Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell
Chapter 121 Alpha King’s Regret
Lexi sighed in exasperation.
“Oh for f*uc*k sake, you did, didn’t you?! Ugh, you furballs make me sick sometimes. Come on, let’s take your lovey -dovey a*s*ses upstairs so you can help other people feel sickened by your undying adoration for one another.” She sniggered as she moved towards the staircase. “You knew, didn’t you?” Ann’s voice called out suddenly as she stopped in her tracks at the bottom of the staircase.
Lexi wanted to lie and say that she hadn’t known, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it anymore. She turned to face them both and smiled.
“I did know yes, but trust me when I say that there was no other option,” Lexi said sternly. “If we had told you it would have negated the chance for the curse to break on its own, as it is, we don’t know if it’s the fact that Narcissa had her powers s*tri*pped, or if this little dilemma that my Mimic caused triggered the realization for you both… we’ll probably never know.” she shrugged as Ann and Adam exchanged a look.
“So the whole… performance… in your father’s realm… wasn’t necessary?” Adam asked with a scowl.
“Well, as it turned out, no. But I promise you that I had no idea about your fated mate thing until we got a good look at the marks on your necks. Papa’s magic just slid right off and honestly, I’ve never seen him so frustrated. It wasn’t until Steve suggested the whole mate thing
that Papa investigated it a little further and BOOM, problem solved. Obviously, we couldn’t tell you so… you know… he simply placed a glamor on it to give it a little sheen that would make it seem a little different.” she finished finally with a shrug.
Ann sighed heavily.
“The Moon Goddess really does like to play games…” “Actually, it’s probably more the fault of the curse. They take time to weaken and break once the conditions for it doing so are met.” Lexi answered with a soft smile directed at her best friend.
“I’m just pleased it worked out this way. You two are perfect for each other.”
When the three of them finally emerged from the staircase to the cellar, they were met by the sight of Narcissa being hauled away by the Elders Elite Guards as Ada was being dragged kicking and screaming down the staircase.
Lord Brarthroroz followed slightly behind, walking next to a figure that could have been adam’s identical twin.
Lexi grinned rea*s*suringly at Adam and Ann as they both froze, stunned at the uncanny resemblance.
“But…” Adam stuttered, his complexion paling slightly. “Relax, that’s the mimic that put on such a convincing show to get Ada off your back and onto her own.” Lexi sniggered.
“Do you see why I was so convinced that it was you now?” Ann whispered into Adams’s ear as he nodded, still a little shell-shocked.
As Lord Brarthroroz caught sight of them, he nudged the fake Adam at his side and his appearance wavered slightly before morphing into a humanoid form but with no discernible features at all.
Ann shuddered involuntarily as she watched the transformation happen in a matter of seconds.
“That’s… unnatural…” she grimaced.
“That’s because they aren’t natural… they’re the product of experimentation by the dark witches Aeons ago… they were banished to the daemon realms because they’re insatiable appet*ite and questionable taste for feeding on human flesh.” Lexi grimaced, “I’m surprised…” “What… Adam! What the f*uc*k?! How could you do this to me? Did you run from my bed straight into that b*tches arms despite everything? How could you!” Ada screamed from the staircase as she struggled against the guards holding her and interrupted whatever it was that Lexi had been about to say.
Brad had been engaged in a deep conversation with King Leopold at the base of the stairs as the guards who had previously been a*s*signed to her father stood impassively beside them, and at the sound of her screeching, both Leopold and Brad turned to face her, their expressions sharing the same look of disgust.
“It looks like you were finally caught up in a scheme of your own making, Ada.” Brad sneered up at her.
“You’re wrong, Brad! Adam was just in my room! How can he… wait. How did you get over there so fast when you were right behind me?” Ada trailed off as a confused frown appeared on her face.
“I suggest you turn around and take a good look at the man you took to bed, Ada.” Leopold’s icy tone cut across the room as he glared coldly up at where Ada stood with a bemused expression on her face.
She scowled at him before she turned to look behind her
and with a look of horror on her face watched the mimic next to Lord Brarthroroz shift from its blank, genderless, and featureless figure to mimic Adam’s image again perfectly as it winked and blew her a kiss, waving at her mockingly.
Ada’s face fell as she suddenly became very pale and stared for a few seconds with her mouth open in disbelief as she stuttered incoherently. A few seconds later a wail of disgust rang through the corridors accompanied by a promise of violence as the guards dragged her away.
Lexi snorted as she watched her f*orc*ed removal and waved at the mimic next to her father.
“Frank isn’t too bad you know? He’s one of the few that seem to have an intelligence that others of his kind don’t,” she whispered to Ann and Adam quietly as she saluted him lightly.
The Alpha King Leopold had watched Ada’s deplorable exit with a mixture of sadness and fury, now knowing full well that everything he had thought he had known about Narcissa and Ada was a complete and utter lie.
His guilt surged within him as he felt the once familiar stirrings of his wolf that he hadn’t heard from in years. How could he have been so shallow and stupid to fall for everything?