Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder Chapter 287

Chapter 67: Marry Me

Rowan

The little blonde girl seated at the kitchen island was busy concocting some potion, from what I could tell. She glanced up from her task, glaring at me, then turned her focus on a bottle of calamine lotion that was sitting next to the sink.

"No," I said firmly

Kat shrugged, picking up a whisk and dipping it into the batter bowl.

"I'll just wait for you to leave," she sighed, her blonde curls bouncing around her ears as her tiny arms fought against the batter. Katerina was only nine but had a personality that could bring even the fiercest warrior to his or her knees. The last time I had seen her, she had been barely four years old, and she had been a handful then.

I stood, sliding the stool back into place and gingerly picking up my coffee mug, peering in side in the event she had put something inside of it when I wasn't looking.

**Don't eat the cake," she said casually, the whisk chiming against the bowl. I turned my head to look at her, the hair on my arms standing on end. Maybe I wasn't ready to have children.

I could hear Talon in the dining room berating my Aunt Vicky for showing up at Winter For est, unannounced and apparently unwelcome. Caroline and Sarah, Vicky’s older daughters, were snickering at the bottom of the staircase, shushing each other as they eavesdropped on the con versation taking place in the dining room.

"Technically, you told Paul not to come, not me,” Vicky sipped from her mug, watching Talon's face flush with fury over the rim. I leaned on the archway, catching Dad's eye from his perch near the window that looked out over the deck. He was trying not to laugh.

"Why the hell would you bring the girls”

"Georgia and Rosalie have been wanting to see their nieces.".

What kind of excuse is that?" Talon hissed.

"And besides, how else would I have been able to get that letter to you?" She motioned to word a single piece of paper laying in the middle of the table with her mug, rolling her eyes. "For Goddess's sake, Talon."

could snatch it away

"How many warriors is the Alpha of Breles sending to Mirage?" I asked, just as Talon picked the letter up and folded it into a tiny square, tucking it in his pocket while he glared at Vicky.

"Roughly a thousand, give or take. The lesser Alphas are putting an army together," Dad stepped toward the table as well, gripping the top of one of the dining chairs. "We're going to leave tomorrow morning."

"Back to Mirage..." I breathed, lifting my coffee mug to my lips. "Things went so well the last

time."

Dad ignored me, turning to talk to Talon. Vicky reached over and squeezed my arm, beaming up at me.

"I heard you found your mate. That's wonderful! It's so good to see you, Rowan. So grown up."

she actually knew about the situation. I was aching to see Hanna, actually. The last several days had passed in a blur of activity. Georgia and Talon had been in Winter Forest for almost a month,

while Georgia and Talon took Maeve's room, for now. Dad had some of the pack members get ting the

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however. She was happier than I'd seen her in years. She loved the cousins and had been doting on Gemma, who seemed to be

Ernest?" I asked,

S

I saw, he was in the village with Gemma;

meeting their baby.” Vicky

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be back

I

my heel and leaving the dining room, glancing down at Caroline and Sarah before I walked down to the garage and

wedding?" Hanna asked as she poked

gingerly across the wet rocks along the rocky

and Georgia are as traditional as Dad when it comes to that sort of thing. Ernest is an Alpha; he can do as he wants. Gemma will be

it from the beach. She walked toward me: her mouth stretched into a smile. "Look this areen band...I

the rock from her hand, holding it up to get a better view

a surge of bubbling gray water through the rocks beneath

keep it; it'll bring you good

will," I said softly, tucking it into the pocket of my

We had been taking walks together al most every evening, walking far from the village and along the shoreline until the lights of Winter Forest were tiny specks on the horizon. She was drawn to the beach, which wasn't a surprise to

against the blush rising on my cheeks, shaking my head. "I-I'm

a wedding, Rowan," she said with a soft smile, her eyes creasing at the corners as

yeah. I think we're going to

to rush

what I meant-"Goddess, I wanted to kiss her. I wanted  nothing more than to take her into my arms and hold her against my chest and feel her hair against my neck. I wasn't a saint by any means. I had been with women. Kissed them... and more i'd had crushes and even a few girlfriends. But Hanna was

myself to touch her, knowing that once her hand

distance between us. She looked up at me, her eyes

"Why?'

I repeated, slightly taken

"Just because we're mates-

l-l really do. I do. And it doesn't matter if you don’t feel the same way. I know

then laughed, reaching up to tuck

back to Mirage. I needed you... I needed you to know, even if you don't say it back. That doesn’t matter to me.

You'll be fine, Rowan,”

though, Hanna. Just know I’m coming back, and when I’m back - I took her hand in mine and turned us back toward the village.

should build a

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