Beauty Sleep - Chapter 12

Matty’s POV

It’s been two whole months since Shannen left for Beta Academy. It might as well have been two years. That’s how much I’ve missed her. Killian wasn’t happy, either. She wouldn’t let the marking or mating process be completed before she left. As she didn’t want people treating her differently because of who she was mated to. Which is stupid because Coach Carter went with her to Beta Academy. If she doesn’t get preferential treatment because of him. I don’t know who would.

Since she left, I have worked ten hours each day with my dad. I have never spent so much with the man in my life. Not that I ever wanted to either. Meeting after meeting. Policy after policy, not forgetting the endless amount of paperwork and reports, I have had to read and write. Oh, and the personal projects the Royal Beta oversees. Like Beta Academy and the royal guard. The list goes on and on.

Then, when Dad tells me we have to stay late for a meeting with the Wolf Council and the Wolf