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.”

you happy, Lexi.” Ann grinned as she sat down opposite her. “It would have been a different story entirely if you had seen me a few hours ago,” Lexi muttered as she sipped her

What happened? Are you okay?” Ann asked,

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

a man, romantically would be her best guess, and as much as she wanted to know right now, there was other business to attend to. “Bartholomew, you wanted to

Alpha from a neighboring Kingdom. His father is a high-ranking noble over there, and the territory that he is responsible for borders our kingdom. There have been a lot of issues in regards

the border.” Bartholomew explained carefully. “Rogue attacks? But we haven’t had issues with rogues

are some breakaway factions that refuse to sit quietly and live under the

actively refusing to live comfortably, in safety?” Adam asked

laws and expectations, but that is not true for all beings. Some

the ancient wolves, yes. Where the strongest survive and the weak are a burden. It is not an easy life by any means, and one

round them up and chuck them in for

the

at him incredulously. “Are you for real? Can’t one of you just try them first and then send them to the other kingdom to face

rogues they are technically stateless, so how should we proceed with that knowledge? You know…” “Doesn’t matter!” Lexi

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 imprison them,

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