“Are you going to stay home with us for a while?” My mom asks as I drive straight to the palace. She’s sitting next to me while I drive, hugging my arm like she’s been doing since I came back. “Yes, I need to pick up some things. I can stay to eat lunch,” I say because even though my mom is being incredibly annoying and clingy and my dad is still not one hundred percent recovered emotionally, they’re still my parents and I love them. I think almost dying made me appreciate them ever more than before. I arrive at the palace and I stay with my parents in the main living room, drinking tea while we wait for lunch to be ready. And while I’m fighting the biggest urge to call Georgie and explain I did not kiss that girl willingly.Also, I’m starting to ask myself: why did I fuss over Cain’s nose instead of getting mad at him for doing that shit in the first place? I should’ve… I don’t know. Maybe start another fight. Why didn’t I?My wolf was quiet in my mind during the whole ordeal, ju
{ Cain }“I’m ready to stay,” Justin says, sitting in the chair next to me as we have breakfast together. I can’t help but think that we haven’t had breakfast together in five years, “I had my freedom and I got bored of it, now I want to be here. You’re free to go back to your own life.”I spent a month at the Colucci palace, focused solely on Georgie. I didn’t even have time to learn how to be a good Alpha, I just had some bits and pieces of advice that Asheron gave me.“Brother… I’ve come to the horrible realization that I don’t want to be free,” I murmur, playing with the coffee cup in my hands. I’m not completely sure of what I’m saying and I’m very nervous, but the idea of going back to the Cain I was before is honestly unthinkable, “Both positions are yours and I know that. Prince and Alpha, they both belong to you by birthright, but… maybe we can share some of the responsibilities? I don’t know.”I just know I don’t want to leave. Not again.After the council meeting where Geor
My life has been crazy these past couple of weeks. After my plan was approved by the council, I got my ass to work and that has helped tremendously with my broken heart.Burying myself in work means I don’t have enough time to think about Asheron kissing other girls or Cain most definitely doing the same thing in Amsterdam. All I can think about is work, work, work. I want to make this project perfect so my people can find their mates… or just fall in love with someone. Whoever. We always need more marriages and more babies at the end of the day.But today is finally the day of the ceremony.If it goes perfect, that means the council will approve the Interpack Mating Ceremony as something we do every year. I have a good feeling about it, so I get out of bed with enthusiasm and when I go down to have breakfast with my dad, I hug him from behind. He’s the ONLY man worthy of my love and devotion, the only man who could never disappoint me. “Good morning, baby, are you excited?” he a
I’m incredibly nervous, and it only gets worse when the guests start arriving. It finally becomes real and I know anything could happen. Both good or bad.By the time the clock hits eight pm, three hundred and eighty-three people from the five packs in the country are gathered in my front yard. These are the singles interested in finding their fated mate. It’s not as many as I expected, but it’s more than enough for this first ceremony. I wait for all the council members to arrive… which means the two people I least want to see are right here, standing behind me as I approach the microphone to start this.I wish I hadn’t noticed, but Asheron looks incredibly handsome today. He’s wearing one of the suits that I gifted him. It’s a dark blue one, because I love how his light eyes pop with that color. Wearing that specific suit ls a low blow, to be honest. He could have worn anything else today I also noticed that Cain’s head is no longer in a buzz-cut (thank god) his shiny light brow
The couple finally stops kissing and they both hug me. The girl is crying and her face feels wet when she presses it against my neck, but I don’t mind. I’m very happy.I ask them where they’re from. The guy is from the Manelik pack and the girl is from the Kallistar pack. See? This beautiful union wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for me! Now the council won’t have any choice but to accept this as something we do constantly. They have to.I chat with the lucky couple for a few more seconds, but then I return to my own table. And as I’m walking there, I look at every single man like a hawk, waiting for my own third mate, since the two I used to have are sons of bitches. Literally, in Asheron’s case.And speaking of him, I make eye contact with him by accident and the way my heart pounds almost makes me trip, but I manage to save myself and look forward again, as if I don’t care about his existence. But I totally notice that he’s sitting around two men, and honestly, I like that.{
I try my fucking hardest to engage in conversation with Justin’s friends, but my stupid brain is not wired correctly. I can’t put my attention to things I don’t care about, like their conversation about which girl around here they want to fuck the most. My treacherous eyes move back to Georgie just five minutes later… and I see she’s not here anymore. That sets off all my alarms and forces me to stop pretending I don’t care. My heart starts beating hard against my chest and my wolf perks up, feeling like something isn’t right. She could be in danger. “Cain, where the fuck are you going?” my brother asks, but I ignore him and I walk, pushing bodies out of my way while I search for Georgie near the last place I saw her, but she’s not here. I look around for a while, starting to lose my patience… and then I finally see her.Walking next to the guy with the happy hands, one of which is still placed in her lower back. Her bare lower back. They’re walking away from the party, towards
Good, that’s good. Asheron will stop whatever nonsense is going on.I take a deep breath trying to stop the jealousy that was eating me inside out, but even though I try to go back to the party and stay away from this situation that has nothing to do with me… I lose the battle two minutes later.I curse myself before jogging after Asheron. I just have to make sure Georgie is alright. Princess Georgette Colucci is the quintessential good girl, I know deep down she would never do something like leave a party she threw to go hook up with someone other than her mate. Her two mates. But I just want to make sure that guy is not forcing himself on her or something. Maybe I didn’t see her smiling… maybe she was crying.“Check the kitchen,” Asheron orders and we split, looking for them through the palace… the very empty palace. With every empty room we enter and check, my heart races faster and my wolf gets more than ready to come out and fuck shit up. The options of where they could be ar
That catches me so off guard, I stumble with my words a bit.“I di— I hav— How—“Georgie mimics me childishly and she looks so ridiculous doing it that it almost makes me laugh... except I can’t because I know I'm in trouble. Georgie knows exactly the kind of things I've done in Amsterdam. I've told her that I go there with sex as the main goal, usually. I’ve given her extreme details. This time it wasn't like that, obviously, but I don't think she'll believe me."How do you know I was there?" I ask, because I know Justin didn't tell her, but Justin and my parents are the only ones who know I went there. Georgie's cheeks turn red with embarrassment but she holds my gaze, "You checked my location, didn't you?""That doesn't matter," she spits out and shakes her head and points at me, "The point here is that YOU left me and ran off to fuck other people. And then YOU left me and ran off to kiss other girls. So both of you can FUCK OFF! And if I want to kiss another man, I can."“Oh, yea