Lahat ng Kabanata ng Surrogate for the Lycan King : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

Kelsey’s POVThe annual Breeding Lottery was the one day every unmated female in our village dreads. Being chosen meant giving up your entire future to the Lycan King, all just to help save a dying race of monsters.The main town square was completely packed with anxious families, loud priests, soldiers, and royal officials. Every single girl around me was silently praying under her breath that her name wouldn't come out of the metal bowl.I stood right beside my younger sister, Maya, holding her cold hand tightly in mine."If they call me, you can have my red boots," Maya whispered, trying to joke, but her voice was shaking so bad it ruined the punchline."Nobody is taking your boots, dummy," I said, bumping my shoulder against hers. "And nobody is calling your name today. You still have to finish that ugly sweater you promised to knit me.""It is not ugly, it is artistic," she pouted, a small, tiny smile finally breaking through her terrified face."Sure it is," I teased, pulling he

Zeus’s POVThe Council Chamber was suffocatingly hot, filled with the loud, annoying voices of old men arguing over things they couldn't control.I sat back on my stone throne, resting my jaw against my knuckles while listening to the Elders yell at each other for the third hour in a row."Our birth rates are at an all-time low!" Elder Vance shouted, slamming his hand onto the long wooden table. "Our bloodlines are weakening, our packs are dying, and we have zero heirs to protect the borders!""If your Majesty does not choose a Luna from this year's Candidates, the royal line will end with you," another council member added, looking over at me with desperate eyes."Just force multiple pregnancies," Elder Thomas suggested casually, like he was talking about cattle. "Assign ten Candidates to the royal quarters and let nature take its course until one of them survives."I didn't say anything, but my jaw clenched tight. I despised every single one of these desperate politicians sitting ar

Kelsey’s POVThe ancient Moon Altar behind the grand throne kept glowing, casting a brilliant silver light across the entire Council Hall.The light was so bright it washed out the shadows on the walls, making the old stone look like it was carved from solid ice.Every single elder, guard, and priest in the room dropped down onto their knees, their foreheads touching the cold floor.Nobody seemed to know why this was happening. I stood there alone in the middle of the hall, my heart hammering against my ribs like a trapped bird. I was terrified because I thought I had accidentally committed another high crime, like breaking some sacred magical object just by standing near it."She is cursed!" an old lord shrieked from his knees, pointing a trembling finger up at me. "The altar has never reacted to a common human! She is using dark blood magic!""She's a witch! Kill her now!" another elder yelled, scrambling up from the stone. "We must lock her away before she corrupts the entire palac

Zeus’s POV I kicked an expensive side table so hard it splintered into a dozen pieces against the stone wall. The crack echoed through my private study, but it didn't do a single thing to drown out the noise inside my own skull. For two hours straight, my wolf had been howling the exact same word over and over again until my temples throbbed with a terrifying headache. MATE! MATE! MATE! "Shut up," I growled out loud, slamming my fist into the top of my desk and snapping the corner clean off. The beast hadn't spoken a single word to me in over fifty years, and now that it was awake, it refused to stop screaming like a feral wild animal. I was trying my best to focus on the disaster I had just created in the Council Hall. Declaring a nameless human girl my surrogate in front of every high lord in the kingdom was basically suicide. Half the noble families were probably preparing to riot in the streets right now. But I couldn't even think straight because my wolf kept shoving vivi

Zeus’s POV The sky over the courtyard was barely beginning to turn a dull, bruised purple when I slammed my wooden practice sword straight into the side of a guard’s helmet. The crack echoed off the tall stone walls of the training yard. The warrior gasped, stumbling backward on the dirt before collapsing onto his rear, his sword clattering against the gravel. "Get up," I growled, wiping a streak of sweat from my forehead with the back of my forearm. I was fighting three of my best palace guards at the same time, and I was so destroying them. I hadn't slept a single second last night. My wolf had spent the entire night pacing back and forth behind my ribs like a caged beast, howling and clawing at my mind, demanding that I go check on our mate. I had been forced to physically grip the edge of my balcony until my knuckles bled, keeping myself from walking down the corridor and tearing down the door to Kelsey's chambers with my bare hands. My inner beast was going feral, and takin