Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 17: Ernest’s Mate

Maeve

“Don’t say your name? Why?”

*Just in that context. I don’t… we can’t-”

“I know,” I said hurriedly, feeling foolish. It couldn’t be personal. That had to be what he meant. I fidgeted, looking past him toward the door. He followed my gaze, then snapped his head back around, giving me a serious look.

“Leave them alone, Maeve. I know what you’re thinking.”

“I just really need to talk to Ernest—”

“No, you don’t.”

“You don’t understand, Aaron. Gemma is in a bit of a crisis right now,”

“Because they’re mates? That doesn’t sound like a crisis to me.” He stood there, staring at me blankly as my jaw dropped open.

“How the hell did you know that?”

“Uh, he told me? Is it supposed to be a secret-”

I turned from him, pacing over to a set of couches that had been pushed up against the wall so that the maid could polish and wax the floor. I felt a little guilty as I looked down at the very obvious footprints left in the fresh wax, but the room was rarely used. It was my first time spending more than a few minutes here myself. “Well, if you know about it then it’s not a secret, is it?”

He shrugged, reaching up to crack open the window. “What do you need to talk to him about that’s so pressing you’d interrupt them?”

“I wasn’t going to interrupt them,” I lied, pursing my lips as he cast me an incredulous look. “I just wanted to talk to him privately.”

“About why he won’t marry and have children?”

Igaped at him again, my jaw nearly hitting the floor. “You know about that? You know why?”

“Yeah, he told me all about it.” Aaron’s tone was so casual that I laughed, unable to stop myself. He peered at me, tilting his head as I sat down on one of the dusty couches. “Do you seriously not know? How could you not know? Your whole reason for being here is to produce the heir he refuses,”

“Refuses? No, he can’t have children.”

“Oh, he’s perfectly capable of having children.”

“1-How?”

outline of his cock in the comically tiny shorts he was wearing, and he made no move to hide it, either. He caught my gaze and I blushed, which was actually the reaction he

“Aaron!”

on the arm rest and put both of his feet on the couch, facing me. “Ernest said he had a vision that his mate and their child would die, so he

whether or not Aaron was messing with me.

serious. In fact, he told me his own mother had the same vision, and she was the driving force behind getting

my skin prickling with a chill as his words

own mother cursed me, after his accident. My mom’s powers

just a dream until

Forest with us, not thousands of miles away in Valoria. I didn’t know the details of the exchange of power, but I do know Ernest became Alpha at a ridiculously young age, sixteen or seventeen, when his parents decided to leave Valoria and travel west to take up residence in Breles. Ernest had refused to go with them. The castle of Drogomor was all

tried to talk him out of

I

paused, the muscles of his neck contracting in the dim light as he swallowed. “You’re not

mother cursed

couldn’t have. It’s not real, just like Ernest’s vision

nurse in the infirmary to save some of my blood for healing and she only… she only smiled. She smiled because she

you saying, Maeve? That something an angry woman said now determines your future? How do you know

eyes lingering on mine. “She believed it. I could

exactly is this

at the floor. “That I won’t find my mate. That I won’t come into my powers as a

“Well, when’s your birthday?”

up at

stood, holding out his hand

“Where are we going?”

Ernest he’s being

thought you said not to interrupt

changed my

day he got hurt in front of me, or his mother,

surprised to see Ernest walking quickly down the corridor away

are you

from his grasp, but he squeezed my hand, tucking it behind his back, and we

down to the village to escort him to the castle. Give him a little tour.” He sighed deeply, running his fingers

I felt him stiffen beside me and inhale, but his face was calm and firmly fixed on Ernest. Ernest ran his fingers through his hair again, ruffling it beyond repair, then looked

heard great things about this guy. Lance says he’s kind of

him and noticing the abrupt change in his demeanor. He was looking forward, his gaze traveling well past Ernest and into a darkened corner of the

in the shadows, his owlish eyes watching the three of us. I swallowed, exhaling as Aaron removed

But why?

looking over the top of Ernest’s head at the figure lurking in the shadows.

road leading to the castle. Lance will meet them there. I’d definitely feel better if you went with