Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 104: The White Wolf

“Look, this line, right here-” Mom and I were standing be hind Troy, leaning over his shoulders to peer down at the neat, faded scrawl just above his finger.”

“What does it say? I can barely see the ink!” I narrowed my eyes, wishing the rectory had more than archaic candles to light the dim room.

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“King Hector-his name is right here. He was the king men tioned by Charles in his journal. Look, he did in fact marry Alouette… and they had a son.”

Mom was silent as she scanned the page, her brow fur

rowed in confusion.

“That means there was a break in White Queen line at some point, right? Can that… can that happen?”

“Your family believes it can,” Mom broke in, looking con fused, like she was thinking of some long-forgotten memory or conversation. “He told me once that if Rowan had a daugh ter, she would be in line to my throne. It was a discussion we had before you were born, Maeve. Before we knew you were a

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“But would… say a female cousin of a White Queen hold the same powers as the White Queen herself? There’s no men tion of Onya, the White Queen in Charles’s journal, having any other children.” Troy turned to face Mom.

“Perhaps, but I’m not totally certain. There are no texts on this, you know. All there was… was the names of the queens etched into the temple in Winter Forest. That wall was de stroyed. We might never know who the Queen after Onya was, whether Aloutette became the Queen after her mother, or if it was someone else. There is the library in the castle in Winter Forest, but I’ve never seen any text in there that discussed this.”

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“So if I don’t have a daughter, Rowan could? And she could rule?” A strange glimmer of hope tightening around my heart. How close I had come to death for my sons… I knew in my heart I could not sacrifice myself just so the pack lands could have another White Queen.

Suddenly Troy jumped up, nearly knocking both me and Mom to the ground. He was pale, frozen in place for a moment before he turned to us, fear etched into every curve, every line of his face.

“Oh, Goddess,” he breathed, the words meant for no one but himself. He slowly looked at me, sheer pain flashing be hind his eyes.

“Troy, what is wrong? Are you hurt?” Mom had her hands on his arms, trying to get him to look her in the eyes, but he

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couldn’t.

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“Rosalie,” he said, looking past the both of us at the far wall. “Please don’t take offense to what I am about to say. But I must know. I have to know if Rowan and Hanna have been in timate. Have they-is there any way at all that Hanna could be pregnant?”

I gaped at him, then at Mom, who looked just as shocked as I was.

“I assume so, Troy. They’re mates for Goddesses sake!”

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“We need to go to them, right now. Hanna she-oh, how did I not realize this before?!”

smack him to get him to snap back to reality be fore his gaze finally

everywhere. I didn’t think… I could read it. I had seen it before. On the map, I was sure.

Mom was shaking her head, anxiety

right, Rosalie. About Hanna. The moonstones, they weren’t-we did bring the

been born yet. She will be the twenty-first White

thought, “what does that have to do with Onya, and

the moonstone in order for Onya to allow

caused a break in the White Queen line,” I mumbled, seeing the big

breathed, running his

hair.

first arrived in Mirage to rule alongside Ernest,” Rosalie said softy, sitting down. “He said Rowan could rule over Winter Forest in the future if he

we couldn’t figure this out?” I

ever know. I don’t plan on

walking away from the dusty desk, tapping his finger on

to take the stones and kill Hanna. That’s what we know, and

Troy

brittle yellow grass. Hanna and Maeve were standing in the field talking to each

through the grass. The sky was gray, thick with mois ture, and smelled

the other “elders” of the family, such as Talon, Georgia, Vicky, and Paul, were holding a conference with Eugene of Red Lakes. It was likely Ethan was telling him exactly what was

was already heavily

of the castle’s grounds, little specks

settled back on Hanna and

she pregnant?” I asked

me a dirty look, then settled, crossing his arms over his

It only

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is enough,” I grunted, leaning on the

twice.”

believe what that crazy old woman from Lycenna said, do you? That Hanna is going to the mother of the Moon

Pete and Kacidra had

who threw a stick far into

at first. But I-I

flooded the distance between

the grasses as a breeze rippled through it. Tasia could move

I was just

Rowan shouted in a fatherly tone, which made Maeve turn her head sharply in our

away from us to make a face

like the idea of them out there, just the two of them. Not with

 Rowan said hastily, pursing

to talk to the

each other for a moment, then began to

them, crunching through the

is your first time.” Rowan shifted without another word,

went wide, and I realized the only time she had seen me as a wolf had been for a split second

tomb over me.

to whisper in her ear. Maeve hugged her body