Chapter 110: THE RUMOR AND THE KING'S PLOT (2)
"Are you... really going to send them away, my king?" Nycta looked fearful when she watched a hundred thousand warriors in their beast, as they were ready to march to River Creek pack under the royal banner and Silas's command. "From what I heard... alpha Khaos is rather ruthless."
"You don't need to worry about that." Dacre hugged his young mate from behind. He placed his hand over her still flat stomach and kissed her nape gently. "I don't want to do it, but my hands are tied. Khaos has crossed the lines and he should know better not to act this way." He inhaled her scent and closed his eyes. "The mask finally slipped off and he showed his true color. He aimed for power, just like everyone else."
Nycta leaned her back against the king and enjoyed this attention.
Currently, both of them were standing in the balcony that overlooked the thousand warriors, who were ready to go to River Creek pack. It was a massive number.
Meanwhile, Rose was standing behind the two of them, watching the affection that the king showed to her little sister.
She came here to ask for alpha Khaos to be her chosen mate, since his status and his birthright was on par with her. He was the only man, who held so much power after the king himself and because she couldn't have the king, despite she was the eldest daughter now after Rimera had died and the king didn't choose her to be his mate, she couldn't settle with someone less.
It was some kind of humiliation for Rose for the king to skip her and choose her sister instead.
However, with how everything unfolded, she didn't think that was a possible thing to do. Khaos was not in a good term with the king right now and Rose was left with two options; finding another potential alpha to be her mate or...
"I feel so bad. Being the king must be very lonely and hard."
"Yes, it is." Dacre kissed her head. He ran his fingers over her flat belly. "But, with you here, I don't feel lonely at all. As long as I have you and the baby, I will be fine. The two of you all I need."
Hearing that, Nycta's heart swelled with happiness. She loved him so much, despite the odd of their relationship.
Right now, she tried to be happy with the pregnancy, but this one fact kept nagging on the back of her mind when she remembered that she was carrying someone else's child. Killian. This was Killian's child and was not the king's.
This felt very weird, especially every time she saw the happiness in Dacre's face when he caressed her stomach, knowing it was not his flesh and blood.
It was foolish of Nycta, but she wished, by some miracle, the baby was Dacre's. She tried to be happy and pretend there was nothing wrong with the baby in her womb, but she couldn't completely brush off this feeling.
Nycta glanced at Killian, who was always around her. He didn't pay any attention to her. He was cold and nonchalant, as if there was nothing that interest him, not even the fact that he would father a child, who was one day would be the king of this kingdom.
"What are you thinking about?" Dacre asked when he could tell how distracted she was.
"I am thinking about what will happen if alpha Khaos retaliated, will be a civil war? Don't you think it will weaken our kingdom? Especially with Great Lunar kingdom has been very pissed because many of their warriors were killed during the coup a few months ago."
Dacre chuckled. "You don't need to worry about that." He hugged her a little bit tighter. "You are really the perfect queen for this kingdom. You think everything thoroughly."
Rose rolled her eyes because it was her concern that she voiced out to Nycta a few days ago during one of their tea time. Her clueless sister wouldn't have such deep thought.
But then, a warrior approached the king and informed him about the latest report.
"The ships didn't make it to the shore, my king."
"What?" Dacre let go of Nycta and approached the warriors. "What do you mean with that? The ships should be here two days ago!"
These were the ships that contain meat and their food supply during winter. Every year, it would be the same ritual and the ships had never been late at all.
"What happened?!" Dacre looked visibly upset.
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"We are still investigating the cause of it, my king, but because the sea has started to freeze, we need some time."
Dacre gritted his teeth.
"My king, can I say my opinion about this matter?" Rose said timidly and carefully, she looked beautiful in her red dress. Among the other sisters, she had more similarity in feature
with Rimera.
Dacre nodded.
Rose took a step closer again and showed herself in front of the king. All this time, he had never really seen her because all of his focus was on her sister. "I think alpha Khaos is behind all of this."
"How do you think so?" Dacre knew Khaos would have some role in this chaos, because that was the first thought that came to his mind.
"A merchant from my kingdom happened to know that alpha Khaos bought ten ships a few months ago," Rose then told him all the detail about the transaction and how they were tricked to sell the ships in a very low price, lower than the initial price. "Apparently, there was a woman with him, who advised him."
"A woman." Dacre could guess who was that woman, but to his surprise, Rose also knew
about this.
"I think it must be luna Zuri. From the information that I gathered, she was the mastermind behind the glory of the River Creek pack. Correct me if I am wrong."
Dacre was surprised Rose know so much.