SpenserIt still felt so unreal. I came back after giving up my title and my pack thinking I would join the army and just live a solitary life if she didn’t want me. I made peace with that fact. I believed it to be fact. I believed that the damage done was too great and that Alison would never be able to forgive me. I believed she would never be able to trust me, never mind love me.I sat listening to her father as he paced back and forth, and she told him about her conversation with Ralph and I would never admit it out loud, but I was a little jealous. Ralph was the one who finally made her realize that she was in love with me. It wasn’t because of the mate bond, or something I did. Ralph, who I knew was also in love with Alison, convinced her to give me a chance.RalphI leaned against the wall as my heart shattered. I had been eavesdropping and hearing how happy her father was that she finally saw how much Spenser loved her. It just shattered me. I loved her. She already broke my h
AlisonNot having my best friend around was really tough, but my dad and especially Spenser made it a little easier. Who was I kidding?! Spenser made it a lot easier! Now that I had finally given him a real chance, and opened my heart completely, life was so much better. We spent the mornings combing through the books to find out exactly what procedure we had to follow to get officially mated.We spent the afternoons on one of my projects to do better things for everyone in the kingdom, and then in the evenings after dinner, Spenser and I made love until the early morning hours. It was the perfect work-life balance in my opinion.About a month later, I was standing in my room being fitted for the enormous dress I had to wear on that day when I heard whispers coming down the passage. I didn’t turn around since there had been whispers going up and down the passages since the day everyone found out Spenser and I were to be mated!“Tell me you aren’t wearing that!” Ralph’s amused voice ec
AlisonMy father walked me down the passage to the chapel and I felt butterflies flapping their wings inside my stomach! We followed all the laws that had to be followed to make this official and legal, but tweaked some of it where it wouldn’t affect any of the legalities. Our mating ceremony was a new beginning for our kingdom and Spenser and I wanted it to be unique, but legal.The double doors opened and as I walked in, guided by my father, my emotions overwhelmed me. I didn’t know if I should be laughing or crying for joy. It was a moment I didn’t allow myself to think I would ever have. I hoped, but I always told myself not to. When Spenser threw me away, I thought it was over.I believed I would never have love. I believed I would never have the chance to be happy. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would be the queen about to get mated and face the possibility of the perfect future. My eyes met Spenser’s and I saw the love he felt. A love he had proven to me over and over,
AlisonThere had never been a female ruling over the people in our kingdom, which meant if Spenser and I were married, he was actually supposed to have become the king and taken over from me. Thankfully, Spenser didn’t insist. While Spenser and I took a short holiday in the pixie kingdom, my father did some research and by the time we returned, we were ready to present Spenser with a brand-new title.I didn’t want to give him the title of prince because that just made him sound like he was my son, which was just wrong! He didn’t expect a thing as we walked out into the square and all of our people were gathered for the weekly get-together. He was so busy greeting people when we arrived, that he also didn’t even notice the table set up with the sword polished to perfection.“Good evening, everyone!” I shouted over the loud roar of chatter going on and silence fell in the square. I just loved seeing the slight look of confusion in his eyes when he finally noticed the table beside me. “A
AlisonAll through the passages, people were preparing for the fight. I made sure our weakest people were moved into the castle that had been turned into a fortress, while Spenser made sure that the army was prepared. A short while later, we moved out with me in the front to meet our enemy. This was the part of our lives that I had come to despise.Why couldn’t our kind just live in peace? Why were we constantly fighting over territory or power?! It had to be a male thing, surely! I couldn’t imagine females fighting like that just to gain more. We made our way to the northern border and in the distance, I could hear the howls coming through the forest. Something told me this wasn’t going to be a huge war that lasted for many years.If it was me, I would bring my entire army and fight once, whether I won or lost. I wouldn’t drag my people through a twenty-year war, but then again, I guess nobody planned for a war to last that long. They broke through the brush, and we got our first sig
SpenserI understood why Alison was so furious. Otsana had found the one damn loophole to get back into the city by joining the wolves in the north. Now that I was no longer the alpha of the pack, whatever rules I made could be changed by the new alpha, and it was the opportunity that Otsana’s father needed to get her back in.Although she was still banned by Alison, she could enter the city with the northern army, and she did. Alison couldn’t kill her. The same way, she couldn’t kill her when Alison took over this kingdom. The worst part of it all was that I caused this. If I hadn't kept having my affair with Otsana after I rejected Alison, none of this would probably have happened!What was meant to be a celebration, quickly turned sour and Alison sent everyone home, spoiling the fun for everyone. Ralph and I made sure the wolves in the north had a place to stay for the night and that they wouldn’t be any trouble and I finally made it back to the castle a couple of hours later. I fo
OtsanaThings weren’t going according to plan! First, they killed the king that said he would marry me as soon as we won the war. Then they invited us to this ridiculous celebration where they could celebrate winning right in our faces, and lastly, that damn wench had to rub it in my face that she was now Spenser’s mate!I really hated her! I hated her more than I could put into words. I wanted to scratch her eyes out, cut out her tongue and feed the rest of her to some creature!! I could see why the old king wanted her killed, and cursed the person who didn’t follow through! If Alison was never here, Spenser would have been mine, and we would have had a happy life together!There had to be some way I could still salvage things. There had to be some way for me to win back Spenser and to get rid of that … thing he called a mate!AlisonI never trusted that woman, so when Ralph and his pretty little mate came to inform me that Otsana was trying to spread poison about me, I wasn’t surpri
AlisonI walked into our bedroom and Spenser was so pale that I was almost too scared to touch him. The doctors gave him the antidote, and he was still alive, but nobody was sure if he was going to make it. It was a little premature to have Otsana arrested for murder, and I was probably testing the fates far too much, but I just couldn’t allow her to get away with what she tried to do.I touched his hand, and it drew me back to the present. His hand was incredibly cold, and I closed my eyes and listened for his heart beat. It was still there but it was weak. I can’t lose him. Not after I was the one who came up with the hair-brained idea of letting Otsana in! I was just as much to blame as she was, wasn’t I?!With one decision, I changed the course of our lives and probably caused the death of my mate before we properly had a life! Tears filled my eyes as I clung to his hand, softly kissing it. I can’t lose him. I just couldn’t. I couldn’t imagine my life without him!“Hey.” His voice