Alpha Nocturne's Contracted Mate

There were very few places where Lexi was truly accepted for who she was, and after initially being concerned that she would encounter a lot of difficulties here as well, she was pleased to have been proven wrong. “Oh, wonderful! I’m pleased you came! I’ve been boring Lexi with tales of my past exploits for longer than she has cared to imagine I’m sure!” Bartholomew chuckled as he stood to greet them.

“He’s a filthy liar! “Lexi interjected casually with a wave of her hand, “I’m not bored at all. In fact, I could probably spend the rest of my days listening to tales of his adventurous youth.”

“Ah, you humor an old man, my dear. I’m sure your father has far more interesting tales to tell from his youth, after all, what could possibly compare to a Daemon Lord’s exploits.” He chuckled, mildly embarrassed by her open praise.

Lexi snorted.

“Yeah, if he could actually remember half of what he did, I’m sure it would be fascinating. I suppose it’s one of the downfalls of living an obscenely long life.”

sat down opposite her. “It would have been a different story entirely

happened? Are you okay?”

sure you’ll hear about it eventually. It’s no big deal though. Well, not right now anyway. I’ll chat to you about it when we get some girly time, okay?” She

much as she wanted to know right now, there

from a neighboring Kingdom. His father is a high-ranking noble over there, and the territory that he is responsible for borders our kingdom.

the smaller settlements that dot either side of the border.” Bartholomew explained carefully. “Rogue attacks? But we haven’t had issues with rogues for years.” Ann exclaimed in surprise. “Not since we moved to begin integrating the

refuse to sit quietly and live under

to live comfortably, in safety?” Adam asked

beings. Some wish to be truly free to live as they please…” “Murdering, pillaging, and taking what they see as

survive and the weak are a burden. It is not an easy life by any means, and one must question why they choose it so

thing.” Lexi interjected, “Just round them up and chuck them in for

will try them for their crimes, hmm? Our kingdom for the crimes they committed here, or our neighbor’s kingdom for the

Can’t one of you just try them first and then send them to the

be before or after sentencing? And who goes first? What about the current extradition treaties? As rogues they are technically stateless, so how should we proceed with that knowledge? You know…” “Doesn’t matter!” Lexi said loudly, “I suddenly decided that I

and Lexi glanced across at her with a withering look. “I don’t know why you do it to yourself, Ann. f‘****g politics and politicians and diplomacy,” she said as she shuddered “I don’t know why you can’t just round them up and kill them, or at least

Lexi’s ‘smash everything until they do what we want’, policy.” Maeve smirked. ‘Maeve we can’t! How does that make