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.

to clean these stairs?”

said, looking up from his

the side. I have no idea what he was talking about, but Peter’s brows furrowed in confusion as he

tool bucket and his can of polish and rag while staring at Liam with fearful

at them. “There are plenty of stairs in the castle,” Liam says to him while stepping down a step, and I look at Trey,

dirtied Clarice’s sheets,” Peter

out. It wasn’t like Kyson’s. It

glistened on his forehead, and his hands clenched into

King and Queen’s room?”

him as Peter gripped my arm, looking at me pleadingly with tears in

Why would Clarice send him to do the same ones every day?” Liam says

No. I

yesterday?” Liam asks, motioning for me to come to him, but Peter clutches me

going on?” Kyson asks through the link,

I don’t know. Liam is accusing

Accusing him of what?” but Liam’s booming voice made me jump before I could answer. Trey

Liam’s eyes go to Peter’s hands clutching

He is just a boy,”

the boy will answer,”

anything in the room. Clarice wouldn’t let me. She made me stand at the door while she passed me baskets,” Peter blurts out under the command, unable to fight his

“Why the same stairs?”

clean ones where

to clean them?”

see me if she left the kitchen. These are

you choose these steps?” Liam asks, stepping down another step

Enough!” I

and then to the tool bucket on the step in front of him. The closer he

i tell him, outraged that he would take his drunk ramblings out on Peter. Peter looked petrified, and his hands shook as he clutched

calculating as he takes them one at a time. I glanced down at Peter,

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

fingers off my dress, I stand and take a step up. I got halfway up the steps, blocking Liam from

my lungs before I hear Trey’s ear-piercing scream behind me. And it was like time slowed right down. I saw Liam’s hands reach for me, and his eyes widened, but I staggered back, my hand going to my side when I felt the pain twist through my abdomen, my

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,

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

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 knock your foot when it has pins and needles, that strange sensation, yet my entire body

pressure on my side, and I could fuzzily see his lips moving fast as he screamed. Or I

myself. I had no idea why I felt that above all the pain.

Kyson POV

had found a few things in the documents from 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

add up, which had me going down to the underground storage. Gannon and Dustin were pulling everything we had on Crux from the archives, and we set them on the huge wooden table

me,” I tell them, and they move back

looking for council records, anything really. “You two start on the staff files. Go as far back as 14 years when the Landeenas were

Azalea’s fourth birthday?” Dustin asks 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 payroll,” I tell them and they

through stuff for a few hours when Gannon pulled Trey’s file again, and another file with his medical records confirming everything he had

Azalea wake up. She told me she was going to play with the children, and I told her to take

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

asked, and he held the file

year. Her parents reported her as a runaway, she was located in the Landeena Kingdom and granted

“What year was this?”

left a month before the attack after a fallout with Queen Tatiana,” Gannon says and I flick through the files.

years later, I knew her

parents were very strict people apparently, and she spent most of her childhood being raised by her grandparents. I am pretty sure that was where she was living again. I

odd relationship with her parents, trying to remember what their falling out was for, but I

and Azalea called me through the link, only to

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