Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 703

Chapter 703: 703-The Great Pirate Alpha

Ursula:

I waited in the corner for the two of them to walk away, but as I stood there, I could hear them talking, and every word shattered my heart.

"Your Highness, I’m trying," Niles complained. "But she’s just one person. It takes her so long to get pregnant and give birth and all that–"

At this point, I didn’t even think of him as my husband anymore, just someone who had played me.

"So didn’t I give you the medicine to give to her?" she hissed. "Those herbs will help her go into labor soon. And we don’t even need to wait for labor, anyway."

"Yeah, but then—the baby won’t be fully formed, right?" Niles said, uncertain.

"Who cares?" she snapped. "It doesn’t matter if the baby is premature. All I want is the baby." She paused. "And listen, did you keep the list? Make sure she gets pregnant by all of these men. I want that special child at any cost."

She grunted and glared at him. I didn’t understand why she was doing this to me, but I did understand why she believed I could give her that child.

Because when Niles found me in the woods, he didn’t just find me wandering around, he found me near the waterfall.

Somehow, I had ended up there after trying to escape from my land. That’s why Niles had seen my truth. My mermaid tale.

I came from a faraway land. A land more beautiful than any other, Arthendel.

I still don’t know why or how I swam so far into a werewolf-populated region. Maybe the current pulled me in. Or maybe it was the pain in my heart that made me want to swim as far as possible?

When he saved me, I thought he was my savior. I thought I had found a new life. Safety. Maybe even love. But I was wrong. He knew everything. And he told Ursula all of my secrets.

When he found me, he explained the world of werewolves to me. And even though I was from a different place, a different people, I already knew a little about them too.

"I’m also afraid of her people coming to find me. I mean, I know I’ll never go out into the water, but what if the mermaids come looking for her? They’ll fucking kill me," Niles said.

He expressed the right concern, but for the wrong person. They were so upset with me, there was no way they’d ever come looking for me. They probably believed I had run away. And honestly, they wouldn’t be wrong. It had always been in the back of their minds that I wanted to escape. But I had one friend back home. A prince. The one I truly loved.

The reason I swam to the edge in the first place was because I had heard that his father, the king, wanted him to marry someone else. And that shattered my heart so I swam away. But now I miss him. I wished I had stayed, but there was no way a mermaid could ever marry a pirate Alpha.

"As for the medicine, I didn’t know. If I had, I would’ve just given her a lot more of it," Niles added. But that’s when Darcy shook her head.

"No, you fool. At least let the baby grow a little. Make sure you give her the medicine in her fifth month. Then bring me whatever there is for the sacrifice. All I need is the flesh and blood to pour into the Well of Sacrifice," she hissed.

Her words made me clench my jaw. For whatever reason, she thought my child’s life meant nothing. I waited for them to step aside to talk about the list. That’s when I slowly started dragging my body out of whatever this place was. Once outside, I realized I was near the water. And then I remembered when he was drugging me, I had been in the water for a few minutes. I guess they were keeping the mermaid side of me alive by bringing me to the water in chains and then dragging me back.

The man I had loved so deeply. The man who was the reason I left my home. Soren Vaughan had come to save me. _{f.(r)eewe/bnov\ll.com}

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