Thorne’s P.O.V
My heart skipped a beat as soon as my eyes met hers.
Towering over the petite woman who stood before me, her brown eyes glinting with fear as her shoulders sagged. She shrank backward with each step I took, her shoulders hunched like a prey animal awaiting the killing blow.
The maids trotted out of the room with their heads lowered, leaving me with this...disappointment. A Lycan? Hardly. Where was the legendary aura of their kind? The unshakable pride that made my blood boil? This creature seemed more likely to dissolve into tears than stand her ground.
Lycans were known to have this powerful aura around them and that was the major reason I hated their guts! But as for her, she looked timid, and scared and I was about to send her back to the dungeon when the marking caught my eye - "Tierra" inked in elegant script across her wrist.
Earth.
Only royal-blooded Lycans bore such sigils.
My attention snapped back to her face as she ducked her head, fiddling with her fingers and a smile crept at the corner of my lips.
“Name.”
She raised her head, locking gazes with me as her lips wobbled. “Fr…..Fr….Fr…”The stammer died in her throat.
I leaned closer, my voice gravel and smoke. “A cat suddenly got your tongue?”
Her eyes squeezed shut and she blurted out. “Freya. Freya Hans……” She abruptly cut herself off again.
“Freya Finnegan,” She exhaled sharply this time, taking deep breaths in a way that caused my eyes to glint with amusement. All through my existence, I had never witnessed any Lycan as scared as she was. Just like a leaf in the wind.
With my hands folded behind me, I fixed her an icy stare. “Listen, as much as I despise your kind, especially those connected to the Lycan King, I have no plans of hurting you or keeping you around me for a long time.”
Despite the glint of fear in her eyes, her eyes peaked with curiosity. “And what could it be? Your majesty.” Her voice barely stirred the air between us.
“I want you to be my breeder. You will give me a child.”
I watched as she swallowed hard, fiddling with her fingers. “How would that be possible sir……”Her words trailed and she ducked her head as soon as I shot her a glare.
“Impossibility doesn’t exist in my books. I don’t care about how you were sold or who sold you but what matters to me is now so listen to me carefully.”
“My fiancée and I have been...unsuccessful. After consulting the priestess, she revealed that my fiancée would only bear a child after a powerful Lycan from the royal family gave me my first child. You have nothing to worry about though, my fiancée has approved of this.”
I plopped on the couch behind me, crossing my legs as my eyes slithered down her body. “You only need to get pregnant, give birth, and after you are done nursing the child, the baby will be collected from you and you will be compensated greatly for this.”
Freya bit the insides of her cheek, anxiousness and fear glinting in her eyes as she swallowed hard. “Sir, there is a problem. The doctor said that I……”She froze when our eyes met again.
Something about her frantic blinking intrigued me.
She shook her head negatively. “That isn’t even the problem right now, the thing is I am still…” She bit her lower lips before she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out. “Sir, if the Lycan King finds out that I had anything to do with you or anyone here, he is going to kill me!”
I cocked my head to the left, a smile creeping at the corner of my lips when the reasons for her fear dawned on me. “So you are scared of getting killed?”
She bobbed her head.
That frantic nod made my chest vibrate with a chuckle. “I am sure that you wouldn’t be that stupid to return to your kingdom plus don’t get ahead of yourself because like I said, I have no plans of keeping you here and since you were sold to me, I can do to you as I please.”
“And you should be scared of me because you are mine for now.”
She swallowed and a coy smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
“Seeing how scared you are, I can only assure you of something if you fail to get pregnant, then you will be allowed to leave!”
The hope flashing in her eyes ignited something dark within me - an urge to extinguish that fragile light.
However, what this trembling Lycan didn't understand was the truth I'd concealed. The moon goddess herself had cursed me for loving outside the mate bond. A punishment etched in cosmic law:
I would never find my true mate. I would never father a child... unless a royal-blooded Lycan bore my heir.
That is the only way the curse would be broken and my fiancée, Celeste would be able to get pregnant as soon as the curse is broken.
So, that was why I needed Freya. I needed her to break the curse.
“So what do you say?”
She raised her head, staring at me in the eyes and there was something about the way she stared at me that I couldn’t place.
"I...I don't know," she whispered.
I rose, each measured step forcing her backward until the wall halted her retreat. The scent of her fear curled around us as her fingers twisted in the fabric of her dress.
“It doesn’t matter to me. You only have to remember that you are here to be my breeder.”
Staring deep into her brown eyes, I slipped a hand over her waist drawing her close to me while she winced, a glint of nervousness in her eyes. My heart pounded in my chest with a mix of excitement and confusion.
The more I stared into her brown eyes, the more I drowned inside and without thinking twice, I wrapped both hands around her, slamming my lips on hers.
She froze for a second as she folded her hands against my chest.
Kissing her mercilessly as my tongue ravaged the insides of her mouth while tightening my grip around her hair, a groan left her lips.
I pushed her to the bed, staring at her while trying to feign an expression devoid of emotions even though something was stirring deep within me.
While I stared at the scaredy cat on the bed, my mind wandered back to Celeste and she was the one who pushed me into doing this.
She wanted me to break the curse and prompted me to take a breeder. I didn’t care about the curse. But, Celeste wanted a child and after months of pleading with me, I had to give into her demands.
I fixed my gaze back to Freya, assuring myself that it was just business and I had to shove every weird emotion that was beginning to rise inside of me.
Her eyes shone with fear as her lips wobbled. “I think that there is a mistake somewhere. I can’t give birth…..”
I crawled on top of her, shutting her up with another kiss. Panting, I slurred. “One more word and you will regret this.”
My fingers gripped her thighs, nails digging into the soft fabric as she whimpered softly against my mouth, her eyes fluttering close.
Blood rushed into my veins, my pulse quickening as a wave of arousal surged through me.
I should hate this but…
Anger seeped through my veins, my teeth sank into her bottom lip, enough to draw blood and feel the metallic tang in my mouth.
I had to remind myself that she just a breeder and I should definitely not lose control or even enjoy this.
As I broke the kiss, my fingers tugged at the fabric of her dress and ripped it off her. Her hands covered her perky breasts, but a glare from me, caused her to take her hands off as she surrendered to me in defeat.
The only way I could do this quickly was to pretend she was Celeste.
But God knows I could never—not to Celeste, not like this.
A groan slipped from my mouth, my hand grabbed her hips until she was beneath me, eyes sparkling and melting my heart for a second.
No, I couldn’t allow her to get into my head.
My cock strained against the zipper, yanking it out and nudging at her entrance. Her eyes made a trail down my face, dropping to my abs and the moment it settled on my cock, her eyes widened in shock.
In one push, I slid into her and a gasp escaped her, fingers wrapping around my arms as her eyes pierced into mine.
She wasn't supposed to hold my gaze this way and my body shouldn't be leaning towards her in this manner.
Fuck this!
I pounded into her, her moans filling my ears, her fingers digging into my back as I groaned against her mouth.
Plunging hard and fast, her eyes shone with tears and I swallowed her moan with my kiss.
It didn’t take long for me to reach my climax as my eyes squeezed together and this time, I increased the pace at which I rammed into her until pleasure rocked through me.
Spilling my seeds inside of her, I rolled off her body while grabbing my clothes, forcing myself to turn away but my eyes lingered on her trembling body.
A growl rumbled from my throat before I mustered the courage to look away. “We will meet again when the test results are out. Don’t think about running away from me because if you do, I will hunt you down myself.”