Chapter 4

**Beatrice POV**

I was pregnant! Finally! It was time to tell Alpha Duncan this! I wondered what his reaction would be.

I held the test pack tightly. When the Omegas told me to do something, I threw my hands on my hips in annoyance. It was time to pay back their bad treatment!

"I don't want to do it!" I said. “This is not the task Alpha Duncan gave me!” I didn't care if I sounded like a spoilt brat.

They glared and were furious. “Are you trying to fight us, huh?” Then they ganged up on me and even grabbed my hair.

Even though I was bad at fighting, fighting the Omegas wasn't that big of a deal. I managed to hit them while teaching them a lesson.

"I'm the mistress here!" I snapped at them, pleased to see them frightened.

That was more like it, I wasn't going to let anyone treat me badly, for any reason.

Now I walked with my chin up. Some of the soldiers who saw my transformation were astonished.

I knocked on Alpha Ducan's’ study door. Beta Cadence voice came from inside, telling me to come in.

With overflowing feelings, I held the test pack and was ready to show it to Alpha Duncan But unfortunately, he was not in his study.

“Alpha isn't here,” Beta Cadence said coldly. An elongated wound was printed on his right arm. "He'll be back in a week. So off you go!” I got dismissed like a puppy, my eyes still fixed on the wound

I snorted. I wanted to tell Beta Cadence about my pregnancy. But I decided to keep it to myself first.

I was patiently waiting for Alpha Duncan to come back. My body was getting weaker and I often felt nauseous. It seemed my baby wanted his father as much as I wanted my mate.

**ALPHA DUNCAN's POV**

My sword was crashing a dragon. It penetrated his back. The dragon screamed and finally died. I took the blood and put it in a glass bottle.

“How long are you going to do this, Alpha?” someone said.

I turned around and saw one of the fighter packs now accompanying me on my way. He was Frans, one of the best fighters I had.

We were currently in the depths of the forbidden forest. No one had managed to explore so far. I'd probably give up if I didn't have the urgency.

“I have no choice,” I said while wiping my forehead. "I still have to collect two more dragons for me to take the blood."

"Are you sure with this you can get a son, Alpha?"

I couldn't answer Frank's question. No one knows the answer to that question. But a shaman said that I could have a son if I drank the blood of 10 dragons. I hadn't proven the truth yet, but now I was trying to collect the 10 dragons.

How did I tell him that I almost felt the wolf bond? It was my hormones, I repeate

"There might be another solution, Alpha," he said emphatically.

“There is no other solution,” I snorted as I jumped over a boulder to get out of the dragon cave. The sun was getting higher and we still had to move on to get two more dragons. “I have to get 10 dragons and drink their blood if I want to have a son. It's the only option.”

"You can find your mate instead, Alpha." Frans rubbed his forehead when he saw my face which turned dark. "I know you can't recognize your mate. That's your curse. And you can't have a son with any girl other than your mate. But… drinking dragon blood is even more absurd than finding her, Alpha.”

"At least I tried."

We jumped to go through the forest again. Now we would go to the North region. I heard that there resides a fire dragon which is quite dangerous. I could kill it and take its blood to supplement my potions.

But my mind was preoccupied with the curse on my body.

18 years ago, suddenly my body was paralyzed. A magician blew something before it happened. My condition was so severe that I almost died.

My mother managed to get me to a shaman for treatment. I managed to recover but terrible curses resided in my body.

The shaman said I wouldn't be able to recognize my mate forever. I also wouldn't be able to have a son or even a child from all the girls other than my mate. The only way to break the curse was to twist the pattern. I had to have a son and then find my mate.

The shaman did not say exactly how the curse was broken. After having a son and finding my mate, my curse would automatically disappear. Everything was still a mystery to me. So, I had to travel to find the answer.

We found a dragon. I attacked it, unsheathed my sword, and put all my strength into it. Everyone called me the god of war because I was very skilled in warfare, both one on one and one against many people.

The fire dragon I was currently facing was just like 100 enemies on the battlefield.

“Let me help you, Alpha!” shouted Frans from a distance.

I groaned as I landed my feet on the ground. “Stay right there! I have to kill all the dragons without anyone's help. That's the condition!”

The dragon breathed fire and slightly burned my armor. But I managed to find an opening and cut his neck off.

As everyone's rumored, I have a powerful sword that can cut anything open.

"Now there's only 1 dragon left, Alpha!"

We searched for the last dragon after I put the dragon's blood into the 9 glass bottles I brought.

Arriving at the last cave, we found nothing there.

"He must have run away, Alpha, under threat."

I winced, holding the wrath from my chest.

We returned to the palace with my mood ruined. Our plan to travel for a week now only lasted 5 days.

Beta Carol greeted me. He said that Sarah had been looking for me and wanted to see me.

I was too furious and irritated, so I blurted out, “What does that girl want? It seemed she had overstepped her bounds. She was just a tool to produce a son for me. After that, she won't be of any use anymore. Looks like I have to teach her a lesson.”

Beta Carol responded well to my comment.

I rested for a while, feeling tired and all the disappointments I'd poured out for myself.

Sarah's face popped up in my head and it pissed me off.

I got out of bed to meet her, maybe decide if I should kill her now or if I should buy her a little more time.

But when I got to her room, she was gone!

“Sarah!” I screamed to call her. I even went around the palace to find her. But I couldn't find her anywhere.

An Omega hurriedly approached me. Her shoulders shook, "Looks like Miss Sarah has run away, Alpha!"

"WHAT?" I snapped!

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