Chapter 11


    The Alpha King’s im chapter 11 by desirenovel


    Aero


    I didn’t wait for tomorrow. I had to know now, so I called for an emergency meeting with all of my


    council including the high priest that presided my wedding and the royal augur of my father, Sedsah. As


    one of the best augur in the realms, I needed to seek his thoughts regarding the magical event that


    happened earlier. I was that desperate.


    As I sat on my seat impatiently, I stared at them when they entered the conference room. I could see


    the look of confusion in their eyes and saw the unexpressed question swirling in their heads. Why


    would I want to be with them when I was just married? I should have been on top of my new wife right


    now pounding her ass off.


    I grumbled in my thoughts. Huh. They should know better.


    Elijah who had been standing next to me remarked inside my head, ‘Look at that. They are quite pissed


    off with your sudden call for a meeting. They were having a good time at your wedding reception you


    know.’


    ‘Fuck off, Elijah,’ I sent him a re.


    “You called Your Highness?” my beta, William, asked once they all settled on their chairs. The oval


    table in front of us wasrge. On normal days, it would have been filled with spread papers and maps.


    Now it was devoid of them probably because the servants thought I’d turn this day into a holiday.


    Not a chance.


    “I‘m sure you all saw what happened to me and my…bride earlier right?” I asked, keeping eye contact


    with each and every one of them.


    William lowered his head and visibly cleared his throat while the high priest shed a toothy grin. The


    others, well, they broke into a proud smile, probably seeing the event a good sign.


    “It was a wonderful sight to behold, my liege,” Hindall, the high priest,mented. He leaned closer


    against the desk and looked at me with bright eyes.


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    I took this as an opportunity to go straight to the point.


    “Do you know what’s the meaning of this mark on our wrists?” Holding my right arm up, the crescent


    moon mark protruded on the surface of my skin just slightly. They all looked at the mark and gasped. It


    must have been amazing for them to see such a thing made by the Divine.


    “I…unfortunately have no idea, Your Highness,” Hindall lowered his head, looking partly ashamed. “All I


    know is that your union with Queen Serena is blessed by the Goddess.”


    I clenched my hands in frustration.


    “Fuck the Goddess! What I want is an exnation!” I stood up and hit the desk with a heavy hand. “Any


    one of you here could give me that?”


    I watched them one by one again, but they remained silent and looked at each other like clueless pups.


    “Sedsah?” I stated, pointing out the only man I expected could help me. He had a blue-violet printed


    turban on his head as a headdress and sported a long brown-grayish goatee, something that suited his


    age and position.


    He lifted his chin up and looked at the mark on my wrist.


    “Let me touch the mark, Your Highness,” he offered. “I might see the message of the Goddess through


    it.”


    I scowled at the use of his words. Why must they all connect it to the Goddess? What has got to do


    with a nature spirit on my situation right now?


    Noticing the look of curiosity on the council’s face, I grumbled from deep within my throat and said, “Go


    ahead when all of my council leaves.”


    William and my omega, Chris, as observant as ever, took it as their cue to leave.


    They stood up and left, and soon after, all of my council did the same.


    Elijah ced a hand on my shoulder and audibly cleared his throat.


    “You want me to leave too?” he asked, grinning at me. I shook my head and clenched my jaw.


    “Stay. You’re the one who brought me into this mess,” I stated, looking up at him with a re.


    “Hmm, fine, I’m curious anyway.” Elijah shrugged his shoulder acting like he didn’t care but I knew he


    wanted to know too.


    Sedsah stood up from his seat, rounded the table, and approached me on the right side.


    “Your hand, Your Highness,” he ced his palm up in between us.


    I didn’t approve of him holding any part of my body but I had toply if I needed answers stat.


    Sedsah wrapped his palm around my wrist and raised his head up high. A few secondster, he started


    speaking, but it was too vague to even understand it.


    “I see a boy… I see loneliness… Eshtha? What does that mean?”


    My mind suddenly jumped at the mention of the foreign word. Well, foreign for them, yes, but for me…


    it wasn’t, I invented the damn word while I was still a kid for crying out loud! It was one of those


    memories I’d like to bury deep inside the grounds of my castle.


    “Leave,” I stated, pulling my hand away.


    “Your Highness?” Sedsah was taken aback by the instruction.


    “I said leave!” I shouted. “You’re services are no longer required!”


    Understanding mybile mood, he just bowed down and said, “Your will, my King.” I watched as his


    back retreated to the door.


    “Judging from your reaction, I think you know what that mark means right?” Elijah remarked once we


    were alone. He imed the seat next to him and faced me with his sickening grin.


    “No, I don’t,” I answered with a huff, “but I most certainly remembered an unsavory memory in my


    past.”


    “What does eshtha mean, brother?” he went on with not a hint of expression on his face. “I know you’re


    hiding something from me.” He crossed his arms and examined me like a sly wolf that he was and


    widened his grin.


    My temper couldn’t hold on much longer.


    “Get out, Elijah. Let me be at peace!”


    “Okay, good,” he raised his hands up in defeat and stood up from his seat. “I won’t tease you anymore,


    but a word of advice? Go to your chamber now and spend some time with your new wife.”


    I frowned. “I’ll cut off your tongue if you don’t shut up, Elijah.”


    “Sure, sure,” he answered nomittally, “but we could still mind-link you know.”


    “Just get out…” I rubbed my forehead.


    He probably saw the tiredness on my face, so he decided to fully surrender.


    “Okay, brother. Just remember that I’m here if you want someone to talk to.”


    “Yes, Elijah,” I muttered under my breath without even looking at him.


    Eshtha…


    My made-up word kept on lingering inside my head. It was teasing me, taunting me, and haunting me


    more than my younger brother did.


    If he knew what the word meant, he’d probablyugh at my kid self. He’d probably say I was beyond


    myself, aiming high for a rtionship that didn’t exist.


    “Eshtha…”


    I tested the word on my mouth in real-time and it gave me a shudder.


    “Mate…” my lycan side tranted and with that, thoughts of the woman filled me like a flood.