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?"

realizing that might be

Lila shrugged. "Sure."

She had expected something unnatural, like hard cartilage or an inhuman texture, but

the

trailing her fingers up and down, Lila suddenly let out a bubbling laugh, her shoulders

she

by her reaction, Ivy grew bolder, tracing the delicate curve before finally brushing

as Lila bared her fangs, an aggressive snarl rumbling from her throat.

silence as it dawned on them that Lila nearly bit

enough to kill them in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, that didn’t seem like such a

step back and lifted her hands in a

sorry," she said with

Ivy demanded, still recovering from her near-death experience. Kind of. Losing a finger was as good as death

neck awkwardly. "That spot is... sensitive. It’s an erogenous zone for us. Only our

"Oh."

shade of red as it dawned on her. Her lips parted in mortification, and she quickly tucked her

again,"

over the room again before Violet broke it, asking

"What is it?"

long way from home. So why

intently, nodded in agreement. "That’s right.

written in books, stories passed down through generations. And yet, here you are, hiding in plain

the air as they waited for an

were now secretly integrating 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 the latter, everything they knew

time the supernatural was exposed, the world nearly collapsed. Another revelation of this magnitude could be

the wary tension between them growing. "I did

spine, Ivy’s stiffened and Daisy’s lips pressed into a firm line. It was exactly as they feared.The three girls exchanged uneasy glances, bracing themselves for

"It’s not what you think. I didn’t come here to start a war or reveal our existence. My intentions