The Prince’s Unwilling mate

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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 regretting completing 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 madefeel loved and safe.

It was not long after we made love that she fell asleep and I just laid in bed watching her. She would probably teasethat 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 deemedworthy to givea mate as perfect as Ayla, 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 lovetoo. The first tI visited her parents, her father toldhow 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 related to Ayla’s tormenter. The problem is she grew up with David too, so what if she liked him better for Ayla? What if Kate cannot stand me?

By the tI 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 samount of work in mean I was making long days. Ayla 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. Ayla 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 tellslaughing.

“What can I say, I love your granddaughter and I am coming 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 plain creamer in Ayla and nothing in mine just as I like it. I’m not sure how her grandmother likes it. But Emmy shoosoff smiling as she rummages through the cupboards where the creamers and sugar are.

I didn’t plan 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 Ayla readslike an open book and I promised her my honesty. So I tell her all about my fears, and my insecurities and I let her comfort me. Listening to her really makesfeel 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 Ayla andto have a family eventually and I want my pups, our pups to be close to all their family members. So when Ayla tells me Kate wants to be the pack’s lead warrior, and how she is actually in the running to becone an idea forms in my mind. I would have loved to stay in bed with Ayla for a little longer, but we need to get up

and get ready if we want to make it to the plane in time. So I had gotten out of bed already picking out my outfit for the day. Meaning I could text Mike without Ayla 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 becthe 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.

Only seconds later I heard the ding tellingMike had replied: “Sure, Prince Griffin anything for my King and Queen to be, Besides training with your sister–in–law and teaching her sKrav Maga sounds fun”

Smiling I put the phone away and hopped under the shower, a short lonely shower. This was the first tsince the first weekend she stayed at the castle, that we did not shower together. But not only was her Grandparent’s ha lot smaller than the castle meaning everyone would hear us. We would not have made the plan to leave in 45 minutes.

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if we showered together. Only seeing her get into the bathroom afterdressed in nothing but her robe madelose focus.

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In the end, we managed to make it to the plane in time. Barely in time. however and it was not Ayla and me who made us run late. 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 Ayla and I would still be so in love, barely able to keep our hands off each other. Just as her Grandparents are now. Ayla had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulders.

Ayla 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 forto fill this comfortable silence with chatter and so I got out my laptop to get smore work done. I had finished everything I needed to do this week. But it would not hurtto 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. Sof the work I was doing now would becher 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 would complete 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 withcwith so many rules and complications. I hated how since we didn’t have a normal start it felt like every tthings were good I had to tell her of another rule or complication 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 Ayla. 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 becoming too much for her.

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