The Lycan King's Secret Baby (Freya and Jaxon)

Chapter 7

We arrived at the palace by nighttime and I was shocked to see what a visceral effect seeing the palace had on me. I wanted to do nothing but run in the other direction but Jaxon kept a close eye on me. He probably knew how much I wanted to run and he knew I had every right to do so.

Jaxon led me to the same room I used earlier and I wanted nothing more than to scream when I saw it. He tried to get another room for Kiara and my first instinct was to refuse but when Kiara saw the massive room that he had prepared for her she wanted to stay there and I couldn’t refuse her. She seemed so excited and it broke my heart to stay away from her but I didn’t want to make her sad.

Jaxon tried to talk to me before I went to bed and I slammed the door in his face. I was worried he would make me pay for it later but I also couldn’t bring myself to care because he deserved that and every other thing I was going to throw his way seeing as he said all those rude things about me all those years ago and I was yet to forget the things he did.

I knew he stood outside my door for a few minutes. Even though I was in bed, I could feel him and I refused to move or even breathe until I felt him leave. After he did that, I realized I couldn’t fall asleep and that was how I

I

stayed up all night until the sun rose.

As soon as I saw that it was morning, I went to get freshened up and I had just finished getting dressed when I got a knock on my door and my first thought was that it was Jaxon but the person knocked too softly to be him.

I pulled the door open and was shocked to see two maids walk into my room. They were both young, maybe a year or two younger than me and one had brown hair while the other had strawberry blond hair. They bowed to. me and busied themselves around my room while I stared in confusion.

“I’m sorry but what are you doing here?” I asked unable to keep the confusion and slight defensive note from creeping into my tone and they both froze.

“My apologies,” the one with brown hair said. “His majesty sent us to take care of the room while you go for

breakfast.”

“I don’t need anyone to take care of the room and I’m not going for breakfast.”

This time I saw them both stiffen and they glanced between each other as if they were unsure of what to say. They had probably never heard anyone refuse a direct order from Jaxon before but I didn’t care because I was too concerned on giving Jaxon a piece of my mind.

I left them in there and stormed out of the room.

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The last time I was here, I didn’t have a chance to explore so the grounds due to being Jaxon’s imprisoned mate and it was still a bit confusing. It took a while but I finally got to the dining room

and I took a double take when I noticed Jaxon and Kiara sitting at the table. She was seated next to him and he was helping her slice through some pancakes.

Kiara lifted her eyes and saw me and a smile pulled at the corner of her l*ps. “Mummy look, he cut my food just like y

you do.”

I walked over to them and sure enough Jaxon had cut her pancakes into small bite sized pieces like I usually do for her. For some reason, it caused a pang of jealousy and something bitter to burn in my chest. He didn’t get to just swoop in and be the perfect dad when I spent months trying to find a way to get her to eat.

“You could have just waited for me.” I said as I walked over and placed a kiss on her hair. “I would have done it for you.”

“I’m her father, it was no problem.” Hearing Jaxon utter those words had my spine straightening and I turned to him.

“Jaxon, can I have a word please?”

He seemed confused but he nodded and followed me out of the dining and towards the door. Once I noticed that we were a few feet away from Kiara and she wouldn’t overhear us, I turned to him with daggers and poison in my eyes.

“You had no right to do that,” I seethed and he genuinely looked taken aback. “I could have and would have done it for her.”

“I’m her father.”

“You haven’t been for the past three years of her life.”

“That wasn’t my fault, you were the one who ran away.”

“If you didn’t-” I stopped myself mid sentence and let out a sigh. I could see that he wanted to hear what I wanted to say but I took a deep breath and spoke much calmer, “I don’t need you disrupting what she already knows, I don’t need maids in my room every morning and I don’t need to be here. You have millions of whores who can bear you a child, let me take mine.”

“I don’t haveeny whores.”

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It took a second for his words to settle and when they did, I turned to him with a raised brow. He didn’t have to

lie to me, I already knew. It infuriated me to know that he was trying to lie to me and I wanted to scream.

“If you

want this to work,” I seethed in a low tone. “The last you should be doing is lying to me. I don’t care about your other women, what I care about is my daughter and how she will inevitably get hurt in this situation.”

you!

“I’m not going to hurt her, and I’m not going to hurt you.

“Just leave us alone.”

I didn’t wait for him to respond before I brushed past him and went to sit next to Kiara. She had finished the pieces he had cut for her and I took up my duty and started doing the others. When Jaxon walked back up to us, I refused to meet his eyes but Kiara was very happy to see him.

It shocked me because she had always been a shy child and watching her warm up to Jaxon in less than twenty four hours was frustrating to say the least. If she got too attached to him then it would make it harder to leave and I couldn’t allow that happen.

I

“Mummy,” she began slowly as I finally finished with her food and started eating mine. “Is he really my daddy?”

I didn’t want to lie to her so I nodded “He is.”

“Why didn’t you come to see us?” she directed the him freeze with his fork on his

question at Jaxon and I saw way to his mouth. “Everyone else had their daddies except Ally whose daddy is in heaven.”

eyes and I

Jaxon opened his mouth to speak but deftly closed it immediately. He glanced at me with worried stared at him blankly. I knew he was going to pin the blame on me and accuse me of leaving and if he did, I was- more than prepared to deal with the backlash of it with Kiara.

The last thing I would want to do is include my daughter in our squabble but I wasn’t going to let Jaxon blame me for something that was his fault.

“Well I’m the king,” he began slowly. “I’m not a werewolf like the others, I am a lycan and lycan’s are very busy people. I wanted to see you but I couldn’t and the minute I got some free time, I came to get you.

“Mummy said we’re human,” she chewed on a piece of pancake slowly. “She said that I should stay away from

the werewolves.”

“That’s because you’re young Kiara, and you’re not a werewolf until you shift,” the way he spoke to her was so soft and calming that I couldn’t help but blink twice to be sure Jaxon was the one speaking.

“Mummy, once I shift I’ll be a werewolf?” Kiara asked me and I shrugged.

“I’m not sure, you might be a wolf or you might be a lycan,” I said the last part slowly because I didn’t want to

admit that Jaxon would have any ties to her but I had to.

I felt him staring at me and when I looked up; his eyes were directly trained on me.

There was something about them. It wasn’t off setting or uncomfortable but it was intense and it felt like he was trying to see into the deepest parts of my mind and I couldn’t help but look away when I felt my skin heat up.

I might have hated him but that didn’t mean my body did. I might not have had a wolf but the mate bond was still one of the strongest things in the world and I could feel the pull whenever we were together and I was determined to avoid it.

Thankfully, Kiara spoke again but her next words had me frowning.

“I want to be a lycan,” she suddenly declared. “Just like daddy.”