Chapter 155 Reckless Mate
Kira’s POV
I screamed in frustration, the sound echoing off the walls. How could he do this to me? Why? I wasn’t a prisoner. I am his wife…supposedly.
‘He’s right, you know,’ Leah said calmly. ‘You need to stay in one place before you drag us into actual hell next time. Why do you like danger so much?’
I glared at nothing. “I’m so disappointed in you, Leah. Taking his side like that.”
‘You are completely reckless. I’ll be a moron to take your side,’ she fired back and the betrayal stung.
Just then the door opened again.
Victoria stepped inside, carrying a tray of refreshments…tea, little sandwiches, fresh fruit.
She looked at me chained to the bed, then at the empty doorway, and raised an eyebrow.
I exhaled in relief. “Finally. Victoria, you’ll definitely let me out, right?”
She didn’t say anything, but she will let me out. I could threaten to make her life a living hell if she doesn’t.
Victoria stepped fully into the room, the tray balanced carefully in her hands, and her eyes landed back on me…handcuffed to the heavy wooden bedpost like some kind of criminal.
For a second she kept staring. Then her lips twitched. A snort escaped, and suddenly she was laughing…bright, unrestrained laughter that filled the quiet room and made her shoulders shake.
“Oh goddess,” she gasped between chuckles, setting the tray down on the side table. “The king actually chained you up? I thought he was joking when he gave the order not to get the cuff off you. I thought he was talking about some mental cuff or whatever.”
I yanked at the cuff again, the metal clinking loudly. “It’s not funny, Victoria! Get these off me right now.”
She wiped at her eyes, still grinning, but the amusement faded fast. Her expression turned serious, almost apologetic, as she sat on the edge of the bed. The laughter died completely, replaced by a heavy sigh.
She sat carefully on the edge of the bed, looking at me with a mix of sympathy and real worry.
“Princess… I’m loyal to you. You know that. I meant every word I said earlier… I owe you everything.”
She swallowed hard, glancing at the door like Adrian might storm back in. “But I’m not ready to die. The king said he will kill me if I try to free you. He wasn’t joking.”
My blood boiled. I yanked hard at the cuff, metal clinking against the bedpost, and screamed at the top of my lungs.
“Adrian!!!!”
Adrian’s POV
Kira is going to be the death of me. I swear it.
I rushed back to the palace after that bombshell from Elise, heart still hammering from everything I’d just learned, and she was gone.
Not in our room. Not in the gardens. Not even a trace of her scent anywhere. I checked every corridor I could think of, nostrils flaring, but nothing. Not a single whiff.
Where the hell could she be? Did we accidentally leave her behind in the human city? Or worse…did something snatch her while I was dealing with all this Morgana crap?
As I marched down the corridor, her words kept replaying in my head and my mind kept spinning back to the one place in the entire palace that Sheila had fortified to hide scents completely.
The dark cells.
The only spot strong enough to block even an Alpha’s nose. But there was no way Kira could’ve gotten in there. That area held one very dangerous criminal, and it was locked down tighter than a vault.
She should stay chained up. That little bundle of gorgeous trouble is a straight-up menace. One minute she’s all soft and biting my neck, the next she’s wandering off into God-knows-what. I’m going to lose my damn mind trying to keep her safe.
In fact, I'll instruct my men to secretly install CCTV cameras first thing tomorrow morning.
I can’t possibly cripple her or have her chained up forever but at least, I can track her down whenever she gets these crazy ideas to venture out again.
Thomas fell into stride beside me as we marched toward the meeting hall, his boots matching mine on the stone floor.
Council members were already seated inside… I could hear the low murmur of voices through the heavy doors.
I’d sent for Margaret and Levi too. After what Elise dropped on us about Morgana…or whoever the hell we’ve been calling Morgana…every single council member needed to hear this.
Hell, every pack member in the realm…south, west, east, all of them…had to know the truth. So they can prepare and fortify themselves.
Morgana isn’t a woman. She’s a man. And his name is Silas. Sheila’s half-brother. A vampire who was supposed to be dead and buried in a coffin with a wooden stake through his heart. He was the one that wiped out Elise’s clan…the Odens.
None of it added up yet, but I was going to unravel it piece by piece if it killed me.
Elise had gone into some weird slumber right when I needed more answers.
Who the hell falls asleep standing up? Just…poof, eyes closed, like someone flipped a switch.
Guess there really are things happening right in front of our faces that we have no clue about.
My teeth tightened when I remembered Thomas’s briefing about Silas possessing Liana…Kira’s maid.
That bastard had been that close to my princess the whole time? What was his real game? Why here, of all places? Elise had said he couldn’t take his true form yet…not until he got whatever it was he wanted.
But what the fuck did he want? And then she picked the perfect moment to pass out. Typical.
I groaned out loud, frustration boiling over.
Thomas kept walking beside me, steady as always.
“I already sent for the new priestess we acquired. She’ll join the meeting. She should be able to explain some of these mysteries.”
“Good,” I muttered. “And make sure no one finds out about Elise. An Oden being alive and right here in the palace…especially not Margaret or Levi. Keep it locked down until we are able to separate friends from foes.”
Thomas nodded, his eyes glazing for a second as he sent a quick mind-link to whoever was guarding Elise’s door. “Done.”
I glanced at him sideways as we kept walking. “Who is this priestess anyway? And why couldn’t her so-called fortification keep black magic out? If she’s supposed to be the expert, how did black magic slip through again?”
Thomas shrugged. “She was the one recommended by Alpha Thorne from the pack down east. I guess we’ll find out straight from her during the meeting.”
We reached the tall double doors. The guards posted there snapped to attention and pulled them open without a word. I exhaled slowly, trying to shove all the chaos with Kira into the back of my mind. Time to get down to business.
Everyone inside stood as I stepped in.