Chapter 116

Troy

“Does this change anything?” Joel asked.

After the Lycans submitted, I summoned the princes to the lake so we could talk about what had happened. I did not expect them bend the knee to me – it was too much to ask, yet they did it, the least I could do in return was stay true to them.

“Not as far as I can see,” Gadrial said and lazily plucked a dead leaf hanging right in front of his face.

God, he could be an insufferable blowhole sometimes, but he was not wrong. “Gadrial is right. It changes nothing.”

Joel did not look convinced. “If she is attracting wolves who naturally want to submit to both of you...I don’t....Why must we have to kill our fathers?”

“Because if we don’t, they’ll kill her,” Eduard said. “Eventually, they’ll find a way, and we’ll be right back where we started.”

“I don’t expect you to kill for my mate,” I said.

“That’s just it, isn’t it?” Gadrial replied, his voice bitter with resentment. “We are all bound to her, as we are to her fucking mother.”

“She’s your mo