Sould As The Alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 120: Something’s wrong with Her

Rowan

The castle was abuzz with its usual day-to-day activities. Servants and maids passed me in the hallway carrying baskets of laundry and trays of tea. I could hear the clattering of cookware as I left my office and walked toward the grand staircase off the foyer, seeing the door to the servants’ hallway that led to the kitchen slightly ajar.

It was nearing lunch, and I was definitely hungry. I stopped to let a maid pass by with a tray full of sandwiches and coffee, heading toward the library.

“For Miss Kacidra,” she said, bobbing her head as she noticed my gaze.

I nodded back, tucking my hands in my pockets as I followed the maid down the hallway toward the library.

Kacidra was seated at the long library table in the center of the room. She was peering down at a large textbook, her brow knitted in concentration. She looked up with a smile as the maid approached with the lunch tray, but she arched her brow as I entered behind the maid.

“Don’t distract me, Rowan,” she said with a laugh before giving the maid her thanks. Kacidra leaned back in her chair and bit into a sandwich.

I pulled one of the chairs out from the table and sat down, taking a deep, restorative breath before grabbing a sandwich

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for myself.

“Want some coffee? You look like you could use it!” she asked.

“I didn’t get too much sleep last night,” I sighed, accepting the steaming cup of coffee from Kacidra. Kacidra snorted with mirth, bringing the coffee to her lips and sipping cautiously.

“Ouch, that’s hot-”

“Don’t you have class today?” I asked, motioning toward the mountain of books she had strewn across the table. She bit into her sandwich, flipping through the pages of her textbook for a moment before she met my eyes again, shrugging.

“I had class this morning. I have lab this afternoon, though. A test, so it’s a short class. I’ll be home before dinner.”

Kacidra was in her first year of medical school at the University of Mirage. She was studying to be a physician with the intent of going home to Red Lakes and setting up a practice there, something she said was desperately needed. Kacidra was sharp as a tack, and she seemed to be enjoying her studies. And Pete, well, I had never met anyone so devoted to their mate.

Her studies meant Kacidra and Pete would be living in Mirage for several years, and I had offered them residence at the castle.

Pete’s mother, a spirited older woman named Debby, was also living at the castle, but had insisted on being given a job while she remained under our roof. Debby had been given the task of tending to the hundreds of plants in the atrium, many of the plants native to the Isles where she was from, and all and

all, the family seemed content.

Kacidra’s presence was also a huge comfort to Hanna.

Especially now. Hanna could use all of the comfort she could get.

doing?” Kacidra asked, her voice

toying with my coffee mug before I met Kacidra’s eye. I couldn’t bring myself to answer that question, so I only shrugged my shoulders. I needed to figure out

gazing into mine in search of the overwhelming anxiety I felt regarding everything that was going on with my

muttered, taking another sip of my

and Troy will probably be down here in the next couple of minutes, I

asked, setting my mug on the table. I had no idea they’d ridden the train into town. Shows how much

Maeve wanted to take

little boys

and until they’d arrived a few days ago, I hadn’t seen them since Maeve and Troy left to start their new lives as the Alpha and Luna of Poldesse. It was so great to have them

my parents and their son George, who was just two months older

of our family members poured in, as if they were fully aware of the thoughts I’d just had and I’d

She hadn’t been in this room yet since she arrived

as she held Oli in her arms. Charlie

them. Will toddled over to me, and I reached down to scoop him up. I began to bounce Will on my knee. He squealed with laughter at the motion, his dark

like Troy and were very hard to tell apart. They were identical,

totally different personality. Will was loud and demanding, while Charlie

Maeve looked around the library, he sprinted away

and a lean build. He was slightly shorter than

father’s eyes. One was blue, much like Maeve’s and my own. And the other was a dark, steel gray. He was an

had summoned him, Troy walked through the library doors, and a chorus of excited “Dada!” rang out through the air as the boys made their way to their father like they hadn’t seen him in months when it had really

hands and knees,

crawling still, but Oli was running, damn near sprinting

entire life. He shouldn’t have survived, and likely wouldn’t have had divine intervention not saved his life. Despite

a sneaking suspicion he was going to be a force

be reckoned with.

he walked over to the set of couches near

the advances of the boys,

I replied

alone, Troy,” Maeve was scanning

She pulled it from the shelf, glancing at me out of the corner of

out in the hallway, and suddenly, Gemma and Ernest appeared, George toddling ahead of them into the library as he

cried, going over to toss her arms around Maeve while

then pulled me off the couch into a tight hug. I hadn’t seen much

there, and I saw her face fall as she realized Hanna was not in the library with the rest of the family. Her eyes settled on mine, and I gave her

along with her, his hand wrapped around Mom’s “We don’t want to pry. But we’ve noticed that something is going

reason for

joined in the conversation. “Maeve is right, Rowan. We need to know what’s happening with you and

calm and supportive as she asked, “Is it Hanna that’s troubling you, son? Is she doing