The Alpha King's Claim

The Alpha King’s Claim chapter 45 by desirenovel

Serena

Yes, we finally arrived in Cirelles, the town near the castle where it had quite a busy market. Our travel time was about twenty minutes on foot after declining the offer of my maids to use the castle coach. It wasn’t really an arduous walk. We had fun just watching everything around us.

Apparently, the guards in the castle didn’t bother us when they saw us walk past the castle gates. Security for a royal persona seemed close to nothing. Unlike on Earth where the royal family was heavily guarded with bodyguards, here, as queen, I had none and I thought it was either their lax security or that they were just really confident with their kingdom’s peace and order and their people.

Rhea and I were both in awe of the town and its not-so-little market. Stalls after stalls were seen from left to right of the sidewalks. It was organized in a way that customers could freely choose the merch.

Not long after we arrived, an item caught my fancy and so I decided to approach the seller.

She was an aging woman, sitting on a stool wearing a large printed turban and a long-sleeved dress. Wisps of gray hair fell down her forehead. The moment she noticed my approach, she quickly got up to her knees and bowed.

I was eager to stop the gesture, still not comfortable with all the royalty status.

Beside me, Rhea chuckled.

“How much?” I asked, bending forward to pick up a silver bracelet that was designed like a wolf’s head. In a werewolf world, I was bound to find one, or two, or more.

The old woman looked up and smiled at me, her eyes beaming. “It’s free for you, Your Highness,” she answered with a short nod.

I quickly waved my hand. “No, please. I want to buy as your normal customers would. Give me the right price for this item.”

I heard Rhea chuckle again with this. Her eyes were set on the other trinkets in front of us.

“In that case, fifty maltis, Your Highness,” the seller answered.

Honestly, I didn’t even know what she said and I had a feeling Rhea was the same, but since we got money to burn, I handed over the payment without thinking of the change.

“Here, and keep the change,” I said with a big smile.

The old woman’s eyes twinkled even more and her mouth dropped. “You’re generous, Your Highness. Are you sure you don’t want the change?”

“No, don’t worry. You’re my first buy after all. Enjoy!” I winked at her.

She responded with a deep blush.

We moved to another stall after that whilst I donned the silver bracelet on my left wrist. Rhea poked my rib and clucked her tongue.

“At this rate, you’ll be giving away our money. Are you sure the king is okay with this?”

I scoffed.

“The money we have now won’t even scratch his wealth.”

She shrugged her shoulders, accepting this as a valid point. We were talking about the king after all. The man basically owned the kingdom.

We walked further into the road, checking out a variety of trinkets. She bought some for herself and I did the same, laughing at the same time when we realized we were actually shopping in a realm other than Earth. It was our therapy and she was right, it did take my mind off of the king even for just a bit.

“What’s that?”

Rhea tapped my shoulder again to get my attention while I was busy haggling another merchant.

I straightened up and faced her, arching a brow.

“What?” I asked.

immediately as she pointed to an angry black smoke just a

bells

with them sacks of their belongings. In their faces were pure fear and desperation. I felt for them as I was once a fire victim

without thought, I started to

out in confusion, but I cut her

“William!”

spotted him passing us, clearly running towards where

Highness! Why are

shut him off with a

“Are you going there?”

looked hesitant for a moment and

I’m going with

“But—”

I lashed, giving

to affect

a

ride on you,” I grabbed his shoulder and

a step

Highness,” he cried out,

Aero is going to kill me if

hand just as an incoming coach tried to pass us. “You over there! Halt! Unload that

his

spectator earlier, now stepped in and

placed a palm on her shoulder and smiled at

the castle and prepare the courtyard. We are going to house

She nodded without delay.

but you take

just as a brown stallion galloped towards

up the animal while William and Rhea gaped. “Let’s go!” I cried

us his werewolf form for the first time. It was a

was just this biased… For me, there

in the fire scene in less than a minute. The first thing I noticed was the size of the fire. It was indeed huge, covering at least five buildings in the area

already secured. No one was there except for the firefighters who were battling the fire the same way the firefighters

guests at the latest party in the castle. He was sitting in a table next to Prince Elijah’s. Alpha Aaron, as I remembered his name to be, was the leader of some

council who had an obtunded stomach, this man here had none. He was muscular and quite tall; a few inches taller than me. He had a long beard, probably left it for a purpose. He wore the same uniform as William, but in a different color: maroon to be exact. He had a firefighter helmet on but I could notice the long hair

of my voice in consideration of the noise of

utter surprise showing on his

just

back to his human form and joined us. The fact that he was already clothed gave me relief. A

We are still learning where it came from but the fire

then

wasn’t an expert but I noticed it was indeed different from all other normal fires

memory hit

my mind cried

gasped and stared at the scene again, connecting the dots and

then, the flame on the murderer’s hand didn’t mean a thing to me other

became a

arson? If yes, then why? Why would the murderer start a fire

myself and