22. Ash Wood and Wolfsbane

**Narrator’s POV.**

Desiree had successfully fooled her father and brother for days, masking up her new scent which Harrison had rubbed on her during their mating session. Her father had noticed something different in her; maybe it was her aura? Or, maybe it was the new glow she held? Or maybe it was the fact that she had been getting sick every morning after her heat had passed and her mate had been sent back to the dungeon where he belonged.

The alpha king stood in front of his daughter’s chambers in concern, he hated the fact that she was sick and had gotten some kind of deep dislike for him all of a sudden. She was his princess, his little pup, they had never gotten into an actual fight before, especially not one they would hold a grudge for. It was that human- he came along and everything changed. His daughter had never been one to be obedient but at least, she listened to him sometimes, now, the only person’s voice that mattered was her mate’s and it made him sick.

He pushed the door open and let himself in without knocking, “Desiree?”, the girl in question had just stepped out of the toilet after emptying the contents of the night before into the toilet,

“What the hell dad? What if I was not wearing any clothes?”, she pulled her loose robe tighter around her body, suddenly feeling self-conscious,

“You are my daughter, I changed your diapers”, he pointed out,

“Yes, when I was a baby. I am a mated woman now and only my mate has the right to see my body”, a smirk skimmed over her lips as she reminded herself of how he had seen and used her body during her heat; how they had done it thrice on the bed, once in the shower, twice on her favorite bedroom sofa and once in her closet. He had ravished her body every single time and had brought her nothing but pleasure and satisfaction; each time coming apart inside her or inside her mouth after she sucked him off.

“Would you please hold your thoughts to yourself Desiree?”, he growled, “What has become of you? I mean, you were never the most gracious child but I still loved you more and cared for you”,

“And I am grateful for that dad but I have a mate to do all that for me now, why don’t you understand?”,

“Your filthy human mate can never do half of what I can do for you”, his teeth grinded together painfully,

“And that’s what you do not get”, she said hysterically, “I do not need all those things, all I need is the love of my mate and I am fine, happy and fulfilled”, -and his large, satisfying cock.

“Goddess! Desiree, what is wrong with…”, he never finished his sentence as she bolted across the room and went straight into the bathroom. He followed her and to his surprise, she had knelt down in front of the toilet seat, face down and once again, spilling all the contents of her stomach into it.

“Shit”, she cursed as another wave of nausea hit her again causing her to gag painfully at the lack of contents to spew. Once she was finally done, she closed the toiled and flushed it in disgust before going over to her bathroom counter and washing up.

“You should see a doctor, I heard that you had fallen sick. I just assumed it was not this serious”, he suggested, worry was evident in his purple eyes as even though they were definitely not in good terms, he still had to care for his only female pup,

“I am fine, I do not need a doctor”,

“You cannot lie to me Desiree, you cannot tell me that you caught a flu- we are werewolves, we do not get sick or even vomit anything other than blood unless…”, his eyes hardened harshly at his suspicious and without any warning, he grabbed her hand tightly and dragged her out of her chambers hastily, startling the guards in the process.

“Let me go”, she tried to pull her hands out of his but his grip was just too menacing- he knew she would fight him and try to escape. She also knew what he was suspecting, she had also had her suspicion as well but decided not to think about it too much knowing for a fact that it was very possible- after all, she had let her mate’s seed spill inside her multiple times over on purpose.

He pushed her into the infirmary and called upon the doctor who rushed in immediately, bowing to both the alpha king who looked beyond furious and the luna princess who looked extremely distraught. “Do a test. I do not care which; blood, fucking piss, just do it”, he told the man who was on the verge of pissing his pants.

He went towards the princess who growled at him ferally, “You fucking touch me and you die”, she threatened the man and extracted her sharp claws to show him that she was in no way joking or bluffing about ending him,

“Get me the fucking needle”, the alpha king ordered and the man passed him one of the needles on his table, “Show me where to inject”, the man pointed a shaky hand to a part of her body and without warning, he punctured the needle and drew in her blood, taking a little more than usual. “I need the result, now”, he demanded and threw the plastic tube at him.

The man nodded and hurried to the lab to run the test, the alpha king sat Desiree down on one the chairs and waited expectantly, praying to the goddess for the results to come back negative so he could have a resting mind.

“I hate you”, Desiree whispered but her father caught unto her words loud and clear,

“What?”, his expression was pained, she had never uttered such a word to him ever- it was truly heartbreaking,

“I fucking hate you and I wished I never knew you”, her harsh words pained him but he chose to ignore it for the time being. Any conversation with her could determine what will happen if the test results came back positive and he did not want that to be the judge- he was counting on his primitive side for this one.

The doctor came back into the room thirty minutes later with a file in his hand and a worried expression on his face. Both father or daughter already knew what the results were and were both ready to make a mad dash out of the door and straight to the dungeon when it was finally announced.

“What is it?”, the alpha king growled at him. The doctor looked scared and unable to speak so he snatched the file out his hands and pulled it open. His eyes scanned through the paper until they landed what he was actually interested in knowing, ***‘POSITIVE’***.

He released his daughter’s hand and in a flash of lighting, he was out of the infirmary, Desiree trailing behind him closely, he had the advantage of a two second head start as Desiree still sat to process the fact that she was going to be a mother.

The dungeon doors were pulled open with so much that they were ripped off their hinges and so was the door to Harrison’s cell. Before Harrison could even fathom what was going on, he was pinned against the wall roughly by his neck, “Fuck, what the hell was that for?”, he groaned in pain,

The alpha king growled directly into his face, “First, your imposter of a father tries to kill my mate and second, you go ahead and mate my daughter against my order and even have the audacity to get her pregnant”, the king’s hand tightened around his neck, causing Desiree to growl loudly,

“Release him at once”, she moved to where her father was but Alec stepped in front of her, “Move”, she ordered, her eyes taking a violent shade of purple, indicating that her wolf was vastly taking over. Alec bowed his head and stepped aside, whimpering in pain and agony.

Harrison’s eyes widened and he chocked out, “I did not know that my father did that”,

“But you do not deny the rest”, somehow, the alpha king hoped it was not Desiree’s filthy human mate that got her pregnant, at this point, anything would have been better- even a common castle guard,

“There is no way I could simply deny that”, his eyes flickered to Desiree’s, holding so much love and adoration for her- she was carrying his child, he was going to be a father.

Desiree’s arm struggled to reach her father’s shoulder but she was able to eventually place her hand on the upper region of his back, “Release him at once”, she repeated.

“No”, he growled, “I will kill him for what he has done”, the alpha kings claws began to elongate, pressing against the flesh of Harrison’s neck,

“If you kill my mate, I will kill your mate and hold on to my final death day just to watch your final breath leave you and to watch you suffer the pain of losing a mate as well”, the finality that came with Desiree’s voice was an indication that she was not in any way bluffing and she meant exactly what she said, it scared everyone in the room and even the alpha king could swear that a few hairs on his neck stood after her speech.

“Is that a threat?”,

“No, it is a promise. You and I both know what I am capable of father, you and I both know that if we fight right now, the winner is undetermined”, the tone in her voice worried him and he felt the hand placed on Harrison’s neck loosen slightly, “There is no amount of protection you can place on her, I will kill all your guards easily so do not test me father, release him at once”, the alpha king let out an angry growl before throwing his daughter’s mate to the other side of the room furiously- he did not do well with threats, or ‘promises’ as his daughter had called it.

Desiree had rushed over to him and had caught him before he could hit a wall, “Look at you. You are a disgrace to the werewolf kingdom, you would kill your mother and your luna queen all for the sake of a human”, the alpha king spat,

“Say whatever you want about me”, the look in Desiree’s eyes where cold as ice, “And yes, I would do it a hundred times over”.