Chapter 17: Meeting Lawrence
1600 Words
(s****l Content)
Weeks Later
Lucas
I was reading up on my family; they had moved on without me, I heard my father would be getting a wife soon, and that angered me. He cut me off from the family fortune, I had to lie, steal, and cheat my way through kingdoms to make ends meet until I landed on a gold mine in Faeora. My older brother Lawrence was a pain in my ass when I was growing up, but he could have begged Father to give me a chance as he was the favorite, but he just let me get banished. However, after the civil war, I took Prince Omri's identity and stole his mate's heart, Hallie was a looker, and she was good in bed, but my s****l appetite had outgrown her, and I ended up in other women's beds, unknown to her. I became a father to her kids while disowning my kids, and I loved my life, I used magic and potions to keep my identity from the Fae Kings.
However, something was different about Michael when he woke up from his coma, and now, I needed stronger potions, I have a life here. After realizing the potions were wearing off a lot faster than they should, it made me spend a lot more money than I should, I had contact with a witch who worked with a powerful witch. That way, I could make my face permanent and allow me to impregnate my wife. This will cost me a lot of money and deep favors in return, I don't know if I am ready for that yet, but she was adamant that is how it would be, a life debt. However, I asked her if there was a way that I could block Michael from ciphering the magic in the castle, which I believe is weakening my potions. I had made contact with my witch and was given a time to meet her, Halle had also wanted me to meet her, and I continued my day waiting for a reply.
"f**k," I was heading to my witch to get my monthly supply of keeping up appearance, I forgot that I needed to get this done before I met up with my mate. I wanted to make love to her, and I was putting it off as the potion was ending, I parked my car, went inside, and she was waiting for me. She gave me the potion and enforced the spell on my wedding rings, I paid her, and she asked me, "Is it true about the Dark Witch being captured?" I said, "No, if she was, that is very private information," she smiled and said, "No worries, we have a plan to free her and the Supremes will be distracted pretty soon," I left saying, "Not my problem," and headed to go meet my workmates since we have a job to do. I was heading home and thought about what the witch said and decided to work things in my favor for future business and seal it with a good f**k.
All I had to do was stay away from my family and not blow my cover, I have a meeting with Lawrence later this week, and maybe I should take the time to visit my kids. Days later, I landed in Ironside, and Lawrence had a car waiting for me, it was Jesse, his soon-to-be Gamma, I shook his hand, and he took me to the company, where there would be a meeting. I was in the conference room waiting when I saw my father walk in, he smiled, and I had to hold myself back from going to him. I missed him, but he has moved on, no one here ever talks about me, and I can see my pictures were removed from the walls. Lear walked in and said, "I am sorry you had to travel here, but I have some questions about discrepancies I found in the archives, and only you can clear them up." I smiled and said, "Sure, I will try to keep them correct, but a few might slip through the cracks," he said, "I know what you mean."
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Lawrence
After our meeting, I offered to take him back to his hotel to spend the night, and then he would be on his way home tomorrow, I knew Lucas had last been seen in Faeora. Omri thinks he may have been killed in the war there; they buried a few shifters after the war, and he may have been one. The only problem was, is that we didn't feel him die, something was not adding up and after the madness that happened to Michael and Queen Emerie, Lucas f****d up. I mind-linked Aidan and asked, "Hey, what do you think about what Omri said?" He said, "Drax will go to the area where the bodies or ashes were thrown or buried, he will get a read, and hopefully, we could get some answers, but I think he is hiding in plain sight." I agreed with Aidan when I asked him to block the link, I asked, "Are you going to kill my brother, Aidan? Tell me the truth so that I can prepare," he said, "It depends on how bad his crimes are, Lear, and if he is remorseful."
I didn't want my father to hear what I had to ask Aidan, and I know the others understood the privacy I needed; I was alone in the office. It was late, I had returned here to finish up on a few things and find the trail of my lost mate, my uncle couldn't help me at the moment, he had other issues to deal with, with his ex-mate. Cross is on leave from the guards to meet up with his sibling in Elvira, and we planned on setting up a base there where he could run because he loves it there, his friends are there, but he loves this side of his family. I am glad he had an open mind and was willing to keep us in his life. I was tracking his whereabouts from his last seen, and where my uncle would have dropped him off, I was looking at the distance he would have traveled by foot, it was years, but still traceable. My father's wedding was this weekend, and I needed to focus, but I needed to do it now, if I wanted to give my mate a chance before I mated Kiko.
I heard my door and saw my fiancé walk in with coffee, he smiled and said, "I decided to stop here and ask if you need a ride home." He saw what I was doing on my laptop and said, "I will help you find him," I kissed his lips, and he said, "If we find him, I will leave and let you be happy with him." I smiled and asked, "Will it be easy for you to leave?" I was pulling his leg, we had already talked about this, and agreed on what would happen. He kissed me and said, "Take me home and f**k me hard, Lear," I smiled, took my bag up and headed to the parking garage, my man wanted me to f**k his brains out tonight and I would not disappoint him. After a well-needed session, Kiko's head was on my chest, and I ran my fingers through his hair, he was still breathing heavily, and I smiled, knowing I had done what he wanted.
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Cross
I met up with my younger brother, Brice, he was thinking about moving to Ironside, but he had to work things out with his son's mother about custody. He was hurt the most when he lost his father, but was happy I found mine, he hated that our mother had moved to Ironside, but after hearing good things about it, decided to make the move. He liked the idea of having a royal title, and I rolled my eyes at him because of his immaturity at times. Our sister was mated, happy with a nice Elf, and decided to stay here, but would visit, I promised to escort my brother so he could meet Lawrence, the soon-to-be King, and my uncle. I will also introduce him to my father and, hopefully, he will accept him since we are having another sibling, I hope my parents work things out. Brice was a happy kid growing up, I always protected him, and now, I have his back, no matter what, I headed to meet him for lunch.
I saw my brother talking to a man when I reached the restaurant, he saw me, and the man left, he looked like someone from Rogueland because they had a unique look. I didn't question it because my brother was never one to mix with bad company, he looked at me and said, "I promised him some spare change, don't worry," I smiled and sat down. He always did things like that, and we ordered our meal, I asked him about what his son's mother planned to do, he looked at me and said, "She is moving there with me, I just have to find her a nice apartment since we are not together anymore." I smiled and said, "You should go back with her," he said, "Nah, she cheated, and I want my mate." I couldn't blame him for that, but at least they plan to co-parent without all the toxicity, and we talked about when he should move to Ironside.
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