69. Heir To The Throne.

Narrator’s POV.

It had been long since Daphne woke up to the sound of happy birds chirping, although she had practically lived in the middle of the forest, there were hardly any birds there, other than ravens, vultures and predator birds.

With her eyes still closed, she stressed out her limbs and turned over, noticing the emptiness of the bed. Her eyes snapped open taking in the absence of her mate and son, she stood up quickly and began to panic. Was this all a dream? Impossible! This was she and Dwayne’s room, if it was a dream, she would not be here.

Where was her son? Her panic increased and her brain went into overdrive, she went into the wardrobe and put on one of Dwayne’s larger shirts that reached just above her knees. Rushing to the door, she pushed it open and was shocked to see Sarah standing there about to knock, “My lady”, she said sounding startled,

“Where is he?”, she was not specific but Sarah knew who she was talking about right away,

“The prince is in the garden with the alpha king”, Sarah stated, Daphne nodded and relaxed, she had no idea of what she had assumed happened but she was just scared. It was a normal thing for all mothers to be this way; extremely protective of their pup, although she wondered whether her mother was also like this once.

“Oh, okay”, she sighed and went back to the bedroom, Sarah followed behind her and placed a huge grin on my face,

“So, I have something to tell you”, Sarah began as Daphne sat on the soft bed with a bounce,

“I am all ears”, of course, she had an idea of what her maid was about to tell her but she had to hold in her excitement until she was actually given the news.

“Fredrick chose me when we got back last night”, she had squealed with happiness, Daphne shot up from the bed quickly,

“Goddess, Sarah this is good news”, she squealed as well, she was very happy about this news. Sarah was her friend and she knew she deserved to be happy,

“I know, I am the happiest person on earth”, she said shyly,

“Good, because you are fired”, Daphne shrugged, Sarah’s head snapped up and her face twisted up in confusion,

“Excuse me?”, she whispered in shock, “Please do not fire me, I have no other job, I beg of you…”,

“You really do not have to worry about working anymore if you are the chosen of the second in command to the alpha Sarah”, she pointed out with a shrug, “Plus, I am not really firing you. Think of it as a promotion, I am making you my own second in command”.

Sarah cocked up an eyebrow in confusion, “Is that possible?”, she asked,

“Well, I am making it possible. I trust you with my life Sarah and now that you are Fredrick’s chosen, you can no longer act as my maid, I would not even let you”, Daphne stated.

Sarah let out a sigh, her mistress was extremely unpredictable, every move she made was a whole different story, it was a really beautiful thing, “I really appreciate this a lot, it means the world to me that I will still be able to serve you”, she bowed her head in submission and Daphne smiled,

“This means that you would have to call me by my name and not the usual term you use on me”, Daphne had been looking for a way to get Sarah to refer to her by her real name, this was just the opportunity she had been searching for.

“But Fredrick does not call the Alpha king by his name”, Sarah pointed out, she knew Daphne well enough to know what she was driving at,

“The alpha king as his tail stuck in ass”, she rolled her eyes and they both burst into a fit of laughter, “Do you know if my message has been sent around?”, Daphne asked Sarah after their laughter had died down, she pulled the shirt over her head and walked into the bathroom, not closing the door so she and Sarah could still talk,

“Yes, your message was sent very early this morning. We should be expecting all the werewolves in the kingdom by afternoon”, she answered and headed into the walk-in closet, she picked out Daphne’s clothes and laid them unto the bed, “So”, she began, “What do you think you are going to do with them?”, her curiosity was peaked. She had never known Daphne to be the violent type so you could imagine her initial shock when she found out that Daphne was the one dealing with Emilia and Fiona from Fredrick.

“I really do not know, I will figure it out”, she yelled over the noise of shower, she really had no idea of what she was going to do to those women, they made her suffer so they too were going to suffer as well, that was for sure but how would she make them suffer more than she did? What beats being without your mate for months or giving birth to your child alone in the middle of the forest?

Daphne came ack into the room with a towel wrapped around her body, “I know I did not have to, but I did”, Sarah said, talking about the red pant suit and white shirt she had placed on the bed,

“Thank you, Sarah”, Daphne smiled and wore the clothes quickly, “I am going to meet the alpha king now. Can you please help me meet Cecilia about another maid?”, she requested,

“Replacing me already?”, Sarah had a smirk on her face but she was not really delighted about the whole idea of not working as Daphne’s maid. She loved working for the luna queen and although she would still be working for her, she knew it would never be the same.

“This really hard for me too Sarah but I do not think Fredrick would appreciate you still working as a maid for me while you are his chosen, it just does not work that way”, Daphne explained to her,

“I understand”, Sarah nodded and walked out of the room with Daphne, “I would be seeing you soon”, she said before walking away and leaving Daphne alone in the hallway, most of the guards were out at the battle arena trying to set everything up for the event that was bound to happen that evening. Most of them were excited to see the luna queen in action, some of them could not help but wonder whether she was like the alpha king; torture your victim until they pleaded and groveled for death.

“Your majesty”, a guard marched towards her and bowed,

“Yes?”, the guard had startled her a bit, she had not seen him coming and with all the dark thoughts going on in her head as she thought of how she would punish her offenders, it was not the best time to scare her.

“The alpha king seeks your presence in the throne room”, he said, “He asked me to escort you”, the man bowed once more and began walking towards the said room with Daphne trailing closely behind him. Once they got to the door, the man pushed it open and allowed her to walk in before he did, “My lord”, the guard sought the attention of the alpha king who was busy playing with his son, he looked so focused on what he was doing and it was indeed a beautiful sight to behold,

His eyes snapped away from the young pup in his hands and he looked up, “You are dismissed”, he said to the guard and patted the other throne for Daphne to sit on. She did as she was asked and sat down beside him, stretching her arms to receive her baby which he reluctantly gave up,

“I was so scared when I saw that he was not with me when I woke up”, she admitted with a sigh,

“I am sorry about that, he woke up before the both of us, you were still asleep and I did not want to disturb you so I took him away”, he explained to her, worried that she would not like it,

“It is fine, I am glad you got to know him better”, she smiled at him and remembered that she had not fed her baby that morning, he would be starving. She untucked her shirt from her pants with her free hand and rose it up,

“What are you doing?”, Dwayne asked her in surprise, why was she suddenly undressing herself? Was she trying to seduce him?

Daphne rolled her eyes and lifted up her bra, “I am feeding our son”, she placed her breast into his mouth and he sucked on it, Dwayne grumbled a bit as he watched this happen, that was his favorite breast and watching another man, baby or not suck on it was very hard for him, “Do not tell me you are jealous of your own son, he is just a baby”, she teased him,

“I am not jealous”, he denied, “I am just not comfortable with you opening your breasts in public”, he said with a shrug,

“We are the only ones here, Dwayne”, she pointed out, he turned his face away after realizing he had been caught in his own lie.

“Let us see how you would feel if we have a daughter and she is sucking on my dick”, he mumbled lowly, but Daphne heard every word. She swatted his arm and let out a loud laugh,

“That is completely different, Dwayne, oh my goddess, you are such a jealous person”, she said, removing her breast from the baby’s mouth and adjusting herself.

“Whatever”, he rolled his eyes, “I have something to show you”, he stood up and took DJ out of Daphne’s hand, she was about to protest but he did not let her, “I will carry him”. To him, he had almost two months of making up to do as he was absent during the first few weeks of his own son’s life, it pained him a lot to acknowledge this and it was all because of that stupid Emilia.

He craved so dearly to dish out a punishment to her himself, he felt that Daphne being Daphne would go easy on her and easy was not something she deserved. He wanted to use the anger of missing his first son’s birth to deal with her but he knew Daphne had higher scores to settle.

“We are here”, he pushed the door open to reveal a blue themed room that looked like a nursery, it was extremely lavish with over a hundred toys on a shelve, a large cot that was almost the size of a bed, two rocking chairs and so on. She could tell that he did not hold back on any expenses while making this nursery,

“Well, that was quick”, she remembered him saying that he would have the nursery ready as soon as possible, but it was way too quick. She had never slept away from her son so this was going to take some time to get used to,

“Yes, do you like it?”,

“Of course, it is lovely”, she bit her lip nervously and he caught unto it.

“What is the matter? Is something wrong?”, he placed the baby in the cot and sat down on one of the rocking chairs, patting his lap so she could sit on it,

“It is just, I do not feel comfortable leaving DJ in a room away from ours”, she tucked a stray lock of hair behind her hair and looked to the ground sheepishly. He stood up from his chair and went to a nearby door, pushing it open,

“I understand where you are coming from, so, I had them reconstruct my library into DJ’s nursery”, Daphne looked past the and was surprised to see their own bedroom, he had thought ahead, “The walls are soundproof so I placed a baby monitor in the room, that way, we would know when he is crying”, he closed the door and walked back to the chair,

“I feel better about this”, she smiled and finally sat on his lap,

“I am not going easy with the security either. There would be two guards at his door at all times and two guards in the room with him at night”, he explained, “They would be his own security team”.

Daphne looked at her baby that was sleeping peacefully on the plush mattress of his cot, it baffled her how such a small baby could be of so much importance. One day, he was going to grow up and become the alpha king, just like his father. She would be the proudest mother that day and there was not a doubt about that.

A knock came from the other side of the door, alerting both Daphne and Dwayne. The person entered the room and laughed, “It is only me, please relax”, their tensed-up bodies relaxed once they realized it was Fredrick, “The people are arriving”, he reported,

“Good, direct them to the battle arena”, Daphne stood up from her mate’s leg and went to carry her sleeping baby,

“And the children?”,

“They should go to the event hall, tell Sarah that her first job as my second in command is to take care of them, since they are so many, she should get the maids to join her”, she ordered, Fredrick nodded and left the room.

“How did your maid become your second in command?”, she jumped up in surprise as she had not realized that Dwayne had gotten so close to her,

“Damnit, you scared me”, she placed her hand on her chest to calm herself down, “Sarah could not work as my maid anymore”, she shrugged,

“Why not?”, as shocking as it was, he had selected Sarah personally for her, maybe she did not like his selection? No, if she did not like her, she would not make her, her second in command.

“The chosen of the alpha king’s second in command cannot work as a maid, it is unethical”, she pointed out, assuming he knew this already,

“Fredrick chose her?”, he asked in surprise,

“You did not know?”, how could Fredrick not tell him such a news?

“I had no idea”, he frowned, knowing his second in command did not tell him the moment it happened hurt him a lot but he probably had his reasons, after all, the only thing Fredrick ever thought about was how to please him.

“Maybe he was waiting to tell you later”, Daphne suggested, “We need to go to the battle arena. I will leave DJ with Sarah”,

“No, I will hold him”,

“I am not exposing our son to that type of violence at his early age”, she hissed and left the room angrily,

“I am sorry, my love, I was not thinking correctly”, he apologized, knowing what e suggested was extremely stupid. Daphne was right about not wanting to expose their son to such a thing but he knew that sooner or later, he would have to be enlightened; after all, he was the next in line to the throne.

Daphne did not bother answering him as she just kept walking to where she knew Sarah would probably be, after handing over her baby and pleading with her to take good care of him, she walked out of the castle and headed over to the battle arena which was almost a mile away.

It was already evening and the place was packed with werewolves who had shown up to honor the queens request; not that they had much of a choice. Most of them wondered why the queen had requested their presence, it was a very odd thing as it had never happened before.

“You can go sit, I will take care of everything from here on”, she told her mate who just nodded and went to sit down at the high table. The crowd quietened down once they noticed the presence of their king and they all bowed to him, he simply waved them off and urged them to sit down.

The battle arena was in a circular form, which meant there was no way for an opponent to escape unless they used the door which was secured heavily by guards. Daphne walked in and stood in the middle of the arena, “You might be wondering why I called all of you here”, she began, “It is very simple. You are all here to witness what happens to anybody who decides to fuck with me and my family”, loud murmurs erupted through the crowd, most of them were wondering what had happened while some of them had already heard the news before-hand, “Bring in the prisoners”, Daphne ordered.

Two women chained by their hands and legs walked in with guards trailing behind them, they looked extremely unkept which was completely understandable as they had not had their proper grooming in days.

The women looked familiar to the crowd, they were very popular and influential, they knew exactly who they were, Emilia Roland and Luna Fiona Ranger. The women bent their head in shame, it was hard to believe that they were the cousins who loved to terrorize the lower-class men and acted like they were better than everyone else.

“These women believed that it was wise to cast a spell on your alpha king and go as far as attempting to kill him”, the crowd let out a gasp at her words, never had they heard such a thing, “They are guilty of treason, blasphemy and are a disgrace to the werewolf kingdom and Lunas”, she kicked off her shoes and untucked her shirt, “I should kill them immediately, but I would give them a chance to prove themselves worthy of living”.

From the stands, the alpha king scrunched his face up in annoyance and confusion, what in the world was she doing? When she said she would deal with them, was she planning on setting them free?

“Emilia Roland, daughter of late Alpha Gilbert Roland and Luna Helena Roland, you will fight for your life”, Daphne smirked devilishly, “I will make it easy for you. You can change into your wolf”, she shrugged, “Unchain her”. The guard removed the chains from Emilia’s hands and legs, letting her morph into her wolf, she pounced on Daphne immediately, forgetting the fact that the luna queen had faster reflexing than any other female wolf. “You missed me”, she sang at the angry wolf who growled and attacked over and over.

Daphne watched as the woman got tired after missing every attack, “You are a weakling”, she spat as the wolf became human again, her naked skin glistening with sweat as she gasped for air and crouched down, “You are no match for me, you will never be me”, she pulled the woman’s hair harshly and a few strands probably fell off their roots.

She dragged the woman to the ground and grabbed the sides her face firmly, elongating her nails into claws, she dug them into her skull and enjoyed the sound of the woman screaming in pain. With her hand still firm on the woman’s head, she began to run in circles, twisting her head off her neck and ripping off the skin. It was very horrible sight to behold as blood splattered everywhere, including Daphne’s body, but she did not care, she had conquered one of her enemies.

Daphne rolled the woman’s head unto the ground, showing how worthless it was. Emilia Roland was dead, now it was time for Fiona Ranger, “You!”, Daphne stalked closer to her as she tried to scoot backward, “I trusted you with my life and you betrayed me”,

“I am sorry Luna, she made me do it”, Fiona had tears running down her pale face as she pleaded,

“You are a filthy liar Fiona, but I would not touch a strand on your head. I have your name blacklisted amongst the werewolves, witches and vampires. You are hereby banished from the werewolf kingdom”, it was a hard decision for her to make because somewhere within her, she still saw Fiona as a friend.

“But I would die out there”, she pointed out,

“So be it then. Because of you and your cousin, I had to give birth alone in the middle of the forest, I am letting you off easy”,

“You were pregnant?”, Fiona’s eyes widened, she regretted her decision of letting Daphne go when she needed shelter, she could have killed the baby as a revenge plan.

“Guards, escort her out of my territory”, she growled and turned to the crowd, “You heard correctly, I have produced an heir to the throne”, pride radiated off of her as she said this, she was relieved to finally spread the good news to the people of her kingdom. “On that note, you are dismissed”, she walked away and met her mate at the door, giving her a proud smirk,

“I have never been so turned on in my life”, he whispered into her ear once he saw her, “Watching you act like that made me the proudest man on earth”, he bit on her ear and she felt her panties dampen,

“Why don’t you do something about that?”, she bit her lip seductively,

“I plan on doing just that, right after we get our son”,

“We have one of those?”, they burst into a fit of laughter and began walking back to the castle, Dwayne took her hand in his and intertwined them.

“You would not believe how happy you make me Daphne, I love you so much”, he turned her around so she was looking into his eyes,

“I love you”, she placed a kiss on his lips and could not believe how well things were going for them, everything was perfect; she had the perfect mate, perfect son and perfect duty. Everything had to be perfect from this point onward, she had fought all her enemies;

At least, that was what she thought.

THE END.