Ragnar
The little stunt Sophia pulled was a beautiful final farewell to wolves. The royal family is under scrutiny. I swear she did on purpose to please my father and get him off Zaraphine’s back. I’ve been watching her fight her natural instincts for sc long that now that she’s giving into them, I can’t help but think that we might have created a tiny monster.
“I don’t think I’ve ever had the pleasure of your smile, My King,” Zara sits beside me, watching my mate help my brother with the Artume Lycan reformation.
“I’m thinking about naming the city Aesirberg. With Ivar in charge, there’s no doubt some of the warriors are going with him.”
“And it’s an ode to his mother,” she adds. “He’ll love that and so will your father. And we both know that’s not what you we talking about.”
“I want to apologize for his behavior, Zara. He’s kind of an asshole when he wants to be,” I change the subject. I’ll wait for to bombard Sophie with this.
“I know he is. You have nothing to apologize for, son,” she cups my face. “It was meant to happen, and I regret how far I le go. Promise you won’t keep me close once we get back from Ireland.”
“I’ll try my best,” I promise.
She gives my shoulder a squeeze and makes her way over to my brother. Sophia takes that moment to come over. She jumps on my lap and lets out a low, frustrated groan as she leans in close. The way she reaches for me is making me feel guilty about all the times she reached for me and stopped herself. It’s in an Omega’s nature to be all over their mate when they please, and I denied that to her for a long time.
“I hate it here,” she whispers after a while.
“We can go home. The cool thing about being the King is that I make other people do those things I don’t want to do,” I remind her.
“That’s lazy,” she mumbles against my shoulder, raising goosebumps.
“Not if we’re doing something equally productive,” I counter.
“Like what?” she straightens up to look at me.
“Making an heir is much more important than watching Ivar do whatever he’s doing now,” I shrug. She stares at me for a moment and then laughs.
“I knew you were going to say something stupid,” she smirks.
Sophia is still covered in that asshole’s blood. I heard her tell Kennedy that she didn’t feel better after killing him and the woman. I happen to know that’s a complete lie. The weight she was carrying is lighter, and the way her soul sang when she put her fist through his muzzle makes me want to do things for her, to her, with her. Whatever she wants. It was glorious, personal, and liberating. Not just for her, but for me as well. I’ll never forget the satisfaction I felt in that moment.
“You guys don’t need to stick around,” Ivar says, coming over to us with Zara behind him. She’s holding an old census booklet in one hand and eating some kind of pastry with the other, “Kaylee and her father are on their way
“We can stay for the night, Ivar. We can reopen my parents‘ house until you get settled. All of the furniture is still there. Sophia tells him.
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“That would be great, actually,” he nods.
“See, there is something more important we can do without getting in Ivar’s way. Sophia shoots me a glare. Her grandmother and my brother both catch and laugh.
“Fine, we’ll stay,” I roll my eyes.
Before I can say another word, she’s already on her feet and giving orders for some of the other females to help her with th new task.
“She’s trying her best not to think about what she’s done,” Zara whispers. The sadness in her eyes as she looks after my mate is misplaced.
I can feel the anxiety in Sophia, but it has nothing to do with what she’s done and more to do with what the wolf had said to her. He told her she betrayed him the moment she turned around and attacked the people they had sworn to protect together.
To my understanding, they didn’t swear on anything. It’s clear that the Romanos weren’t the only ones who thought she wal unworthy of being the Luna of the City. Omegas are like a plague to these things. Sophie is hardly the first omega to be put on the spot the way she was. She’s simply the one who was connected to something more powerful outside of what she had settled for when she found her fated mate.
She wants to fix that. I knew she had issues with it when we raided the warehouses. That much was obvious. There was nothing we could do about that until now, and I know she’s not going to let Ivar do this on his own. Especially when the woman who rejected him is involved.
As soon as she has a team to open up the Helvig estate, we all begin to get everything together. I claim victory too soon whe we finish loading up. Before I can shut the truck’s bed, someone runs past me.
I react on instinct when I see a dumb ass woman run up to Sophia and punch her in the face while she’s distracted with some paperwork. I shove the woman out of the way and help Sophia steady herself.
“Get off me,” Sophia growls. She spins around, and without hesitation, she goes for the woman.
“You sold us out,” the woman shouts.
Sophia shoves her back to get some room between the two, just as the woman comes back, Sophia spins around, and roundhouse kicks her in the mouth. She doesn’t hesitate to put her on her belly to subdue her.
“If you ever put your fucking hands on me again, I won’t care that you’re my best friend’s mate, bitch,” Sophia growls.
“You fucking traitor!” Kaylee growls.
“I’m a traitor?” Sophia shoves her face into the cement hard enough to make her cry out. “You knew. You knew what was happening all along, and you said nothing. I owed none of you my loyalty. Not a single fucking wolf here deserved it, and that includes you” Sophie releases her and steps back wating for her to get back on her feet. “Get up, bitch. You want to blindside me like that, get up!”
“Sophia,” Ivar steps between them.
“She attacked me!” Sophia huffs.
“Remember, we’re the enemy,” he quotes her,
I press my lips together and watch as she takes a step back. Her raging expression softens, and she looks down at Kaylee, who is bleeding from her mouth from how hard Sophie had shoved her face into the ground.
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‘She attacked me unprovoked. I am your Queen now, fvar, what are you going to do about it? the demands
Without skipping a beat, Ivar looks up and waves Kennedy over. Kennedy umiles as the lifu Kaylee up to handcuff her.
“Wait, wait,” an older man runs over to her to try and stop Kennedy, “She’s my daughter. You can’t just take her?
“She assaulted our Queen, Kennedy looks him over. “She’s lucky the’s breathing”
Sophie, the man turns to her
“Alpha Derek, Sophia greets him. He stands there staring at my mate and then looks away, defeated
“What are you going to do with her?” he asks.
“Given she is the new Alpha of the City with the Romanos all dead,” the shrugs. He visibly tenses up. Trl be up to you. Are you capable of handling your daughter properly?
“Yes,” he nods,
“Good, but it’s not my place to release her. This is Ivar Axel. The second Crown Prince of the Lycan race. She belongs to him and he gets the final say?
“Isn’t this what you ran away from?” Kaylee growls. “Submitting to someone you don’t want.”
Sophia’s hand shoots out faster than anyone could see. Kaylee spins around just before she hits the ground. No one moves to
catch her.
“Don’t you ever compare Ivar to that piece of shit, Kaylee. You will be respectful towards the prince whether you like it or not. This isn’t the same situation, and I wasn’t sold to the Romanos. I chose to be at their side until I didn’t want to be. You belong to us. Your King handed you over. Things will go a lot easier for you if you accept that now.”
“Gavin is rolling over in his grave,” she shoots back. “He would be ashamed of everything you’ve done.”
“That’s how you want to play this?” she crouches down in front of her. “It looks like we have something in common, Kaylee. My brother. The two of you share the same father. If he stood with you after everything that’s happened, I’d be embarrassed to be associated with either of you.
“But I knew Gavin better than you ever did, and I know he’d be ashamed of how far you’ve fallen. You’ve made another mistake, Kay. It looks like I’m going to have to get you out of this one, too. I’ll leave you to discuss how you want to proceed with your father, Alpha Kaylee, And yeah, Ivar is going to be there to make sure you don’t do anything stupid again.”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
