Page 50 of Rejecting My Lycan Mate: The Throne

“Our Kingdom is in danger, my King,” Alpha Alistair added. “I am pretty sure that the danger is coming from the inside, not the outside.”

I gritted my teeth.

“You must have a suspect,” Will said angrily. “You must already have an idea about who it is.”

Alpha Alistair looked at him and sighed again.

“Maybe,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to point a finger at the wrong person, though.”

“Who?” I asked sternly.

“Alpha Rhys,” Alpha Alistair said, looking back at me.

I raised my brows.

“Alpha Rhys?” I repeated. “Why?”

Alpha Alistair glanced at Maddie.

“He is young and ambitious,” he said.

I raised my brows.

“We were all young and ambitious once, Alpha Alistair,” I said. “That doesn’t make him guilty.”

Alpha Alistair sighed. “No, but what he said about your mate might.”

I tensed up immediately. Skol stirred and pressed to be let out.

“What?!” I exclaimed, trying to hold back a growl.

Alpha Alistair looked at Maddie.

“I am sorry, my Queen,” he said, bowing his head a little. “I want to apologize in advance for the words I am about to say in front of you.”

“It’s okay, Alpha,” Maddie said, her voice laced with nervousness. “Please continue.”

Alpha Alistair looked back at me and took another deep breath. He didn’t even say what he wanted to say and I was already seething with anger. I wanted to kill Rhys. I wanted to strangle him and watch life leave his pathetic body.

“Alpha Lucius and I overheard him talking to his Beta,” Alpha Alistair started explaining. “He said how nice it would be if your mate was his. He told his Beta that he would try to make it happen because there was nothing more he wanted than to have her.”

I saw fucking red.

He was a dead man.

A feral growl escaped my lips. My canines elongated and fur started growing on my arms. Skol was thrashing and trying to get out. I was going insane with anger.

Maddie placed a hand on my thigh, but it barely did anything to help with my anger. I was on the verge of finding him and killing him.

“That doesn’t prove anything, Alpha,” Maddie said calmly. “That doesn’t prove that he is behind the rogue attacks.”

“No, my Queen,” Alpha Alistair said, looking at Maddie. “But it proves that he wants something that our King has. If he wants you, what makes you think that he doesn’t want the throne as well?”

I didn’t give a fuck about what he wanted. He wasn’t going to get it. Maddie was mine. Fucking mine!

Alpha Alistair looked back at me and tightened his jaw.

“You need to be careful, my King,” he said. “Someone is plotting against you. It may not be Alpha Rhys, but I am sure that it’s someone. You can’t trust anyone.”

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