The Unwanted Luna Queen

2: Plan Z

Alaric's POV

I watched my mom walk up and down the room, looking more agitated with each passing second. I let out a yawn I was holding because she decided to wake me up early to tell me about her ‘Plan Z’ that is probably not going to work.

She’s been trying to set me up with a bride so that the palace would respect me more than they already do. I know the people want to see their king settled with a queen, but I have long buried the idea of being with another woman years ago.

If not being able to walk isn’t depressing enough, remembering that my mate rejected me because she found out I will never be able to walk is enough to wreck any notion of a woman ever accepting me for who I am.

When they do, it is mainly because I am the Alpha King, and for some reason, I don’t want any woman to settle with me because she wants the power it brings her. She is going to end up ruining her life for good.

Now my mother, the able Queen Mother who doesn’t quit, is trying to get some poor girl from a village to come here and become my wife and the queen after she gets manipulated. Yeah, manipulation needs to be added to get anyone to marry me.

After the accident that took away my ability to walk, I have also become not so good-looking with the constant scowl on my face and darkness shrouding me all the time. I cannot even help myself when it comes to that.

She has tried getting more girls than I ever want to count to become my wife, but they always end up rejecting me after they see me. My mother said I should stop scaring them, but I literally do nothing, and they scurry away.

The last set was too bold to tell me to my face that I would never find a girl if I am not willing to let anyone help me. That is after they said they cannot deal with me with no legs. That I was a ‘liability’ to them.

They were lucky my mother was there, or none of them would have left this kingdom. For saying that to their king, I would have locked them up in the dungeon for years. With not a single remorse.

Everything the Queen Mother did flopped, so this is her ‘Plan Z’ that I’m waiting to ruin for her too. I have given up after the first few tries. The people could go to hell. They have a king; that should be enough for them.

I don’t have to go through hell just to please them. I am going to do my job, rule better than my father did, even though he was the best at this. I will make life easier for them. If they don’t want that, they can f**k off.

“This particular pack is known to be in a village, and I’m sure the girls there are going to be really naive. That is just what we need,” my mother said as she paced further.

“I don’t know what you want me to say after I told you to stop trying already.” I shrugged and wheeled the wheelchair to the floor-to-ceiling window in the study.

“No. I won't quit, and you are going to marry! You have to make sacrifices for your people, Alaric. You think your father was loved for being himself? The people are already scared of you. I don’t know why that is. The only thing to soften the edges is you taking a wife,” she explained for the nth time.

“As you say, mom. Just promise this will be the last time if it doesn’t work out.” I c****d a brow at her, which she narrowed her eyes at.

“I haven’t even tried that much—” I cut her off by c*****g my brow high, then she sighed. “Okay, fine. If this doesn’t work out. I have a feeling it will, though.”

“You always have a feeling and end up getting disappointed.” I rolled my shoulders and turned away from her.

“Not this time!” She pursed her lips, then left the room with a swoosh of her royal robe.

I let out a sigh in the quiet room. I really want to be what my mother wants me to be, at least to set a good example for my brothers. But things have been bad since the death of our father that we haven’t recovered from.

Both my brothers and I are suffering from disabilities that came out of nowhere. We all know who the people were that attacked us secretly to make it look like an accident when it wasn’t. But we can’t start a war at the same time.

The faes don’t like the werewolves or any other creatures out there, but that never stopped them from fighting us. We stay away from them because everyone knows they are the most dangerous creatures out there.

It is rumored that there are no more than five of them remaining after an illness that took over their entire kingdom. Now we have no one to go to war with when we have a good army ready to sacrifice their lives.

I watched the cars that went to get yet another set of girls from different packs roll into the palace. I narrowed my eyes when Jeff and his men got down, then the girls started dropping by one after the other.

Some have huge smiles on their faces while others look awed. All ready to become the queen until they find out what I look like and that I won’t be able to walk.

My mother could easily force any girl to marry me because she has the power to do so. I also have that power, but I won’t do it. Every person deserves their rights as our father taught us. Like these girls coming into the palace.

Well, it’s time to make another s**t show to get my mom off my back once and for all. It ends with this.