A hush fell on all the people gathered. All eyes went from the disgraced woman being dragged away to the one holding her children protectively. Even the guards forgot they were dragging Camellia out and looked at Alexa, although still holding tightly to the struggling Camellia. And Amelia smiled, 'Way to go! Camellia', she thought, 'Perfect timing!''What nonsense are you spurting again now?' the Lyncan king said in a deceitfully cool tone.'You don't believe me, huh?' she asked. 'Ha,ha,ha,ha!' she laughed hysterically. 'Ask her! I just found out recently, myself. I thought she was just a hybrid but I heard her speaking to her vampire lover, Wayne!'Hector was dumbfounded.He looked at Alexa, this couldn't be, could it? he thought.'Alexa, is this true?' he asked.'Is what true, Hector?' she asked in a very cool voice. 'That I have a vampire lover or what? You already know Wayne and you know he is just a friend. Didn't you see him bring me back to the house the other day?' she asked, u
'I asked you if there was anything else I should know about and you told me you had nothing else to hide and that I already knew all there was to know about you!' the Lyncan king raved, pacing the room he had pushed her into.'What difference would it have made if I had told you earlier?' she asked. 'You know the history of the species. I was only trying to save my children from the wrath of the pure blood!' she said in indignation.Hector looked at her in exasperation and shook his head. 'Are you blaming me for your mistake now?' he asked.'No!' she snapped. 'I am just stating a fact. These are your children whom you didn't know existed. You just found out about them and you are ready to allow them get killed because they happen to be born 'not a pure breed'?' she asked, her eyes flashing. 'If you are going to stay there and allow your pups to be killed, then you are even weaker than I thought!' she said, her chest heaving. 'I for one will not be alive and allow any harm come to my p
'What did you say?' the Lyncan king asked, ad ancinh towards Alexa threateningly.Standing her ground, she repeated, 'I said, this is a terrible mistake, because someone who cannot move the heavens and the earth to save his own children is not fit for them to call him father!' she said, her tone which had started deceitfully low, riding with each word.'Wayne is fitter, in your estimation, isn't he?' Hector asked. 'Or the other one - the wizard, what's his name again, Ah ha, Myles! Either of them are more qualified than I am, idnt that so?' he asked, eyes blazing in fury. 'Maybe you can't seem to be able to choose between them. You want the both of them, don't you? I wonder why you didn't back out of the contract or refuse to accept it in the first place. That would have given you the freedom to mate with both of them!' he howled, visibly furious. 'You are free to go to thdm but you are not going with those pups!''I am surprised', Alexa said, equally furious. 'Arent you going to get
'You have come to keep me company down here, I see', Erica said.Camellia ignored her. Her mind still blank. How was it that all she had done to ruin Alexa had ended up backfiring and she was the one bearing the brunt of it all, rather that enjoying the divided of the labour she had invested in all this plotting. But she wasn't going to give up. Alexa wasn't going to win!'You were acting so high and mighty as the mother of the heir but now you are in the dungeon with me and I wonder what you did!' Erica continued taunting her.'You always acted haughty. I thought by now you will have got married to the Lyncan king', Camellia said. 'Are you not the Alpha's daughter, why hasn't your father secured your release yet? Have you forgotten how you didn't want me to see Lionel?''I wish he had died of that wolfsbane!' Erica said with so much venom that Camellia who had been trying to think of a way out of her situation and looked up at the bitter Erica. You are not as bitter against them as
The elder Lyncan, Hector's father could not believe what he had just heard. 'The illegitimate daughter of a Beta was actually a tribrid? The powers she must possess. No wonder my son cannot control himself around her. The power in her is strongly pulling him to her and he can't resist her nor control himself where she is concerned.If I can get my hands on such powers...He heard them arguing but kept quiet, patiently waiting for his son to come out of the room. After a while, Hector came out and walked blindly past him into his study. His father shook his head. This son of mine can be a fool sometimes, he thought and followed him into the study.The Lyncan king was pacing on his study, his heart hurting. 'Why did you have to be a tribrid?' he thought in anguish. It was moments such as this that made him realize what a difficult it was to rule. One had to make decisions they were not comfortable with.'I can just leave all this and elope with Alexa and my pups but that would label me
'And my pups', Hector asked me swallowing convulsively. 'What do you suggest? Getting rid of them as well?His father kept looking at him without saying anything.'Oh, no!' Hector said, laughing in disbelief. 'You are not seriously considering allowing my pups, your own grandchildren to be murdered?' he asked.'You have to lead by example. If we start making exceptions now, we surely will throw the kingdom and all the packs under us in disarray!' he said still looking at his don as though expecting some form of rebellion from him.'I cannot believe that you just said that!' Hector said. 'How will you be able to live with yourself knowing that you murdered your own blood?' he howled. 'Was this the way you murdered my mother and elder brother?' he asked, his chest heaving.'Shut up and do not meddle in matters you know nothing about!' his father bellowed, his eyes yellow, claws protruding. Hector's claws were already protruding as well his eyes glowing deep yellow and his stance threat
'Never!' the Lyncan king said. 'I cannot give her to you. It will amount to signing her death warrant'.'That is where you are wrong. I shall just take a little at a time', he answered his son. 'She will not die but might not be as strong as she would have been!''Her powers are what constitutes the totality of her being and personality. Take it, and no matter how cautious you are claiming you'd be, it will only turn her to an empty shell!' Then wondering why he was negotiating howled. 'And I shall not allow that. You might have allowed your father to talk you into murdering your own wife because I know she didn't die a natural death, I shall not allow history to repeat itself!''You are not even married to her yet!' his father protested.'We are as good as married. We have three pups for goodness sake and today was supposed to be a day I announce our engagement and get the kingdom's seer to marry us!' he bellowed, then taking a calming breath, said in a reasonable voice. 'You despise
'I wish to know more about my mother', the Lyncan king said. 'I hope you can tell me about her, now that we both seem to be in an agreeable mood'.His father sighed, thinking that this day was inevitable and that he could not keep putting this day off forever. Hector was no longer a child. He was a man, a Lyncan king, with his own pups. 'What do you remember about her?''I recall her vaguely. I know she was very kind to me and my elder brother, treating us with so much love and affection but suddenly, she started keeping away and I was told she had a contagious disease and was receiving treatment and that my elder brother had it as well', he said with a far away look in his eyes, as he recollected all that happened when he was a little pup. 'You went out with her one day with my elder brother and I was told it was to get them treated and that they were going to come back well and strong again but they never came back. You came back without them and whenever I asked, you gave one excu