of her surprise attack. It was a perfect plan, she was ready to triumph and earn her father's trust.
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Victoria, on the other hand, was on the balcony of her room enjoying a glass of wine and smiling because Lethia had failed, and that meant Wolfram had taken her warning into account. She was already about to go inside when the gray-furred lycan lunges at her to push her into the room. He knocked her to the floor and pressed her wrists against it while taking his human form. Victoria smiles slyly as she observes the wolf.
"I don't like being dominated, but I think I can make an exception," she licks her lips.
Wolfram lets out a growl at the girl's comment.
"Stop joking, why are you betraying the humans?" he asks.
"Because they want to betray me, I'm just getting ahead," she replies with a sly smile.
"And you want to use me for your little revenge, is that it?" he asks, annoyed. "I won't be your puppet, bloodsucker."
"Puppet? No, I'm looking for an ally. You and I have the same enemy..." she replies with complete calm.
"Sure, and then what? Will you kill me too?"
The lycan lets out a slight growl, that woman was a nuisance, but she was right, she could be a very useful ally, but, in the same way, it could be a trap. In that moment of distraction, Victoria made a move, changing positions, ending up on top of Wolfram and, to prevent him from moving, points her claws at his neck.
"If I wanted you dead, you would be already," Victoria slides her claws across the lycan's chest, gently grazing his skin until reaching his chest, and licks her lips. "Think about it, pup, I'm your best option to eliminate these human rats."
Wolfram shows his canines with another slight growl, that woman was taking too many liberties by touching him like that. He was about to push her away when she leans down and licks the lycan's lips. At this, Wolfram gets up abruptly, pushing Victoria with all his strength. She falls, hitting her back against the wall, but starts laughing, due to Wolfram's reaction.
"Damn crazy..." Wolfram murmurs.
Upon detecting footsteps, the lycan quickly exits through the balcony to escape into the forest, while Victoria just stands up. As there is a knock on her door, it was Moira who enters to deliver a glass full of blood. Since she reincarnated and during the following days, Moira is the one who brings her a glass of blood to drink at night; in her memory, the empress was the only one who discovered what Victoria really was. At first, the woman was scared because when she was seven years old, she bit and killed one of the maids, and it was the empress who came in and saw what happened. But far from telling the emperor the truth, she protected Victoria, and only Moira, the woman she trusted most, also knew what Victoria was.
When the empress died, Moira was the only one in charge of Victoria and who continued feeding her with blood. She collects it from the livestock and places it in a refrigerator with a magic ice crystal to keep it fresh. But being animal blood, Victoria must drink it daily, because it doesn't give her enough nutrition as human blood or that of another supernatural being would. Even so, it serves well to quench her thirst and helps her stay strong.
After leaving her dose for that night, Moira retires. Victoria closes her balcony windows and gets into her bed. For now, she knows that Wolfram has left, but she knows that he has been tempted, that having her as an ally is beneficial for the war.
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It didn't take long for Wolfram to reach his camp, where one of the men there quickly hands him a robe to cover himself upon returning in his human form. Wolfram enters his tent and sits on a sofa.
"You shouldn't disappear like that, Your Majesty. Where did you go? I hope not to human territory, it's dangerous," speaks the woman who was already waiting for him under the tent.
This girl was Sira Zaharie, a general of Wolfram's army and a loyal friend since childhood. She is a beautiful young woman, with short brown hair and blue eyes that reflect her confidence and bravery. Sira is the only one capable of speaking with Wolfram without worrying about whether she offends him or not.
Wolfram takes out the map that Victoria had given him from a drawer.
"The route of the human ambush. It was given to me by the younger Princess Blackwood," Wolfram informs her.
"What? Y-you trusted the information of your enemy?" she asks, worried.
"And her information was real, although I don't know what she really wants or what she plans..."
Although just as Victoria predicted, Wolfram is already interested. The lycan is left thinking, because accepting to join forces with that vampire has its advantages and disadvantages. It is not easy to trust someone who has been his enemy since the war began and has killed many of his people.
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