Page 28 of Royal Bite
She glanced at Corbin who gave a nod. He had cultivated a relationship with the human leaders, and she felt comfortable allowing him to handle them. He had a way with words and a way with humans that she had never perfected as he had.
“We can use the lower-class warriors to assist with patrols,” Nezera suggested.
“Good. We need a solid plan of how we are going to protect our people and hunt down this bitch.”
Hegna refused to end this meeting until they had a stringent plan in place.
Hegna stood behind her desk and picked up one of the papers that had urgent written across the front of it. She glanced up and took note that Bijou was still in her office. Their meeting had concluded, with them having a definite plan in place. Hegna was not going to wait for the alpha or any of the lycans who followed her to act first.
It would be her who would make the first move.
Any lycan who followed Azura Michaels would be killed. Nezera and Bijou would put together teams of warriors who would begin hunting the wolves down. There were one too many lycan attacks documented, and they would pay for it dearly.
“Is there something else we need to discuss?” Hegna asked. She held the paper while she waited to hear what her second had to say.
“About the human,” Bijou began.
Hegna rolled her eyes. Of course, the conversation was going to be about the woman.
“What about her?” Hegna snapped. She didn’t want to keep thinking of the brown-skinned beauty. The paper crinkled in her hand. She didn’t want to think she was beautiful. Her gums burned as her fangs pushed against them, wanting to descend.
Wanting to sink into the soft flesh of Stormey.
Hegna tried to push all of those thoughts away.
“Get to know her. I know that the draft and the matching is not something you want, but you can’t ignore her.”
“Why can’t I?”
Bijou stared at her, and it was as if she were seeing through Hegna. The woman knew how Hegna thought, and it made her uncomfortable. Aside from Corbin, Bijou knew her the best.
“Do you really want to pass up on an opportunity to mate with the woman that fate has chosen for you?” Bijou asked.
“Fate? It was a fucking test done at a lab. Has it been proven that fate had any part of the decision of who matches with who?” Hegna tossed the paper down the desk and rested her palms on it.
“Don’t start with that argument. You’ve seen the research and know the numbers. Matings from the draft are one hundred percent successful. It is working. Children are being born from it, vampires are flocking to sign up to it in masses.”
“Yeah, but how do I know that the human who was sent here is mine?” Hegna didn’t want to admit she could feel tiny wisps of something strange inside her that she suspected was the mating bond.
“You mean your mate? Or better yet, Stormey. That is her name.”
“You’ve certainly taking a liking to her. How much time have you spent with her?”
“Oh, please. I’ve had one meal with her and learned a lot from her. You could have been saddled with a human who didn’t want to be here and made your life a living hell.” Bijou folded her arms in front of her chest.
“That actually might have worked better,” Hegna muttered. A human who was a flight risk would have been perfect. They could have run away, and Hegna could have ‘looked for her’ and then been ‘unsuccessful.’ She smirked at the thought. Maybe what she needed to do was make the woman uncomfortable to the point where she wanted to leave. Hegna would be willing to purchase Stormey her own home and give her a living allowance. She didn’t care where the girl would want to go as long as it was far from her.
Yes, that was what she would do. She’d make the woman not want to be around her any longer.
“I don’t like that look on your face.” Bijou sighed.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.” Hegna sniffed. She straightened to her full height and wiped her face of all emotions.
“In your absence, Edward took care of things. He assigned Cici to attend to your mate, had clothing purchased for her, gave her the room across from yours. You may want to follow what your sisters did for their mates.”
“And that is what?”
“Education about our kind so she can learn about our society and way of life, and self-defense classes. From what I heard, Lethia worked with her mate on her own.”
