Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 44 | shook for only a moment before | felt fabric be draped across my skin. Then, a warm hand on my shoulder. | closed my eyes for the hundredth time that night and fell into a sleep that only seemed inevitable. When | woke up, | heard the familiar beeping that | associated with the infirmary. | shifted slightly and felt my bones crack and pop... but nothing hurt. My eyes slowly opened as | took into account my body. My arms were still there. My legs were still there. | could wiggle my toes. Somehow, | was alive. What a relief, the voice in the back of my head said.

But this time, she sounded different. | sat up in the bed | was in. Hello? | called into the back of my head. | could've sworn | heard a wolfish laugh. Hello! The voice said again. | felt my eyes bulge. | felt a tail swish around in the back of my mind. What the fuck was happening? You've awakened me, the voice said. | am here now. Fully. | blinked. But you were here before? | said. How - | - ---- lam you. I've always been you, the voice said. The tail in my mind swished again. But now | am who you've always wanted us to be. The wolf you were meant to be. | blinked again.

A low chuckle sounded from my right. | twisted in my bed to face the person it came from. Valentin smiled brightly at me. "| feel like you're always in that seat," | mused out loud. "| feel like you're always getting hurt," Valentin threw back. He stood and sighed. "How do you feel?" How did | feel? "Alive," | said. "Normal. But also, not? | wish | could explain it." "No need," Valentin said. "I had the same feeling when my wolf awakened." "Yeah probably when you were like eight or something," | snorted. "My wolf didn't wake until | was eighteen," Valentin shoved his hands in his pockets.

"It was how it usually was before we broke out of the vampire's grasp." "Oh," | said. "Maybe my wolf didn't get the memo." ---- | heard, my wolf said. | just ignored. How are you so sassy already? I'm you, she snorted. You were sassy before you got me. Valentin chuckled and brought my out of my thoughts. | glanced at him. He was smiling slightly out of the corner of his mouth. "What?" | asked "Do you want to see?" | furrowed my brows. "See what?" "Your eyes," he continued, offering my a hand. | tentatively took it to stand up.

| expected some of the crazy sparks that had happened before, but felt nothing. Maybe with the awakening - and snapping - of my bond with Thorne, whatever was going on with Valentin had slipped away. | filed it away in the back of my mind to ask Victoria if bonds could disappear. Slowly, | let me feet touch the ground in the infirmary. Everything felt so much more. The grooves and the slants of the floor were so much more prominent now. | felt every dip under my toes. It was insane. My jaw fell slightly slack. | looked up at Valentin.

---- "Easy now," he cautioned, hand still holding on to mine." Everything will feel much more intense now." | nodded slightly before setting my second foot on the ground. Valentin led me across the room to a mirror. What | saw, made my hands fly to my mouth in shock. | had expected my eyes to turn gold when my wolf was awakened. However, there, in front of me, situated where my old hazel eyes were was a pair of stunning, green-gold eyes.