Forged in the Flames by Karima Sa'ad Usman

Chapter 67

“Alpha, are you alright?” I heard Qusack’s voice, which snapped me out of my deep thoughts. I was staring at the Photo of Aliana’s mother, who was currently in Snow as Fredrick’s slave.

“Do you know this woman?” I asked, handing Qusack the Photo? He looked at it and shook his head.

I wanted to know if I was the only one she served. It seemed I was the only one.

Seeing Aliana’s father’s condition, I did not want to raise any alarms. I might not get anything from him if I told him what I saw. He might end up in the clinic.

I figured Fredrick must have forcefully claimed her, and that was the severance Gabriel felt that made him believe she was dead. Only a Lycan of his breed could achieve stealing a mate of a lesser breed.

It was easier for Gabriel to believe his mate was dead than to think she had been claimed forcefully by an Alpha Lycan. It wouldn’t have crossed his mind since Lycans believed

Werewolves were beneath them, but Gwendolyn was a beauty like her daughter.

It should have crossed his mind.

I couldn’t control myself when I set eyes on Aliana, and it had nothing to do with our bond.

She might not look like her mother, but she was in a league of her own and did not have to make any effort to look the part.

I tried to compose myself while connecting the dots in my head.

If I was the only one she served, Fredrick wanted me to know he had Aliana’s mother.

Unfortunately, I did not know her, and he figured it out when he came to see me in the room.

All the talk was just to know how much I knew.

Apparently, I was clueless, hence his satisfaction.

The woman had referred to me as royalty and told me she was from Forest, but how could I connect the dots?

Gwendolyn was also the only person that knew of my legitimacy.

I began to suspect that Fredrick had grabbed the woman and kept her alive on purpose.

He grabbed her around the time of my conquest.

He must have known I planned to take Forest and did not want me to get my crown. How else can I prove my legitimacy when everyone in Forest, when I was conceived, had died in battle? My mother’s midwife was the witness and the only person that could vouch for me under compulsion. He knew what he was doing.

I am about to discover now,

linked me, and I adjusted myself. There was no point

was back in its spot, and Gabriel looked at me

did not need

he knew her. Clearly, he shouldn’t, but I

around the period I was taking over settlements

you think, Gabriel. My warriors have nothing to do with her death. I was just wondering

women and children in my

added so he would know it wasn’t my

living room was silent, and I couldn’t help but ask him about

can you tell me how you confirmed Gwendolyn’s death? I want to

but time had passed, and they had taken her. I knew Gwendolyn would be killed because she would rather die than be a slave, so when the severance came a day after they took her, I knew the bastards that took

monitored her heart and told her the time to be with the King. As mean as your mother was to werewolves, she was very kind

She said her brother was an a*sshole and he won’t be nice to werewolves. She would instead Gwen stays and have a life than follow her to be a slave in Snow,” He said in tears, and I decided I needed to talk with my mother and then find a way

her from Snow would take a lot of work, and we did not have the might to do it. I hoped

I said to justify staring at the picture intensely because I knew Gabriel was no fool. He would know

to tease her about it. Aliana wished she looked like her mother badly since most girls looked like that around here; she felt she

served her well,” Qusack added to calm my wolf

was trying to figure me out. I knew it won’t be long before he would realise Aliana and

Gwendolyn aside and getting straight to the reason I

come here, and I am sure Beta Qusack has already

leading to my father’s death. I want to know how you killed him and

to tell you the truth as I have experienced your, Highness,” he said respectfully. I knew it wasn’t a formality for him;

told me some pretty intense things that seemed to add up. By the time he gave accounts of my father’s death, I saw a man that

my father would be extreme to the point of defunding the werewolf military and sending them

actively working against him and reducing his military force by systematically killing off

his demise because only a King could invade another King’s kingdom? Or could it be an average dreamer

it is possible that Giles had to sacrifice so my father

and made decisions on his behalf that could have caused the ill-treatment of the werewolves that led to their massacre, forcing you all to revolt? I mean, someone with the authority to reply,

but I am not in the position to point fingers as I wasn’t in your father’s government at that time. He had new officers whom I did not know. Maybe your

cannot believe anything she says. You left out the part where

indeed modest. “I do not want to embarrass Queen Isabelle. She wasn’t in a good place then. King Mathias

confess that she pleaded with me to let her be my mistress since I had taken over Forest. She wanted to do it for your sake. She

I could not betray my

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