Chapter 3 The curse

Thorne's P.O.V

My heart skipped a bit as soon as my eyes met hers.

Towering over the petite woman who stood before me, her brown eyes glinting with fear as her shoulders sagged and she shuddered, retracting her step with every step that I took towards her.

The maids trotted out of the room with their heads lowered, leaving me with a dark brown-haired woman who looked more like she could crumble to the ground any moment from now.

Staring intently at her while studying her with eyes devoid of emotion, I was beginning to doubt if she was a powerful Lycan like I was told. The more I stared at her, the more I noticed that she wasn't special in any way.

Lycans were known to have this powerful aura around them and that was the major reason I hated their guts! But as for her, she looked timid, and scared and I was about to send her back to the dungeon when my gaze landed on the inked inscription around her wrist that read 'Tierra' meaning earth in Spanish.

Only the powerful Lycans who were directly connected to the royal family were the ones who had this sign.

My eyes swept back to her face as she ducked her head, fiddling with her fingers and a smile crept at the corner of my lips.

"What is your name?"

She raised her head, locking gazes with me as her lips wobbled. "Fr...Fr...Fr..." She stuttered.

Raising a brow, I said in a deep raspy voice. "A cat suddenly got your tongue?"

Her eyes squeezed shut and she blurted out. "Freya. Freya Hans......" She paused.

"Freya Finnegan" She exhaled sharply, taking deep breaths in a way that caused my eyes to glint with amusement. All through my existence, I had never witnessed any Lycan as scared and fearful as she was.

With my hands folded behind me, I fixed her a stern gaze. "Listen, as much as I despise all Lycans, most importantly people related to the Lycan King, I have no plans of hurting you or keeping you around me for a long time"

Despite the glint of fear in her eyes, her eyes peaked with curiosity. "And what could it be? Your majesty" Her voice was barely above a whisper.

"I want you to be my breeder. You will give me a child" I watched as she swallowed hard, fiddling with her fingers. "How would that be possible sir..."Her words trailed and she ducked her head as soon as I shot her a glare.

"Impossibility doesn't exist in my books. I don't care about how you were sold or who sold you but what matters to me is now so listen to me carefully,"

"My fiancée and I have been trying for a child for a while now with no positive results. After consulting the priestess, she mentioned that my fiancée would only bear a child after a powerful Lycan from the royal family gave me my first child. You have nothing to worry about though, my fiancée approved of this"

I plopped on the couch behind me, crossing my legs as my eyes slithered down her body. "You only need to get pregnant, give birth, and after you are done nursing the child, the baby will be collected from you and you will be compensated greatly for this"

Freya bit the insides of her cheek, anxiousness and fear glinting in her eyes as she swallowed hard. "Sir, there is a problem. The doctor said that I......" Her words trailed as soon she locked eyes with me.

She soon squeezed her eyes shut and there was something about the way she acted that fascinated me. She shook her head negatively. "That isn't even the problem right now, the thing is I am still..." She bit her lower lips before she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out.

"Sir, if the Lycan King finds out that I had anything to do with you or anyone here, he is going to kill me"

I cocked my head to the left, a smile creeping at the corner of my lips when the reasons for her fear dawned on me. "So you are scared of getting killed?"

She bobbed her head.

I scoffed. "I am sure that you wouldn't be that stupid to return to your kingdom plus don't get ahead of yourself because like I said, I have no plans of keeping you here and since you were sold to me, I can do to you as I please"

"And you should be scared of me because you are mine for now"

She swallowed and a coy smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.

"Seeing how scared you are, I can only assure you of something if you fail to get pregnant, then you will be allowed to leave!"

Her eyes glinted with hope and it made me want to crush that hope or something.

However, what she didn't realize was that I hid the real reason I needed a breeder. The harsh reality of my life was that I was placed under a curse by the moon goddess because I fell in love with someone other than my mate.

Because of that curse, I would never find my mate- I didn't care about that. In addition, I would never have a child unless a powerful Lycan from the royal family gets pregnant for me.

That is the only way the curse would be broken and my fiancée, Celeste would be able to get pregnant as soon as the curse is broken.

So, that was why I needed Freya. I needed her to break the curse.

"So what do you say?"

She raised her head, staring at me in the eyes and there was something about the way she stared at me that I couldn't place.

"I don't know." I rose, taking slow strides towards her while she took a step back and another step back until there wasn't any space between us anymore.

"It doesn't matter to me. You only have to remember that you are here to be my breeder" I stood before her while she gripped the side of her dress.

Staring deep into her brown eyes, I slipped a hand over her waist drawing her close to me while she winced, a glint of nervousness in her eyes. My heart pounded in my chest with a mix of excitement and confusion.

The more I stared into her brown eyes, the more I drowned inside and without thinking twice, I wrapped both hands around her, slamming my lips on hers.

She froze for a second as she folded her hands against my chest.

Kissing her mercilessly as my tongue ravaged the insides of her mouth while tightening my grip around her hair, a groan left her lips.

I pushed her to the bed, staring at her while trying to feign an expression devoid of emotions even though something was stirring deep within me.

While I stared at the scaredy cat on the bed, my mind wandered back to Celeste and she was the one who pushed me into doing this. She wanted me to break the curse and prompted me to take a breeder.

I didn't care about the curse. But, Celeste wanted a child and after months of pleading with me, I had to give into her demands.

I fixed my gaze back to Freya, assuring myself that it was just business and I had to shove every weird emotion that was beginning to rise inside of me.

Her eyes shone with fear as her lips wobbled. "I think that there is a mistake somewhere. I can't give birth....." I crawled on top of her, shutting her up with another kiss. Panting, I slurred. "If you talk one more time without asking you to, I promise to cut off your tongue"

She swallowed hard, squeezing her eyes shut while my hands tore the soft fabric that she was clad in.

She covered her perky breast with her hands but a glare from me, caused her to take her hands off as she surrendered to me in defeat.

Grabbing her by the hips in a bid to drag her closer to me, I yanked my pants off, my cock nudging at her entrance. Her eyes traveled from my face to my cock as she squeezed her eyes shut in fear, gripping the sheets like she was bracing herself for what was going to come next.

In one push, I slid into her, her eyes flicking open and she gasped. I pounded into her, thrusting till she was screaming and her nails dug into my arm.

Plunging hard and fast, her eyes shone with tears and she moaned at the same time.

It didn't take long for me to reach my climax as my eyes shut and this time, I increased the pace at which I rammed into her until pleasure rocked through me.

Spilling my seeds inside of her, I rolled off her body while grabbing my clothes, not sparing her a single glance.

"We will meet again when the test results are out. Don't think about running away from me because if you do, I will find you."