~Royal Palace~

She could sniff something. Even though Cassandra was just a wolf har smelling sense was great as compared to humans which only made her from because she smelled something really bad from Xavier's room.

Had the boy not been giving his clothes to the laundry? But as his mother Cassandra had washed clothes that were a month or too old and they did not smell as bad as this did so what was it?

She huffed slightly and just opened the door to his room. Xavier was surely in for a lecture when he would come back.

Without looking at anything in the room she just opened his bathroom and checked the laundry basket only for it to be empty. That meant one of the ballast staff workers had taken the clothes out so that was not responsible for the smell.

Cassandra looked around the bathroom to see for something but ended up shaking her head and walking out. It was then that her eyes caught the roses.

The red roses that she realised no one in her house liked except her. Cassandra walked closer to the roses, this smell being the last thing on her mind and completely forgotten as she touched the bright and fully bloomed rose.

"So beautiful," she whispered as if enchanted by the beauty of the flowers contrary to the colour. Why would Xavier keep roses in his room when he did not even like them?

Since Xavier was not in the palace and would not be home for quite a few days, she picked them up not wanting them to wilt in an empty room. She made her way to the room that she shared with her mate as her eyes did not leave the roses. They were beautiful.

Roses were not an uncommon flower here. Many ancestors, liking the beauty of them, had brought the seeds back to be sold in this soil which have resulted beautifully for their gardens.

She placed them on her table before bringing back a vase that she had kept at the very end of her closet. She admired the beauty of the roses and white vase went perfect with it.

She took them out and and slightly chopped the end off of some and more of the others. The bouquet was beautiful as the roses were made of oval shape, the tallest in the middle and shorter ones surrounding it.

She sighed in content and moved out of the room. Cassandra loves the beauty that the roses depicted.

She stopped when she heard something fall. What was that? As far as she remembered she had not placed anything in the situation where it could fall.

She turned around and saw something go into the bathroom from the corner of her eye. Without missing a beat she immediately charged into the direction of the bathroom.

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The smell was bothering Javier. His mate was the only one who loved the smell of roses and it only made him confused as to how the roses ended up being at Xaviers office.

Cassandra would never place something in the room of children that they did not like. It was bothering his nose and it twitched at the sight of them. Not only that but his beast was also growing agitated by the passing second.

He stood up from the chair of the king, having enough of the smell bothering him continuously. The work was important and it needed his entire focus on it but if this continued to happen then there was no chance that he could carry out the duties of the King that he had promised his son he would do with diligence.

He picked them up, all of them at once from the vase only to gag at the smell they emitted. Javier dropped them immediately and the Guards entered.

They barged through the doors looking around with their weapons head forward ready to attack and looking for the source of the smell. By the smell of it, it was obvious that something death was involved.

"What is it?!" The previous beta lycan, father to the current Beta Augustus, Beta Igao entered. He was ready to attack too.

"The smell—" Javier gagged again and moved away from the sight. "The smell is coming from the way. Just as I pulled the roses out, that stench filled up the entire room."

The beta immediately looked there and sniffed. That was true. "It smells like something Dead is in there." He sniffed again but only ended up covering his mouth. The stench was really bad.

Everyone neared it and the beta lycan took hold of the was and turned it upside down only for it to have something come out.

Everyone stared in silence.

A . .

"What is that?" Igao spat.

"It looks like a cord of sorts. . ." A guard answered hesitantly yet continued to stare at the small piece of flesh in front of them. It looked like a rope but by the smell and the looks of it it was a part of Flesh.

"Perhaps it is just flesh?" Javier assumed. "It might be just part of flesh that is cut in a shape like this? Because what else could it be?" He winced at the thought. The entire event went through his head and he tried to understand how it was that it just started to smell now. It was not even the smell of the dead but rather the smell of the roses that overpowered the entire room until he pulled them out.

It appears to be a long line of flesh which made it seem like it was some sort of rope. But it only contradicted everyone's exemption for it to be a rope because it stank of dead and rotten flesh.

Igao shook his head as a gay how to small sigh, "I do no—" a horrid scream ran out in the entire Palace silencing everyone in the room.

Everyone in the palace quieted down immediately when they heard the horrifying screen. Even Javier stopped moving as his mind went numb before it all came back. That was the voice of his mate. That was the voice of Cassandra.

That scream belonged to his mate, Cassandra.