A Mate For The Last Lycan-Chapter 35: SHOCKING NEWS

This was the first time Roland found himself completely losing it. His claws emerged and he was ready to rip her heart out of her chest.

Anger blinded him and Zuri's taunts only fueled it further.

The fact that Zuri knew she was tempting death didn't deter her. Feeling this pain, instead of numbness, was not bad either.

Eerie laughter still came out of her lips and when she saw her father's claws emerge, she looked him in the eyes. She felt fury radiate off of him in waves and remembered the father that she once had in the past. The father that braided her hair. The father that took care of her. Someone that deserved the title.

She wondered; when did it start changing? Was it when she was nine that he discovered her talent? She was not sure, but now it didn't matter anymore.

His body exuded killing intent and he was going to kill his only daughter for real if it was not for her mother. Karina shifted into her wolf when she saw what Roland was going to do to Zuri. The beast lunged at him in time to claw his arm and snarl at him, forcing him to back away.

And that was the last thing that Zuri remembered.

She had been spiraling, her emotions hit rock bottom or as high as the sky, thinking she was invincible and smart enough to get herself out of trouble. Any trouble.

***

"Alpha Roland and Alpha Xaden have been in contact with the Great Lunar Kingdom." Caiden sat across from Khaos. "Our people said that Alpha Roland has been funding Alpha Xaden's activities and apparently, his latest activity before he was sent to Mount Eve was to seek the rogues and meet with their leaders. What do you think they are doing?"

Rogues.

They were shifters without a territory, usually found in large groups, moving from one place to another and most of them would take any dirty jobs for money. Mercenary work being the most common one.

"They are gathering warriors," Khaos said.

"For what?"

Khaos went to the window and stared at the blue sky. His mind drifted to that night in the carriage, but he answered Caiden's curious question with one simple word.

"Coup."

Caiden's brows hit his hairline. "So, Alpha Roland has been funding this movement?" Caiden checked on the report again. "I thought they were in a good relationship." They had this suspicion ever since the union between Zuri and Alpha Xaden happened, but the new evidence was the solid proof of that.

"The palace is always a bloody place." Khaos' gray eyes turned slightly darker.

"Will you tell King Dacre about it?"

Khaos gave some thought to it. "Let them play their own game." He didn't care who sat on the throne of the Celeste Kingdom, at least, not now. His own plan was still in motion too.

Silence descended in the study room, as the sun started to set. The wind was rather humid, indicating summer was around the corner.

"King Dacre has been hinting at you to take a luna for the pack. He sent over information of three candidates and it will be a royal intermarriage with the Wolfdale Kingdom. Let me look at the women... hm..." He thumbed through the information on the three women. "Princess Alana, fifteen years old. Princess Nycta, seventeen years old. And Princess Rose will turn twenty one in two months."

Caiden smirked. He lifted his head and grinned at the alpha.

"Choose the younger one, she looks cute. I have been wanting to have a little sister!" The twins were a headache. He wanted a demure and delicate little girl as a sister.

***

The news about the monsters running rampant on Mount Eve was a false report. Xaden and his warriors had been there for two weeks and the mountain was clean of monsters. Most of them seemed to have gone deep into the mountain, with no sign of bothering the town nearby.

Based on that, after two weeks, Xaden returned. He was furious and swore he would get back at Khaos.

According to the report he got, Khaos was still in Three Deadly Ways, as the conflict there was continuing to intensify and the welcoming party that he wanted to hold was canceled due to the circumstances.

Actually, Khaos wanted to hold the party to vouch for Zuri, but because the woman had come to his doorstep voluntarily, there was no need for the party. Khaos didn't like strangers stepping into his residence.

"What is the meaning of this?" Alpha Roland looked at Xaden grimly the moment they were alone. "I told you to treat my daughter right, but you caused trouble again and what? Separate bedroom? House arrest? You are very bold, aren't you?"

Xaden walked toward his desk and sat down, he looked unbothered by Alpha Roland's wrath. Instead of talking about Zuri, he changed the topic to something else differently.

"It was my brother, who orchestrated the miscarriage." He told him how it happened and how Dacre called Faye to see him, using that woman to stir trouble. "He admitted that."

Alpha Roland looked even more livid when he learned about that. "That bastard king!" He hissed under his breath.

This anger was what Xaden wanted from Roland. "Why don't we return the favor?" He smirked. "Queen Rimera is due in less than two months. From the looks of it, this baby will

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survive."

"It's too risky."

Killing a baby was a whole different thing than causing a miscarriage. Dacre would realize that it was intentional. It was done for revenge.

"We don't need to dirty our own hands for it, we have a lot of people at our disposal to do the

job."

And as if luck was on their side, there was a knock on the door and a guard entered the room to deliver a piece of shocking news to them.

"The queen is currently in early labor," he reported. "But, there seemed to be some complications in the process. The baby is not coming out and it has already been half a day."