Beastmen Love-Chapter 178: Betrayal

Freyd looks at Bono, aware of his behavior. He wasn’t expecting to be welcomed there.

"Bono.. I heard you built a tribe, and that this tribe is growing. You left Dark Moon City, and some followed you. I left you to live, and now you’re building a city yourself to fight against me?"

"Against you, my King? No. I built it for you. To thank you for the chance, I wanted to show you that we could make stronger walls." Bono answers.

Freyd looks at Bono quietly, then looks at the giant walls.

"May I show you around? I’m sure you will find only things of your liking."

"Why are you building this wall?" Freyd asks, measuring Bono’s answers.

"This tribe is located next to roads that lead to the ocean. Also, it is an area with big trees to keep females protected. I can assure you that if you ever find your Queen, you will want to keep her here." Bono answers.

"Hum.."

Freyd looks at Otto and recognizes him.

"You’re one of the males of that dilophosaurus female. I don’t remember the name now. She promised to prove she could give me strong litters but couldn’t handle carrying the eggs of my spinosaurus warrior." Freyd says to Otto.

"Yes.. I was her spouse. I survived the backlash, my King." Otto answers.

"Impressive. Very impressive. I’m happy for you. The spinosaurus, Gants here, also survived, but for an older male to survive is amazing. Congratulations."

Gants was on Freyd’s right side. He has long brown hair. He ties half of it on a ponytail. He has longer legs, showing he’s faster than others, but his muscles also show that he’s strong. His skin is a pale brown color, and his poker face shows he’s not a common beastman. Cyprian can clearly feel that he’s a corrupted soul, too.

The other beastman with Freyd feels the same, but he’s a triceratops, with a large head and wide body, but smaller in height than the others.

"Come, my King. Let us prepare a feast for you." Bono invites Freyd inside again.

"Good. I’m hungry indeed." Freyd smiles.

Freyd passes. Cyprian, Troy, and Roy pretend to bow to him and the other two to show submission, and that was something very hard to do for them. After feeling only good energies staying near Astri, being near those evil energies is disturbing.

Bono shows around, explaining how he’s building the structure of the tribe, but not mentioning the health and hygiene measures, so he doesn’t create any path towards Astri.

"Impressive. I like it here. You did a good job. Where are the females, by the way? I’m not seeing any." Freyd asks.

"At their homes. All of them fell ill after eating bad meat. The males who brought the bad meat were punished." Bono answers.

"That’s bad. You did well punishing them. That’s a mistake only little ones make. How many females do you have here?"

"Only five, my King."

"I have 6 at Dark Moon City, and most are sick too. It’s a pain. I want to see your females and check if they look sicker than the ones from my city."

Bono bites his tongue not to break character. He looks at Troy and nods. Troy practically reunited all the tribe at its center when he brought the females, because all their males also came.

The females are pretending to be sick, looking down and sad. Astri helped them put soil on their legs and necks to pretend it’s rashes.

"They look actually better than I thought." Freyd smiles, impressing everyone.

If they look better, they can’t even imagine the current state of the females at the Dark Moon City. Freyd stops at one that called his attention, then makes her look at him by pulling her chin. Her body caught his attention a little bit, looking like she could carry eggs, but her face made him not like her because of her tiny eyes.

"Are you the best female over here? What is your name?" He asks her.

"My name is Lina, my King. I believe I’m the most beautiful, yes." She answers.

"Have you ever had eggs?"

"Yes. Once."

"How many males do you have?"

"14, my King."

"And only nest? No, you’re not good." He clicks his tongue.

She bites her lips, angry, not liking to be belittled like that.

"Which one of you had more nests?" He asks the females, but none of them answer at first. "I’m waiting."

"I think I did, my King. I had three." Kiara answers.

"And how many males do you have?"

"17, sir."

"Too many, already. If you die, I’ll lose male power. Stop getting more males."

"Yes, sir.."

"Your females at least look healthier. I don’t want any of these, but I’ll send my warriors to try to have nests from these ones." Freyd says to Bono.

"Yes, my lord." Bono nods, hating the way he’s speaking to them, as they were mere dolls for procreation.

"Why don’t you want any of us, King Freyd? I might have had only one nest, but it’s because of my age. I became of age last season." Lina asks.

"Oh really.. That’s actually good to hear. You’re not bad, then." Freyd smiles at her, and she smiles too. "But you’re ugly. And I think that females with white skin are more beautiful. I want strong and handsome heirs."

Lina’s pride was hit directly. Besides Kiara, she was the one most males wanted because she was young, but since Astri arrived, fewer and fewer males are interested in her. She’s also angry to see that Astri wasn’t there, feeling she’s being more protected than they are.

"Then you will love Astri, my King." Lina smiles, having the idea of him taking her away.

Everyone tensed. Bono, Cyprian, Troy, and Roy stared at Lina and, if looks could kill, Lina would have her body dismembered.

"Astri? Who is Astri?" He asks, looking at the other females.

"She’s not here, my lord."

"And where is she? I asked for all females to come."

"Astri is a female who is not a dinosaur, my lord. We only accepted her here because her males were merchants from the other continent, and they could give us salt. I don’t think that she will ever handle a dinosaur. I didn’t banish her spouses because they can produce our clothes." Bono says, trying to remove the attention from Astri. freēnovelkiss.com

"Oh really? Interesting. I want to see her, still. Bring her here." Freyd orders, showing he’s curious to know who this female is from another continent.

Bono contains his anger, and Lina looks down to avoid his look.

"It’s all right, Bono. Ask Cyprian to come and take me." He hears inside his head.

"I can’t let him take you, Astri. Not you.." He says in his mind.

"He won’t. I promise you. Leave him to me."

He sighs internally and nods to Cyprian. Cyprian curses Lina inside his mind and walks away. Astri was ready with her spouses. She asks the guards to stay home so Freyd doesn’t ask, at least yet, why a female is so protected that way.

She’s wearing a long white vest with a white hood. Trying to conceal her body and belly. For beastmen, it looks like normal winter clothes. Freyd watched her getting closer, but he couldn’t see her face properly.

"Did you call me, Leader Bono?" Astri asks.

"I did. Astri, right? Show me your face." Freyd says.

She removes her hood, looks at him, and smiles. Not only he, but the males with him were impressed by her beauty.

"You must be King Freyd. I apologize for not recognizing you, my lord. I have only heard about your greatness and never had the honor to meet you in person." She says.

Her voice, sounding like music in his ears, made him feel his mouth filling with water.

"Well.. What a beautiful female you are. I never saw such a beautiful face in my life, and I’m 60."

"Why, thank you! By looks, you don’t look 60, but by strength, you look older." She compliments him, and he smiles, filling his chest with ego.

"What is your kind?"

"An eagle, my lord." She answers.

"An eagle.. Interesting. There are feathered beastmen a bit far from these lands. Around 30 days from here. Why not go to your own kind?"

"I’m pregnant, my lord. I can’t risk my health with long trips." Astri answers.

"Oh, it’s true. Is this dragon your male? I hope you’re pregnant with him."

"Yes, he’s my male."

"Then you can handle big males. I can see you have some big males." Freyd says, looking at Cyprian and Beau.

"I can. I might be petite, but eagles are capable of adjusting to any kind of pregnancy, my lord." She’s not lying, she’s actually saying what any female is capable of doing.

"Really? That’s very good to hear." He smiles at her. "Why are you wearing winter clothes? You look beautiful in it, but are you hiding any disease?"

"No, my lord." She answers and opens the long vest, untying the belt and opening her long clothes like a long jacket, exposing her fair skin, wearing a simple light yellow tube top and skirt.

He drools, looking at her white skin like the clouds. Her pregnant belly makes him desire her more.

"I wear winter clothes because it’s getting colder, and I need to protect myself while I’m pregnant." She says.

She’s not being like other females, throwing herself at him, but everyone can see that she’s calling his attention. He walks to her, towering over her, he closes her clothes again.

"Your body is too beautiful for just anyone to see." He softly says, then holds her face with his right hand.

He looks at the contrast of their skins together and loves it.

"You’re perfect... I want you."