Chapter 221
We pulled into the super store parking lot and hopped out. But Jora just kept talking. “The council then tried to argue that it would be unnecessary for him to be that involved in the process so that every girl has the same starting point, but the king disagreed. He turned on them. Clair sent me a video.” We were walking in to the store when Jora handed me his phone. He clicked the play button and Toya and Wendy crowded my back to watch.
Rowan was just turned to face the mob of men behind him, and you could tell he was agitated. “What do you mean, I shouldn’t be involved in the selection? It’s my fucking mate we are choosing here.” Clair had to adjust her body, I am assuming, to keep the phone hidden. “Why should I let you all choose my mate without any of my input? Did you think I was just going to fall in line? Did you assume I would just accept any woman you choose that is under your thumb and happily make her my queen?” Rowan turned and walked away from the trembling men. You could tell they were pissed that he wasn’t falling in line.
“You can’t do this.” One councilman screamed and Rowan turned.
“You keep forgetting this is my life. I am king. You are just my council and I am really getting fucking tired of you trying to control everything I do. It is not your job to control me, it is your job to council me and the fact that you all keep pushing the envelope is making me really question if you are still necessary.”
A stillness settled over the group of men. “What are you saying?” I could hear the threat in the words.
“I’m saying you were put in place in case the worst happened to my father when I was too young to figure things out. And it did. The worst happened. My father passed away and I was left alone with you guiding me..
But…”
“But what?““One of them stepped forward, and Rowan’s eyes tightened.
“But I am no longer a pup confused about how to rule my kingdom.” Rowan turned and left them speechless. The video cut off, and we were stuck there wondering what we just watched.
I was the first to break the silence. “Stupid man.” I handed Jora back his phone as panic wrapped around my throat.
“What?” Jora tucked his phone away and followed us.
“He just put a target on his back. Bigger than it was before. Toya wiped her face. “They will gun for him harder
now.”
“Exactly.” Wendy confirmed, and the panic felt like it started to strangle me.
“How did he do that?” Jora followed behind, like a good guard.
I wiped at the sweat that had beaded on my forehead. I had to calm myself down. Before I could worry about Rowan, I needed to handle my attack. “He is challenging them. Showing his intention early.” I hurried towards the vegetables. “Now what we have to decide is if he did it on purpose to pull the attention away from something, or if he allowed his anger to speak for him.”
Toya and Wendy stopped dead. “Do you think he would do it on purpose?”
I bobbed my head back and forth. “He might feel like they were getting too close to finding something out he wanted to keep hidden, or to pull attention away from someone. I could see him doing that because he was worried. But…”
Jora came closer. “But?”
“But I can also see him getting so angry that he said it without really thinking it through. He Is a Lycan, and while they are obviously not Immortal, they are stronger than the average wolf. And Rowan is the strongest man I have ever met.” Toya caught up with me as I stop in front of the erbs.
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Chapter 221
“But he isn’t stupid.” She grabbed for the rosemary.
“No…no he’s not.” I grabbed some thyme, and we grew quiet. Rowan was keeping things secret and now I had to figure out a way to protect him.
But first, I needed to figure out what was killing my wolves. I looked over at Toya. “Grab everything. I don’t know when I will have to make another chicken.”
Wendy perked up. “I had an idea on our way here.”
We all turned to her. “What?” I dropped things into the cart Jora went and grabbed. “Thank you.” He smiled and
nodded.
“My mate always forgets the cart and then gets more than she expected.”
“Why don’t we get you a countertop herb garden?” Wendy pulled out her phone.
“A what?”
“Here.” She handed me her phone to a photo of a product from the store. It was a small plastic tray with small- holes down the length of it and an expanding arm that suspended a light over the tray. “Each hole is for a small cup of soil. It will grow an herb in each hole and you will have your own supply whenever you need it.”
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