Chapter 84

King Gideon’s POV

After my encounter with Soma, I decided to sit back down with Nathaniel. Yeah, he couldn’t communicate with his voice, but the mind-link was there and I knew he was going to give me an ear full about his daughter. Honestly, he was lucky I didn’t kill him, I needed his assistance when it comes to his daughter. I needed to know the spell his dead wife cast so we could break it and bring her Lycan out. We had a war coming, and it was going to be tough.

“You get out of line again Nathaniel I will show your daughter just how much I don’t care about having you around,” I growled. “Sit down and let’s finish this plan.”

“Fine,” Nathaniel said. “But you touch my daughter again, I will force my Lycan to drop the code and kill you.”

“You can try and kill me but there is nothing your Lycan will do other than cower to me like you and him have all these years.” I mused. “But I am welcoming you to challenge me, we can even do it for the crown. Without training, I could probably kill you in a second.”

“I can kill you if I want,” he said.

I laughed and continued to finish the food that was brought to us. I was a little pissed off because I need Soma to eat, she needs to be strong when we turn her. She needs to understand she can only piss me off before I lose control.

“We took my daughter to America because we knew you were going to be like this Gideon.” he snapped. “Don't worry you will never figure out how to get the curse lifted we placed upon her.”

“Oh, so it’s a curse and not some protection thing?” I asked curiously. “Oh, this is going to be a lot easier than I thought it was going to be,” I said before getting up. “I need to get ready and I expect you to ensure Roman doesn’t try and mark her while I am gone,” I said before leaving him sitting there.

I needed to go to my study and see if there were any curses in the book I’d been collecting all these years. I knew she was protected, but by a curse, I had to wonder why. Why would they make her lose her Lycan to protect her from me? Things weren’t making sense, and I wanted to know why. I needed to know more about Soma too, but she has been keeping all those walls up around her and not allowing herself to be free here.

I wanted her to feel like she could blossom here, but she doesn’t want to be here. The Council did me a favor by forcing her to come here, now I was wondering if it was a wrong move. I knew having her mated to the werewolves wasn't good for us Lycans. With all the wars we’ve had, we were losing our population at least here in London. I needed to make an heir before I was too old to have one. I could have had any of the whores doing it for me, hell I might still do it. But I needed a royal heir that way I am forced to stay King. I loved the power, and I loved the torture on my people knowing they know I wasn’t truly King. But with having Soma by my side, would force the people to accept me whether they liked it or not.

Searching through the books I was getting mad. I knew the answer was somewhere, and I knew Nathaniel wouldn't be willing to share it. I had to figure out a way to get him to tell me what they used and if I could undo it, or modify it so her Lycan comes to the surface long enough so I could talk to her and she could help me the rest of the way.

“You’re not going to find it.” Nathaniel mind-linked at me. “We didn’t use the spells in any of those books, the old witch is long dead now and you will never be able to figure it out.”

“I am going to figure this out one way or another, you just wait and see,” I said without looking at him and tossing another book aside. “I don’t know why you are making this harder than it has to be, but I will torture Soma until the spell breaks, do you want to see that happen Nathaniel?”

“You don’t have the balls to do anything that you think you’d do.” The amusement in his voice was beginning to push my buttons, but I knew he had to stay alive for now. Even if he tried to help his daughter out of the castle, Roman would ensure Nathaniel would be tortured and I did permit him to use force with Soma if needed.

“I will do what I need to do, just because you wanted to save her from me back then, doesn’t mean she is saved now that I have her here. Do you think the Council willingly gave me your daughter? They knew about her mate, and I used magic to force their hand.”

He growled at me, and I went back to reading the spell. “Don't worry though I am not going to use magic on your daughter, no I am going to make it where she forces herself on me because of her heat, and when that happens she will be pregnant and she will be forced to marry me, making me the official King and I will kill you then,” I said thumbing through the pages. “I am going to make your death slow and painful but don’t worry it will be after she is pregnant.”

“You aren't going to get your way in this, my daughter has both Lycan and Witch blood in her system, she will curse you and you will become a lost puppy,” he said before leaving the office.

Finishing with the books I felt like reading, I needed to get going. I knew the Council was going to have a field day with me as they have summoned me. Did they figure out what I did to get them to choose me over her mate? Maybe. If they are just wanting to know how she has been doing, the lies would do but I felt there was something more to it.

I wanted to see Soma one more time before I left, I wanted her to think about what she had to do when I returned. I wanted her choice to be good, but I knew since she was still stuck on Oliver it wasn't going to be the way I wanted, but right now I didn’t care. I would bring her mate here and give her a choice to choose me for real or watch her mate die and she will be mine anyway. It was sinister but I didn’t care, hell it was for our people, right?

“Where is she Roman?” I mind-linked him.

“In her room, she is throwing things around. I think she is upset.” he mused.

“I am on my way, I want to see her before I leave for the Council,” I said before cutting off the mind-link.

Throwing stuff? Wow, I never would have thought and it was started to make me mad. I didn’t want to come back to the castle and it is destroyed.

Quickly walked to her room, Roman stood there with two others. I knew he was using caution because she was being crazy, but I didn’t need their help I could handle her. Forcing the door open, I looked around the room was trashed and she was sitting in the corner crying.

“Are you done doing this?” I snapped.

Of course, she didn’t answer me, I angrily walked over to her, forcing myself down to her level. The smell of tears from her was intoxicating, I almost couldn’t control myself.

“Why did you trash your room?” I growled, again I was met with no answer. “You do realize I could force you to clean the whole castle naked allowing my men to lust after you, and you’ll not be able to do anything but deal with it?”

“I don’t care,” she said without looking at me. “I am going to be gone when you come and there is nothing you can do about it,” she said forcing herself to look at me. “Just because you think you have the upper hand I will find a way out of here.”

“I would love to see you try,” I said glancing at Roman. “You and Roman can play games while I am gone, I am sure he would love the chase. Besides you need to help me get our men in shape, so you have your fun. I am going to leave now, you better now get away otherwise a lot of people are going to be punished before I return.” I said touching her skin, I felt sparks but it could be because I was horny and wanted her naked underneath me.

“Get away from me!” she snapped throwing herself up and away from me.

“For now Princess,” I said before leaving her standing there. I had to get away from her, her scent was driving me insane.