Chapter four

Three Years Later

Arthur's POV

“Yes, yes… oh fuck, yes!!!” Laramie squirmed underneath me just as she had her orgasm. In that instant, I groaned, mounting hard on her, my grip tight around her waist as I pumped my seeds into her without restraint.

“Yes baby. Fill me up with your cum. I love having you inside me, Arthus.” Her moans was succulent as her lips themselves.

She wrapped her legs around my waist u till she milked me me dry, us both sighing as I rolled off her onto the side of the bed.

After a short while, she crawled onto my body, her slender fingers running across my chest as she seductively ran her eyes from my torso back to my eyes.

“How about another round and call it a night, husband?”

I push her off me and she immediately sits up just as I do the same.

“I think that's enough, Laramie. You can leave now?”

She scoffed, snatching her robe from the floor where it had been discarded earlier before wrapping it around her body and marching out.

I sighed, barely paying heed to how she shut the door loudly before I grabbed my robe and wrapped it around my body. Jeremy comes in a few minutes later.

“The elders are already present in your office for the meeting as we speak… “ his voice trails off when he notices my sullen mood. “I could tell them to come back tomorrow…”

I get up and release another sigh. “No. I'll freshen up and get dressed to meet them. Have the maids serve them snacks while they wait. I won't take time.”

“Okay.” He seemed to want to leave, but I could tell he wanted to say something.

“What is it Jeremy?”

“That's the third concubine leaving your chambers this week looking mad. You know it's not their fault.”

“The doctors and even the Shaman confirmed the problem wasn't on my end either, so what could be the problem, huh?” I realize I was getting pissed so i just waved him off and go into the shower.

In a matter of minutes, I've freshened up and gotten dressed and Jeremy and I headed down to my office to meet with the elders.

There were 9 of them all seated round the large office table, talking in whispers until they saw me come in. They all stopped talking, but from their expressions, I knew what each and everyone of them was thinking.

The grave silence was loud as I walked to my seat while Jeremy stood behind me, arms crossed behind his back. At our door stood guards.

“We all know I've been postponing this meeting for days now, but I knew you all weren't giving up until you had this meeting so here I am.” I sneer, eyes fixated in every one of them, a brooding dark gaze in my eyes.

“We've come bearing news. Alpha Kendrick from Moon Crescent pack offers his only daughter Loretta as one of your concubines in exchange for an alliance. She is a very beautiful woman, well educated, trained in the arts of fighting and is a virgin. She… “

I suddenly burst into laughter. It was so sharp and out loud that there was complete silence from every other person as they watched me laugh.

When I was done, I clapped a hand over my mouth and watched the elder who had spoken with mirth in my eyes.

“Are you fucking kidding me right now?”

“Alpha Arthur, we don't… “

“We don't have time? That's what you're going to say right? I'm not daft, I fucking know. You all have made it pretty obvious how fucked I'd be iF I don't produce an heir in the following year.” I get up and wave a hand over the office.

“Every time we have this meeting, each one of you come up with fucking stupid offers of how this girl is the best choice or how she's certainly going to give me children. I have 6 concubines now and not a single child, dead or alive to show for it. And I'm fucking sick and tired of this. It's been two years already.”

“We understand, Alpha Arthur. But you heard the Shaman. The dark witches are emerging from the shadows just as what happened during your father's time. They plan to strike the territory again, and you without an heir are at stake of loosing your pack.”

I sigh, so heavily, it's like it's right from my heart. I was so fucking tired, confused, scared and angry. And I couldn't do shit.

I've tried. But each time when the concubines are taken for tests, it always comes back negative. At some point, I just gave up trying to fuck them because I don't lost hope. Nothing was wrong with me nor the women so I wondered what exactly the problem was.

“Well, bringing another concubine to join my harem isn't going to change anything.” With that, I sit back down.

“We can wait for another month and of we see no progress, we'll have no choice but to accept Kendrick's offer. She might actually be the mother of your heir.”

“No shit. How many times have I heard this?” I get up and turn to Jeremy and he gives me a silent nose, quickly comprehending that he had to conclude the meeting.

I couldn't bear to stay another minutes with these men who feel entitled to making decisions in my life because I'm desperate enough to actually think each time they bring a new woman, she might actually be different.

I pick my car keys from the room, feeling the need to just get out and clear my head.

Angel, my third concubine, bears a worrisome look as I walk past her but she says nothing. They've all been aware of my mood getting even more dark and sullen for a few months so they've kept to themselves most of the time.

I jam the keys into the car, match the brakes and zoom out the compound like I was putting my life on the line. I don't know for how long I've driven, but I take into the rural area of the pack, a place I haven't apporached in a while.

The place is filled with bushes at both sides, leaving only a dusty narrow path for my car but it's serene and peaceful and for a long while, I take my time to admire the calm scenery.

All of a sudden, someone rushes out into the road, so small, I wouldn't have noticed but I match the brakes in time.

“Fuck!” I slam my car door open and approach whoever's child that was, ready to give the kid a reprimanding but I freeze right in my steps.

The girl, looking no more than two was staring at me so boldly and fiercely, like she had not just walked right into death itself. However, it was the eyes that drew me back to reality.

There were not a lot of people that had golden irises for eyes. There were just two. Which was me and my brother. I had never seen anyone with the same color of eyes and certainly not the same stubborn but jaw as mine not the exact dark shade of my brown hair.

Infact, she was the exact replica of me that for a second, I imagined I was dreaming. Even standing Infront of her now, I still found it so hard to believe it.

But what the actual fuck…

Almost scared I would scare it away, I approached the girl, but to my amazement, unlike other children, she actually took a step towards me as well.

“Now where did you come from… “ I start saying.

“Antonnia! Now what did I say about running off like that… “ I follow the voice of the woman but she had her head bent as she picked the child up in one swoop and cradled her to her chest and shoulder.

“I'm really sorry about my daughter, sometimes she just likes to run off when I'm… “ she starts apologizing with a chuckle but just as her eyes meets mine, she freezes and her smile slowly drops.

My heart sinks to my chest, and in that moment, the piecea starts to fall in place.

On the other hand, she looks like she's seen a ghost, infact she has my reaction, but I'm in too much shock to actually have one.

But I'm the first to find my tongue after what seemed like minutes of pure tension that could be cut through with a knife.

“Julianne ?”