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    Refusing to mark my Darling might have been the hardest thing I have ever done. Deep down I knew


    she was not ready for it yet. The only thing that would be worse than her regrettingpleting the


    mating process would be her rejecting me. And more and more I grew to believe that she would not


    reject me. Now even if we had an argument she still made me feel loved and safe.


    It was not long after we made love that she fell asleep and I justid in bed watching her. She would


    probably tease me that I was being a freak. Maybe I was but I didn’t care all I could do was stare at her.


    Wondering why the Moon Goddess deemed me worthy to give me a mate as perfect as A, With


    realizing just how amazing my mate was, I felt nervous for tomorrow. Her sister Kate was the only


    family I hadn’t met yet, and I needed her to love me too. The first time I visited her parents, her father


    told me how close the girls had always been. How Kate looked up to her older sister, and about the fact


    she had almost rejected her mate for being rted to A’s tormenter. The problem is she grew up


    with David too, so what if she liked him better for A? What if Kate cannot stand me?


    By the time I finally fell asleep I had nightmares about Kate hating me. I woke up early partly because


    of the nightmares, partly because I am used to waking up at the crack of dawn now. Having fewer days


    to do the same amount of work in mean I was making long days. A was still fast asleep snuggled up


    to me. I know she hates getting up, and I know what I can do to make her morning a little better.


    Making sure I do not


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    wake her I extract myself from her hug and get out of bed. I managed to find my pajama pants since I


    never bothered with getting dressed for bed yesterday. A stirs and mumbles, not wanting to wake


    her up I stop searching for my pajama top and just make my way to the kitchen.


    I’m not surprised to see her Grandmother is already making breakfast for everybody.


    “You seem like a man, that wants to spoil his mate,” She tells meughing.


    “What can I say, I love your granddaughter and I aming to make sure to prove it to her every day” I


    answer her as I follow her her finger to where she points.


    She is pointing to the coffeemaker, she already brewed a pot. So I just pour the three of us a mug.


    Putting in just a little in creamer in A and nothing in mine just as I like it. I’m not sure how her


    grandmother likes it. But Emmy shoos me off smiling as she rummages through the cupboards where


    the creamers and sugar are.


    I didn’t n to tell her I was nervous to meet Kate, I didn’t want to make he worry for me. Or even


    worse pity me. In retrospect, my nerves probably did not help with yesterday’s situation. Part of my


    reluctance to tell her is because I don’t want to drag up those memories. But A reads me like an


    open book and I promised her my honesty. So I tell her all about my fears, and my insecurities and I let


    herfort me. Listening to her really makes me feel better about all of this. Still, I want


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    to do everything I can to make Kate love me. As a brother, I want A and me to have a family


    eventually and I want my pups, our pups to be close to all their family members. So when A tells me


    Kate wants to be the pack’s lead warrior, and how she is actually in the running to be one an idea


    forms in my mind. I would have loved to stay in bed with A for a little longer, but we need to get up


    and get ready if we want to make it to the ne in time. So I had gotten out of bed already picking out


    my outfit for the day. Meaning I could text Mike without A seeing it. He was my personal bodyguard.


    I didn’t need one but it. was custom for the royal family to have a bodyguard with them when they


    traveled to a new pack. Mike was still in search of his mate, he was waiting for his mate. To be able to


    move to their pack if that was what they needed. If not or if he would not find his mate before his 25th


    birthday he would be the castle’s lead warrior.


    He wasn’t just a great warrior, he was a great instructor to and trained the young wolves in the pack.


    He even managed to be excellent in Krav. Maga a human self–defense sport. That suited the strengths


    and weaknesses we as wolves have.


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    Only secondster I heard the ding telling me Mike had replied: “Sure, Prince Griffin anything for my


    King and Queen to be, Besides training with your sister–inw and teaching her some Krav Maga


    sounds fun”


    Smiling I put the phone away and hopped under the shower, a short lonely shower. This was the first


    time since the first weekend she stayed at the castle, that we did not shower together. But not only was


    her Grandparent’s home a lot smaller than the castle meaning everyone would hear us. We would not


    have made the n to leave in 45 minutes.


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    if we showered together. Only seeing her get into the bathroom after me dressed in nothing but her


    robe made me lose focus.


    ***


    In the end, we managed to make it to the ne in time. Barely in time. however and it was not A and


    me who made us runte. Emmy seemed to at least be a little ashamed about it but Quinn seemed


    more proud than anything. And me? I wasn’t bothered by it I hoped that in fifty years A and I would


    still be so in love, barely able to keep our hands off each other. Just as her Grandparents are now. A


    had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulders.


    A had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulders and her Grandparents seemed to be dozing off


    too. The silence in the cabin was quiet and peaceful and I loved it. There was no need for me to fill this


    comfortable silence with chatter and so I got out myptop to get some more work done. I had finished


    everything I needed to do this week. But it would not hurt me to get a headstart for next week. Maybe


    this could mean I would be able to work a little less next week. In all honesty, my workload was getting


    to me. It was temporary though in hopefully a few months, my queen, my Luna would move in with me.


    Some of the work I was doing now would be her burden.


    Looking at her peacefully sleeping face on my shoulder I wondered if she was aware how much work


    being the Queen would be. Or how we would be expected to take over the throne pretty soon after we


    wouldplete the mating ceremony. After all, I was already twenty–one the age the Crown Prince or


    Princess would usually take over from their


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    parents. Being a king or Queen was a tough job. With that, it made sense that the old King and Queen


    retired around their forties or fifties.


    Another thing we needed to discuss soon, I hated how being with me came with so many rules and


    complications. I hated how since we didn’t have a normal start it felt like every time things were good I


    had to tell her of another rule orplication in being with me. I no longer felt the fear she would walk


    away from it all. From me! Still, ever since. yesterday, there was an unsettling feeling in the pit of my


    stomach. The feeling something bad was going to happen with A. No matter how. hard I tried I could


    not shake it. All I could do now was hope that it was just the nerves about meeting up with Kate.


    Because I could not bear the thought of losing her, whether it was because of my own mistakes. Or my


    job, my title eventually bing too much for her.


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