Elder Tom
“Have any of you seen her yet?”
“Who?”
“The supposed Luna Queen”
“No, not yet”
“Sorry for the delay, good morning to you all, Elder Council”
“Good Morning to the Alpha King Tyler, Retired Alpha King Zachary Luna Queen Daria, Royal Beta Cory and Lady Astrid”
“Please be seated everyone, I have gathered us all here for one reason and it is to make an announcement and also my companions here has some announcements of their own to make, I will permit them to say their pieces before I do starting with Lady Astrid as you seem to enjoy calling her”
Astrid walks to the center podium “thank you my King, I would first like to address that and kindly ask that going forward I be referred to or just simply be called Astrid, I am Astrid Jameson daughter of Alpha Aaron Jameson and it is high time I act as such, I would hereby relinquish any ties or claims to the title of Luna Queen and do apologize to you my King for my years of ceaseless banter, I would also like to apologize to my father, I am sorry papa for being stubborn and blinded by a crown I was never meant to wear and I wish to publicly accept my handsome mate Carson Wade whom I hope to grow old with and have a family one day, this is all I wish to say”
“Very well, you may step down, Royal Beta the floor is yours”
“Thank you, good morning all, I simply wish to announce that I Cory Solomon have also found my mate, who I have accepted and she in turn has accepted me and will be the Royal Beta Female once we have our mating ceremony”
“May I ask a question please” “Of course Carson”
“Ahem, good morning to all, I would just to know, considering Ash is the daughter of an Alpha, she would be in his territory, correct?” “correct”
“Then considering I now live here and am in process of building my home thanks to your generosity my King plus I am in training, what happens now?”
“I think that is a conversation best had with your mate Carson, but I do appreciate you being thoughtful of me, if Astrid wishes to settle here with you that’s fine, if you wish to go to her fathers pack with her after your training, that’s also fine” “thank you my King”
“Alright, now that those announcements have been made, we will do the pack joining ritual here and once you’ve set your mating ceremony the official link will be established, Alpha Aaron, I think it would be best for you to do Carsons for now and Cory you can do your mates’ I will do the official one at your mating ceremonies”
I sit seething, looking at these Two unknown mongrels being tied to us, tied to our noble bloodline, anyway no matter, once we get to meet this mate of his I will know for sure how we stand, Astrid may be a lost cause but my daughter will most certainly come through for her father.
“Marvellous, well let me be the first to welcome you both formally to our kingdom connection, now it’s time for my announcement which most of you would already know, I too have found my mate, however she does not know that she is because for some reason she has yet to get her wolf and I intend to slowly court her to give the bond time to form between us and I would appreciate if no one would mention anything outside of this room because from what I’ve seen of her, if it’s sprung on her she will take flight and I will behead anyone who causes her to flee from me”
“So, she’s basically a wolfless, no better than a human” “watch it Elder Tom! That’s my daughter-in-law you’re talking about there” so even the former King is defending her “I am simply concerned my King, that is all”
“Concerned about what Tom?”
I look past the passive aggression of him not putting my title before my name “what can a wolfless Luna Queen do for the Kingdom, I mean other than bare heirs, she serves no purpose, no one will take her seriously my King or what if there is a war or something like that, what will she contribute? Will we have to shorten on our ranks to have guards to protect her? I do find this very hard to accept I must say”
“Well I suppose it’s a good thing I am not asking for your acceptance then”
“I truly don’t see what the issue is Elder Tom, my son is strong and with his destined mate he will be stronger, there is nothing more powerful than a mate bond and what you’re saying is that he should not accept her after waiting so many years to meet her, you must have lost your marbles!” even the retired Queen is at me.
“This is unbelievable, so if we can not approach her, how will we be able to judge if she’s fit or not to rule”
*SLAM* “THAT IS NOT FOR YOU TO DECIDE YOU OLD FOOL! SHE IS MY MATE MINE! AND NO ONE WILL STAND BETWEEN ME AND HER, NOT IF THEY VALUE THEIR LIVES AND TRUST ME ELDER TOM, MATED OR NOT I WILL NOT HESITATE TO END YOU IF YOU DARE DEFY ME OR DO ANYTHING TO MY MATE, I WILL START WITH YOUR HEIR AND WORK MY WAY DOWN TO THE LAST!”
“Does anyone else have any objections?”
The other cowards say nothing, simply sit in their seats looking on in fear “then we are adjourned”
Okay, I suppose it's more than time to face the music and stop trying to run away, I do feel bad when I see him and how he looks at me so longingly and I guess it really is unfair of me to hold him to my father's standard and even that is a mess in a bucket because he was this way all these years because of something beyond his control, sigh. I guess if I can forgive my dad I can give Tyler a chance, Gods help me, it's late evening when I go to the kitchen and whip up something to eat, then go shower and change, I slip on a Red strapless dress and a pair of heels, I put the food on a tray and take his elevator up to his floor, I can tell he is still in his office so I head straight to his room and set up dinner on his balcony, then I slip back out of his room and into his private kitchen to get Two glasses for our wine. I grabbed the glasses and turn to leave when a female blocks my way, standing behind me with her hands folded glaring at me "and just who might you be?" "I'm Red and
“I really do hope so Simon, for your own sake” He looks very hurt and dejected, he is smiling but it’s in his eyes, I’ve got too much shit going on to be concerned about his love life or lack of, I must admit though I am kind of curious as to what sort of help she really can offer me, all she’s offered me in the past is nothing but trouble but she was never able to do what she did a while ago, make my arm decay, that means there is something she’s got that she’s not telling me but I can’t go back on myself and seek her out, I will wait and see if she will approach me again on her own with her offer this time with some proper offerings so we can do some proper planning and get things done. Cass I am so damn angry! I slam the door to my chamber and change my clothing, that Lord Umi, shattered my plan and even my fall back plan, if he had just rejected me I would have accepted it and had Simon to fall back on but not only did he reject me but now he has trampled on any chance I had wi
She chuckles then reaches out her hand and rubs it along my hand and my arm begins to decay, I grab her by the throat “what the fuck are you doing Cass?” she bites her lip staring at me “mmm I do love it when a man takes control, I love it rough!” she practically growled out. She touched my arm again and it slowly returned to it’s normal form and it is then I release her, she holds her throat and keeps her eyes on me, I see nothing but desire in them and chuckle shaking my head “Simon would be very hurt if he saw you right now Cass” “Simon is beneath me Lord Umi, the only one worthy of me, of my body and everything I have to offer is you” I may be an under lord, the lowest of the low, perhaps the scum of the earth but even I know this is extraordinarily despicable “after that man risked his life for you and then came to the death plains looking for you and brought you back you would say something like that, what kind of a heartless being are you?!” “That is exactly what I am right
Lord Umi I pace around my bedroom, I’ve unable to get any proper rest since this whole thing happened, and then there’s Cass, I have been keeping an eye on her since Simon supposedly brought her back from the undead plains but I am still not convinced that it is her, the way she acts and speaks are different, subtle but different. The scouts and Tacamorga have brought in new members and they have already been turned but the numbers are not nearly enough to complete my mission, I intend to open my portal right at the center of the Royal City and begin wreaking havoc there then let my darkness spread across all the land. I need to feed my core to increase my strength, the more souls I get the stronger my core becomes, the Devourant is also hidden somewhere in the Royal City, I need to find it so I can corrupt it, it will most certainly play a key part in my plans, that Warlock has told me it is in the City but he can not detect it’s exact location for reasons unknown to us both, I do
“She’s even mated?” “Yes, she is and to the Lycan King no less” “And you had no other pups?” “No, it is just her, make no mistake though, Adriel and I did try but Mali placed a spell on him that casted onto me as well, we were unable to breed together and the healers were always unable to find the reason why even though we are both healthy, it was because of Mali and her spell, she would make him go to her and mate and recast the spell so he would not remember mating with her, she is now with pup for him” “But how could Mali think she has any claim or right to the throne? Has she lost her senses?!” “Only Mali knows the answer to that question father” “Where is she?” “In the dungeon” “And her mate?!” “I just sent him to her in the dungeon to mate and mark her so his wolf would not go feral” “WHAT?!” “He did nothing wrong father, he had no idea she was his true mate, he spent all these years loving and thinking he was bonded to me, so naturally now that the false bond has bee
“Please unchain him” “your majesty are you sure?” “yes, I want him to live and he wants to live too, if not for himself, for his unborn pup” the guard releases his chains and he looks around “hey, hey, focus on me, I will send you to her, you have a short amount of time together okay?” he nodded once again. I opened my mind link to my guards and quickly explain the situation to them and told them to give them some privacy and to surround the holding cell she’s in with a protective barrier so neither of them could escape until I let him out, once they’ve assured me it was done I opened a portal for him and smile sadly at him “go ahead” he watches me then runs through the portal, I close it with a sigh “ I’m much to old for all this nonsense” “well if you are old I suppose we’ve well past the fossilized stages in life then hmm?” I laugh “quite witty aren’t you?” “what can I say, I’ve had years of practice” I laugh even harder “oh my I really did need that laugh, thank you, I suppose as