TRIBUTE TO THE LYCAN KING: The Ironblood Heiress のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 50

CAELUM Every one of the council members stared at me as though I had just lost my mind. The messenger had left to carry out my orders while the guards had returned to their duty post. "Alpha..." one of the members tried to speak up but I silenced him by raising a hand. "This meeting is adjourned," I said, getting up to my feet. "But, your majesty, we haven't even deliberated on anything yet.""I said this meeting is adjourned, until further notice." I let out in anger, pounding my fist against the table. The entire room fell silent. No one dared question my orders. I was about to walk out of the room when another member spoke up. "Your majesty, you will have to consider raiding the Lycan kingdom. Please think this through. It's going to cost the kingdom lots of money and resources. We can't afford to lose any of that now." I stopped in my tracks to listen. What he said made sense but I had already made up my mind. I didn't care if the kingdom would bleed from this decision I hav

VAELARIONThe forest was now the only place I found peace asides laying next to Seraphina. I didn't know how long this was going to last but I couldn't keep on denying myself and my wolf of what we wanted the most. Last night when I had laid next to her, the noise in my head had disappeared, replaced by an odd calmness that made my senses almost neutralised which was dangerous for an alpha like myself who needed to be at alert at all times. The look on Seraphina’s face as she slept brought me a kind of peace I never knew I had. I had reached out slowly to touch her but I held back. I remembered how swallowing hard had felt when I reached out and grazed her soft skin. I had cursed under my breath when I heard my wolf stirring again but not violently this time. Seraphina’s body was the only thing my wolf recognised. I enjoyed every moment with her. When I leaned in for a kiss and the heat from her nostrils washed across my face, my insides melted until I heard that voice telling me

VAELARIONI did not remember when it started, I only knew that by the time I became aware of myself, there was already blood on my hands and something inside me had gone too far to pull back easily. I stepped away from the dead body and closed my eyes shut as I tried to stay calm. I was breathing harder than I should have been. I stared at the body on the floor and waited for the calm that was supposed to come but it did not come, it did not even try to come, and that was when I knew something was wrong.“This should have worked,” I muttered under my breath roughly, the sound of my voice almost unfamiliar to my own ears, and I wiped my hand against my trousers but it only smeared the blood further, making it worse instead of better.I had done everything the way I always did, I had taken the woman without thinking, used her the way my wolf demanded, and when that was not enough, I drank from her until her body went still, and that had always been enough to quiet the hunger, to silenc

THE PRIEST.I did not like the way the room smelled when I stepped inside and sat down, preparing to get to work. This kingdom, they only sent for me when things were already getting out of hand, more like they were using me and would only bring me in when all of their other solutions must have fallen through. But what could I do, I had a duty to the king, just like I did to the moon goddess. I kept my bag aside and sat beside the king. “My king… can you hear me?”I kept my voice low as I spoke careful and respectfully, even with that, he didn't respond to me, not even a shift in his breathing, and that alone was enough to unsettle me because this was not a man who went down easily, not even when he was wounded.I reached out and placed my fingers lightly against his wrist, feeling for his pulse, and it was there, strong but uneven, like it was fighting against something.“He should not still be like this,” I muttered, more to myself than anyone else, and I glanced at the elders

SERAPHINA There were guards...no soldiers guarding the entire place. Not one of them made a move to try and stop us as we walked. The man was still holding my hand, leading me up ahead, even though I wasn't sure of where he was taking me to. "I've got some questions to ask you." The man let out. 'I've also got questions for you' I intoned internally. The soldiers saw me walking with this strange man, yet they didn't try to stop us....or maybe not to stop him, they didn't try to stop me. So why did the man break me out of the dungeon, only for us to now walk freely past the soldiers?My chest thudded as we walked past, their eyes trailing our every movement. "Shouldn't we be worried?" I whispered into the man's ear. "No dear, we have nothing to worry about." He replied. Even when he said those words, I couldn’t help but worry. It wasn't until we turned down the corridor that I realized that the man was taking me back to my chamber. "How did you..." I muttered, my eyes wide open