Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder Chapter 287

Rowan

The little blonde girl seated at the kitchen island was busy concocting some potion, from what I could tell. She glanced up from her task, glaring at me, then turned her focus on a bottle of calamine lotion that was sitting next to the sink.

“No,” I said firmly

Kat shrugged, picking up a whisk and dipping it into the batter bowl.

“I’ll just wait for you to leave,” she sighed, her blonde curls bouncing around her ears as her tiny arms fought against the batter. Katerina was only nine but had a personality that could bring even the fiercest warrior to his or her knees. The last time I had seen her, she had been barely four years old, and she had been a handful then.

I stood, sliding the stool back into place and gingerly picking up my coffee mug, peering in side in the event she had put something inside of it when I wasn’t looking.

**Don’t eat the cake,” she said casually, the whisk chiming against the bowl. I turned my head to look at her, the hair on my arms standing on end. Maybe I wasn’t ready to have children.

I could hear Talon in the dining room berating my Aunt Vicky for showing up at Winter For est, unannounced and apparently unwelcome. Caroline and Sarah, Vicky’s older daughters, were snickering at the bottom of the staircase, shushing each other as they eavesdropped on the con versation taking place in the dining room.

“Technically, you told Paul not to come, not me,” Vicky sipped from her mug, watching Talon’s face flush with fury over the rim. I leaned on the archway, catching Dad’s eye from his perch near the window that looked out over the deck. He was trying not to laugh.

“Why the hell would you bring the girls”

“Georgia and Rosalie have been wanting to see their nieces.”.

What kind of excuse is that?” Talon hissed.

“And besides, how else would I have been able to get that letter to you?” She motioned to word a single piece of paper laying in the middle of the table with her mug, rolling her eyes. “For Goddess’s sake, Talon.”

could snatch it away

“How many warriors is the Alpha of Breles sending to Mirage?” I asked, just as Talon picked the letter up and folded it into a tiny square, tucking it in his pocket while he glared at Vicky.

“Roughly a thousand, give or take. The lesser Alphas are putting an army together,” Dad stepped toward the table as well, gripping the top of one of the dining chairs. “We’re going to leave tomorrow morning.”

“Back to Mirage…” I breathed, lifting my coffee mug to my lips. “Things went so well the last

time.”

Dad ignored me, turning to talk to Talon. Vicky reached over and squeezed my arm, beaming up at me.

“I heard you found your mate. That’s wonderful! It’s so good to see you, Rowan. So grown up.”

The last several days had passed in a blur of activity. Georgia and Talon had been in Winter Forest for almost a month, and Vicky had shown up only two days ago, bringing all three of my cousins with her. The house felt a little too warm and crowded with the entire family congregating inside

room, while Georgia and Talon took Maeve’s room, for now. Dad had some of the pack members get ting the White Queen’s castle ready for people to sleep in again, its many bedrooms having been empty for years, just so he could breathe

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be enjoying the company, however. She was happier than I’d seen her in years. She loved the cousins and had been doting on Gemma, who seemed to be doubling in

Ernest?” I asked, looking over at

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village

baby.” Vicky smiled, glancing at

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you’ll be back

hell I will,

the dining room, glancing down at Caroline and Sarah

asked as she poked a long piece

gingerly across the wet rocks along the rocky beach

are as traditional as Dad when it comes to that sort of thing. Ernest is an Alpha; he can do as

beach. She walked toward me: her mouth stretched into a smile. “Look this areen

I took the rock from her hand, holding it up to get a better view

crashing against the shoreline and sending a surge of bubbling gray water through the rocks beneath our feet. I started to hand the rock back

it; it’ll bring you

I said softly, tucking it into the

every evening, walking far from the village and along the shoreline until the lights of Winter Forest were tiny specks on the horizon. She was

asked without thinking. I fought against the blush rising on my

soft smile, her eyes creasing

yeah. I think we’re going to have to

don’t have to

against my chest and feel her hair against my neck. I wasn’t a saint by

that once her hand was

love you, Hanna. I want you to know that,” I said, closing the distance between us. She looked up at me, her eyes shining the

“Why?’

I repeated,

“Just because we’re mates-

if you don’t feel the same way. I know we haven’ 1 known each other long

knowing glance, then laughed, reaching up to tuck her dark hair behind

Mirage. I needed you… I needed you to

You’ll be fine, Rowan,”

us back toward the village. I didn’t even know what I was going to say next. Her

you come home, we should build a house.”

window overlooking the water, a reading nook, and a large study with a bookshelf that goes all the way to the ceiling. We won’t hang