The Lycan King’s Breeder

Chapter 19: Talon’s POV

I was studying the reports from the villages regarding the rogue attacks wondering what Desmond could want from us. I know he wanted power but hadn’t he done enough harm?

The door to my study suddenly opened and without raising my head, I knew who it was.

“I will have to ban you from barging in on me like that!” I hissed.

“Ban me and you will have no beta left to run your kingdom,” Greg replied as he dropped onto the chair opposite my table.

His tone spelled stress and frustration -and these were two words that were never associated with Greg.

I raised my head to his face and truly, I found a deep scowl on it. My bet was that he fought with Willow.

“What happened this time?” I asked wearily.

Having to deal with my mate and my best friend had to be the hardest thing I had to deal with -if I wasn’t counting my sister’s fight with Willow as well.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t send Greg to a foreign school as I did with Emily. As he said, I needed him to run this kingdom.

“Can you believe she took some cheap drugs to Avalyn?” He bellowed.

I dropped the pen in my hands and folded my hands on the table. “She did what?”

“Dawn came to me earlier about Avalyn wanting to use the library and the garden. I was heading there to speak to both of them when I met Willow…”

As he explained, I remembered my conversation with Willow this morning. I told her to prepare Avalyn for the task ahead. She was probably just doing that and Greg, as usual, misunderstood.

“-When I got in there, I found two boxes of immune boosters for pregnancy and stuff! I mean why the hell will she do that?!” He cried out.

“Why the hell not?” I counted and he stopped to glare at me.

I wasn’t about to deal with this right now. I ran my fingers through my hair to keep myself from vexing.

“You are taking her side, even now?” Greg whispered harshly.

“Greg! Mind your tongue!” I hissed and he adjusted in his chair as the air in the room suddenly shifted with my aura.

“I sent her to prepare the girl for me. I told her to make sure the girl was ready to conceive the very first day I touched her. What crime did she commit by following my orders?” I thundered.

“Greg, sometimes you forget that she is your Luna. Your Queen. These silly little arguments and tension are starting to get on my nerves! When will it come to an end?!”

The room fell silent as my narrowed eyes strained on him.

“Forgive me, Talon but I thought she was acting on her own accord-” he started to say but I stopped him.

“What if she was?!” I hissed louder than intended. “She is the queen! She doesn’t need permission. Avalyn is here because Willow requested a breeder! Stop it, Greg!”

I was sick and tired of their constant bickering. If Greg wasn’t my best friend I would do away with him a long time ago!

He pursed his lips and I could tell he had more to say but he held it in. We stayed silent, me glaring at him and he pondering on the next words he had to say.

“I got word on Emily,” he finally blurted out.

My eyes narrowed even deeper. This time not to him but to my sister. The last time her school had sent words, she was caught with boys in her dorm. I just hoped it was something different this time.

“What about her?” I hissed.

Greg sat up straight and the frown he had earlier disappeared. “She is at your cousin’s pack. His beta sent a message. She arrived yesterday.”

I let out a sigh of relief that it wasn’t a problem she got into but then my heart squeezed in pain. We had our differences and she never saw eye to eye with Willow but she was still my sister.

Deep down, I missed her.

“That’s good. She can stay there for the rest of the holidays and then return to school,” I said and resumed skimming through the papers in front of me.

“Talon, you are sure you don’t want her to come home?” Greg asked and I shook my head.

“I didn’t stop her from coming home. If she wants to come home, she is the princess, no one can stop her.” That was a decoy and I knew that Greg was too smart to avoid, but I had to try.

If I called for her to return home, she would come but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Somehow I felt ashamed of myself. I chose my mate over my sister. I had very limited choices but I still did it.

“Okay, then. I shall leave you to work.” He got up from the chair he had occupied and made to leave.

I ignored him and focused on my work. As my eyes skimmed through the reports, they suddenly stopped at a small village that bordered my territory and my cousin’s.

“Greg, get Jared on the phone!”

Greg stopped at the door and turned to me with concern in his eyes. “This isn’t about Emily, is it?”

“No, Desmond’s forces seem to be moving uphill. They are attacking more of Jared’s territory. If Emily is there, then we have a problem!”

Greg took out his phone from his pocket and dialed my cousin’s line. It rang a couple of times before he picked up. Greg placed the phone on speaker and placed it on the table.

“Beta Greg, this is Aliyah. Alpha Jared is currently in a meeting. May I take a message?” His beta spoke through the phone.

“Get him out of that meeting, tell him Talon is on the line!” I growled.

“Ye-yes My King!” She replied.

The line went static for a few seconds before the frequency returned and Jared’s voice filled the room.

“If it isn’t my favorite cousin, my King, and brother. What’s the occasion?”

I rolled my eyes at his attitude. This was neither the place nor time for his jokes.

“I believe you are aware of the attacks at the border villages?” I started.

He went quiet for a few seconds before his voice returned. This time there were fewer echoes and I could only guess that he changed his location.

“I was going to call you after this meeting. Talon, we will have to go to war. The rogues are not joking. They are moving fast and they are not mindless. They have a goal. They have a purpose,” he said in a stern voice.

I felt relief that he at least saw the danger and was acting to it.

“It’s good that you are already on top of it. I will call for all our allies. All alphas are under my rule. We must protect our land and our people…” I said the last part in a low voice and being close to me, he knew at once what I meant.

The memories were too deep to forget so soon.

“Do not worry Talon. I will take care of her with my own life,” he whispered. “You might want to hold on a bit with the meeting, my soldiers are pushing the rogues back for now. If the situation gets beyond our control, then I will call for backup.”

I wasn’t very comfortable with his decision but at the same time, he was right. I was letting my emotion dictate my actions. I should let them hold their side of the land for a while. The rogues couldn’t do so much harm that they couldn’t handle it.

“As you wish…” I whispered. “Keep in touch,” I said before ending the call.

Greg sat there observing me for a minute longer, before he said, “you don’t want me to go get her?”

I looked at him, considering the words carefully. She was safe with Jared. Bringing her over here might be opening a chance for an ambush. What if she got kidnapped?

“No, it’s fine. Jared will handle it. You may leave,” I said.

Greg nodded and left me in the room with my thoughts.

Long after he left I was still in the room, fighting the images of the past that flashed through my head.

‘Emily would be fine, that was certain.’ My wolf whispered to me.

Jared was more than capable of protecting her. The stubborn little thing wasn’t bad on her own as well. She could put up a good fight. Anyone unlucky enough to be charged with the task of kidnapping or harming her was going to regret signing up for the job.

“Talon?” Her soft voice pulled me out of my thoughts and she raised my eyes to the door to meet her blue ones.

Her long dress was tight at the waist but flowed into a ball from her waist down. Her cleavage peeked at the top, teasing me till my head thought nothing but of her.

“It’s getting late, won’t you come down for dinner?” She asked and I stretched my hand at her.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“Come, my love,” I whispered instead.

Who needed dinner, when it was right here?

She didn’t waste any moment, she picked up her long black dress with one hand as she made her way toward me.

She sat on my legs and I held her jaw. “Do you know how beautiful you look today?” I whispered.

She smiled at me and placed a kiss on my cheek.

“Thank you, my love,” She whispered back with that voice of hers that could make even the goddess jealous.

I have never heard her raising her voice or speaking out of turn -even when Emily would frustrate her enough to earn one. She never did.

How perfect would it have been, if she could have given me a child?

Suddenly the longing she had for her disappeared and I was filled with pain.

“Did you get into another fight with Greg?” I asked her instead.

Her blue eyes flashed at me but her expression remained the same. “My love, you know how your beta finds everything wrong with all I do. But I don’t believe we fought. He was only concerned for the human girl more than he should have been…”

She wrapped her arms around my neck and kisses me on the lips. “But don’t worry my love, everything is perfect now. Sara will run the tests she needs on the supplement and the human girl will take them when she should.”

She kissed me again and I kissed her back as her reply reminded me again why I loved her.

My Willow was perfect.