#Chapter 405: I Will Be Queen

I struggled to wrap my mind around all of this. I was apparently one of the missing Bear princesses. We were in the North. No one was coming to rescue us. Nicholas was far away, maybe still standing in that ballroom, staring at the place I had been. Or, worse, he was still fighting with the bear warriors Jane had snuck in. I had no idea how much time had passed, and no way to check it. The room Joyce and I was in was very bare bones outside of our cages. It looked like an old wine cellar, but no bottles had been left behind. The shelves had begun rotting. “How do you know we’re in the North?” I asked. The room had no windows. “Can’t you feel it? The chill? The hint of pine permeating the air?” Joyce said. How easy it was to forget that Joyce was also an alpha wolf, since he rarely showed his alpha qualities. But an alpha, with their more enhanced senses, would be able to detect those subtle differences. “Also, every guard I have seen so far is a bear,” Joyce said. “That’s