Forged in the Flames by Karima Sa'ad Usman

Chapter 73 Dealing With The Crazies (Nikolas POV)

After the meeting, Qusack and Abraham left the office so they could attend to the correspondence. I was hopeful that we would find some answers, something that we could use to help with my coronation.

I wondered how deep the plot was but planned to unravel the story and get to the truth.

My father deserved justice, and for my mother’s sake, I hoped she wasn’t part of it the mutiny.

Someone knocked on my door when I was in deep thought, and I looked to see who it was; Piotr stuck his head in with a big smile.

“I was led here,” he said, and I immediately pushed away my worry and smiled.

“Good morning.’ I greeted him, and he walked in. He looked very relaxed, even more than he did in Hill when we met. Keeping his relationship a secret must have weighed on him heavily. I could only imagine what both of them went through.

Piotr sat on the couch in my office and looked around.

“You are all business Nikolas,” He said, admiring my office. There was nothing special about the place, but Piotr still looked at everything with a smile on his face. It was apparent he had a good night.

“How is Natasha?” I asked him, and he looked at me and nodded.

“Sleeping. A maid brought breakfast, and I told her to wait with her if you do not mind,” he said, and I nodded.

“Well, Natasha shouldn’t hold on to her for long because she is Aliana’s friend,” I said, and he nodded.

“Noted, it is just until she is up,” he said quickly, and I managed a smile, something Aliana had made easy for me.

“It is okay; I am sure Lisa won’t mind hanging out with Natasha,” I added, and he nodded. I figured Lisa would be the one to go to Natasha. “So, what is the itinerary for today? Any plans that include me?” He asked, and I frowned, wondering what he wanted.

He stared at me, looking confused, then decided to elaborate.

site seeing, a fun engagement, anything to welcome me to Forest?” He said,

“Oh,” I managed.

in my personal issues

wrong to tell him this because he went out of his way when I visited the palace in Peakland.

after my daily task is

wasn’t enough, so a bright idea

can give me two hours, I will take you around

that,” he said and remained seated on the couch. I was a bit uncomfortable with his presence, but

Scar? I supposed you had no wolf then, or you wouldn’t

look at it. It is almost as if it isn’t there. We were perfect for each other.

not wanting to go into details. Technically what I had said was the

truly favoured you, Nikolas. Anything that could claw you like that must have been deadly. Looks like a wild animal,” he added, and he wasn’t far from the truth. A feral wolf was

was alright. Piotr got

will leave you to your work and get back to mine upstairs,”

forget our hang out. I do not mind seeing Riverhead. I heard it was the most beautiful place during the time of King Mathias,” He said, and I chuckled. “Not anymore, but

It was hard concentrating on the correspondence

wasn’t exaggerating when he said they were requests for slaves. It was amazing to see the choice of words that were used to describe werewolves. Goods, servants, commodities, weres and these were used in the most derogative way. It

immediately. I had expressly told them that

king, none of

looked, if I did not find a way to have Fredrick agree to my coronation, I might go to war because I could not stand being controlled. Even though the letters had not implied it, it seemed they felt I owed them, slaves, for

a headache

down. My destiny had been f*uc*ked before conception. My mother was an adultress who married her lover’s brother so they could be

rumoured to have plotted against my father

father died after being deceived into going to war with his loyal servants, who had to defend themselves

to me, and I fought an unjust war and killed unjustly for nine years to get revenge that wasn’t meant to be. Now that I want to fix the damages done and settle down

was doomed from