The Crown

32 - Caden

After having the living room taken care of I helped Grace to our room and had her soaking in the tub to calm down. The wolf Liam sat by the window looking over the gardens with a smile on his face. Apparently he wasn't leaving my mate alone at all.

"Who are you?" I demanded, folding my arms across my chest and standing over him. He had similar eyes, ones I couldnt place where and his hair reminded me of someone.

"As I told Grace I am her Brother. You can have tests done if you want." He answers honestly. The man looked me in the eye with a look of happiness as he takes in my stance. I could see the protectiveness of Grace from him just by the his first appearance and the fact he refused to leave Grace's side had me slowly rekaxing.

"How are you her brother. She told me she was an only child." My suspicions were not dealt with fully as I sat across from him. Grace told me how her mother died in child birth and that she never had any siblings. She grew up with Amelia of course but that was it.

"Before Grace was born our mother was pregnant with me. The ass hole of a sperm donor knew she would be giving birth soon but left anyways to go out hunting. On the day she went into labor the palace doctor at the time was visiting the pack to update medical procedures. She was friends with our mother and when she was told all of the horible things she had been through she begged the doctor to take me away from there saying that I was still born. A month later that my so called father returned later from the hunt and all he was told was that I was dead and my ashes spread in a garden. Thats what I was told." He took a sigh as the rage from that story built into his being. I couldn't believe what he said was true but the hurt in his eyes told me other wise.

"I dont want to get into much details about it but for four years our mother would go to her original pack and it was always around the time my adoptive mother, the pack doctor, would take me. Just like Grace she had silver hair and sapphire eyes. When she stopped visiting I knew something was wrong.  Four years later the doctor decided to do another update on medical procedures and decided that I was old enough to come and help and that it had been long enough to go visit the pack I would have been Beta over. I remember walking towards the house with her holding my hand and knocking on the front door. I was nervous thinking that my mother gave up on me. When the door did open Grace opened the door. She was the spitting image of mom. The doctor asked if she was home and poor Grace cried her heart out saying that she killed our mother because she was born." Words started to crack in Liam's voice as tears formed. I was not use to male wolves crying infront of me and was left dumbfounded on how to comfort him. The pain from this experience still affected the man as he swiped angrily at his face and took a deep breath, i wanted to know what hapoened next but knew that interrupting him when he needed the time to collect his thoughts would not help.

"She had bruises on visible parts of skin and my adopted mother took her to be treated right away. Again that asshole was out on a hunt and she was left at four years old all alone. I couldn't hate her because our mother went through abuse each day and to know that my baby sister saved our mother made me happy. I couldn't tell her who I was because then it would make thibgs worse but the doctor promised to check in on her every year. Hell she even had our mother's side contacted to tell them Lyria had a daughter. If it wasn't for us visiting that day Grace would have died. Long ago." Every fibre of my being wanted to find their father and murder him. He was a dead beat like mine was and the fact these two had to go through everything thing they did had my blood boiling.

Liam closed his eyes for a second and took a deep breath. The man was older then me that was for sure but in this moment I knew he would become an amazing friend. When he finally opened his eyes to stare into mine i could see the sapphire fire that burned within Grace's. He was a fighter like my Lady Silver and I knew something big was going to happen in my Kingdom. His next words confirmed it.

" The Claw is real and Grace is in danger."