Chapter 58
PRIMUS ALEXANDER’S POV
The storm outside had slowed, but the one inside me hadn’t. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t try to. Her scent was too close. Too
warm.
Yet somehow, I’d woken up to soft molds against my chest.
Her breasts were pressed into my chest. Her nose nuzzled into my neck and her body spread on mine like a starfish.
Like she hadn’t held my entire kingdom in her palm and caused a shift just last night.
My jaw clenched as I stared down at her.
The bite marks along her neck, the bruises on her hips–each one mine. Her white lashes fluttered as she stirred, a quiet sound escaping her lips. She shivered.
She was still naked. Still breathtaking.
But still a thief.
I snarled and shoved the covers off, standing abruptly. My blood boiled. I should’ve tossed her in the dungeon like the traitor she was. But instead, I let her share my bed?
I was a fool.
I turned to her. She blinked up at me slowly, lips chapped, skin flushed, hair tangled across her face. “Alex…?”
Her voice was barely there. My wolf stirred at the sound. Weak. Pleading. But I silenced it.
“Get up.”
She sat up slowly, arms covering herself. “What’s happening?”
I didn’t answer.
I grabbed her wrist and pulled her off the bed. She winced as her feet hit the cold floor.
“Alex, please-”
“It’s Primus Alexander to you,” I glared at her.
Her mouth shut, trembling. She followed as I dragged her toward the back of the room.
She didn’t know where we were going/She looked like a rabbit trapped under a hunter’s boot. I stopped before the old stone wall, then pressed my palm into the centre.
Click.
A panel opened. A narrow staircase descended into a shadowed chamber, One I hadn’t used in years.
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She hesitated but I forced her down the steps. She stumbled, catching herself on the walls. The torchlight flickered across
the carved stone and rusted bars.
Her new place sat in the centre of the room. A cage, just perfect for her.
She gasped and started clawing at my hands like a madwoman. “Alex, please don’t put me there,” she screamed. “Take me to the dungeons instead but please, not a cage.”
But I didn’t care, I shoved her inside. She stumbled, still naked, catching herself against the bars then wincing back in
pain.
She must have noticed that the cage was made with silver threading.
Cold floor. No bedding. No blanket. No comfort.
I watched her hands shake. Her hair clung to her face in damp strands. Her eyes went wide.
“Primus,” she whispered.
I slammed the cage door shut. “You deserve worse,” I said coldly.
Her lip trembled. “I didn’t betray you. Kath–she didn’t know anything, please don’t let Aaron hurt her—”
I took a step forward and slammed my hand on the bars. She flinched back.
“I said. Don’t. Speak.”
She covered her chest, trembling like a leaf. She opened her mouth again, whispering something.
“Stop,” I growled and she froze.
Nothing happened. No power. No shift. No Luna magic. Her mouth dropped open slightly in horror.
“You think you’re wise. Try that again,” I said, voice low. “And I’ll cut your tongue and feed it to you.”
Her head dropped. Her breathing came in broken sobs.
She watched me, tears dripping down her cheeks.
Before she could crawl to her knees, I shut the door.
flocked the cage, then took a step back to drag my nail across my palm. I let the blood drip on the lock till it released tiny sparks of gold.
Her hands gripped the bars, knuckles white. “Please, just hit me. Torture me. But I don’t want to stay here.” she cried, her
voice barely audible.
“That would be soo easy for you Aqua Consider this your new home,” replied coldly, watching her pupils dilate as I turned away and left her there
Still screaming and crying as the lights went off
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The council chamber was quiet. Too quiet.
I sat at the head of the table, arms crossed, the Core Fang in my bag. It has been quiet lately, too quiet as if it were mourning something. Fifteen heads of the Order, cloaked in blue and white, stared back at me. None spoke first.
Not until Leonard leaned forward. “Many years ago, you said the Core Fang was protected. That it was hidden and sealed. Yet someone nearly walked out of the vault with it.”
“She didn’t succeed,” I said.
“But she tried,” Esmeralda chimed, lips too calm. “Then where is the Core Fang now?”
I met her gaze. “I have it and it stays with me.”
“That’s not protocol,” Derek said, his voice clipped. “Before you, the Core Fang was protected under the seal of four heads of Order. You unilaterally took it. That’s a breach.”
“And that breach saved it,” I snapped.
Leonard’s gaze sharpened. “Shouldn’t it be sealed again?”
30 years ago, Jayden, the First Order, stole the Luna’s staff and was caught making chants with the Core Fang for his useless ritual.” I eyed them, “all because you thought it was wise to seal it.”
The silence that followed was heavy. Until Leonard broke it again.
“We’re not here to debate your authority. You’re the Primus. But this isn’t just about a relic. It’s about the little child who
touched it.”
I knew where this was going.
Leonard said, standing. “She held it. The Core Fang lét her touch it. I felt the pulse days ago, but I brushed it off. But we felt it again. So did every beast within a mile of this castle. She’s not just your Luna anymore.”
“She’s under control,” I said through my teeth.
“And yet I saw your warriors jumping the gates, disobeying your command because they felt their Luna–bond override yours, Zedd, the third member of The Order, added. “You haven’t answered how that happened.”
1released a hot breath. “There is no threat?
Leonard leaned closer “You’re wrong. The threat isn’t just her. It’s what she awakened. What she stands for and where her loyalty les
“She is my mate,” I said cuidly. “And he’s being punished accordingly
“Punishment isn’t enough. We need to question her. Her old pack. She is definitely working with your enemies‘ Primus.”
I said nothing
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“If you know,” Leonard continued, “and you’re withholding it, then you’re shielding a pretentious traitor. A traitor who might be a worse cur-”
I snapped my eyes to him. “Choose your words carefully.”
He didn’t flinch. “Then prove us wrong. You’ve exiled Queen Gaia, killed a handful of Elders and your men. At least with Queen Gaia, we knew where she stood. She never tried something like this, despite her involvement in dark magic.”
That name.
It clawed up my spine like rot.
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“Speaking of which,” Derek added, more cautiously, “We want to formally request an audience with Queen Gaia. She tried to warn you about the Luna but she got treated like a criminal.”
I said nothing.
The room watched me.
Leonard crossed his arms. “We need stability. Before the rest of the kingdoms start thinking you’re blinded by a blind t-”
“Who is still above you all,” I cut him off and stood up. “Is that all?”
Leonard nodded slowly. “For now. But the longer she stays locked up and you don’t explain her sudden…. disappearance, the entire kingdom would grow uneasy.”
I shot each of them a look. “She’s doing exactly what she came here to do, Leonard. To give me an heir. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
With that, I turned on my heel and stormed out. One more step out of line, and this council would see what happened
when a Primus was cornered.
I won’t get rid of her yet, not till she gives me a child.
But Gaia wanted to meet me and I knew exactly why.
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