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.

was also Gabriel’s wife, so he will know everything I am about to discover now, which means he will constantly be

alright, Niko?” Qusack linked me, and I

spot, and Gabriel looked at

need to

Clearly, he shouldn’t, but I had asked

around the period I was taking over settlements in

what you think, Gabriel. My warriors have nothing to do with her death. I was just wondering because her face looks familiar. Also, Aliana looks nothing like

never killed women and

warriors that challenged me,” I added so he would know it wasn’t my

couldn’t help but ask him

tell me how you confirmed Gwendolyn’s death? I want to know if it was when they attacked them or later?” I asked to know if Fredrick had

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

woman. She helped your mother with your conception. You know. She monitored her heart and told her the time to be with the King. As

with Queen Isabelle, but Isabelle refused. 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,”

would take a lot of work, and we did not have the

looks nothing like her?” I said to justify staring at the picture intensely because I knew

to tease her about it. Aliana wished she looked like her mother badly since most girls looked like that around here; she felt she would have been mated faster that way…,” Gabriel said, but I growled before I

well,” Qusack added to

and the man frowned. It was as if he was trying to figure me out. I knew it won’t be long

on the couch, chasing my thought about Gwendolyn aside and getting straight to the

why I have come here, and I

I want to know how

as I have experienced your, Highness,” he said respectfully. I knew it wasn’t a formality for him; he genuinely

By the time he gave

why my father would be extreme to the point

force by systematically killing off the werewolves to

an average dreamer who felt he could achieve much by conniving with

that Leon planned to kill the King, and it is possible that Giles had to sacrifice so my father could live. Fredrick did not trust Leon either and had nothing

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, send letters on his behalf,

of Leon’s death, he must have delegated the work to someone else,” I said, and Gabriel shrugged. “I thought as much, 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 mother can

says. You left out the part where she made passes at you,” I reminded him,

believe he had left out that part to help her keep her dignity, something her brother was incapable of doing. The man was indeed modest. “I do not want to embarrass Queen Isabelle. She wasn’t in a good place then. King

Forest. She wanted to

betray my friend

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