Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 106: Something Is Wrong

Maeve

We ran in circles around the castle, yipping and howling with delight as we pounced in front of unsuspecting warriors. who were leaning against a thicket of trees while they guarded the outskirts of the castle grounds.

One of the warriors shifted, thinking we were a threat be cause he didn’t yet recognize Rowan’s wolf, which caused Rowan great embarrassment and distress, and he had to shift back to his regular form and explain the situation, naked as the day he was born, in front of a group of warriors in which he was now the Alpha just to prove he was in fact who he said he was, rather than just using the mind-link.

An hour passed. I didn’t feel the pained rush of my milk letting down, or the looseness and ache of my hips. I felt, for the first time since I started to lean into the general malaise of my pregnancy, powerful and strong. Like my old self.

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‘We should head back; it’s starting to rain. You both left your robes in the grass near the terrace.’ Troy turned to look back at the castle, which was just visible in the distance. We were standing on the edge of the forest, resting our paws for a moment. I heard a sound, then saw the grass parting as some thing moved toward us at a high rate of speed.

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‘It’s just the dog,’ Rowan huffed, falling in step with Troy as they began to trot back across the field. Duck must have been coming to join us in whatever game he thought we had been playing, but to my surprise he ran between us, darting into the dark forest.

‘Duck!’ I cried over the mind-link, but he was gone in an instant.

‘What the hell was he chasing? I didn’t see anything run past-‘ Rowan said, his voice distorted by a breeze that rustled in the trees, twigs snapping over our heads.

‘I don’t smell anything. No rabbits, or squirrels.’ Troy added, lifting his snout and sniffing deeply.

I was truly concerned. Duck had taken to the castle imme diately, spending his time much like he had in Winter Forest by sprawling out on the carpet with his belly toward the hearth, or wrapped around someone’s ankles while they lounged in the library. He rarely went out on his own to ex plore the castle grounds.

‘We have to go get him,’ I said, turning to the forest.

‘No, Maeve, it’s dark!’ Rowan stepped forward, his eyes sharp and dark in the fading light. Clouds had moved in over our heads, casting the grounds in nothing but darkness.

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‘What are you, scared?’ I retorted, shaking rain from my

coat. ‘It’ll only take a minute.’

Hanna was silent, her head turned to where Duck had dis

appeared between the trees. The path he had taken was not well beaten and was severely overgrown with brambles and wispy, dried vines.

‘Two minutes, then we go back,’ Troy said in a command ing tone, walking between Hanna and I into the forest. Rowan

followed.

I stole at glance at Hanna, who was still fixated on the silent depths of the forest. An eerie feeling swept over me as she turned her head, the fur on her back rising as another stiff breeze sent a vibration through the canopy of trees over our

heads.

‘Is it her?’ I asked, already knowing the answer deep in my

bones.

Hanna lowered her head and walked into the forest after

Rowan and Troy.

When we caught up to him, Duck was digging against the base of a huge oak tree, its roots snaking several yards around its base as it towered over us. Troy barked sharply at Duck, but he didn’t cease his digging. He was frantic, huffing and snarling.

‘Troy, listen-‘I said, a little breathless. I had been trying to

catch up to Rowan and Troy as they chased after Duck. I felt off and didn’t like the feeling I was getting in the forest. I was regretting insisting on chasing after Duck, especially after Hanna had gone silent and still when the breeze hit us.

We were outside of the castle grounds now.

Duck started to snarl, then backed away from the tree.

‘Troy!’ I howled, willing him to listen. He turned his head toward me, his eyes glistening the moonlight coming through the canopy of dried, yellow leaves above our heads.

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spoke, gingerly stepping toward whatever Duck had found beneath the tree. He nudged Duck out of the way, and once Duck’s body had moved from the base of the tree, a faint glow seemed

howling coming from deeper in the forest. All of the fur on my back stood

sweet. I sniffed, sensing the smell growing more intense, closer, as

frantically, his teeth latching onto my rough to pull me away. Smoke had filled the

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his stomach, back in his human form, fog rolling over

of me and fell to his knees, back in his body. “Wolfsbane. Maeve,

his face before

was still a wolf. I turned to Hanna, who was still a wolf as

I said over the

home! Go!’ Hanna howled, and to my surprise, Duck understood her. He took off through

glowed a vibrant red as they stepped out of the darkness. Hanna and I stood shoulder to shoulder, guarding Rowan and Troy,

torches laced with wolfsbane to create a noxious smoke

used it to bring

the

me, and on Hanna. I didn’t dare glance at her, but I could feel the tension and

stepped out of the woods into the clearing. He was dressed in all black, his hands tucked casually into the pockets of a trench

had the telltale black eyes

Lycennian.

and Alpha Julian

handful of linens in front of

but his meaning was

at Hanna, knowing

reluctantly shifted back to my human body, finding the act slightly painful but not nearly as bad as the first time. Naked in front of at least a dozen wolves, I reached down to pull a length of linen up to cover

same.

in color. Ar chaic. Sacrificial. I swallowed against the fear gripping me as I adjusted the linen over my body, smoothing it

shortly, looking up at the man.

boring into mine, searching for something.

“Where is she?”

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father’s prisoner now. You’ll never find her.” And that was true. Opaline had told us everything in her attempt to gain my father’s mercy. We knew all there

known as the Northern Pass with

bit af fected by them. He shrugged, then reached up to run his fin gers through his

I bit out. He glanced at me, then

be a white wolf.

bellowed, hoping she was close enough to

have been correct. She said you were bullheaded with a foul

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worse,”

I’m not

hard as I could not to think about the boys or Troy. I was on the edge of tears, but I couldn’t

to see

“Not particularly.”

fingers. Four large, burly men stalked out of the woods and stood

is

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castle where my family was readying for dinner? Where

willing my voice not to shake as Carl’s cronies stepped around us to pick up Troy and

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Rosalie

my lap. He was bent forward, chewing on the keyboard and smiling whenever I touched the keys nearest to his mouth. Gemma danced

sat in a chair, resting, near the hearth, his head slumped to the side as he snored softly with Oliver sleeping against his

nothing through the dense fog.

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Charlie was beaming, his chubby little body clenched as a thrilled laugh escaped his gummy mouth. Will, on the other hand, had been looking for Maeve for quite some time,

nearly as enthused

playing

you think

I rose from the bench and crossed the room to look out the window. Droplets