The Alpha King's Witch Bride
Chapter 197: _The Delta’s Daughter

Chapter 197: _The Delta’s Daughter

Marcellus’ POV

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"Beta, I’m sure you’ve seen my daughter Hailey a few times." Delta Axel gestured at his daughter who went ahead to stand beside him.

She had a tense expression but raised her head high while staring at Marcellus. She managed to bow slightly in front of him, plastering a smile on her face.

"Good evening, Beta."

Marcellus tilted his head, eyeing her from her head to her toes. She didn’t look bad. He might go ahead and say she was gorgeous for a werewolf.

Strawberry blonde hair, hazel eyes, a slender but slightly petite figure, and a busty body that would make almost any man swerve their heads twice to look at her.

She was a pretty little candy, something that Cullen acknowledged through a telepathic link with Marcellus.

’Imagine if the moon goddess was kind enough to give you this beauty as a mate.’ Cullen mused with a snigger mentally while he gave Marcellus a wink in reality.

Marcellus tilted his head at him but didn’t speak mentally. He was too busy staring at the Delta’s daughters, watching every nervous twitch from her and every slight movement of her fingers.

"I’m confused." Marcellus finally remarked, turning his gaze back to Delta Axel who stood there with a proud look. "You want to offer your daughter to the Alpha King to be his wife and the new Luna Queen?"

The Delta nodded, seeming even more proud as he patted his daughter on her shoulder. "Hailey is my prized jewel. She’s loyal, respectful, calm, and obedient. Not to mention that my bloodline shares a distant relation to the family of the European Alpha King’s lineage."

Marcellus raised a brow at that. So what? He was distantly related to the African Alpha King’s family line—it didn’t mean he’d go offering himself to Kaelos like a prized mare.

He made a gesture to Cullen who quickly understood and scurried out of the living room and toward the kitchen. During this time, Marcellus didn’t say anything, instead waiting patiently for his assistant.

When Cullen finally came back, he came with a bottle of vodka and two glasses, dropping the two glasses in front of the Delta and the military advisor before pouring the drink into the glasses of all three of them.

"What makes you think Kaelos likes his women complacent and blindly obedient?" Marcellus suddenly asked a question that popped into his head, grabbing his glass after Cullen had poured for him.

Cullen proceeded to walk back to where he was standing just a few meters behind the sofa, the Delta, his daughter, and the military advisor were sitting.

Marcellus drank from it while still staring calmly at Delta Axel and military advisor Jeremiah, occasionally flicking his gaze to Hailey. She stood there shyly, her rosy white face reddening with a blush.

Well, well, well...

"The Alpha King doesn’t need a brash woman or one who can plan a coup against him like Celine." Delta Axel said confidently, glancing at his daughter.

"My daughter will give him an heir who will inherit the full strength of his Alpha King bloodline. Then she’ll rule beside him as Luna Queen and give me more power when I become the Gamma."

He proceeded to chuckle, tightening his grip slightly on his daughter’s shoulder despite how uncomfortable she looked.

Marcellus was getting bored quickly. So out of nothing but feigned curiosity, he asked:

"And Odessa? Now that she’s been revealed as a Hybrid to the entire continent, how sure are you that her werewolf blood wouldn’t make the Alpha King pick her as his Luna Queen instead?"

The Delta gasped in shock and so did the military advisor who sat quietly until that point. The two men glanced at each other while Hailey scoffed and surprisingly spoke.

"She still has witch blood and killed several people at the Charity Ball last night. The people of this pack and the packs of North America wouldn’t—"

"Hailey, love." Marcellus interrupted her with a chuckle, raising his right hand. "The adults are talking."

She parted her lips but nothing came out of her mouth. She ended up pouting and waiting for daddy dearest beside her to speak.

"Why will the Alpha King pick a forsaken hybrid as his Luna Queen?" The Delta asked, scoffing before he chuckled softly. "No offense, Beta, but that’ll be preposterous."

Hmph... He had no idea.

Marcellus sighed lightly but quickly plastered a smile and nodded his head at the Delta.

"You’re right. What was I thinking?" He remarked, chuckling alongside the Delta and the military advisor.

As he laughed, he had his attention on Hailey. She was a new face but he could already tell that she had two possible roles in all this.

She’ll either die early or prove to be a chess piece that will linger around for an annoyingly long time. Either way, she’ll be useful in some way to Marcellus’ grand plan.

"I’ll speak to the Alpha King," Marcellus said with a reassuring nod, keeping the smile on his face. "Just make sure to get your daughter ready. She might soon be picking out dresses to be his new wife."

A broad smile soon spread across the Delta’s face as he nodded, glancing at his daughter and nodding at her.

"Great news!" He finally exclaimed, stepping forward and shaking Marcellus’ hand as the military advisor stood up as well. "I promise you, Beta, you won’t regret it."

Marcellus nodded while still smiling, gesturing subtly at Cullen to escort them outside. He watched them walk toward the living room door with Cullen and felt as his smile devolved into a stoic expression.

"What a joke..." He scoffed, shaking his head and gulping down his glass of vodka before also grabbing the full glasses that the two morons had left behind as well.

Soon, Cullen came back, squinting his eyes as he closed the door behind him.

"So you’re okay with the Delta’s daughter marrying the Alpha King?"

Marcellus looked up from the glass in front of his face, rolling his eyes before he dropped it. "I couldn’t care less. It’s just so amusing watching his hope go up knowing fully well that Kaelos wouldn’t do such a thing even if I try convincing him."

There was a short pause after he said that but then Cullen persisted and added.

"The Alpha King lost his Luna Queen, whom he thought was carrying his child. Don’t you think he’ll be interested in that idea again and the Delta’s daughter might be the key?"

Marcellus was silent, remembering high priestess Althea’s finding that Odessa was pregnant. He knew with Kaelos’ Hybrid bride carrying his child, the scales of power in the pack and the continent were about to shift... Drastically.

"Cullen, I’ll advise you to sit back, relax, and enjoy what might be the biggest unravelling in a century," Marcellus said with a snigger, a small smirk on his face as he drank.

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