Moon's Call (Sample)

Chapter Two

"Just look at her blossom like a flower in spring." The Queen said as she watched Theresa from one of her windows, walking out of the castle with a gathering basket.

Lucas who was scribbling something down on a scroll looked up. "She's seen eighteen winters Ursula, what do you expect?"

The queen turned away from the window and stared at him. "Eighteen winters and yet she finds no mate." Her voice was laced with mockery.

Lucas sighed and put down his quill. "No Lycan will woo her because of you."

Ursula snorted and poured herself a drink, then sat down on the furry long seat in the lounge. "I believe my subjects fear me and she's not quite really one of us so don't blame me for her misfortune of being a hybrid." She sipped from the goblet.

"Every man out there with sight will testify to Theresa's priceless beauty. As far as I'm concerned, she's the most fairest maiden in the whole of the realm, the fairest of both her kind and ours combined. The men won't come near her because you told the elders that her mother was suicidal, that she attacked you while you were asleep in your chambers. When you fought her off, she attempted to throw herself off the building with her child which you claimed to have saved before her mother descended to her death."

Ursula looked away. "Her deserved death. Do not remind me of that, Lucas. If I hadn't done what I did, you'll have your head on a pike for daring to defile the king's bed and I will be disgraced and banished to be a wanderer forever and that's a fate I'm jot willing to face. It's been eighteen winters already and I'm happy to be rid of both my husband and his concubine."

"You sent Crocottas after the king who imitated Alethea's voice to lure him out and they devoured him and his men."

"Why go down the memory lane of the bitter past?" She asked in irritation. "Would you have preferred a Manticore, the Cyclops or perhaps the Keres to get the job done?" She waved a dismissive hand. "You could bear yo drive a dagger into the kings heart because you were soft and I did the job for you to save both our heads, especially yours from the executioners blade.  If you are becoming remorseful about everything that happened eighteen winters ago, well, it's a little bit late for that because not even the accusing venomous tongues of the Erinyes will bring them back..." She then gave him a suspicious look. "Or..." She stood up. "Are you beginning to find Theresa fairer than I am?"

Lucas lifted his brows in shock. "What!"

The queen quickly cut in. "I knew you had an eye for Alethea but your cousin, the king got to her first. Is that why you asked me to spare the child so you could have the replica of her mother and fulfill the dreams the dead king destroyed?"

"Ursula!" Lucas called sternly. "How could you even think of that! If I had eyes for any other woman, I wouldn't remain unmated to be by your side."

The queen smiled, approached him and caressed his face. "You are a loyal subject, Lucas. A very loyal one and that's why I elevated your royal position when I became queen ruler of the realm... But!" She tore her hand from his face and went around him. "I'll still take no chances. I'm not going to let Theresa's presence ruin what we have, what we have painfully built over the years."

"What do you plan to do?" He asked suspiciously, feeling her presence behind him.

"As the queen of the realm and her supposed mother, I'm liable to marry her off to anyone I so choose." She chuckled. "Perhaps, I should give her to the satyrs, they always appreciate invaluable beauties."

"Their lot are lecherous!" Lucas huffed. "Those hooved perverts will defile and devour her body."

"The centaurs then or the giants...anybody who's wiling to stick his cock in her and make her his?" She chuckled and went past him to refill the goblet. "I wonder if her thighs will also be irresistible like her mother's, perhaps, that was why the king chose to dwell there in the first place."