The Lycan King’s Breeder

Chapter 58: Talon’s POV

Before I could stop myself, my hand swiped across her cheek. Hard.

She fell to the bed and held her face.

“Why would you do that?!” I yelled, shaking in anger.

“You know how long we have to try for a child and it has all been-” The words stopped in my throat as I looked at her.

Avalyn and Dawn had found a similar pill with her maids. Could she have been using it all these years to kill our children?

No, Willow wouldn’t do that.

We had been genuinely trying. We were both invested in it. This must have been a mistake.

“Willow, look at me!” I said, wiping tears away from my face.

She remained on the bed with her hair covering her face. Her shoulders were shaking as she cried silently.

“I said look at me!” I growled so loud, she shrieked and sat up immediately.

It was breaking me to see her cry. It was breaking me to imagine she killed our child herself. It was breaking me to think that our relationship had fallen this badly. How did all of these start?

Where did it all go wrong?

I sniffled away my tears and gritted my teeth to take control. Then I came to stand in front of her once again.

“Willow, why did you do this? Why?” I asked, in a shaky voice.

She wiped her tears with her fingers and pulled her hair away from her face. I cringed as I saw the bruise I had caused on her face.

“I thought you didn’t want it…” She whimpered looking back at me with tears filling up her face again.

“What?”

“Yes, Talon. You were all over Avalyn. It was always her. Avalyn, this… Avalyn that…” She choked out with bitterness flashing in her eyes.

My eyes were clouded with pain and confusion as I listened to her. She had been harboring all of these and she didn’t think it was right to talk about it.

Yes, I admit I haven’t been the best partner in a couple of weeks but that was because she pulled away from me. She left our room. She was constantly arguing with me and I didn’t want to fight with her…

“When I found out that I was pregnant, I didn’t think you would want it…” she sniffled and my eyes turned.

“Willow, how could you think that?! After everything we’ve been through, you think I would reject a child from you?” I spat, as my organs shook with anger.

“We had our issues. But that wasn’t enough for you, my mate -the woman whom I love to think that I would reject my own child! Why? Why Willow?!”

“… because it was a girl!” She yelled, grabbing onto her hair. Tears spurted out of her eyes and splashed on her chest.

“You wanted a boy and Avalyn was already pregnant with a boy… I didn’t think you would want a girl…” She wailed.

“I don’t give a fuck if it was a girl or a boy, Willow! All I have ever wanted was a child. The gender didn’t fucking matter!”

“You didn’t want me anymore, Talon. Why would you want my child? Deep down, you know that you wouldn’t have wanted it. The only reason why you are angry now is because Avalyn’s baby also died,” she said looking at me.

Her words were whiplashes against my broken heart.

“Willow, that is not true… I have never stopped wanting you… I have never stopped loving you! I would have been the happiest man in the world if only you told me!”

She dropped her face into her hands and cried even louder. Her shoulders trembled and her ears turned red as she cried.

Each sound coming from her was an arrow to my heart.

I brought this upon myself.

If I didn’t abandon my mate, this wouldn’t have happened. She wouldn’t have developed such thoughts.

I sat back on the bed and held her in my arms. “That’s okay…” I whispered consoling both of us.

I needed it as much as she did. I lost two children in one night.

“Ohh Talon, what’s happening to us?” She sobbed into my chest.

“I’ll fix everything, Willow. I promise,” I whispered but she broke out of my hold and shook her head.

“No, that’s not what I mean… Someone placed the drug in my room. They knew I was hurt and they placed it there… I thought it was you,” she said and a single trickle of tears followed a path down her cheeks.

I furrowed my brows at her confession.

“I know now that you didn’t put it!” She quickly rushed out. “But, someone did put it.”

She was right.

Whoever put the drugs in her room, knew he was setting a perfect trap following her emotional state. As for Avalyn, they knew the only way would be to trick her by embedding it into something she likes.

“Someone poisoned Avalyn with the same substance too…” I whispered.

“Oh, Goddess! Who would do this?” She cried out, wiping off the stray tears.

“I don’t know. But I am going to find them and punish them. They will pay for this!” I said with determination.

No one infiltrated my castle and harmed my family. No one.

A sharp knock came on the door and I knew it was Greg. They must have found something.

“Willow, I have to go. Please stay here and wait for me,” I said.

“Yes, my King,” she mumbled with a bow.

I gave her a short peck on the forehead and walked out of the ward.

“We have found the maid who brought her the chocolate cake,” he said. “She is in the servants’ quarters.”

“Let’s go.” I started walking ahead of him. Greg quickly caught up and asked the question, I was certain he was dying to know.

“Did Willow mention who did it? Did she see anyone?” He asked.

My brows were in a tight line as I thought about my answer properly. If I told him that Willow took the pills herself, it would be considered treason and I would have no choice but to punish her -which I couldn’t bring myself to do.

“Someone brought it to her but she didn’t see who. I suspect it was the same person,” I replied.

That wasn’t a lie. It just wasn’t the entire truth. For Willow, I would do anything.

“You are right.” He nodded and we continued running till we got to the maid’s quarters.

The soldiers guarding the room where she was kept bowed as they saw us approaching. I was at the front, while Greg walked by my side.

“My King,” They chorused and I nodded in response.

“Where is she?” I asked and one stepped forward.

“This way, my King,” He responded and started walking deeper through the corridors of rooms.

He came to a stop at the last door and pulled the door open.

“Thank you,” I whispered as I stepped in.

The maid stared back at me with dull blue eyes. Her face was awfully familiar but I couldn’t finger-point where I had seen her before.

“She is supposed to be on the queen’s maid’s list…” The guard said.

We all knew she couldn’t have afforded the medication on her own. According to Sara, it was a very rare medicine even for the humans themselves.

They no longer produced and the few left were threatened as gold.

“Who sent you?” I asked the maid as I took a seat before her.

She looked at me with cloudy eyes and dropped her head back to the ground.

“Take off her restraints,” I ordered. She was tied up with chains and from the smell of burning skin that filled the room, I knew it was silver.

Her mouth was also sealed but I needed her to speak. I had to know who sent her to destroy my family.

“She might attack or try running my King,” the soldier cried out.

I turned my head in his direction. “I don’t care what she will do, I need her talking or I will end her life right here and now!”

Greg walked to the girl and peeled off the tape, shutting her mouth.

“We try again, who sent you?” I asked.

She opened her mouth and whispered something but nothing left her lips.

“You will have to speak a little louder if you don’t want me to lose my mind!” I hissed, shifting closer to her.

“You know I will not hesitate to squeeze out your brain and every damn matter you have!”

“I-I can’t say… She’ll kill me too…” She said in a shaky voice.

“She?! Who is that? Who are they?!” I roared, kicking the chair off of me.

But she shook her head and before either Greg or I could realize it, she made a flip to her fingers and tore off the skin around her wrist.

“What the fuck!” Greg and the guard pulled her away from her wrist but she had already done it.

“Get a nurse here!” Greg growled but I stopped them.

“There is no point…” My voice trailed and they followed the movement with their eyes

The gilt was already foaming in the mouth. There was poison buried in her wrist. And she had consumed it.

“Greg, come with me,” I said as I got up and started walking out of the room.

“Clean this mess up and find out if she had any family or accomplice,” he told the guards before following me.

“I don’t think we will find anything concerning that maid. She is a dead end. She will only waste our time…” I said.

The anger I felt earlier and the pain had somehow reduced. It no longer burned in my chest but my head still worked faster than it should.

“But Talon, what are they supposed to do, wait around till they do it again?” Greg spat out in frustration.

“No, we won’t. Double their security. Check all the maid’s profiles. Anyone who looks suspicious should be brought to me. I will teach them a lesson.”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

By the time I finished with them, they would know, never to mess with me.