Chapter 0142
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I swallow as my heart is beating fas my chest. I can’t show King Peter any fear. He will smell it on me and see it as a weakness. Perhaps ve taken the wrong path by pretending not to know. I try to
backtrack.
“I can assure you that my brother may have just been cautious before making a big announcement.” I try to appease him with my most charming smile. “As we’re all aware, pregnancies can be dangerous amongst our kind. I’m sure my brother was only waiting to make sure the pregnancy is viable.”
“Our kind?” King Peter scoffs. “That thing inside of that werewolf bitch will only be half–vampire. The other half is a wolf. I never thought I’d see the day when such an atrocity occurs. Ancient bloodlines sullied in such a manner. Your ancestors are rolling in their graves.”
I bite my tongue to keep myself from saying something foolish. “Knowing him, I can say my brother will love the child regardless of their parentage.”
“He’s been taking great pains to hide the existence of this child. He seems to care for it more than the child my daughter is carrying, a child of pure vampire ancestry.”
My child, the petulant part of me wants to point out, but I ignore it.
“Kane has a fondness for children. That’s why he spared the child who was offered to him and took Emory instead.”
your brother’s
King Peter moves closer to me, menacingly looking down his nose at me. “I grew weary of constant disrespect. And are you still clinging to that fabrication of you being the father of Opal’s child?”
“There is no fabrication-”
“Spare me,” he hisses. “You expect me to believe my daughter who I raised to be a queen would sully herself with you, a second son who will never inherit anything?”
It astounds me how he denies the thought that Opal would be anything but pure as the driven snow. I had sex with Opal multiple times with other people. I had heard of her escapades in this very court from her own retelling. And I would bet my left testicle she has been sleeping around again.
“Perhaps she took pity on me?” I tell him, glibly. “Opal welcomed me with open arms and made me feel like I could be more than just the spare.”
“My daughter would never lower herself to anyone less than what she deserves. She would rather die.”
“If you say so, my Lord.” King Peter will not listen. He refuses to see anything beyond his view of reality. He is right in one aspect–that Opal will never settle for less than what she thinks she deserves. She is still dead set on marrying Kane and becoming Queen of Crimson Peak. She may have gotten pregnant on purpose in a bid to ensure the future she wants for herself, I had just been a means to an end.
“I want your brother to end this farce. He needs to marry my daughter and do right by her,” King Peter demands. “I want that wolf whore and her offspring gone. He can drown the bitch and her pup for all I care. I will not stand for this.”
Kane will never do it. Not only because he despises Opal but because he loves Emory, and I have seen how quickly she had become his world. I have a feeling not even a true war between our kingdom and
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Scarlett Thunder can change his mind.
“You must understa
ur Majesty, that my brother will never abandon his child-”
“He won’t have a choice. I can’t see him being able to keep his alliances with the other vampire kingdoms once they hear about this abomination Kane has fathered.”
“There’s no need to act so brashly-”
“I have been more than accommodating, but Kane has forced my hand.”
King Peter walks over to the dining table and takes a seat. A servant comes over quickly and pours a glass of blood for the king. King Peter swallows a mouthful of the red substance, his pale throat bobbing. My mouth feels dry, but I don’t move.
