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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“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?!”

hell is wrong with you!” I shook him hard, damn near ready to smack him to get him to snap back to reality be fore his gaze finally left the

had seen it before. On the map, I was sure. But I didn’t understand what it meant until right

shaking her head, anxiety creeping into

Hanna. The moonstones, they weren’t-we

born yet. She will be the twenty-first White

at a loss for rational thought, “what does that have to

allow Alouette to marry King Hector came back without it… which means

a break in the White Queen line,” I mumbled,

running his

hair.

said Rowan could rule over Winter Forest in the future if he had a daughter. I argued that wasn’t how it works,

Temple so we couldn’t figure this out?”

ever know. I

closing the book and walking away from the dusty

Hanna. That’s what we know, and all we need to know. It’s time to finish this.” Mom rose from her

Troy

long, brittle yellow grass. Hanna and Maeve

of fog was rolling around their legs, whis pering through the grass. The sky was gray, thick

castle, Rosalie and Ethan, as well as 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

was already heavily guarded by warriors.

through the fog along the perimeter of the

settled back

she pregnant?”

me a dirty look, then settled, crossing

It

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grunted, leaning on

twice.”

don’t really believe what that crazy old woman from Lycenna said, do you? That Hanna is going to the mother of the

circle, his tongue lolling. Pete and

far into the

didn’t at first. But I-I

flooded the distance between

of the grasses as a breeze rippled through it. Tasia could move the air, and every time a gust of wind rattled the windows of the castle, I thought it was

I was

both need to stay on the castle grounds. Do you hear me?” Rowan shouted in a fatherly tone, which made Maeve turn her head sharply in

Rowan!” she shouted back, turning away from us to make a face

don’t like the idea of them out there, just the two of them.

 Rowan said hastily, pursing his

your Dad is going to want us to come to talk to the family soon, fill us in on the plan,

then began to shed our clothing down to

with conviction as we walked toward them, crunching through the grass. “I

is your first time.” Rowan shifted without another word, shaking out his coat and sending a sprinkle of damp over

more ner vous than upset, and shifted myself. Her eyes went wide, and I realized the only

tomb over me.

whisper in her ear. Maeve