Chapter 0147
Chapter 0147
Kane
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Queen Olga leads us to the adjoining throne room. At a long table sits the majority of our allies, old and new. Half of them have been ruling before I was even born, and the other half came into power with me around the same time. There are a few new faces, no doubt hoping to raise their cache through associating with more experienced monarchs.
I nod to several of the people at the table as I take my seat at one end. Queen Olga sits at the head of the table comfortable being in charge of this meeting. There is not much time for small talk. We launch immediately into discussing the war with Scarlett Thunder, the expense and potential casualties.
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“I don’t see why I have to help fund another war you’re embroiled yourself in, Kane,” King Matthias remarks. “That pointless battle of wills with the wolves didn’t do you any good. It was a waste of time and resources.”
King Matthias was a peer of my father’s. He still tends to see me as the young king I used to be, despite my age. His kingdom is smaller with fewer resources than the others. I can understand his hesitance.
“I would prefer to avoid more bloodshed,” I say. “If King Peter would agree to stand down, we can avoid having to lose more warriors and assets.”
“Peter will not back down.” King Cyrus speaks up. “He’s stubborn as a mule. You’d have an easier time with an actual mule.”
“As long as I have known Peter, he’s never been good at compromising,” Queen Olga agrees. “You will need to offer him something he can’t refuse.”
“I heard he wants you to marry his daughter and claim her unborn child as yours,” King Matthias says, his blue eyes piercing into me. “I have also heard you’ve refused his demand and refuse to acknowledge the babe.”
“Princess Opal’s child is not mine,” I explain. “As much as she claims that I fathered her baby, it wasn’t me. I’ve never touched her.”
“Why does it matter who’s the father? You have an easy solution to avoid war. Marry the chit and play happy family with her. It’s not difficult.”
Telling them about Lex being the father of Opal’s baby will not help me. It will only serve to show how I have no control over the situation. It’s my word against King Peter’s, and he truly wants to believe that I’m the father of his unborn grandchild.
“I heard you got another woman pregnant,” Queen Desdemona.joins the conversation. She’s a younger queen, having come into power a few decades ago. “Is it true you impregnated a feeder? A wolf shifter no less?”
stiffen and watch as the royals all whisper amongst themselves, a cacophony of noise that only ends when Queen Olga slams her goblet onto the table like a gavel, a bit of blood sloshing over the side. Her familiar blue eyes look into mine, and I can’t make out what she’s thinking.
wow would answer the question, Kane,” she says. “Is it true about the
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“But she is still a wolf shifter?” Desdemona asks.
I can’t lie, and I don’t want to. I’m not ashamed of Emory, but I know the people at this table. Most of them were raised to distrust wolf shifters and only see them as a source of blood. Even the most tolerant of them won’t consider a shifter as an equal.
“Yes,” I answer. “She is the now Alpha of the Moonraker pack.”
King Matthias’s blue eyes a past decade?”
ide in disbelief. “Isn’t that the same pack you’ve been at war with for the
“I was warring with the previous Alpha, Bernard Moonraker. He is no longer in charge of the pack.”
“And his replacement is related to him?” Matthias questions.
“Emory is his eldest daughter.”
Whispers erupt amongst the royals again. I feel out of control, unable to find my footing in this landslide of accusations. None of them will understand about Emory as they hadn’t been there to witness everything that had happened between us. From their perspective, I had shacked up with my former enemy’s daughter and gotten her pregnant.
