Rejected by the Alpha Claimed by the Lycan King

They finally arrived at the harbor and because it was already night, they decided to rent an inn to stay the night.

At this time. Althea had regained her energy back, though she didn’t think she was doing well mentally. It still brought so much pain to return to this land.

She thought, she would never step in this place anymore, but here she was

“Althea, let me help you to carry Jasmine,” Abigail said, she approached Althea. She had been trying to get to her good grace and Althea allow her once to play with Jasmine, but ever since that time, she had been pestering her, thinking everything was alright and forgiven.

However, Jasmine answered that for her, as she hugged her mother’s neck tightly and then waved her hand to Abigail.

“No… no. Jasmine said clearly, she didn’t want to be bothered with her time with her momma, thus Althea didn’t need to say anything and walk away from there.

From the corner of her eyes, Althea could see how devastate Abigail was with Jasmine’s reaction, but to her credit, she didn’t make a big of deal out of it and probably it was because Brian was there and he watched every move that she made.

Brian was true to his word that he wouldn’t let Abigail or Willow tried to manipulate Althea anymore, he was standing by her daughter and granddaughter’s side and somehow, Althea found she was comfortable with her father to a certain level, but not to the point that she would spend her time with him and talked about life.

After that, all of them went to the inn. Thankfully also, after that night, Killian had never tried to sneak into her bedroom again and have a late night ‘conversation, because that event had messed with her mind and she had a hard time to fall asleep.

Even when she was sleeping, she would jolt awake when she heard a small noise and this would leave her with a headache in the morning.

However, tonight when they finally settled in the inn, it was not Killian, who actually bothered her at night, but it was Willow.

She had been keeping her distance with her because Brian had given her a stern warning, but Althea would occasionally see her, staring at her and Jasmine from distance. She couldn’t say what was in her mind, because her expression was unreadable.

But tonight, it seemed she had lost all of her patient and decided to talk to Althea no matter what their father’s reaction would be.

She shook her awake and Althea startled the moment her hand touched her.

“What are you doing here?” Althea asked, annoyance in her voice when she saw Willow was there. She couldn’t comprehend how could people come and go her room as they pleased?

She didn’t know whether she chose to have Willow or Killian, who would wake her up, but she thought she didn’t want both of them at all in her bedroom.

“I want to talk with you,” she said in small voice, she looked afraid there was someone found out that she was in Althea’s bedroom. She should be.

“I don’t want to talk with you, go out of my room now.”

Willow was startled. They said that Althea had changed, she had seen it herself, but to be kicked out of the room by her, this must be the first time.

Growing up, she didn’t pay attention too much on her little sister, but then, she didn’t pay close attention to anything that didn’t take her interest

However, Willow remembered how Althea would cater to all of her need, even if she didn’t, their parents would intervene and she would do it in the end

Therefore, it came as a surprised that Althea talked harshly toward her, but she bit her tongue, knowing the situation was not the same anymore.

“You really have changed…” Willow muttered under her breath.

“Get out, Willow”

“Let’s talk now and I will not bother you anymore.” Willow said. She sat down on the edge of the bed and stared at Jasmine’s sleeping face. “I have a solution for your situation. Give me five minutes to let you know about my idea.”

“No. Get out now,”

Willow shook her head. “Althea, even if it’s not now, I will find a way to talk to you in the future. You and I know that there will be some point that you will have this conversation with me and I think you should hear my idea about this and decided whether you will do it or not.”

Althea looked at the door, she wanted to push her away from the room and continue to sleep, but at the same time, she was curious about what Willow so called ‘idea

“Five minutes, after that you need to leave.”

“Sure.” Willow nodded and then smiled softly at Althea. “I will not take much of your time, because I know that you need to get some rest,” she said softly.

However, Althea shook her head. “What the idea?”

And then, Willow said the most ridiculous thing that Althea had ever heard, she didn’t know whether she was stupid or her mind was scattered, but the idea that she gave to her was almost like she suggested for her to cut her hand and then be fine with it, or even thanked her for that.

“You can leave Jasmine here with me, under my care,” Willow said straight to the point.

“Excuse me?” Althea narrowed her eyes dangerously.

Willow’s point was; because Jasmine was the sore eyes in the kingdom and she was the cause of the trouble, since she was the king’s real daughter and in her opinion Killian only wanted Althea back because Jasmine was his firstborn, thus by leaving Jasmine with Killian would solve their problem.

“You can go back to the kingdom and be with king Alex and Killian will not bother you anymore, since he has his daughter.”