Alpha King's Witch Princess

Chapter 1

Maddox's POV

(Again, highly advised to read Alpha's Imprinted first before this so you can understand this better)

"No, dad. Trust me. That is exactly what they said" I try explaining to my dad who is just as shocked as we all are.

Zelda handled the situation well as she said that she needed time to process the new information, but she will be back to know more about them and her. At the same time she even talked to them about the war and everything else.

Now we are all in my pack again. Edgar left for his vampire territory again. All the while we were at the witch kingdom, they all gave him nasty glances for being the ruler of vampires.

As far as the legend goes, witches were allies with werewolves and often used to perform sacrificial rituals to protect us and their race from the vampires. So imagine knowing their own princess is a good friend of the vampire king.. yeah, a little unsettling.

"Also I remember a lady who helped us. Her husband called her as Jackie" I told him and his face changed a little bit.

"That is definitely Jacqueline then. Oh no. I knew that girl looked a little familiar but I did not relate her with Jacqueline. Because even I thought that both Kenneth and Jacqueline were dead" dad says , and the girl he is referring to is Zelda.

"Oh no. She is my best friend's daughter then" dad smiles and he is on his feet in an instant.

I follow him as he walks to the living room where Zelda and Kelsie are talking about something. Maybe shopping related because they were arguing about colors, in particular.

"So that means you are Kenneth and Jacqueline's daughter" dad says as he looks at Zelda but she looks at me before nodding her head.

Dad pulls her into a hug and I smile. I remember the stories dad used to tell me. He told me that he failed because he trusted his best friend a little too much.

And that trust led to a war and that turned into a slaughter. For years, he blamed whatever happened but we all knew that the witch royals were still the only best friends he had and he lost everyone. His best friends and mate as well.. he lost all of them in that one war.

"So the letter was probably written by your mother" dad says and it totally slipped my mind.

The letter. Obviously. Zelda was referred to as my baby in the letter. If Kenneth Graham is dead but Jacqueline's body was never found.. it is pretty much evident that the letter was written by Queen Jacqueline and she was probably the one who dropped baby Zelda at Steve's home.

It is very unfortunate that we cannot ask Steve to share more details of what he knows. It could have been easy to know her. Or her whereabouts.

All my family is now around Zelda, curious to know what she has to say. But I am just standing aside worried about what my people are going to say. Sure, they love Zelda and there were times they fiercely protected her.. but they are the same people who lost their family members during the war twenty one years ago. There are people who lost their kids. People who lost their parents. So I am not sure if they are going to be okay after they come to know that Zelda is actually the lost Princess of our rival clan.

"Give her some damn time! She came to know this today just like you all!!" I say quite irritated, and they all look at me, then nod and go to their own rooms or places where they have to be.

Now it's just dad, Zelda and me. So if there is one person who knows how the former Witch Queen looks or looked like, then it's my dad.

"Dad, we are just counting on you in this," I say, fully aware that he is the only one I can trust .. who knows Queen Jacqueline and how she looked like.

"Zelda! Can we talk?" I hear Kelsie call Zelda, and they both walk away.

Nothing pleases me more than the fact that my fiance and my sister are best of friends.

"Yes. And the other fact that your fiance also happens to be the Lost Princess of Witches?" My wolf Ajax chimes in, and this wolf guy is being the most active nowadays. Since there are no hunters to constantly hit us, of course.

"Oh. Also the fact that your sister is also the girlfriend of your best friend" Ajax says again and I just block him for a while. He is really starting to get talkative.

"So what do we do now?" I ask dad.

How times have changed! Almost a year ago, my dad and I rarely spoke. I always hated him for snatching my childhood away from me.

When the war was over, I helped bury my mom and a few other people.. I remember asking my dad as to why it happened and he just told me that he trusted his best friend and that's where he lost.

I was mad at him. So so so mad at him for trusting the wrong people. I was mad that his best friendship with whoever it was, led us into a war. I lost my mom. I had to take responsibilities at a tender age. I hated everything about it.

But look at us now. We started talking nice and being on good terms with each other since.. probably the last three months or so. And here we are, talking about the same situation that got me staying mad at him for twenty years in the first place.

"Who else knows about this?" Dad asks.

"Zelda, you, me, Kelsie, Edgar and Ian" I say and he nods taking that information.

I did not even tell my beta Lucia about this. I want this to stay discrete at least until we know it's okay. The topic of witches is still sensitive when it comes to werewolves. You should have seen the slaughter all those years ago. You would be mad at them too.

"Alright then. Let us not tell anyone about anything. Now that there are no hunters in our way, let us focus on searching Jackie" he says and I narrow my eyes at him to which he corrects himself as he says,"Jacqueline, I meant to say"

They were best friends. So maybe he called her as Jackie when it was them. I just nod and slide it off, not caring too much about it.

"How do we search for her?" I ask him and he thinks for a while.

"Maybe witches and I can sit together one day and take help of someone who can draw a portrait of her? I don't remember having photos of her or Kenneth. Everything was destroyed during the war" dad says and I nod.

I should talk Zelda first so she can talk witches into it. But, Zelda is busy with Kelsie now so it's either I find them or finish my Alpha duties first.

Just as I am thinking of it, I catch a whiff of Zelda's cinnamon scent. So I turn around and I also catch a sniff of a strong scent of-

"Congratulations on your coronation, Maddox!!" My family screams as they shove a cake in front of my face, making me laugh.

"Thank you," I smile wide as I look at my people.

We just found out that my fiance is a Princess of my rival gang, but they totally put that aside to celebrate my coronation day?

Leave it to my family and their way of surprising me.