Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 186: The Princess

"Impossible!"

"Slap me!"

"No way!"

All three girls shouted in unison, their voices overlapping in shock, disbelief, and pure astonishment.

Violet’s pulse was thundering in her ears. Her gut had told her from the very beginning that something was off about Lila, yet nothing had prepared her for this. Lila? A Fae? It was mind blowing.

"This is mental!" Daisy exclaimed, nearly tearing at her own hair as if that would help her smart brain process the situation.

"This shouldn’t be possible! Fae don’t exist! They’re nothing more than stories from mythology classes but here you are, standing right in front of us... in the flesh and blood..." She trailed off, tentatively poking Lila on the face.

The moment her fingertips met Lila’s skin, she gasped. "Fuck! You’re real!"

Lila’s eyes twinkled with amusement.

"Oh, faeries are very much real. We just don’t mingle much. Bad history and all, especially with humans. So we keep to ourselves, hidden and safe."

"Humans don’t like the unpredictable,"

Violet pointed out, arms crossed as she processed this revelation. "Especially when it comes to creatures with supernatural abilities they can’t control."

Lila grinned at her. "Bingo."

While Violet and Daisy were busy wrapping their heads around the whole thing, Ivy had a completely different approach. She circled Lila slowly, eyes narrowing as she scrutinized every inch of her Fae features like she was studying an ancient artifact in a museum.

"Your ears," Ivy finally breathed, her fascination barely hidden. "Are they real?"

Lila raised a brow. "You’re staring at them right now, Ivy. What do you think?"

her lip unsure before reaching out. But realizing that might be rude, she caught Lila’s gaze.

Lila shrugged. "Sure."

her ear, her eyes widening as she made contact. She had expected something unnatural, like hard cartilage or an inhuman texture, but instead they were soft. The skin was

whispered, the texture

up and down, Lila suddenly let out a bubbling laugh,

tickles!" she admitted,

tracing the delicate curve before finally brushing against the

snarl rumbling from her throat. Her usually warm violet eyes had darkened

fell into stunned silence as it dawned

a room with a creature powerful enough to kill them

step back and

she

was that?" Ivy demanded, still recovering from her near-death experience. Kind of.

have warned you." Lila sighed, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. "That spot is...

"Oh."

it dawned on her. Her lips parted in mortification, and she quickly tucked her hands

touching... ever again," She nodded

over the room again before Violet broke it, asking with suspicion. "There’s something I

"What is it?"

from home. So

in agreement. "That’s right. You’re the first living Fae

through generations. And yet, here you are, hiding in plain sight. So

question settled heavily in the air

into the human realm, their presence could mean one of two things—either an attempt at peace or the prelude to war. And if it was

time the supernatural was exposed, the world nearly collapsed. Another revelation of

Lila admitted, the wary tension between them growing. "I did

ran down Violet’s spine, Ivy’s stiffened and Daisy’s lips pressed into a firm line. It

you think. I didn’t come here to start a war or