The Alpha Prince And His Bride
Book 3 The Alpha’s Substitute Bride – End

~ISABELLA~

We were back home now and it was just my sisters and their mates here with us along with Esma. Everyone else had left.

“Are you happy?” Hunter asked as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled my body tighter against his. I snuggled into his warmth and felt my happiness intensify greatly.

“How can you ask me that?” I whispered. “Everyone can see just how happy you’ve made me. I can’t remember ever being this happy in my entire life and it’s all because of you.”

He chuckled and gently kissed my hair. “Can you imagine having a daughter like you? She’s going to be a handful.”

I frowned. “I’m not a handful.”

“I can name a few times you’ve put your life in danger and made me insane with worry. Let’s pray our daughter doesn’t do the same to us.”

“I wouldn’t worry if she ends up having a mate like her father.”

Hunter instantly growled. “I rather not think of my unborn child having a mate.”

I inwardly beamed at his words. I couldn’t wait to experience everything with Hunter. I was sure that he would give our daughter’s mate a hard time.

“If our child is a boy, I want him to be just like you.”

Hunter slowly turned me around to face him. “Really?”

I nodded and cupped his cheek in my hand. “You’re perfect to me. You’ve shown me exactly what a true mate is supposed to be like. You’re everything any woman ever hopes her mate to be like. You’re powerful and brave; you don’t fear anything except your mate being hurt. You’re loving and caring and you make me feel like I’m the only woman in this entire world. I have no doubt that you will be an amazing father to our children. I’m so lucky to have you. I know you’ll rather forget about Maggie and your time with her but I’m still grateful that she did what she did. I know it may sound selfish but it gave me a chance at having you and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”

Hunter smiled then and it was the brightest smile I’d ever seen on him before. I felt like I could keep staring at it for hours and hours. In fact, I think I drowned in that smile.

“You’re the best thing that has ever happened to me Isabella. I wish I’d met you earlier, everything in my life became brighter the moment you entered my life.” He admitted.

I smiled and felt like teasing him when I gripped his d**k through his pants and stroked him. Hunter hissed and closed his eyes with the pleasure from my touch.

I gasped when he finally did open his eyes and they were dark with l**t.

“After your sisters leave I can’t wait to have you all to myself.” He whispered hungrily.

I blushed. I couldn’t wait to have him all to myself as well.

“When are you lovebirds going to join the rest of us?” Lucy called over to us.

I laughed and slowly pulled away from Hunter so that I could look at my sister. She was looking at us with a happy gleam in her eyes and it felt so good to see my family look so much at peace.

We walked over to the rest of the family and took a seat on the chair next to them. Austin and Lucy were seated next to each other and so were Eden and James. Esma was in the middle of both couples and she looked like she had a lot on her mind. I knew what she was thinking. I remembered being around my sisters and their mates and hoping to have someone to love me the way their mates loved them. I didn’t think that it was possible for me but then Hunter proved to be just as loving . . . Even more.

I was positive that things would work out for Esma as well. Maybe she would get a chance at another mate just like Hunter had gotten one. We had to wait and see.

“I never thought I’d live to see the day that we’re socializing with Hunter Miller.” Austin said with a chuckle. “Oh how times have changed.”

“I never thought I’d live to see the day that I’d be willingly surrounded by your family either.” Hunter responded.

We heard a door open and turned just in time to see a familiar face.

“Look its Lucas!” Lucy shouted with joy. “We didn’t think that the Blackners would let you come.” She said as she rushed to his side.

I was shocked at how quickly Lucy moved with her big baby bump. I couldn’t blame her however. Everyone was very fond of Lucas and I’m sure they all have missed him greatly.

Something wasn’t right however. He looked like something bad had just happened and I think everyone in the room felt the tension.

“What’s wrong?” Austin asked as he studied his brother’s tensed stance.

“Maya’s missing.”

James and Austin immediately jumped up from their seats and faced their brother with a penetrating gaze. “What do you mean she’s missing?”

“She’s gone.” He snapped, he looked like he’d been through hell and he definitely wasn’t his free spirited self. “Mother and father gave me the news. She’s been missing since you guys left to find Isabella.”

Lucy gasped and walked up to gently touch Austin on his shoulders to offer her support to him.

“I don’t understand.” James growled. “Who the hell could have possibly taken her and what do they want with our sister?”

Austin shook his head. “We can’t catch a f*****g break around here.” He growled. “We need to gather our packs and carry them home to join in a search to get her back to us.”

“If she’s been missing for so long already then whoever has her must have taken her far by now. We have no idea where to start searching and she could be anywhere!” James spat angrily. “Why didn’t our parents inform us of her disappearance sooner?”

“Don’t blame them.” Lucas cut in. “They thought that she would have returned home by now. They weren’t thinking that she could have been taken by someone. It’s not their fault. We need to hurry up though, enough time has been lost.”

“Will you be able to come with us?” Austin asked Lucas.

He shrugged his shoulders and offered a sly grin. “I may or may not have left the Blackners residence without telling them. They will probably come looking for me to take me back but by then hopefully we will already have Maya back.”

Lucy shook her head at him. “They’ll soon learn that they can’t keep you on lock down, won’t they?”

He grinned. “I’m sure you missed that about me sis-in-law.”

“Come on guys.” James said. “We don’t have any more time to waste.”

“Isabella we’re so happy that you can have a good life now. We were all worried but now we can sleep peacefully knowing that you have the love of someone as great as Hunter.” Lucy said her goodbyes to me as they all got ready to leave.

“We’re coming with you.” Hunter cut in.

All of us looked at him in shock. I never expected him to agree to help them. I knew that he loved me and that he was a good person but I didn’t think he would be so normal with my family so quickly. It made me extremely happy.

“We will help find her.” Hunter promised. He gently touched my shoulders and wrapped his arms around me to show his support.

“Let’s go gather up all of the packs. We will be able to cover a larger area with all of us. I can have my friend get his people to help us as well.” He informed them.

Austin walked forward towards us and stopped a few inches away from Hunter. “Thank you. I will remember this.”

Hunter shook his head. “This is just a small favor after everything you’ve done for Isabella and I. You have my support always.”

Lucy and I gave each other happy smiles at seeing our mates form a bond just like we had with each other.

I didn’t know what troubles we had ahead of us but I knew as long as I had my family and Hunter by my side I would be able to get through it all.

Hunter kissed my forehead softly and pulled me closer into his embrace. “I love you Isabella.”

“I love you too.” I whispered as I snuggled into his embrace.

He smiled warmly down at me. “Let’s go find Maya.”

I nodded.

It was time to find Maya.

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~THE END~

Sneak peek to ‘Forced To Have The Alpha’s Baby’: (The Blackners Book 1)

~ARTHUR BLACKNER~

“You’ll need to find someone else to have your baby.”

I stare at my father, unable to come to terms with his words. When he’d called me to his study I was not expecting to be hit with such preposterous news. He has always done things in the past to surprise me but this time he’s outdone himself.

“I already have a mate . . . You know this father.”

Emily Rider is not exactly my ‘mate’, at least not by a werewolf’s standard. By definition, a mate is someone that is chosen by the moon Goddess. Your mate is supposed to be your partner for life. Someone that is bonded to you until the day either one of you dies.

Werewolves kill for their mate, they love, protect and worship the ground that their mate walk on. That is where my kind draws the line from the average werewolf. We do not believe in mates, they make you weak and vulnerable.

Ask anyone in the supernatural universe about us and they would call us insane. We deny nature itself and create our own worlds; one where mates do not exist, at least a world where we pretend that they’re nonexistent.

They call us . . . the inhumane Blackners.

A name that my kind is proud of. None of us have ever bonded before and we plan on keeping it that way until the day that we die. Emily Rider is the woman I’ve chosen to spend the rest of my life with, a woman that I’ve chosen and not a woman chosen by the moon goddess.

The decision to make her my woman was one that made me extremely happy. However, all of that had changed the day that we found out that she cannot have children. No one was angrier than my father of course. The news had brought with it great distress in my family. My father had always wanted grandchildren to carry on our family’s legacy and make us stronger. That was his one aim in life.

I thought that things were okay however; I thought that he would accept the grandchildren of my other brothers’ instead.

But I was clearly wrong for now he’s telling me to let another woman have my child. This is something that I cannot let happen. It would destroy Emily to find out what my father has planned.

“She is not your true mate, it shouldn’t be that hard. You need an heir to carry on your name. As such, you need to find a suitable woman to give you a child.” He snaps. “You do not have to love her and you can get rid of her as soon as the baby is born.”

I know by my father’s tone that he will not hear anything else that I have to say. His mind is made up and the only other option is to leave. I saw something similar happen already, my step-brother made the decision to disobey father and he was banished for his choice.

“What do you have to say?” He asks, threatening me to defy him.

My knuckles tighten at my sides and I feel a tick in my jaw as I face him. “If this is what you want, I will find someone to have my child but like you said, I will not love her, I will not cherish her, I will not provide for her, she will only be here to have my child and that is all.”

End.