9. RESTLESS REACTION

HENRY'S POV

"My king, I'm not sure this is entirely advised." The whinny old man shudders and I smirk.

"You wanted me to go to Blue Ivy, we're going to Blue fucking Ivy." I tell him.

"But I didn't say in the middle of the night with no guards or soldiers."

I snort. "Cedric, I trained those soldiers, who would be protecting whom?."

Every soldier has fought me one on one before they are sworn in. I usually do it just for the sake of it, and because my wolf enjoys beating people to a pulp but if they pass or tap out before thirty minutes of sparing, they are cut. 

They need to be able to withstand pain, no one of Black Lotus is less of a fighter than I am. Ray was my first combat teacher, he is a brutal fighter and has taught all his soldiers same.

"So are you coming or not?." I ask him with a grin, without thinking about it, his eyes glaze over and he smiles. I nod and turn away for a bit of privacy as he links his mate and family about our trip.

My wolf is restless, happens a lot, I was going for a run - a border patrol when the idea came to me as my wolf kept nudging me out of our pack lands.

"Shall we, my butler?." I ask, willing my wolf to take over, with last orders at Eli and the security team, I sprint away, Cedric hot on my heels.

We didn't stop running for a full day through the thick of the forests and arrived at Blue Ivy the next night. Cedric did his thing and found an inn in human town close to the pack. Blue Ivy is a pack very close to a human town. Some town people are aware of their existence and they are cordial with them, doing business. The Alpha from what I hear owns a few restaurants and hotels in town. My dad would be proud. Humans and werewolves living close without war, he always talked about it. 

The next morning, I made sure to wake up before Cedric, or he wouldn't let me go anywhere alone with the fear of getting attacked. And with years of being a butler, he was definitely a early riser. But i was definitely going to make use of the opportunity of being a few days earlier to see the pack in its natural state.

I didn't have a specific destination, I just wanted a feel of the town anonymously without the title of King. Not many people knew me in this parts, I've only ever been once, it's a week journey on foot, four days by car and envoy, so I naturally don't come all the way down, travelling with soldiers always slow me down and make me a spectacle of others.

After a day of merry with local town people, I felt elated but yet antsy as the mating moon draws closer. I left the humans and snuck in pack lands with a few people visiting their restaurants and bars as well. As royalty I am also able to mask my aura when I want to so people aren't too scared of me.

My presence didn't cause any trigger because their pack is also rather close to another pack in the area, so I recon they get a lot of visitors from there. I had a good laugh at the rumors the people of Blue Ivy have of me. Some say I'm a human eating monster, others say I'm a demon not a real person.

They aren't really far off. I had to earn my respect both by fear and kindness, being such a young king at a rough time. Any one caught breaking the rules were killed, brutally.

When I get back to the inn, Cedric gives me a earful for leaving a whole day without him, that I could be assassinated any time. That didn't stop me from leaving even earlier the next day, to scout the borders of the pack, the mountains and access the security. I also heard about the pack high school from people in town and was curious.

The few humans that knew it existed called it a military private school of some sorts, but only our kind attends, apparently those who wants to join my soldiers are trained there, it was a simulator for the real training I would give. Or so they think.

Being so close to humans, Blue Ivy was a mixed pack, unlike Red Fire, some had human mates from what I hear, we had a few too, it wasn't unheard of, but still. I get along well with humans, having lived with them for so long but the rest of Red Fire are still unyielding.

I have also heard rumors that my mate was probably human, or that I left a human lover back in school that's why I don't want a mate. I usually let people say their rumors, so I didn't care to correct them that I attended an all boys school, I could count the number of girls I saw on one hand for the years I spent in the school till I went to college at 15!.

So the pack, its neigbor pack and the humans are closely knitted with business together. Again my father would be proud if he saw them. Although the pack members had their own pack lands and community far away from the humans, in the mountains and forest, they were a beautiful people.

I guessed they wouldn't allow just any wanderer into the pack school. I could reveal my identity, but I wanted to be as anonymous as I could so i disguised as a Teaching assistant and I squeeze my way in. Years in the military again taught how to be very stealthy. 

The TA's tag I "borrowed" - Derek was a kid on community service in the school, he had big bully vibes, but it was easy to neutralize him, stuff him in a janitor's closet and steal his ID. He had dark hair like mine, it was good enough.

Pushing the ID in my pocket, I hear the bell ring, but as soon as I turn to leave, a heart beat reached my ears before her scent did. Loud raps of her pounding heart and my nose led me around the hall. Then my eyes widen as I see her. 

A trio of human jocks round her up, I frown. She tries to move around them, but one grabs her back pack and her heart beat picks up, two pairs of thumps at a time, I stay and watch even though my wolf wants me to go over and rip their heads off their bodies.

Her scent is strong, but I can not decipher what it is, she is from a Beta family, that much I can tell, but it is also different, something faint I can't quite place, coated with deliciousness, that reminded me of my mom's special Chocolate cookies. Those cookies had every flavor infused and it worked.

My wolf rushes to the surface, and my frown deepens. confused at my own reaction. I push myself off the wall to be the knight and shining armor that I am, until she flings the guy holding her back pack across the room and my jaw falls.

The guy hits the floor with a thud and I see blood seep from his nose, I smirk to myself, suddenly proud. His friend came over to help him up, I let my wolf show through as I walked closer to them. At the sight of me they scamper away with their tails between their legs.

The last one looks like he's a tough cookie, so I pick him up like he's a turkey leg. Ugh, he has a stupid face.

"Hey, hey what the?....." His eyes widen as he sees me.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?."