The Lycan King novel Chapter 13

Nikolai

"Hello, Love." I smiled at her as I entered the kitchen.

"Hello Nikolai, here is your breakfast." Ava smiled at me as she put a plate of omelette on the counter for me.

"I want you to do something, Ava." I told her when she turned her back on me to cook for the others. Sofiya gave me a look but I ignored her.

"What do you want me to do?" She said as she turned off the stove and turned around to look at me.

"I want you to start handling the kitchen." I told her seriously.

"I don't think I can do it." She replied looking at me with scared eyes.

"You love cooking, you know everything about it. You don't have to cook for everyone everyday, the maids will do that for you. You just have to manage everything." I told her seriously. She could learn to control things like this and it would be a great start.

"I'm not the right person. Sofiya handles everything and she is good at it." She whispered pleadingly.

"You can do it better, you have Alpha blood in your veins and you are my mate, you're a Luna, remember that Love. You've got this. You know more about the kitchen than Sofiya anyways." I smiled as Sofiya glared at me.

"I'll teach you how to do it, it's very simple, I'm sure will do a much better job than me." Sofiya told her encouragingly.

"Okay." She whispered, I could see the doubt in her eyes.

"I want you to start now itself and I want to eat something you made for dinner." I smiled at her. Like this, she would be more involved in interacting, directing and working with the staff. And soon, with the pack too.

"Okay," she nodded.

"I'll see you at dinner." I told Ava and nodded at Sofiya, she knew what I was doing and she nodded back.

Avalyn

I quickly made breakfast for everyone and told the maids to serve them in the dining room. Everyone sat in the dining room while Sofiya, Nikolai and sometimes Andrei had breakfast in the kitchen to keep me company. I loved cooking and I preferred to make at least one meal a day for everyone.

"Can you please tell me what to do now?" I asked Sofiya who was working on her laptop when I was done with the cooking.

"Yes, I'll tell you what to do, but you have to decide how you want to do it." She told me, shutting the lid of her laptop.

"What if I mess it up?" I asked quietly.

"We will just have to order food from a restaurant that day. It's no big deal." She grinned at me.

"I trust your judgement. The only thing you have to do is make sure the pantry is stocked up, there are enough ingredients for making what you want in the fridge, it tastes good and the food is cooked a bit in advance so you can serve it on time. The kitchen should always be cleaned after everything is done. This is Alpha's private house so very few people live here, you don't need to make a lot, you will do great." she told me.

I took a deep breath. If Master thinks I can do it, then I can do it. I nodded at her.

"So you can start now, I have to run a couple of errands and do some paperwork. Ask Andrei or call me if you need anything." She told me.

"Okay, thank you." I smiled.

After she left, I checked the fridge and the pantry, we were running low on a lot of things.

I made a list of what to cook for an entire week and then the ingredients needed and in what quantity they are needed.

"Hey, is there something you need?" Andrei asked me as I went to him in the living room. I knew he was working on the laptop, I didn't want to disturb him.

"I need to go out and buy a few groceries, we can go when you are free." I said eyeing his laptop.

"You don't have to go, you know that right? You can give the list to the maids and they will get it for you. But if you want to go, we can leave right now." He told me.

"No, I want to go." I told him. I wanted to go out, it had been very long since I had been out in the real world.

"Okay, I just informed Nikolai. We are good to go." He told and stood up. We went towards the basement and I saw a lot of cars which shocked me. There were so many!

"Which one do you want to go in?" He asked as we walked towards the key board. I pointed towards a big car so everything could fit. He nodded and we went towards it. He opened the back door for me and I shook my head. I knew that he knew that being around males made me very uncomfortable.

"I'll sit in the passenger seat." He may be my bodyguard but he was also a friend, I didn't want to make him sit ahead alone like a driver.

He smiled at me and opened the passenger seat and I got in. He took me to a huge building that looked a lot like the mall. I realised I had never been to a supermarket and I didn't know anything- where to go, how to buy, how to pay...

"I- I have never been to a supermarket." I whispered to Andrei.

"I'll help you, don't worry." He smiled kindly at me and I sighed in relief.

He took a trolley from near the entrance and looked at the list.

"I'll take the cart and you can start putting the things we need in it." He said, handing me the list.

"Okay." I told him and got to work.