The Lycan Kingpin's Captive: A Baby For The Beast

“What did I say about Mia meeting Ariadne?” I ask with my hands braced on my desk, fury bubbling in my chest but I try to remain calm.

I just spotted Mia in the garden with my grandmother, and they looked like they were having a grand old fucking time.

“I’m sorry, Alpha, but Kyría Ariadne insisted and I can’t exactly…go against her word, either. I did say that you would not be happy about this, but she said it would be fine,” Josef, the incompetent bodyguard says.

I cross my arms and pinch the bridge of my nose between my thumb and forefinger. “Fucking Ari…” I trail off before opening my eyes. “How long has this been going on?”

Josef pales. “For about a week-”

“A fucking week!” I finally explode, growling. “Gods, Josef, why did you not report this to me?!”

He cringes and bows his head. “Kyría Ariadne assured me it was okay, Alpha,” he whimpers.

That goddamn woman! She knows not to meddle in my business and yet she decides to do this! If she finds out who or what Mia really is if she just has to touch her…FUCK!

I splay my hands on my desk and breathe out a long sigh to control my temper. I’ll have to speak with my grandmother and find out just what she wants with Mia, then I’ll take it from there.

“It’s fine, you may leave,” I say, dismissing Josef without even looking at him. If Ariadne had anything to do with this, which I know she does, then I can’t blame him.

He has a soft heart, it’s the reason his father sent him here to toughen him up a bit. But that soft heart will need to go if he wants to survive this pack, especially under an Alpha like me.

“Yes, Alpha,” he says before leaving my office.

I sit back in my office chair, tilt my head upward and sigh again. This is a colossal fuck up; if my grandmother knows I have a surrogate and she’s made friends with her, then it will be harder to let Mia go.

I’m already struggling to keep her out of my fucking mind, and now this. She’s gotten as close to me as possible, so I need to push back in order to make myself look like an even bigger fucking monster.

“Are you going to sulk there all day, or shout at me too?”

I chuckle while still looking up at the ceiling. “You really know how to worm your way in, YaYa,” I say with an unwanted smile on my face.

The door closes and I hear her shuffle inside, then I finally turn my head when she sits down opposite me. She’s wearing a small smile; a smile that lets me know she’s privy to something I am not.

It’s the same smile she wore when she touched me and saw what happened to me - full of sympathy and concern.

“Did you touch her?”

of either foresight or hindsight. Whenever she touches someone, she can see a few glimpses into their past

sighs. “That girl…she’s lived a life full of pain and

on my desk and steeple my fingers together under my chin. “What I have planned for her is none of your concern, YaYa. She’s signed a contract with me in exchange for her freedom and from what I can tell, she’s quite happy with

eyebrow and scoffs. “Is

truthfully. “The Elders wanted an heir

was,” she says, impaling me with her words. I know

She knew what she signed up for when my father arranged that marriage to the Alpha in the East-”

you dare!” she exclaims,

I say with no

than my father. She was always spoiled and got everything she wanted, so a marriage to

beautiful and used her beauty to get her way in life; until that Eastern Alpha caught her fucking the pool boy. He strung her up as a warning and killed both her and her unborn child. The unborn child was a bastard and belonged to the chef.

weren’t like him, but you’re

have to be. There’s no room for empathy as an Alpha; my pack and men expect me to be this person

of a leader. I can’t afford to be sympathetic to a plight where I can so clearly see who is in the wrong. Masha didn’t

only selfish thing I

about Mia and what she saw - it should make me feel pity, but it doesn’t. Does that make me heartless? I suppose it

and have lived this long as a ‘fuck you’ to those who tried to stunt my growth. Running on anger and spite is what has kept me going, that

office door opens again and I let out a growl. “Does

hell, Niko, I can go out if you want to,” Maxim says with

hands and sigh. “It’s fine, come on

his hands in his pockets. “I’ve done what you asked of

or rather, the only one brave enough to. As much as I trust Bastien, I trust Maxim -

chips fall where they may and take it from there,” I say with a

stone. This city will be fully under SilverCrest control if all goes well and to do this I had to make a small sacrifice.

fireplace. “You’re a heartless fucking bastard, you know that? And here they all think I’m the bad

the bad one, Maxim; aren’t you the one who so desperately wants the title of Alpha?” I say in

he says, then finally walks over

arms over my chest. “Ariadne knows about Mia, by the

actually looks quite surprised at this. “Gods, how did she find out? Isn’t

allowed her to wander the grounds. But I gave Josef strict rules to not let her go into the back

cringes, pulling a face. “You know how YaYa gets, especially

fucking

“I’m about to tell her she’s not to talk with Ariadne again, so if you’ll excuse me.” Maxim laughs