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.”

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

and Hanna had moved into a small cabin nearby, one of the older ones nestled in the trees near the edge of the new village. Vicky and the girls had been sleeping in the guest room, while Georgia and Talon took Maeve’s room, for now. Dad had some of the pack members

a

however. She was happier than I’d seen her in years. She loved the cousins and had been doting on Gemma,

asked, looking

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saw, he was in the village with Gemma; she

their baby.” Vicky smiled, glancing at

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be back in

I will,

before turning on my heel and leaving the dining room, glancing down at

they have a wedding?” Hanna asked as she

stepping gingerly across the wet rocks along the rocky beach as walked

Talon and Georgia are as traditional as Dad when it comes to that sort of thing.

at it,” Hanna stooped to investigate a rock, plucking it from the beach. She walked toward me: her mouth stretched into a smile. “Look this areen

from her hand, holding it

the rocks beneath our feet. I started to hand the rock back to her, but she shook her

it; it’ll bring you good

said softly, tucking it into the pocket of

most every evening, walking far from the village and along the shoreline until the lights

without thinking. I fought against the blush rising on my cheeks, shaking my head. “I-I’m sorry. I

she said with a soft smile, her eyes creasing at the corners as she leaned on

yeah. I think we’re going to have to

to rush into

than to take her into my arms and hold her against my chest and feel her hair against my neck. I wasn’t a saint

bring myself to touch her, knowing that once

want you to know that,” I said, closing the distance

“Why?’

I repeated, slightly taken

“Just because we’re mates-

do. I do. And it doesn’t matter if you don’t feel the same way. I

reaching up to tuck her dark

you that before I go back to Mirage. I needed you… I needed you to know, even

You’ll be fine, Rowan,”

back toward the village. I didn’t even know what I was going to say next. Her touch calmed me, setting me at ease as her thumb pressed into the palm

should

water, a reading nook, and a large study with a bookshelf that goes all the way to the ceiling. We won’t hang art, not yet. I want our