5- I Take Her As My Chosen Mate

Alexander Ironheart- The Alpha King 

I was listening to the boring speech by the former Alpha of the Black Stone pack, Alpha Magnus. He was still the same dimwitted man I had left five years back.

I am Alexander Ironheart. The Lycan King.

Five years back I came to this pack for a training session and found my mate here. She spent some time with me and then decided to reject me.

Lola always wanted a powerful mate by her side, so she chose the beta of this pack who was a widow and had a thirteen-year-old daughter. I could never tell her that I was not a mere warrior but a crown prince.

I wasn’t allowed to give away my true identity until and unless I had a Luna by my side.  It was way easier to get a mate when you are an Alpha King. But I wanted someone who could accept me as a commoner.

“Lexi! The Alpha is waiting for your signature on the contract.” I straightened when I got my beta’s mind link. 

Right now, they all were treating me as a Royal advisor, Lexi.

I tried to suppress my Lycan aura and looked into the eyes of Alpha Magnus. His stupid triplet sons were there and seemed mentally absent. 

They had their Luna ceremony last night and now might be missing their mate. From the smell in the air, I could easily tell they kept her busy before attending this meeting.

I ran a quick glance at the file placed before me and pushed it away.

“There are still a few conditions that need to be written here, Magnus.” Alpha Magnus seemed irritated but obviously couldn’t let it show on his face.

“That was the reason I wanted King Alexander to attend this meeting.” He leaned back into his chair and had a small smile playing on his lips, “Ask him to take a chosen mate so that we all can meet him and discuss our problems openly.”

I gazed at the fuc*ker and brought several lines on my forehead, “We all are representing Lycan King here. The king is not supposed to meet every Tom, Dick, and Harry.”

His sons seemed offended but chose to stay quiet. 

Smart move.

I usually prefer not to attend such meetings but today I was curious to see if Lola was doing fine. She never tried to deny the attraction between us but her hunger for power made her reject me.

Her loss.

The poor woman rejected a Lycan King.

Just then the doors to the office opened and the mates of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma stepped inside. However, one of the she-wolf went still and stopped at the door.

Lola.

She was still the same after five years. She was looking at me with those black eyes. Due to the mate bond, I used to worship her but after the rejection, she was almost a nobody for me.

Her small mouth moved, and she said my name silently, “Lexi!” 

Nobody seemed to notice it. The women started taking their places alongside their mates. Lola also sat next to Beta Logan Bennett. 

Alpha triplets were eyeing their girl who was seated shyly close to them and had an uncanny resemblance to Lola. The elder triplet whose name must be Feric or Derek whatever fu*ck it was, he was grinding his mouth in her cheek.

Urgh. That’s the reason I hated these uncompetitive packs. In an official meeting, they were trying to make out forgetting the office decorum.

“If you want you can sit on her lap,” I suggested with a smirk and shifted my focus to my tab screen.

“Alexander!” I heard Beta Brian’s warning through the mind link who was also my best friend, “We are not here to remark on their relationships.”

The triplets must have felt the insult because after my remark they all straightened up in their seats. I could feel Lola’s eyes on my face, but I ignored the attention.

The poor woman must be thinking how a warrior was seated as the King’s advisor. After Alpha Magnus added some conditions to the contract, I scribbled my signatures on the document.

After the signatures, Luna Camila stood up and clasped her hands in excitement, “I think we all must head to the dining hall and have lunch…”

Her voice trailed off when the door behind her opened and the room was filled with stunned silence. A young she-wolf who had the perfect body stepped inside completely naked carrying the tray having drinks.

What the hell! Wasn’t it banned to keep naked slaves in the packhouse?

I was the first one to leave my seat abruptly and reached her in jiffy. Taking the tray from her hands, I almost tossed it aside causing the glasses to shatter on the floor. I started unbuttoning my white shirt.

“Alpha Magnus!” I said between clenched teeth and wrapped my shirt around the girl, “You need to explain this, or I am strangling your neck this very minute.” I practically growled in fury.

She was pulling the lapels to hide her chest and my shirt was barely covering her thighs.

“P…please. Don’t fight him… s-sir…” the poor girl was shivering in fright, “he doesn’t… have a hand in this. I … I made a mistake and… and I deserve th … this punishment…” she said and looked into my eyes.

Damn. Those blue sapphires were staring back at me.

“Nobody deserves this punishment!” by now Beta Brian was standing beside me. The Alpha triplet's faces had turned ashen white. 

The Luna was covering her mouth with her hand. 

I was standing there just in my pants trying to check the slave for any injuries, “Are there any wounds of which I am unaware?” 

I asked her gently because she seemed to lose her sanity.

“As you can check it, sir. She doesn’t have any bruises. She is putting up an act!” The youngest Alpha brother tried to protest.

The girl who seemed to be their forced slave nodded her head quietly and turned around to show me the back of her head.

I lifted her silver hair and spotted a red patch on her skull. It seemed like a fresh bruise.

“Who did this?” I asked her icily. All the members were now on their feet, and I could sense, they were holding their breaths.

“Answer him, girl! Who did this to you?” Brian asked the girl, but his eyes were roaming on the pack’s officials.

“H… he did this.” The girl was pointing towards the beta of the pack, “And …. And pack alphas wanted me to serve them as a slave.”

“She is lying!” The middle triplet raised his voice until I looked straight into his eyes and my eyes flashed red. He must have felt my Lycan trying to come forward, “S…sir!” 

I was having difficulty in controlling my aura and Alpha triplets somehow had become submissive. They bowed their heads and tilted it sideways to show their submission.

“Pack your bags, she-wolf!” my voice boomed through the office, “You will accompany us to the Royal palace.”

I went to my seat to pick up the file when the eldest triplet walked to me, “With due respect, you can’t take her anywhere, sir. You just signed a contract. Asylum is no longer allowed unless it’s a genuine case. You can’t take a she-wolf from my pack unless she is mated to you.”

I went still and then turned slowly to face him.

The fu*cker was trying to maintain eye contact with the Lycan King.

With me!

“Fine!” I took off the gold chain from my neck that had a family heirloom ring in it, “I take her as my chosen mate.” I clasped the chain behind her neck, “Now, no one can stop her from leaving this pack.”