Chapter 31

Ledger

Now that I know my mate and the Queen are safe again, I can start planning mine and the King's escape. I'm just com- ing back into the compound when my father calls out to me. I turn and I see a disturbed look on his face as he hurries over to me. I try keeping my expression bored as to not give any- thing away.

"What is it now, Father?"

"Where have you been?" he asks grudgingly.

"If you must know, it's been a while since I've had the plea- sure of female company, why?"

"There was a disturbance at the airfield, that's why!"

I straighten up, pretending to be alarmed, "What kind of disturbance?"

"I'm not quite sure. It was odd actually. An American jet landed but nobody got off and no one boarded it before it took off again. It didn't even fuel up."

I furrow my brow, "That is a little strange, but how is that a disturbance?"

"Why would an American jet land and then just take off the way it did? Especially after we have captured an Alpha from the States."

"Father, you do realize that planes do land at the wrong airfields every once in a while. There is nothing to be suspi- cious about."

"You don't know much about shifters son, but when they find their fated mates, they will do whatever it takes in order to protect them. We took the Queen's King; do you not think that she won't come for him?" My father's little speech is hit- ting way to close to home, and I need to be careful on how I play this.

"I understand this, Father, but the Queen also has two young pups at home that need her protection. I've never met her, but listening to others talk there, she will do whatever it takes to protect the two Alpha heirs, so I highly doubt she would go on a suicide mission. Those heirs are more impor- tant."

He rubs his chin as he thinks about what I've said, "Hm, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm just hoping that they were go- ing to bring the fight to us. I just want to be done with all this nonsense, take their Queen out and let the rest fall right be- hind her."

Sighing, like I usually do, I rub my forehead, "I still don't understand why we are so obsessed with these shifters, but whatever, have your little fun with them. I'd rather be finding me a nice warm female to be sinking myself in."

"That's your problem Ledger, you're always thinking with that damn cock of yours! I'm surprised you haven't knocked up any of your sluts yet." He rolls his eyes and then turns to walk away but then turns back, "By the way, be ready by nine in the morning. I've got meetings in the afternoon, so if you still want to go see your breeder then it will have to be early."

he uses for my mother, but I nod, "I will be ready, Father, and I promise not to keep you. away too long. I

that you're back, next week will be the start of finding a bride for you. It's almost time for this old man to retire and you need a whore willing to breed your heirs for you before you take over. One that's going to

over their head in order to fuck them then

a true Hastings!" he slaps my back, chuckling, and then

me in that way. It's no wonder we have no female hunters, at least not in England where my fa- ther rules, because he thinks they are weak and only good for breeding. Sure, I think about Cici growing big with mine and Spencer's pup but I don't think

to my room, I lay down on my bed to make it look like I'm resting for a bit as I close my eyes and reach out to Alpha Declan, 'Are you there, Alpha?'

'Yeah,'

word answers must mean he is in pain, 'Is it safe for me to

No answer.

'ALPHA?'

'Yeah?'

to come

sitting right outside

am I supposed to

in there because they will feel my presence if they are close enough, and right outside the

me know the moment they leave, and I

I'll be fine for now...'

having meetings works per-

run my finger over the titles of all the books lining the shelves until I come to the one I'm looking for.

I come across some really good spells that I have forgotten all about, and I note to myself to make sure

of the book. By the time I'm done with the book, I've decided on two different spells. The first one will freeze time here at the compound for at least fifteen minutes unless I break it myself, but with my father gone to meetings, he won't be frozen in time, so I will have to try using a cloaking spell on not only me, but Alpha Declan and then my mother once we get there. It's going to be tough with two other passengers, but I know I can do it. Now that I have

my fa- ther is standing on the other side, impatiently tapping he foot, "Sorry, but one of my meetings got moved up an hour, so we

I'm ready if you

thing I know, I'm in a sun- filled room that is over-looking an ocean, "Where the hell are

coast in a town that was named after our family, Hastings. This is the Hastings family home, it's where

"You have my mother

He asks as if my own question was a stupid one, "She's my breeder so I need to keep

words enrage me, "You still...use her?"

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