Chapter 223

Vanessa POV

After he woke up and realized that I was there, he seemed happy until he saw my face. The bruises were healing. They were in various stages of healing. I told him about the attack at the castle. Hunter and his daughter were in the dungeon here. Also, on the plane ride here, I found I was pregnant. I was hoping for a girl this time. I know that Alfred's mom had several boys before she had a girl. I bet she was extremely happy when Stacey was born. She did not have to worry about a curse because she was a girl. The curse that they had was only for the boys, not the girls. My curse was only because a witch cursed me and my sisters the day we were born. The witch told my parents that if they killed any of us, she would kill them.

At the time that I was wishing for a girl, I did not know that there were four of them inside me. I would not find that out until later. Alfred tried to get upset about the bruises on my face. However, after he found out why they were there, he seemed pleased. I had gotten into a fight to defend the castle and fought my way to him. I did not have to remind him that he would have done the same thing for me. After getting him calmed down, he pulled me close to him. He wanted to lie down and cuddle. That sounded wonderful to me. I lay next to him, and he pulled me close. It felt wonderful to be in his arms again. It wasn't that long since we had been apart. It was only a few days. However, it felt like an eternity being away from him. It had felt like a piece of my soul was gone. I knew it was the mate bond. However, it still hurts.

I knew that we would be back together again. At the time, I knew that it would be hard because we were at war with people. However, I did not expect to be attacked at the castle. During the fight at the castle, my stomach felt like it had been ripped out. I knew at that point that Alfred had been seriously hurt. I knew that I needed to get to him. When we arrived at the palace, everyone was standing around as if he had died. I ran into our room, and he was asleep. I ran to his bed, and I held his hand until the doctor told me that there was a chance that I could use the mate bond to heal him. I used it, and it did heal him. I also used my white wolf power to heal him. He was getting better every day. It was three days before he was actually awake. Which I was grateful that he was awake.

So his holding me felt wonderful. He kept pulling me closer, as if he wanted to crawl inside my skin. We both knew there was no way to do that. So we settled on just cuddling. I told him that I was pregnant. He seemed really happy about it. He had a lot of thoughts running through his head. I could not make out a lot of them. Mates can usually read their mates' thoughts. I must have fallen asleep because I was woken up when Nina walked in with food. The smell of eggs was making me sick to my stomach. I started to throw up. Alfred called the doctor to check me out. She took several vials of blood. She knew I was pregnant, but she was doing her job. She also gave me some medicine for morning sickness. I was grateful that I could eat.

I also knew that Alfred and the doctor would start forcing the vitamins and stuff down my throat again. The vitamins helped a lot last time. They helped with my hair and nails. So I was willing to take them. We ate our food, and then we got into the shower. He stunk and needed a shower. The baths that I had given him while he was asleep were not enough.

" Nina, sweetie, can you please change the sheets?"

" Yes, your majesty."

She changed the sheets while I watched. Then we got dressed. Alfred had come out of the shower in just a towel with his top half showing. I licked my lips because he looked so delicious and sexy. It was still hard to believe the man in front of me was mine and only mine. I knew he was aroused just as much as I was. However, I wanted to give him another day to heal. As much as I wanted to feel his hands on my body, I knew that he needed to rest. I also knew that he needed to take care of Hunter and his daughter today. I already knew that they were going to be sentenced to death. They knew that was what would happen. Dracula had filled me in. He knew about werewolf laws. He said that Vampires had the same laws. He had to put his people to death before. He told me that was something he didn't want to deal with.

Alfred was king of the werewolves, and Cane was the oldest werewolf there is. Cane started the packs in Romania. He had assigned several werewolves to be alphas. Our bloodlines could be traced back to him. Cane and I had talked while Alfred was asleep. He did not want to be king. He felt like he had enough responsibility. Which I found strange. Was that he turned down being king? He said that he would rather deal with the pack that he was in charge of. How long do werewolves live? This is the question I had. I knew that Cane looked like he was in his sixties. However, he was at least three hundred years old. I knew that Alfred was thirty years old. He was young compared to the older kings that I have read about. They are usually at least in their fifties before they become king or queen. Alfred had older brothers, but they didn't want to be king or anything like that.

They were happy to be normal people. I would love to be a normal person. I knew that I was the white wolf. My life would be anything but normal. I was not going to make my wolf go away. She was thrilled that we were pregnant again. I was happy as well. I knew that it would be hard to conceive again after the emergency C-section I had to have because of what happened when Junior was born. It took a while to recover from that. Junior was so strong, and I was getting stronger every day.