Mated To The King’s Gamma By Jessica Hall

Chapter 74

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Azalea POV

The Next Day

I woke up, and it was already the middle of the day. Light breaking through the open drapes and lighting up the back of my eyelids made me open them and squint around the room, peering at the windows; the sun looked pretty high in the sky and a cold draft caressed over me, making me shiver. The heavy drapes shifted with the breeze.

I inhaled deeply; the scent was wrong and I couldn’t pick out why I felt that way until I realized Kyson was no longer in the room and it was missing his intoxicating scent. My den was quiet, and the scents blew away with the breeze. It unnerved me and made me restless. Chucking the blanket back, I forced myself out of bed, and I rushed toward the window, slamming it shut with a growl.

Why would he open it? I snarled, catching my reflection in the glass. My hair was a mess, and I was naked, yet I could still smell Kyson’s faint scent on my skin, but my nest smelled nothing like him, just me. My skin itched, and I missed my mate already; with a sigh, I stared past my reflection before jumping back when I spotted the grassy patch on the hill.

The kids were all playing and rolling down the hill, racing each other to the bottom. I chuckle when I see Abbie and Clarice watching over them. Abbie was sitting at the top with Tyson in her lap. Clarice was playing with the kids and rolling down the hill with him. Laughter rang out loudly outside. They all seemed so happy and I wanted to join them while they had fun.

Turning around, I moved to the closet and grabbed a dress from off the hanger. It was a loose-fitting long sleeve dress, and I tugged it on after finding some undergarments. I was just pulling the dress over my head as the mind link opened up, and Kyson’s voice flitted through my head.

“You’re awake, I will come back up,” Kyson tells me.

“No, you don’t have to. I am going to play with the kids outside. What are you doing?” I asked him while tugging the dress down over my little bump. I caress it with my hand. My skin was feeling harder as the life within me grew each day.

“Going over the files with Gannon. Are you sure I will come back to be with you if you like?” Kyson says.

“No, unless I should I come help?” I asked him. I suppose I should; the children could wait, and Clarice and Abbie had everything under control by the look of it.

“No, just take Trey with you. And you have an ultrasound appointment this afternoon. I will come to grab you just beforehand.”

“Are you sure?” I asked, slipping some sandals on my feet.

“Positive. Have fun. I love you,”

“Love you too,” I tell him, cutting the mind link. I pull my hair into a messy bun on my head before walking out and finding Trey and Liam by my door.

“Afternoon, Azalea,” Trey says from where he stands.

“My Queen,” Liam says with a slight bow.

“Hey, Liam, Trey. I am going to see Abbie and the kids, and Kyson wants you to come with me,” I tell Trey, and he nods, offering me his arm, i looped my arm through his, and we headed for the stairs leading to the ground floor. Halfway down, I spot Peter kneeling on the steps and scrubbing the wooden beams of the guardrail with a toothbrush.

“What did you do now, Peter?” I asked. The boy seemed to be getting into an awful lot of trouble lately. Peter looks up at me and grins, showing his pearly white teeth.

“I was mucking around with the gardener, and I threw a mud pie at him but missed and hit Clarice and her white sheets,” Peter laughs.

“And why were you throwing mud pies?” I asked, trying not to laugh.

“He threw one first! So he should be helping me clean the damn stairs! I swear she punishes me, so she doesn’t have to do it.” Peter pouts.

I shake my head and continue down the steps when Liam comes up behind us.

“My Queen?” he calls from the top. I stop on the middle landing, looking back up the steps toward him.

“I want to go shower and eat. I have been on duty since last night. I have called Dustin to take over for an hour. Is that alright?” Liam asks.

“Just go. He won’t be long anyway. Besides, Peter will tell him if anyone comes up here,” I said, looking at Peter, who nodded his head.

“You’re fine. I will keep watch,” Peter says, and Liam’s eyes narrow at him on the stairs.

“It’s fine. I will wait for Dustin. I was just letting you know, My Queen,” he says.

“Seriously. Liam. Just go. Dustin will be here soon. What could happen?” Liam, for some reason, looked very indecisive and was staring at

Peter weirdly like it was the first time he was truly seeing him.

send you to clean these stairs?” Liam

said, looking

here yesterday?” Liam asks him while tilting his head to the side. I have no idea what he was talking about, but Peter’s brows furrowed in confusion as

Clarice sent me to clean the stairs,” Peter says to him before glancing at me. He tosses his toothbrush into his tool bucket and his can of polish and rag while staring at Liam with fearful eyes. I walk back up the steps, wondering what got into Liam because I didn’t like the way he

at them. “There are plenty of stairs in the castle,” Liam says to him while stepping down a step, and I look at Trey, who seems just as perplexed at Liam’s strange behavior,

dirtied Clarice’s sheets,”

I feel his aura slip out. It wasn’t like Kyson’s. It was weaker, but as one of his Gammas, it was a lot stronger than a normal Lycans, and Peter whimpers under the pressure

glistened on his forehead, and his

remove the scents from the King and Queen’s room?”

| snarled at him as Peter gripped my arm, looking at me pleadingly with tears in his eyes. “Kyson!” I call through the link before Liam’s voice pulls me back when he addresses

day he cleans the same stairs. Why would Clarice send him to do the same ones every day?” Liam says before his eyes move to Peter

No. I didn’t.”

me to come to him, but Peter clutches me tightly. “Don’t let him hurt me. I did nothing.” Peter begged, clutching my dress and arm like I was

Kyson asks through the link,

I don’t know. Liam

booming voice made me jump before I could answer.

another step down. Liam’s eyes go

is just a boy,”

boy will answer,” Liam growls

clothes or anything in the room. Clarice wouldn’t let me. She made me stand at the door while she passed me baskets,” Peter

“Why the same stairs?”

said to clean ones where she

said to clean

where she could see me if she left the kitchen. These are

did you choose these steps?” Liam

I tell

me again and then to the tool bucket on the step

would take his drunk ramblings out on Peter. Peter looked petrified,

he takes them one at a time. I glanced down

Trey asked, and I tried to focus on my surroundings as Liam stalked down the

I stand and take a step up. I got halfway

slowed right down. I saw Liam’s hands reach for me, and his eyes widened, but I staggered back, my hand going to

gasp, choking on my breath that I couldn’t seem to catch, when a snarl tore out from behind me. “That’s for my mum!” Peter says when I am slammed against the banister. I tried to grip it to stay upright, but the entire thing gave way as my weight touched it. My scream is stolen by the heart-stopping realization that I am falling. My stomach plummets somewhere deep within me. I felt the blood drain from my face, turning me cold at the sensation. Just as Liam nearly impales himself trying to catch me, Trey tackles Peter, who just

Pain enveloped me, and I felt my head hit the stairs on the ground floor stairwell. The wooden railing

ground only seconds later. But it was too late. I felt the warmness of my blood trickling down my neck, my head pounding, and my back throbbing. The coppery taste of blood filled my mouth, and I tried to breathe around it, but only choked. It was like when you

and so was my surroundings. I could see Liam was putting pressure on my side, and I could fuzzily see his lips moving fast as he screamed. Or I think he screamed because I heard no sound leave him. No sound other than my heart

all the pain. But for some reason, it was all I could focus on. Like

Kyson POV

the Alpha Dean’s pack, such as Mr. Crux’s name linking to multiple brothels in the state. It looked like he was helping traffic rogues because sizeable sums of money had been sent

had me going down to the underground storage. Gannon and Dustin

tell them, and they move back to the storage boxes and start bringing them over, dropping them at my

“You two start on the staff files. Go as far

Azalea’s fourth birthday?” Dustin

be a reason someone is targeting her and it has to be someone on the castle grounds. Check all the guards, under oath or not. Also, all the cleaners, gardeners, everyone that has been on the

Gannon pulled Trey’s file again, and another file with his medical records confirming everything he had told us. We really needed to come up with some sort

she was going to play with the children, and I told her

had spent time in the Landeena Kingdom?” Gannon asked me abruptly, making me look up as I

asked, and he held the file out to

a runaway, she was located in the Landeena Kingdom

“What year was this?”

says and I flick through

years later, I knew her

people apparently, and she spent most of her childhood being raised by her grandparents. I am pretty sure that was where she was

relationship with her parents, trying to remember what their falling out was

the mind link open up moments later and Azalea called me through the link, only to cut it off like she had dropped it when Trey opened

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