The Alpha King's Tribrid Mate novel Chapter 17

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Nicolette's POV

The royals aren't like other stories where they live in riches and have everything handed to them on a silver platter. I've seen how hard they've worked when I watch Lucas and Seth.

It's been two days since I fought Lucas and nothing much has changed. I decided not to go to the ball. I was mentally and physically drained from the day.

Malcom hasn't said a single word to me at all or even spare a glance. I hear the doors slam late in the night which wakes me up. Then, he leaves early in the morning before I wake up. Anything to avoid me.

I ended up getting bored after sitting in the house doing nothing. So, Lucas let me watch him work.

I've watch Lucas and Seth and figured their personality out.

Seth only knows how to have fun. I haven't seen one moment he has been serious. He's always laughing and joking around.

Lucas knows how to have fun when it's the time. If there is work to be done, then it's time to be serious. Once his focus is on something literally nothing can break his concentration.

I watch from Lucas' couch. He was writing on a stack of papers one by one. My stomach growled from not eating anything this morning. I couldn't remember if I had drank a blood bag today.

Malcom's scent was always in this room. His office was parallel to Lucas' so I could always smell him.

I groan as I stand up and leave Lucas' office and walk straight into Seth's office. He was spinning in his chair with a stress ball in hand.

"Lucas is only making band hungry," I sigh as I slump down onto the couch in his room. He laughs and stops spinning in his chair.

"That's his common effect on people," he laughs. "And he wonders why he doesn't have a mate." I roll my eyes and smile.

"You said you were hungry?" He asked me. I nodded and he stood up and started taking his suit off.

"Um Seth?" I question him. He looked at me acknowledging me calling for him. "I don't think you should be stripping right now."

"You said you were hungry. So let's go for a run," he said. My wolf immediately started jumping in my head.

"Alright," I shrug. He leads me to the front door and shifts into his brown wolf. I don't remember if I've seen his wolf before.

My wolf keeps pestering me to shift and I finally give in. She shifted and stretched in the cool air. It wasn't too cold today. It was more of a light breeze.

His wolf grinned then took off into the forest. I shook my head and ran with him. I caught up with him easily. The satisfying crunch of leaves wasn't there because of the snow yesterday causing the leaves to soak up the moisture.

I tried to catch the scent of any prey as Seth's wolf took off in his own way finding his own prey. I finally caught on a scent and instantly and went after it.

The sweet scent of fresh deer was carried by the cool breeze of the winter morning. I saw maybe three deer trotting around the large trees.

I bent down low getting ready to pounce. I saw the deer turn it's head and I pounced. I aimed for its neck and bit down.

I didn't bite into its neck. I flew right threw the deer and into the tree. The deer flickered and then disappeared.

"Simple trick but I worked," a man said walking out of the trees.

"Hello Nicolette," he smiled and held up a needle and stuck into my neck.

Third Person POV

Malcom slapped his neck. There was a bug like sting and then he went back to his work immediately.

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"What the hell do you mean you lost her Seth?" Lucas yelled at Seth. Seth paced back and forth in Lucas' office.

"I-I don't know. My wolf chased after some deer then we couldn't find her. I can't catch any of her scent. I-its like she disappeared," Seth said.

"She can't leave so she's still on pack grounds," Lucas said. He ran his hands through his hair.

"Malcom he can smell her. Her scent from the mate bond," Seth said. Lucas' office doors swung open.

"Beta there's disturbance in the forest," a guard said. His face said it all. If his trained guards couldn't handle what was in the forest then they were in trouble.

Malcom's POV

"We raped her in front of your father. Letting him watch every single moment of it," he laughs.

"No," I growl. Tears fall down my face as I pull against the chains.

"I thought about keeping her. Letting her be for my men and I'd personal use but it was more fun to kill her in front of your father," he grinned.

"Stop," I yell.

"What's that?" He says culling his hand around the back of his ear. "You want to hear more? After killing your mother, I told your father about how I was going to kill you. How much of a failure he was to you."

"Stop," I said weakly. I sniffed as I slacked against the chains. It hurt to fight. It hurt to listen to him. I heard shouts from the forest and my head snapped forward.

"This should be fun," he chuckled.

"You won't do anything to them," I growled. He fake pouted and drew a fake tear on his face.

"Are your Luna instincts coming in Nicolette. You really can't do anything can you?" He laughs. I saw Malcom, Lucas, and Seth emerged from the forest with a whole ass army behind them.

"This is my time to go Nicolette but I will see you soon," he grins and runs of. Seth and Lucas chase after them. Tears fall down my face. Malcom comes over to me and stares at the chains holding me to the trees.

"What a horrible thing to do," he said. He used his claws and slashed the chains. The metal blocks fell off my hands and I fell to the ground. He wraps his hand around me but I push him away.

"What a horrible thing to do you say but it's not like you care," I said looking up at him. I tried to stand but my knees buckled causing me to stumble and fall.

"What are you mumbling about," he said. I wipe the tears from my face and sniffle.

"I think your exact words were 'She's not a pack member so why does she concern me'. So what if I'm not a pack member? I'm your damn fucking mate," I scream.

"How the hell did you hear that," he questions bending down next to me.

"What does that matter? It's the fact that you said it," I said.

"He killed them," I whisper. "He killed my parents." He wraps his arms around me as I cry. From not talking to our skin tingling as it touches and tomorrow it'll probably go straight back to not talking.