Fated to the Alpha King

After another two hours of listening to Keres talk about himself and how great his plans are, the meeting was finally over. Everyone knew to remain seated until Keres had left. Once he was gone, everyone relaxed a little and they slowly began to rise and make their way out of the conference room. Gianna quickly got up with the others and offered a polite smile and nod as a form of goodby at the three advisors that glanced her way. She no longer tried to speak to anyone in the room once Keres was gone. The others had made it very obvious that none of them could or would talk to her. She had made that mistake just once a few weeks ago. Gianna had tried to carefully speak to a few advisors, council members, and generals that had once been very close to her parents. She had wanted to see why they were suddenly supporting all of the crazy proposals that Keres was issuing. The nice ones were the ones that blatantly told Gianna that they would not talk to her or completely avoided her att

Nolan sighed as he checked the time on his phone, which he hoped was discreetly, for the fifteenth time. As the future alpha king surely, there were more important matters that he could be attending to. The she wolf in front of him was certainly attractive, but that was all he could say for her. What was her name again? April? Alice? Allison? Alyssa? Yes, that’s her name. Alyssa. She is the only child of Alpha Scott of the Harvest Moon Pack. Sighing, Nolan tried to contain his boredom as he listened to Alyssa drone on about herself, shopping, and the latest gossip from her pack. This date was slowly killing him. Nolan also had an issue with the way that she had spoken to the waitress several times that was serving them. He did not believe in talking down on or treating anyone as if they were not worthy of kindness or respect due to their position or job. Every job and position had a purpose within the kingdom to help keep everything working smoothly. Nolan had quickly seen that the s

Opening the door to their rooms, Gianna sighed as she was greeted by the sight of Sophia tracing patterns from one of the books that she had found for her. She had said that there were some things that she had found that she wanted to try the next time that they go out. As soon as she heard the door open, Sophia stopped what she was doing and hopped up to hug Gianna. “You were gone forever,” she said, wrapping her small arms around Gianna’s legs. “What took so long?”“Keres was telling us about another plan of his,” Gianna said, wrinkling her nose. “What are you drawing over there,” she asked, nodding toward the book and paper that Sophia had just abandoned. “I am practicing for when we go to the woods again. Can we go tonight,” Sophia asked hopefully.“Umm..I’m not sure it will safe tonight to try sneaking out. Let’s try tomorrow night. I think I made Keres very mad today, so he might try having us watched or something,” Gianna admitted softly. “I will look tonight, and if everythi

“Wake up,” a little voice pouted. “I’m hungry and we have to leave soon.”“Go away,” Gianna mumbled, snuggling deeper into her pillow. “I just need five more minutes.”“You have said that for the last hour,” the little voice said exasperated. “Get up now,” the voice demanded and Gianna swore she heard the stomp of a foot. “I will. Just give me five more minutes,” Gianna said tiredly. She almost smiled when she heard the sound of footsteps moving away from the bed. Success. Now I can sleep a little more, she thought just as what felt like a wave of ice cold water crashed down onto her soaker her and her bed. Gianna bolted upright with a screech. “What in h-, what in the world Sophia ,” she yelled catching herself as her teeth began to chatter. “Wh-why did y-you pour water on m-me,” she stammered as she got out of her sopping wet bed to stand on the flood dripping by her bed. Her teeth were chattering as she took the towel that Sophia was holding out in offering. “It is almost noon,

Without a moment to spare Gianna hurried herself and Sophia down the hall to the smaller dining room frequently used by the royal family when they were not entertaining. At 12:00 on the dot, Gianna and Sophia stepped into the dining room. “Ah, my dear cousins,” Keres greeted. “I am so glad that you could join me for lunch today.” “It’s our pleasure,” Gianna said with a forced smile and small curtsey. Thankfully she saw Sophia follow her movement out of the corner of her eye. Sophia had been just as upset as Gianna when she learned what Gianna had overheard last night. It had taken a lot to get her to clam down enough to play an oblivious part for this surprise lunch. Keres smiled in acknowledgement of their proper greeting. Waving them over he had one of the waiters pull out the two seats on his left hand side. “Join me. We have much to discuss.” If only you knew how much we would like to discuss with you, Gianna thought as she smiled and took the seat closest to Keres. As