“You thought you could be so smart huh?” Kai asked, watching the look on Karen’s face morph into pure horror.
“I…” Karen said, her eyes darting around in uncertainty. Then she sighed and stilled, her expression becoming plain. “I don’t have to fulfill your sadistic needs for revenge anymore. This ain’t your pack, not by a long shot. And I’m not your slave anymore.”
“You’re not?” He asked bemusedly. “You have been my slave before you escaped, and you continued to be even after you had your taste of freedom. Did you think you could run from me? Did you think I wouldn’t eventually find you?!”
Karen rolled her eyes. “I don’t care. I’m not your property, and I don’t have to do anything for you to satisfy whatever needs you have!”
He laughed darkly. “Oh but you are. For the next six months, you’re stuck her. Isn’t it?”
Karen sealed her lips and glared at him. She couldn’t believe she had put up with this for that long.
“That aside for now.” Kai said with a dismissive wave. “Where is my baby?”
Karen felt her heart skip a beat. She guessed the healer must have eventually told him about her pregnancy.
“I don’t have a baby.” She replies calmly, her chin raised and her arms folded.
“Don’t you dare lie to me.” Kai spat. “Where is the baby?! I know you were pregnant.”
“Maybe.” She said. “But I don’t have a baby. Do I look like someone that has a baby?”
From what Karen had seen, Kai was rich and very powerful. Not just in their world but in the human world as well. She thought about David, his sweet innocent face. David asking about his father.
Karen didn’t want Kai to know about David. He would take him away from her, he was rich and powerful. He would buy the court over. And she couldn’t risk it. If anything happened to David, even if it was his father taking him away, Karen felt like she would lose her mind. He was the reason she woke up and went about life each day.
And above all Kai was an alpha. David being his first son automatically meant that he would be the next alpha. Kai would want to train the boy in the way of alpha’s, and Karen wanted him to have a normal life.
She thoughts about all these and more in mete seconds.
“It seems you’ve forgotten who you’re talking to.” Kai said. before she knew it he grabbed her neck and slammed her against the wall. She gasped, the pain shooting through her body hard and fast.
“Let… me.. go!” She gasped, hitting and clawing at his hand in her neck. It wasn’t too tight, just tight enough to feel uncomfortable.
“I’ll ask you one last time,” He said sternly, his grip on her neck tightening. “Where is my baby?”
Panic clouded Karen’s mind. She struggled against him, the memories hitting her hard. His eyes stared into hers, dark and flashing red. That alone was an indicator that he was getting really angry. His aura was choking, compelling her to obedience.
But Karen fought against it.
“It’s not your baby!” She cried out. He instantly dropped her. She caught herself, coughing and gasping for breath as she held onto the wall for support. She raised her head and glared at him.
“In case you didn’t hear me the first time,” She said. “It’s not your baby. I had sex with another person. The baby isn’t yours. You can’t do anything about it.”
“How dare you?!” His voice thundered through the office. “You were mine,! My property! And you let another man touch you?!”
Karen laughed bitterly. “Coming from you who rejected me and proceeded to keep your Fiance the entire time, yeah. That’s rich.”
His eyes turned red. Karen felt a spark of fear but she stood her ground. She wasn’t going to let him intimidate her anymore. She was done with that. It was in the past with the ridiculous maid outfit he had her wear.
“You will pay for that.” Kai hissed. “Who was he?!”
Karen shrugged. “Didn’t remember his name, didn’t ask.” She laughed bitterly. “So like I said earlier, you can go fuck yourself now. Alpha Kai.”
She was walking on a thin rope. She knew it would be nothing for him to flip their positions and show her just who was the boss in charge. She knew she was over stepping but she had it in her for a long time and ached to say it out.
The look of anger and disappointment on his face hurt her heart a bit. He was her mate afterall, and him hearing her admit to sleeping with someone else must have hurt him directly.
It hurt her too, but it was necessary.
“I can’t believe you,” Kai whispered. “You held it for so long? What exactly did you stand to gain?! Did he fuck you better than I did?!”
Karen grimaced. “You’re not serious right now.” She said, refusing to entertain the memories of how he has handled her body, the pain and the pleasure that he showed her. “It was nothing personal.” She said.
“Nothing personal?! You fucking someone else was nothing personal?!”
“You were fucking Verena too! Don’t yell at me!”
“Is this a competition?!”
Karen laughed out loud. “For heaven’s sake I wish I had fifty million bucks right now! I would gladly pay that fee so I can be rid of you and this place forever!”
He looked shocked. Then it was gone. He raised his chin, his aura becoming like a calm wave. His eyes reverted to blue and he regarded her like she was a pest.
“Your duties resume officially tomorrow.” Kai said. “You can go.”
Karen sighed in relief. “Thank you!” She said sarcastically and turned to leave finally glad to be out of that place.
She grabbed the doorknob the same time someone outside grabbed it and opened it. She wasn’t surprised to see Nicolas.
“Oh hello there.” He said cheerfully.
“Shove it.” Karen hissed at him and walked past. She also ignored the secretary on her way out.
She had had enough with Kai. Oh how she wished she could quit and be done with him forever.
*****
Nicolas walked into Kai’s office and isntantly noticed the mood. “I see you two had a lovers quarrel?”
Kai glared at him. “Don’t even start. That woman is unbelievable!”
“What happened.”
“She didn’t have a child for me”
Nicolas stilled. “I’m sorry what?!”
“Do I need to repeat myself?”
“No. No. It’s just…. she was…. she had a child for someone that wasn’t you. Could it be that the stories were true?”
Kai thought about it and shook his head. “I doubt it.” He said. “According to the healer she was pregnant before she got set up. It could have been secretly or something. How could she?!”
Nicolas thought about it. He found it odd and strange to believe. Karen had told him that she loved Kai, that was why she refused to break the mating bond. It seemed weird that she slept with someone else.
He looked at Kai pacing the floors and felt compassion towards him.
When Kai had heard that Karen had been pregnant, he resumed the search for her. He felt a ray of hope, knowing that his heir was somewhere out there. He Never found Karen.
And Nicolas knew it broke a part of him.
And now hearing that the child wasn’t even his, that was just too cruel.
“I’m sorry” Nicolas said at last.
“Don’t be.” Kai said coldly. “She has just proved to me that she is indeed Zeke’s Winterblood’s daughter. And for that she will pay very dearly.”
Nicolas sighed and said a silent prayer for Karen. She was going to get it hot very soon. Especially since Kai had decided to stay in the human world for the time being.
Nicolas wondered if it was because of Karen.