The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King

Chapter 133

“Your Grace, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” The young female Lycan said and offered an obligatory bow to Annie.

Annie retumed the gesture and smiled warmly at the brown-haired beauty as she said, “It’s a pleasure to meet you too. May I know your name?”

“I’m Dorothy Dawson, your Grace. I’m here as someone’s plus-one. And if I may, your Grace, I have a buming question that I hope you don’t mind me asking.” Her green eyes sparked mischief as her pastel lips curled up into a grin, showing her braces holding the two rows of teeth together.

Annie continued smiling as she asked amicably, “What would you like to know, Dorothy?”

“How do you do it, your Grace? How do you be okay with…not being able to give the Duke a child?”

Annie’s eyebrows raised in surprise before she asked in concern, “Dorothy, are you facing pregnancy problems? Because…” 1

“Oh, I’m not, your Grace. I doubt I would. I just wanted to know how you mustered the self-esteem to stand next to the second most powerful creature in the Kingdom with so little to offer.” She blinked her green eyes like she was just asking an innocent question, when in fact, it was clearly an attempt to make Annie feel small and unworthy. 1

When Annie realized what Dorothy was doing, the Duchess put aside her sympathy she initially felt for this young woman before she said, “A woman is more than a baby-making machine, Dorothy. I’m here to support my husband as a wife and as Duchess.”

“But we’ve never seen you before in these things. Why the sudden need for support? Is the Duke facing a certain problem that requires your presence with him?” There was that glint in her eye again. She knew more than she was saying. Seeing that Annie was speechless, Dorothy continued, “Your Grace, you seem a little tongue-tied. I hope I didn’t make you uncomfortable. I was simply trying to understand the level of self-entitlement one requires to…”

“To join a government event and speak to anyone she pleases?” Lucianne’s stern voice came loud and strong from the side. The fast clicks of her heels itself exudes confidence.

Xandar mind-linked her that Annie needed help when his sharp hearing caught bits of the conversation between the Duchess and Dorothy. Lucianne abruptly paused her own conversation with Phelton and excused herself before making quick steps towards the Duchess.

Highnesses.“ Dorothy bowed in the King and Queen’s

expect to have the opportunity to speak to you so soon, my Queen.” She knew that pleasing Lucianne was more important than pleasing the King, so her efforts were solely to butter-up the wolf, as much

expect to speak to a Queen-to-be but creature-to-creature, we’ve already spoken in last year’s collaboration,

Lucianne knowing her full name even without an introduction. Dorothy faked an apologetic

your Highness.” On the inside, she prayed that she

When I was defending my Luna after you insulted her dressing, you told me to shut my mouth before you used your boyfriend’s influence to burn m y pack to the ground.” Dorothy froze in fear as Xandar’s eyes turned onyx. And as if the

down. Even Xandar and Annie felt it. Dorothy’s mouth quivered, and her mind suddenly felt like a vacant room. Hollow, cold and lonely. Her own animal was covering its eyes and curled into a

and asked Annie cheerfully, “Hey, sorry I took so long. What did I miss?” Registering the daunting energy from the Queen, his cousin’s onyx orbs, and his mate’s discomfort, Christian’s smile faltered as he studied the woman

greeting the royals. He then tugged Dorothy’s arm as he whispered, “Dory, what

to him as she

blonde responded carefully. The chatters in the hall were dying

one who has the audacity to question

on one knee before he apologized, “I am deeply sorry for my girlfriend’s… insubordination, my Queen. Please, forgive us. It won’t happen again.” Like his girlfriend,

if the King was angered, the Queen would calm him. But the King himself would never think of restraining his mate from unleashing her wrath on any of them. The whole dining hall was silent at this point when everyone saw a Lycan

to himself, “Oh, goddess. What now, Lucy?”

Lucianne would’ve pounced on him right then and there if Juan hadn’t held her back. Tate and Toby growled to shoo Herbert away before Juan released his grip on his frantic sister. As furious as they all were at what happened, they knew that challenging a Lycan would never end well for the wolf so

not going to let Herbert or his girlfriend get away with disrespecting her or Annie. Lucianne simpered, “Insubordination, Mr Martin? That’s putting it too lightly, don’t you think? This is a matter of willful disrespect, the respect that should be given to any individual, not just to a

Dorothy before she said, “You seem a little tongue-tied, Ms Dawson. I hope I didn’t make you uncomfortable. I was simply trying to understand

quivered as

one you said those insidious words to?” Lucianne

glare compelled her to look down as she uttered