The Alpha King's Heart
The Alpha King’s Heart – Chapter 149

This was it. This was the day that she was going to die. She knew that she had to pay the price for the only day that she could

spend with Ethan. This was the price she had to pay.

Her father got up in the same fashion and he could see everything that was happening. The wind was loud and still violent and this wizard was not here for any

kind bargain.

Halomir stretched out his hand, wadding it in the air and she knew that no good thing was going to come out of this. She launched onto him and took him down. She

was going to die but not without a good fight first. She pinned him to the ground and loosed her fangs. Suddenly he blew some powder in her eyes and she became blind momentarily.

Black magic, this was definitely black magic. She fell back, moaning. She was blind, she could not see. She could hear the wizard approaching where she stood and again she made a second attempt but he caught her in midair and lifted her

from her neck with one hand. Not only did he make her weak but he had granted himself superhuman abilities. Her whole body was completely off the ground.

“You owe me a life, girl,” he told her.

She gurgled and fought to suck in some air. She attempted to locate her father and he was just standing there.

Just great, she couldn’t have expected more from him anyway. Unknown to her, something in Mathias had changed seeing her in this situation.

‘She’s just like her mother, beautiful, courageous, and deserving of so much,’ he thought.

She scratched in an attempt to free herself but it was not use. She was going to die.

“I warned you. I told you that the human was going to be the end of you. I told your father the same thing. You are truly pieces cut from the same cloth.” He hissed.

She was fainting. She was dying. Then she heard,

“Wait….”

Halomir loosened his grip on her at that voice from her father. He came a bit

closer. “You don’t have to do this,”

“Stay out of this, this doesn’t concern you,”

“She is my daughter. It concerns me a great deal,”

He let her go and turned to him, infuriated. “I believe I would be doing you a favor in killing her. Isn’t that what you have always wanted?”

“Not like this. I should be the one to kill her.”

“She owes me a life. The deal was already made and she cannot run from it. She gave up her soul for a fleeting pleasure. She is just as simple-minded as you. I remember you coming to me, begging on your knees to give you this curse you now

possess. Tell me now, are you satisfied?”

“I regret ever laying my eyes on you, wizard. You are the devil”

“And yet here you are, about to kill your daughter,” he retorted, “Who is the devil now?”

“I should just kill you too then,”

“That won’t end well for you. But you can just watch me stake your daughter in the heart,”

That thought pierced him to the core. He thought for a moment and then he

said, “I beg you not to do it,”

“You beg me?” the Wizard mocked, “You are even more pathetic than your daughter. Do you think that there is an escape from this? She already made her choice. It is too

late,” he told him with a stern tone. ” She owes me a life,”

“Take me instead. If my daughter believes that she can replace happiness even for a fleeting moment, then I

must allow her this much.” He turned to her and afforded her a goodbye smile, “She has spent her whole life running away from me. I think she needs to stop running,”

Kate was in deep shock. She looked up to meet her father’s eyes and she could have sworn that she felt a tingle of regret that she had known him only as a

monster. Now he was going to take her place and she would forever lose the only

family she had left…

…

“You need to go to her,” Danielle told him. “She is the one that you truly love. I know that you are still angry now because she hurt you but you have to replace a way to forgive her. I am letting you go, Ethan, even though it breaks my heart, ” her breath shuddered, she came here to do the opposite.

Ethan said nothing. He just walked away from his couch, gripping the glass of whiskey tightly till it broke. Danielle attempted to tend to his injury but he stood up, pacing about in the living room space.

“You need to go to her, Ethan. I will wait for you” she insisted.

He didn’t want to accept it but deep down he knew that they still had unfinished business with Kate. “She lied to me, Danielle. It’s bad enough that she came into my life but to have you caught up in this is just unbearable.”

“It’s okay…”

“No, it is not. This is what I have been trying to keep you away from Danielle. I didn’t want to hurt you like this. You should have stayed away from me,”

She stood up and walked to him slowly. “Ethan, we both know that I cannot stay away from you. I do not know how plain I can possibly be.” She reached him and she embraced him immediately. She was sobbing and he could

only put his arms around her comfortingly. Then the devil in her reminded her of all the things that she will be missing. She looked up and damn it! Straight against his stubble and lips and his breath was all over her. She burst into color inwardly at

his manliness and all how she felt safe just leaning against him. She craned a little and planted her lips on him and he allowed her to fulfill her indulgence. She lingered a while before she could suck in a momentary breath and again she tried her luck with a deeper k**s this time.

Who was she kidding? He wasn’t even touching her and she felt an even stronger pain than before the k**s. She pulled back, closed her eyes to reclaim control of the tears welling in her eyes and she said, “Go, Ethan, before I change my mind and claim you,”

How could he not move? This woman was damn determined to see her intentions through to the very end and being here was a snare he could see coming from miles away. He immediately started to the door and she sat back on the sofa

and nestled comfortably, soon to give herself up to crying. He closed the door behind him and hurried to one of his cars.