Chapter 158
To my never-ending surprise, Mrs. Smith walked in with a phone in her hand and a deep scowl on her pouty face. I bet I could fill the creases of her wrinkles with nickels and they would just stay there.
“Your Majesty,” she said and handed over the phone before she walked with heavy steps, swaying her body out of the room.
“Thank you, Mrs Smith.” Darian’s brows pinched together and he and Gabe shared a look before he raised the phone to his ear.
I listened in on the conversation, obviously. It was about a rogue pack that had set up shelter between the Lycan Pack and the Oblivions. The Oblivions were a rather quiet pack that kept to themselves but they were also the Lycan Pack’s greatest ally because their warriors were trained by the Royal Guards Elite.
It was a pack filled with bloodthirsty warriors, one better than the other, and losing or surrendering were not words that they kept in their vocabulary.
Darian was talking to their Alpha, it wasn’t a voice that I recognized but he was frustrated and he wanted the rogues gone.
However much someone was bothered by the rogues, they had every right to set up shelter and form an alliance on unclaimed territory- the land was never big enough for them to grow in numbers which was the point. No pack wanted the rogues to grow too strong or they were sure there would be a riot.
Nevertheless, the Alpha on the other line seemed hell-bent on ridding his borders of the rogues, even if it meant sending his men off to kill them all. God this bloodshed was disgusting, I could understand the slaughter of humans all those years ago because it was in self-defense and they were the submissive species who wanted something beyond their control; power and strength like the werewolves.
But the rogues, who have they ever hurt?
Maybe my thoughts were to loud or I wasn’t hiding the distaste as well as I thought but Darian’s eyes found mine as though he’d heard me and his lips pulled back in a grin.
I saw Nora shifting on the armrest while her eyes darted between me and Darian- there was something there that she was thinking and I wanted to know what it was. Then it hit me how good she looked for having…well, for having done what she did with the people she did it with.
Of course, thinking about that then rippled my thoughts down into the rabbit hole and I remembered how she’d been with Darian. Are they still together like that? Was I fooling myself thinking that he wouldn’t be with another woman now that he wanted to focus on righting his wrongs with me?
Maybe all of the males were like that, wanting more than one flavor and getting bored far too easily with only one girl.
I looked down, Nora cocked her head and I raised my gaze, piercing Darian’s eyes.
It was funny how his face was showing more emotion today than it had since I met him.
He furrowed his brows and looked at Nora and then back at me. It was like a silent movie in black and white with suffocating emotions being displayed without screaming or whispering a single word.
Gabe’s features twisted in confusion as he looked around at us and it wasn’t until another set of feet with a thick heel clapped against the floor broke the silence that we could all lay down our weapons of air and stop the threatening glares.
“You were the only one with a threatening glare,” Trixy said.
“Nora had one too,”
“No she didn’t, she was looking between you and Darian,” she defended.
“Do you think she wants him?”
Trixy was silent for a moment.
“I don’t think so,” she said.
I wish her words were more comforting than they were. It was too easy to picture them in his office, or in another bedroom where I wouldn’t walk in on
them.
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I mean it was her job after all and that was what the King was paying her for. Her services were to please him- to please all of them.
I remembered the person who’d walked in and tried to shake the groggy feeling that filled my head.
When I turned around I almost gasped for no real reason, Elise stood with a warm smile and her eyes were gracing over Mathilda.
“Hello sweetheart,” Elise’s voice brought instant comfort to my tense nerves and Mathilda smiled.
“Hi,” she said.
“Elise, please show Mathilda to her room and then take her to get a snack in the kitchen,”
She bowed her head and reached out her hand, placed it around Mathilda’s shoulders and they started walking. My little sister looked over her shoulder as though she was asking me if it was safe and honestly I was wondering the same thing but it was Elise, Elise was safe.
I smiled and nodded my head- relief washed over her face and she turned back.
“The chefs will make you anything you want,” Elise mused and guided her down the hall.
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