The Alpha's Contract Luna (Alexia) novel Chapter 49

~ Queen Helen ~

Earlier in the palace.

Her slender frame went up and down, and she panted as she chased her high. A man's hands were around her waist as she ground against her true mate.

The woman threw her head back as soon as she reached ecstasy, and so did the man she was riding. The woman was none other than Queen Helen, and she was with her true mate, Alpha Blaze. They were making love inside the king's quarters, the same bed Helen shared with the king.

"Ah, my love. It feels so good to make love to you," Alpha Blaze said as he lay Helen on the other side of the sheets. "It would feel better if we were no longer hiding our relationship."

Queen Helen chuckled. She replied, "Soon, my love." Her eyes landed on the wall clock, and she said, "The doctor working with me should give Bathasar a full dose of the poison today. That should kill him in just minutes."

It had been two days since Queen Helen took over the palace. She made it look like a nurse, and a doctor was attending to the king. In truth, however, both the nurse and doctor were poisoning the king.

It started with a simple headache. Due to the rehabilitation on the southern coast, the king spent long hours attending to his people. As a result, he had headaches during the day.

The Queen saw it as an opportunity. She conspired with a doctor, paid him enough money to live two lifetimes, and urged Balthasar to seek treatment. The medicine the doctor created relieved him of the headaches, but it was also killing him slowly.

She had been working with their enemy, Eswen, for months, hoping to dethrone Balthasar. She and her true mate, Alpha Blaze, had been feeding King James information about the coast's mines and the soldier's war plan. However, in the end, Alpha Kieran still led the warriors of Taplean to victory!

Her exchange deal with King James was simple. By helping him, Balthasar would be dethroned. King James would take his shares of Taplean's riches and receive monthly taxes. Helen did not mind sharing wealth for as long as she was in control, together with her mate, Alpha Blaze.

With King James miserably failing and surrendering, the queen had no choice but to find another answer to her problem. She loathed Balthasar. It started when she found out that Balthasar had found his true mate. He did not deny it, but he swore he rejected his true mate to keep the crown, for the woman named Avery was a mere commoner, and his parents disapprove of her. Helen and the king were married, but he never loved her. He did not even mark her! She could tell his mind was constantly drifting off somewhere, thinking of the woman he rejected.

Thankfully, Helen also found her true mate in Alpha Blaze. They had been keeping their relationship a secret for over twenty-five years. Caspian was a product of their love. He was living as a prince, but he was not Balthasar's real son.

Helen could not forget how he tricked Balthasar into believing that Caspian was his son. He had to get the king drunk and drugged. She forced herself on him until he gave in to the temptation and had sex with her.

Then, a bonus to her plans was the arrival of Alexia. At first, she wondered why Balthasar was adamant about helping her. Later on, she discovered Alexia was the daughter of one, Luna Avery of the Cross River Pack. To her, it wasn't a coincidence. Queen Helen confirmed her suspicion when she poked into the king's office and unlocked his secret safe using a replica of Balthasar's fingerprint. In that safe, she found an old photo of Avery, and the same woman looked the same as Alexia.

It angered the queen that she swore Alexia would suffer along with her husband, Kieran Stone, the same alpha who had repeatedly ruined her plans of winning the war with Eswen.

Queen Helen was thinking about the past and recent events when Blaze remarked, "I can't wait for that bastard Balthasar to die." He leaned to Helen and kissed her lips, adding, "And I can't wait for my son to be announced as the next king."

"Patience, Blaze. Patience, we did not wait this long to fail," she said. She rechecked the time and suggested, "You better leave now - through the secret passage. It will take some time for your scent to leave the room. The guards will be looking for me in an hour."

Before Alpha Blaze could get up from the bed, someone had already knocked on the door.

"My Queen! My Queen! It's an emergency! My Queen!" Whoever was behind the door was persistent. It left Helen and Blaze scrambling into their clothes.

"Wait half an hour! Let me change!" Helen replied. "How dare you interfere with my sleep?! Do you want to die?!"

"But, My Queen, it's urgent! The King is missing!" Helen realized the voice was that of the doctor she commissioned to poison the king. If Balthasar was missing, it only meant one thing: he did not receive the last dose of the poison.