There was price that needed to be paid for black magic to work, that was how it worked, but the real question here was; was Dacre willing to pay for the price?
Which one was more important for him? His mate or the baby from the man he loved?
His mate...
He couldn’t help, but calling her that, despite the fact that she had rejected him. Nycta had shattered the mate bond between them, but even so, there was still lingering feeling between them, after all, there was time when they were bound with each other, believed that they would last forever.
Despite everything that happened, Dacre loved his mates...
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"The baby is dead," Gayle said, as he entered the tent to report the last information that he could retrieve from their spy.
There was only one more city to be toppled down and it was the capital city. After that, they could march toward the palace without any obstruction.
"I don’t think that’s surprising," Zuri commented. She narrowed her eyes at Khaos, who was sitting not too far from her, he was mulling over the map of the capital city. He didn’t shift his attention from the map when he heard the news, as if it was not something important. "Did you do that?"
"Hm?"
"Did you have anything to do with the dead of the babies?" Zuri remembered the previous queen, Rimera, how she looked so haggard, exhausted and fragile after losing so many babies and now, the story seemed to repeat itself. "Did you do something that make the baby couldn’t survive?" ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
This time Khaos lifted his head and looked at her with amusement, he arched his brows and Zuri always loved the sight of him.
"No," he replied simply. "He can’t sire his own child because of me, yes. But, I didn’t do anything to the babies."
"Oh."
Zuri didn’t continue to ask, she was not really interested.
For the two of them, for the other people that heard this news, it was not something surprising, because this was not the first time for Dacre to lose his baby. It felt like a common knowledge, where people only assumed he was going to lose his baby every time he tried.
To the point where they thought it would be odd if the baby survived. It was obnoxious, yes, but that was what it was.
The death of the baby was not surprising.
Rose opened her mouth, she wanted to say something, but she decided not to, yet in the end, she couldn’t pretend anymore.
"I can help you, but you chose not to be helped." Rose lifted her head, so she didn’t need to see the baby. The death of the baby was very unfortunate, she felt like she was the one, who had killed him when in fact, it was Dacre’s decision that had erased the baby’s chance to live. "I tried to help you."
"No. You only tried to seize the power for yourself." Dacre tilted his head and gave her a mocking smile. "You are trying to erase your sister and replace her position. You are not willing to help this kingdom for a mere title of the luna of the pack. You want to be the queen. If you were going to help, you wan the throne. That’s what you thought, right?"
Dacre knew he was right. He could see it in her eyes.
On the other hand, Rose said nothing. There was nothing more to be said when she walked out of the room and leaving them alone.
She didn’t return to the pack house, where it was guarded tightly. The pack house wouldn’t be a safe place, nowhere was safe in this city. This kingdom was going to collapse and she needed to go for his plan B.
Rose shifted into her beast form and dashed toward the city gates, where she looked for Logan.
"What are you doing here?" Logan looked surprised to see her here. "Go back to the pack house, this is not safe here."
But, Rose didn’t want to listen to him, she took him into a tent. "Do you want to be a king?"
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