Chapter 49. The Frozen Lake

Sean played with the curls in Cybele's hair while she set up an old toy train station on the floor. She hadn't realized that her hair had grown so long, and was thinking of cutting it herself, since no native could do it because they were forbidden to do so by the Alpha's authority, when she heard light footsteps approaching. She looked back and saw the young woman who was now Gael's second or only effective wife. She realized how beautiful she was. Light freckles, green eyes and red hair. She couldn't have been more than twenty years old. Cybele looked away when he saw the respect and devotion in her eyes, as he saw in all the locals, and turned his attention to Sean. Gael was very clever. He told the court that he would let her go after she gave him more children, because he had no intention of making them. There was a good side to that. Cybele wouldn't have to keep dodging him. That young woman was every man's dream. No man in his right mind wou