The Alpha's Slave

Cyrus POV

I could not comprehend what had happened to me just last night. There was no explanation for it. I could not even get one because I was the Alpha. I was supposed to know everything. The only people I could confide in were perhaps the priest and Theo but even at that they were still my subordinates and my ego could not suffer injury. Howbeit, I had never read in any literature that the moon goddess would gift a werewolf, especially an Alpha, a human as a mate.

I was in a fix. The only explanation I could think of was that Agnes was a witch; she had to be. But still admitting that a witch could cloud my senses and pretend to be my mate would be exposing a weakness and I could not let that happen.

�Your Majesty? You are very distracted about something, do you mind sharing?� It was Theo at our daily meetings in the morning. I had ruminated about the possibility of Agnes being my mate or a witch all night and I still had no answers.

�What? I� I am alright Theo. I think I need a mistress,� I said with a devilish smile trying to mask my worry.

�Changing mistresses like your underwear is not going to make Agatha come back or make it hurt less. What you need is a woman that can be your Luna. Alpha Cyrus you need a mate. Your throne is unstable if you have no heir. If you were to die and leave the throne without a heir you would plunge the pack into pandemonium and you know it all too well,� it was the same anthem Theo changed to my ears every morning, I only smiled in return. At the moment I had problems bigger than producing an heir. I had to figure out what the hell Agnes was, what she had done to me and more importantly how to make sure that it never happened again.

�Lord Marshall's daughter, she is very beautiful,� I said as though I had not heard a word he had said.

�She is a noble lady. If you want her you will have to ask her father's consent and more importantly marry her. I will not object if you want her as your mate, she is a decent woman,� said Theo.

�Theo, I am not getting a mate. Let's leave things at that, shall we?�

�I understand your Majesty. We shall table this another time,� he responded.

Sometimes I missed Theo, my best friend. I did not like him as my right hand. He was too stoic, too strict, he was too perfect a right hand but I understood him I knew all too well why he had to change: betrayal. We had been betrayed. I remembered it all too well and it still have me the shivers.

�To more important things. Was my blood enough to pacify the south?�

�You know nothing ever is but for now they'll behave,� he returned.

�We need a permanent solution.�

�Your advisors are brainstorming night and day as I am, we will come up with a strategy but one of the things that would help immensely is��

�If I produce an heir. It is all our conversations ever come to, doesn't it? Do you and the rest of my subjects think of me as a breeding horse?�

�Of course not but it is important that you procreate.�

�That will not happen soon so we need to come up with a better solution to our crisis, okay?�

�Your new slave. Agnes. She is not here. Is she a traitor? Have you killed her already?� I had thought he would not ask but I should have known that nothing ever escaped Theo.

�I did not want to disturb her this morning, I had her run errands for me until very late last night,� I replied off handedly. The thing with Agnes was something I had to deal with myself.

�If you need me to take care of her, you only need to say the word,� replied Theo.

�I don't need you doing anything about her, Theo. She's just a human slave, nothing more,� I replied, getting annoyed.

�You sound as though you want that to be true. What did you discover about her?�

�It is my business, Theo. Whatever it is and there is nothing.�

�Your business is the business of the pack.�

�There is nothing about Agnes that is off or odd.�

�You have never cared enough not to disturb anyone before. Are you sleeping with her?�

�No.�

�So?�

�So?� I echoed.

�Why do you care?�

�Theo please, drop it. I assure you there is nothing odd about her not being here this morning. Shall we discuss something else?� I said with finality in my voice. I could read from his expression that he wanted to dispute this but he kept mum.

�A bacterial outbreak was reported last night in one of the border towns. The situation is under control as we speak. I have ensured that the town is quarantined so it does not spread to other places. Our physicians are still trying to determine the cause of the outbreak,� Theo changed the topic and I could not be more grateful for it.

�Are there suspicions it could be the doing of the South?� I asked. The south was like a bad toothache for me.

�No, it is an impoverished town. I believe the poor living conditions contributed to it. Once we have the disease under control we have to look into the housing conditions there,� replied Theo.

�The governor in charge of that town?�

�He is in prison as we speak. I arrested him much earlier this morning. He was trying to escape, he had been stealing funds meant for the town.�

�Have him tried this afternoon, I want a public execution to serve as a warning to any person who tries to steal from me.�

�An execution might pose some problems. He is a nephew to Lord Salmon.�