The Alpha King's Rebellious Queen
The Alpha King’s Rebellious Queen Chapter 82

Cassius’s POV

I held Jemma in my arms as I kissed her while massaging her clit with my fingers. Her violet eyes were lost in ecstasy. I relished her satisfied m***s as I felt the sparks from our contact. It had been almost a week since we had had s*x. With Nick sleeping in the bed with us every night it was hard to fulfill our needs. I was lucky that Liz had taken Nick for the night. I needed time with my mate.

I was about to insert my fingers into her when I felt someone knocking on the mental block I kept up from mind links. It seemed frantic so I lowered the wall. ‘What?’ I growled. I stopped what I was doing with Jemma.

‘I’m sorry your majesty,’ It was one of my guards. ‘But a vampire just showed up at the front door with your sister in his arms. She appears to be unconscious.’

‘I’ll be right down. Make sure the vampire doesn’t go anywhere.’ I ordered the guard.

I stood up and started putting my clothes back on. I was now worried about my sister. I mind-linked my parents and told them to meet me downstairs. “Cass, what’s wrong? Rogues?” Jemma asked as I put my shoes on.

I shook my head. “No, apparently a vampire just showed up at the front door with my unconscious sister in his arms,” I told her before running out the door.

‘Oh s**t. I’ll be down in a minute,’ Jemma linked me.

I skipped the elevator and ran towards the stairs. I heard footsteps behind me and my father was on my heels. “Where is Mom?”

“She’ll be right down.” He replied as we ran down the stairs and to the front door. Sure enough, a well-dressed vampire was surrounded by a dozen of my guards with my limp sister in his arms. My father growled as he rushed towards the vampire.

“What are you doing with my daughter?” My father demanded.

The vampire pushed her body towards him. “Ainsley needs medical care.” His voice was smooth and clear. My father took Ainsley into his arms and immediately ran to the royal hospital. I mind-linked the doctors to be on alert for my father.

“What were you doing with my sister?” I growled a demand to the vampire.

He tilted his head. “I found her in the woods like that.” He replied.

I growled and then ran after my father. I reached the hospital in no time and my father was waiting outside the emergency wing pacing back and forth in the waiting room. “So?”

He growled. “They just took her in. Nothing yet.”

Moments later my mother burst into the room followed by Jemma. “Where is my baby?” My mom demanded.

“They just took her in Isabelle.” My father replied to her.

I smelled the vampire and turned to see him standing in the corner of the room. My father and I growled at him. While Jemma looked at him. “Titus?” She said to him.

The vampire smiled slightly. “You remember me, your majesty.”

“You know this bloodsucker?” My father growled at Jemma.

My mate nodded. “Yes. He is or was Ainsley’s boyfriend.”

“Boyfriend?”

Titus took a deep breath. “Well, she broke up with me when she found her mate. I understood sort of. I know how you werewolves are about your mates.” He explained. “But we remained friends and she started calling me a month or so ago because her mate was abusing her.”

“I knew that son of a b***h was abusing her,” Jemma exclaimed.

Titus stepped towards me. “Tonight your sister called me in a panic. I could hear her mate screaming for her. You see your sister is pregnant and they just found out the baby is a girl and I guess that set him off. He started beating her trying to abort the baby.”

My mother gasped and grabbed my father. “My baby is pregnant?”

“He was mad that they are having a girl?” My father growled at the vampire.

“Anyways, I had a bad feeling and I ran towards the territory she is living in and I found her bloody and nearly dead in the woods. So I picked her up and brought her here.” Titus finished explaining. “I assumed taking her back to her mate would have made things worse.”

I shook with anger. Casper had played the nice guy with me. If I saw him again he was dead. No one harmed my baby sister and lived to tell about it. I looked at the vampire. “Thank you for bringing my sister here. But there are closer packs that have hospitals.”

The vampire snorted. “Yes because a vampire walking into a pack territory with the unconscious princess would have ended well. I knew bringing her here was her best chance. Even if it meant my death. I would do anything for Ainsley. I love her.”

“Thank you for saving my daughter.” My father said to the vampire.

“Should I send warriors to arrest Casper?” I asked my parents.

My father shook his head. “Let that piece of s**t come here and then we’ll deal with him.”

“Okay, Dad.” I balled up my fists. “I’ll let you take the lead on it.”

One of the royal doctors burst through the doors. An older male with grey hair. He spied my father and bowed. “Your majesty, Princess Ainsley is stable. Though she has sustained numerous injuries over months. She is still unconscious but not in a coma.”

My mother leaned against my father as he put his arm around her. “Is her pup alright? The vampire told us she is pregnant.”

The doctor took a deep breath. “So far the pup appears alright but we are monitoring it along with the princess.”

My mother sighed and buried her face in my father’s chest. I could hear her sob. “It’s alright, Izz. Ainsley will be alright. She is your daughter.” He soothed her.

I sighed and sat down in a chair and pulled Jemma onto my lap. She rested her head on my chest. I noticed Titus starting to leave. “Where are you going, Titus?”

He shrugged. “Home. I don’t think I am welcome here.”

“Bullshit.” My mother sputtered out. “You risked your life to bring my daughter to safety. Sit. Stay. You have more than earned that right.”

Titus managed a smile. “Thank you, Queen Isabelle.”

She stepped towards him and grabbed his hand. “Call me Izzy, young man.”

He laughed. “Young? I am nearly two hundred years old.”

“I suspect that is young for your kind.” My mother laughed.

“Well, I suppose,” Titus laughed. “King Romulus is over five hundred, I believe.”

The vampire seemed nice enough. I could sort of see why my sister liked him. I was still apprehensive about my sister being with him. But he seemed far better a match than he abusive a*****e of a mate.

It was another hour before the doctor came back into the waiting room. “Your majesties, the princess is awake. Her body will take a few days to fully heal and her pup is doing just fine. You can all go see her but one at a time for now.”

My mother stood up. “I’m going first,” and none of us were arguing with her, not even my father.

I sighed as Jemma was still leaning on my chest. Her presence was comforting me.

‘Your majesty. Alpha Casper Reynolds is here at the front door asking for you.’ A guard mind linked me.

I growled. ‘Thank you. I will be right there.’ I looked at my father. “Casper is here.”

He growled and balled up his fists. Jemma slid off my lap and I stood up. “Jemma stay here with my mom and sister. My father and I are going to go take care of Casper.”

Jemma smiled softly at me. “Don’t make too big a mess.”

I leaned down and kissed her forehead. “I love you,” I said to her as my father and I ran out of the hospital. We slowed as we neared the front door. Alpha Casper was standing just outside the front door with two of his pack members. One I assumed to be his beta.

He smiled as we approached. “Good evening, Cass. Terry.”

My eyes narrowed at him as my father growled at him. I had to use both hands to hold him back from ripping Casper apart. “Alpha Reynolds,” I responded coldly to him.

He tilted his head at me. “Have you guys seen Ainsley? She disappeared this evening.”

“Was that after you beat her?” My father said through gritted teeth.

“Excuse me?” Casper asked sounding almost innocent. The act made me growl.

“You heard me. You are a good actor Alpha.” My father said to him. “You had us all fooled thinking you were nothing like that piece of s**t you called a father. But you are just like him,” My father said with a growl before tackling the young alpha to the ground. He started punching Casper viciously. “How does it feel, you son of a bitch.” My father was relentless. After a few blows, I pulled my father off of him. “Let me go, Cassius.”

Casper looked up at us in a daze as b***d poured out of his nose. His eyes swelled up with bruises. “What the f**k was that about Terry?” He looked at me. “Cass?”

“Oh, you lost the privilege to call me Cass,” I growled at him. He tried standing up and I pushed him back to the ground with my foot. “Tell me why you think my sister deserved to be beaten tonight. Is it because your pup is going to be a girl?”

Casper stood up again on wobbly legs. “What are you talking about? I didn’t beat Ainsley.”

“You are lying.” My father growled at him.

I grabbed Casper by the collar of his shirt. “A vampire carried her here, after he found her in the woods. The doctor said she had numerous injuries. The kind you don’t get from running into doors.” I said in his face. “Tell me what my sister did for you to beat her tonight,” I asked him in my king tone.

He sneered at me as his blue eyes flashed black. “The whelp in her belly is a useless girl.” He snarled. “Ainsley is useless. I need to correct her sometimes. So what?”

My father roared and tackled him again and began pummeling him again. “My daughter is not useless. She is worth more than ten of you. You piece of s**t, mother fucker.”

“Dad!” I struggled to pull my father away from Casper who was now unconscious.

He stood up with a growl. I pointed to my guards. “Take him to the infirmary in the dungeon. I’ll send one of the doctors.” I ordered them. They rushed forward and picked up the bleeding unconscious alpha and carried him towards the dungeon. I turned to the one I assumed to be his beta. “Are you Casper’s beta?”

A brown-haired male with a thick beard nodded to me. “I-I am Beta Harris, your majesty.”

“Were you aware that Alpha Reynolds was abusing my sister?” I asked him.

The beta looked at the other male that he was with then at the ground. “We suspected it. We never saw anything but we heard things. But we couldn’t say anything because of him being our alpha.”

The other male stepped forward. “Your majesty I once saw Alpha Casper hitting the princess. She had made a comment he didn’t like and he slapped her. I wanted to intervene but he ordered me not to.”

My father growled. “And you are?”

The male cleared his throat. “I am Delta Glenn Taylor. And I am sorry I couldn’t say anything sooner.”

“We understand,” I said to him. “Beta. I need you to return to your pack and inform them that Alpha Casper is no longer their alpha. I will send someone to look over the pack until I decide what to do with the pack.”

The beta nodded. “Yes, your majesty. I am of alpha b***d and think I am more than capable of taking over.”

I glanced at the delta. “Do you think he will be alright as alpha?”

Delta Glenn nodded. “I do believe that, your majesty. Beta Harris will serve our pack well.”

“Okay, well congratulations Alpha Harris. I will be there in a couple of weeks to check on the pack. Until then, good luck.” I held out a hand to him.

“Thank you, King Cassius.” He bowed to me.

“If you need anything, don’t hesitate to call.”

He smiled and then looked at the delta. “Okay.” They then left.

My father and I walked back to the royal hospital. Jemma and my mother were sitting in the waiting room talking. “How is she?” I asked.

“She is doing alright.” My mother replied. “That piece of s**t did a real number on her. She told me that he started hitting her right after her Luna ceremony. It started small but escalated.”

I sighed and sat beside Jemma. She had a hand on her belly. I placed my hand beside her and then smiled when I felt my pups kicking. “I knew something was wrong the last time she visited. She just wasn’t my little sister. I should have arrested him then.” I rubbed my face with my free hand.

“We can’t dwell in the shoulds, Cassy.” My mother said to me. “She is safe now and that is what counts. We will be here for her.”

“Of course we will,” I responded. “Where did the vampire go?”

“He is talking to Ainsley.” My mother replied and my father growled. She glared at him. “Now Terrance. I know you don’t like vampires. But Titus did save her and he seems to care for her.”

“He loves her.” Jemma blurted out. “And I know Ainsley loves him.”

My father sighed. “Well, considering the alternative I can’t say I object to their relationship anymore.”

“Why thank you, King Terrance.” The vampire said from the door. We all stiffened. “Sorry, I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop. Ainsley fell asleep and I came out here to give her some space.” He leaned against a wall.

“You really do care about my daughter?” My father asked him.

He nodded. “I don’t just care about Ainsley, your majesty. I love her.”

“You can call me Terry. I am not the king anymore. He is.” My father pointed at me.

Titus smirked. “Terry,” He laughed. “You know we vampires don’t have mates that way you guys do. But when we replace someone that makes our cold hearts feel alive again it’s like having a mate. Ainsley makes me feel alive. I know it’s a taboo relationship but King Romulus is happy with his werewolf queen. And I don’t care who objects. I love Ainsley. I would do anything for her.”

“Well, you certainly have my blessing,” My mother chimed in.

My father took a deep breath. “You have my blessing too,” He stood up and held out a hand to Titus. The vampire smiled and shook my father’s hand.

“Thank you, Terry. I promise I won’t let her down and I want to help her raise her daughter as my own.”

My mother pulled the vampire into a hug. “You better take care of my baby or I will rip your head off.”

Titus laughed at that. I stood up to shake his hand. “I guess this is a welcome to the family. You can call me Cass.”

My mother clapped her hands. “I can’t believe it. Four grandbabies in one year. Can you believe it, Terrance?”

“No, I can’t Isabelle. We have been so blessed this year. We gained a beautiful new daughter.” He gestured to Jemma. “And now four grandbabies.”

“Titus you are welcome to stay here as long as you wish.”

“Thank you, Cass. But I am in school right now. I have classes to attend to. But I will be back to see Ainsley as soon as I can. And I was wondering if she would be allowed to live in the city with me in my apartment?”

I looked at my parents. “I guess that’s up to my parents and Ainsley.”

“We’ll let Ainsley decide.” My mother concluded.

Titus smiled at her. “I will live wherever she chooses. But I must leave right now. I have early classes. Please tell Ainsley I will be back soon when she awakes.”

My mother clasped his hands. “Thank you again for saving my daughter.” She kissed his cheek. He waved at all of us and then left the room.

The male doctor walked into the room. “King Cassius, I finished my exam of Alpha Reynolds. He will heal from his injuries.” He smirked at my father. “Though his nose may remain permanently crooked.”

My father snorted. “I should have just ripped it off.”

I kissed Jemma. She looked sleepy. “Love, I think you should go back to our room and sleep. Ainsley will be alright. You can see her in the morning. I will be right up after I talk to the guards in the dungeon.”

Jemma sighed. “Okay, make sure Casper gets chained and injected with so much wolfsbane he has to piss it out.”

My parents laughed. “I agree with Jemma.” My mother added. “I’ll walk Jemma to your room. I am tired too.”

“I’ll stay here with Ainsley.” My father responded. “Goodnight Izz.” He kissed my mother.

I kissed Jemma one more time. “You don’t have to wait up for me, love,” I said to her before walking out of the room and out of the hospital. I walked into the dungeon building and stood at the front desk. Maria’s second in command Jerry was sitting there. He looked up. “Where is Alpha Reynolds?”

“He is still in the infirmary, your majesty.”

“Is he awake?”

Jerry nodded. “He was cursing up a storm and trying to escape so we chained him to the bed.”

“Move him to a cell. Chain him up with silver.” I said to the guard. He stood up and saluted.

“On it, King Cassius.”

I followed him to the infirmary and watched as several guards were dragging a very angry Casper out. “This isn’t right, Cass. I should be allowed to treat my mate how I wish. She got out of line a couple of times so I slapped her.”

I growled and grabbed him by the neck. “There is no justification for beating a mate. After what happened to your father you thought I would be okay with your actions against my sister. You beat her to kill the pup in her belly. Your pup. Your daughter.”

HE sneered. “Everyone knows alpha’s need strong sons to carry on their line. I don’t need some girl weighing us down.”

“She is your daughter. Your flesh and b***d, how could you fathom murdering your own daughter?” I shouted at him. The thought of hurting any of my pups made me ill. “It’s alright. Ainsley and your daughter will be well cared for by the vampire.”

He spat and growled at me. “That f*****g vampire? You think that f*****g vampire is better than me?!” He roared.

“Yes,” I replied. “Yes, I do.” I released his neck. “Take him to his cell. I am through looking at this trash.” I ordered the guards and they began dragging him away.

“It’s my right to hit my mate!” He shouted. “My father taught me that she-wolves need to be in their place.”

I just watched as he was dragged down the hall and put into a cell. The guards chained him up and then locked the door. Satisfied I thanked the guards and then left the dungeon. I went back to my room. I opened the door. Jemma was sitting on the couch reading. She looked up at me.

“I am exhausted,” I said to her. “Mind if we just cuddle and then go to sleep?”

She set her book down and walked over to me. She wrapped her arms around me and leaned into my chest. “That is fine with me, my king. I am exhausted too. Your pups take a lot out of me.”

We walked hand in hand to our bed and I sat on the edge. She helped me take off my clothes and then began to k**s me. Her lips woke me up slightly. “How about I blow you to sleep?” She smiled wickedly at me.

My eyes widened and she grabbed my c**k with her soft hands and slid onto the floor. “I have no objections to that, my love.”