HENRY'S POV
"My king, I'm not sure this is entirely advised." The whinny old man shudders and I smirk.
"You wanted me to go to Blue Ivy, we're going to Blue fucking Ivy." I tell him.
"But I didn't say in the middle of the night with no guards or soldiers."
I snort. "Cedric, I trained those soldiers, who would be protecting whom?."
Every soldier has fought me one on one before they are sworn in. I usually do it just for the sake of it, and because my wolf enjoys beating people to a pulp but if they pass or tap out before thirty minutes of sparing, they are cut.
They need to be able to withstand pain, no one of Black Lotus is less of a fighter than I am. Ray was my first combat teacher, he is a brutal fighter and has taught all his soldiers same.
"So are you coming or not?." I ask him with a grin, without thinking about it, his eyes glaze over and he smiles. I nod and turn away for a bit of privacy as he links his mate and family about our trip.
My wolf is restless, happens a lot, I was going for a run - a border patrol when the idea came to me as my wolf kept nudging me out of our pack lands.
"Shall we, my butler?." I ask, willing my wolf to take over, with last orders at Eli and the security team, I sprint away, Cedric hot on my heels.
We didn't stop running for a full day through the thick of the forests and arrived at Blue Ivy the next night. Cedric did his thing and found an inn in human town close to the pack. Blue Ivy is a pack very close to a human town. Some town people are aware of their existence and they are cordial with them, doing business. The Alpha from what I hear owns a few restaurants and hotels in town. My dad would be proud. Humans and werewolves living close without war, he always talked about it.
The next morning, I made sure to wake up before Cedric, or he wouldn't let me go anywhere alone with the fear of getting attacked. And with years of being a butler, he was definitely a early riser. But i was definitely going to make use of the opportunity of being a few days earlier to see the pack in its natural state.
I didn't have a specific destination, I just wanted a feel of the town anonymously without the title of King. Not many people knew me in this parts, I've only ever been once, it's a week journey on foot, four days by car and envoy, so I naturally don't come all the way down, travelling with soldiers always slow me down and make me a spectacle of others.
After a day of merry with local town people, I felt elated but yet antsy as the mating moon draws closer. I left the humans and snuck in pack lands with a few people visiting their restaurants and bars as well. As royalty I am also able to mask my aura when I want to so people aren't too scared of me.
My presence didn't cause any trigger because their pack is also rather close to another pack in the area, so I recon they get a lot of visitors from there. I had a good laugh at the rumors the people of Blue Ivy have of me. Some say I'm a human eating monster, others say I'm a demon not a real person.
They aren't really far off. I had to earn my respect both by fear and kindness, being such a young king at a rough time. Any one caught breaking the rules were killed, brutally.
When I get back to the inn, Cedric gives me a earful for leaving a whole day without him, that I could be assassinated any time. That didn't stop me from leaving even earlier the next day, to scout the borders of the pack, the mountains and access the security. I also heard about the pack high school from people in town and was curious.
The few humans that knew it existed called it a military private school of some sorts, but only our kind attends, apparently those who wants to join my soldiers are trained there, it was a simulator for the real training I would give. Or so they think.
Being so close to humans, Blue Ivy was a mixed pack, unlike Red Fire, some had human mates from what I hear, we had a few too, it wasn't unheard of, but still. I get along well with humans, having lived with them for so long but the rest of Red Fire are still unyielding.
I have also heard rumors that my mate was probably human, or that I left a human lover back in school that's why I don't want a mate. I usually let people say their rumors, so I didn't care to correct them that I attended an all boys school, I could count the number of girls I saw on one hand for the years I spent in the school till I went to college at 15!.
So the pack, its neigbor pack and the humans are closely knitted with business together. Again my father would be proud if he saw them. Although the pack members had their own pack lands and community far away from the humans, in the mountains and forest, they were a beautiful people.
I guessed they wouldn't allow just any wanderer into the pack school. I could reveal my identity, but I wanted to be as anonymous as I could so i disguised as a Teaching assistant and I squeeze my way in. Years in the military again taught how to be very stealthy.
The TA's tag I "borrowed" - Derek was a kid on community service in the school, he had big bully vibes, but it was easy to neutralize him, stuff him in a janitor's closet and steal his ID. He had dark hair like mine, it was good enough.
Pushing the ID in my pocket, I hear the bell ring, but as soon as I turn to leave, a heart beat reached my ears before her scent did. Loud raps of her pounding heart and my nose led me around the hall. Then my eyes widen as I see her.
A trio of human jocks round her up, I frown. She tries to move around them, but one grabs her back pack and her heart beat picks up, two pairs of thumps at a time, I stay and watch even though my wolf wants me to go over and rip their heads off their bodies.
Her scent is strong, but I can not decipher what it is, she is from a Beta family, that much I can tell, but it is also different, something faint I can't quite place, coated with deliciousness, that reminded me of my mom's special Chocolate cookies. Those cookies had every flavor infused and it worked.
My wolf rushes to the surface, and my frown deepens. confused at my own reaction. I push myself off the wall to be the knight and shining armor that I am, until she flings the guy holding her back pack across the room and my jaw falls.
The guy hits the floor with a thud and I see blood seep from his nose, I smirk to myself, suddenly proud. His friend came over to help him up, I let my wolf show through as I walked closer to them. At the sight of me they scamper away with their tails between their legs.
The last one looks like he's a tough cookie, so I pick him up like he's a turkey leg. Ugh, he has a stupid face.
"Hey, hey what the?....." His eyes widen as he sees me.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?."
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AZALEA'S POV“Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size.” I hear a deep voice that causes my stomach to summersault a couple times. Almost immediately, a pleasant smell fills my nose and I shiver.I try to look at him, but the jock he’s holding up is obstructing as if he heard my thoughts, he turned and planted the jock, dangling on a locker. With the obstruction gone, I finally see him. “Then again, I’m not really your size.” He says with mockery deep in his voice but non of it on his face.He’s older, like 5 years older kind of older, he’s definitely not a high school student. I’ve never seen him before, not that I know a lot of people, but his aura is strong, very strong and dark to forget.His hair is long, longer than I’ve seem most men’s, he seems to be having a black thing going on cos, his hair is jet black, and so are all of his clothes down to his shoes, except an orange ID rope is handing out of his back pocket, the only thing of color on his body.I can only see his sid
HENRY'S POV"Then again, I'm not really your size." I don't go around bragging, but I've only met a few people that I don't tower over. I slam his back to a locker, holding him there, with one hand.He kicks and puffs, trying to free himself, after a few seconds, he stops, finally realizing that he can't do anything."Hey!, I'm just a kid, man!, you can't hurt me." He shouts on top of his voice like a pussy."Kid?." I almost laugh, but I had to keep up my big bad wolf thing going on. We had an audience that dropped her tongue when I picked the guy up. I'm used to the reaction."You're like 20?.""What do you want?!." He whimpers."Apologize to the lady." I tip my head at her."Yeah right!." He scoffs and I almost end him, he seems to be one of those stupid people that don't think women and men are equal, he's a piece of shit. I knee him in the groin, almost breaking the little thing."I didn't give you a choice, apologize to the lady and you may still be able to continue your cursed li
AZALEA'S POVI was adopted, found, really, by a bush of Azaleas, hence my name. My adoptive parents had 2 children before me, a boy and a girl, and a set of twins after me, also a boy and a girl, making 5 kids in all. They love us equally but leave us to ourselves most of the time, busy with pack duties and also personal, duties - they're so into each other, it's gross. Dad could never, even if he tried, keep his hands off mom. Kai, our eldest brother says that’s how it has always been. I dream of a love like that, a man who would love me flaws and all, obsessed with me even when all the hairs on my head turn grey, and me, him, even when he can’t walk straight from arthritis.Kai and Eloise, my older siblings don't like me much, I guess they feel like I intruded, on their perfect little family. They have never really come out to say out rightly, but they do these subtle things like, make me do all their share of chores, and just stay away form me until absolutely necessary.My younge
AZALEA'S POV"Kai what are you doing!, get out!." I manage to order, but it did nothing to help."Why, I've not had my fun yet." I walk backwards, putting distance between us. "You know, I've always thought of what your skin would feel like in my arms, those perky breasts in my mouth…….." He laughs in a diabolical way, I've never heard before, pushing his brown hair out of the way, I walk away with each step he takes towards me."Kai, you're drunk and in my room! Get out, before you do something stupid." I shout, by now, all sense being quiet and respectful out the window. But he doesn't listen."Kai, stop right there, I'm going to shout!.""Of course you are, when I show you all the pleasures of the world." In a swift movement, he is right in front of me, his hands on my neck, I try to run, but he's fast, I reach for something to hit him with, my eyes dilating as he restricts my air flow. His hands begin to rake my body in a very, very disgusting way, I manage to pick a pen holder a
AZALEA'S POVWeeks LaterI stand in front of my mirror, a deep scowl etched to my face, taking off my hat. I wouldn’t generally say I hate myself, but I'm so different and its not even the cute kind.I dyed my hair yesterday but somehow, overnight, the ends had grown an inch and a half longer. I used to be pretty bald as a kid, my hair was so short that I could only put them in little pig tails, but age 13 or 14, my hair started growing like some sort of lab freak.Mom had been excited, she said it only meant I would have a pretty wolf, my hair was supposed to be the color of my wolf. I didn’t believe her, not more than do I now. It has been years and said pretty wolf is yet to show up.It wouldn’t be that big a deal if the inch I grew over night wasn’t bright silver in color. I drop my face into my palm, biting my lip for a minute to mute out the scream of curses I was going to let out, I didn’t want to call any attention to myself. Unlike Kai, all pressure has been on my older sis
AZALEA'S POV“No she doesn't.” She defends immediately. I arch an eyebrow at her, she smiles.“I had a lot of sisters growing up too, and we never really saw eye to eye, even though we were almost the same ages,” I interrupt her and she let me.“You and all your sisters are from the same parents, Eloise sees me as a pest.” I tell her truthfully and she gasps, I guess I'm breaking her heart with my words, she probably doesn’t think it's as bad as it is.“If you think like that of your sister, then how are you any better Azalea?.” She tells me firmly, I want to argue, but I decide against it, it's no use."Have you ever tried to mend things with your sister other than concluding based on your prejudice?. If not, then the fault also lies with you." I want to tell her all how Eloise and her friends use to mock me in school. How she would let them laugh at me. How would I endure that and try to "mend things" when I have done nothing wrong but being adopted. “I’ll talk to Eloise so you gu
AZALEA'S POV"No." I whisper quietly. I didn't, I believe we should all be allowed to choose what we want and not just be forced to accept something that has been said before we were even born, how is that fair to us?.I guess that makes me even more different to the rest of my family, werewolves are all about Destinies, fated mates, fated life, fated job in the pack, everything, depending on who you are born of, everything is predesigned, and sickening."Not being able to chose you own life is not fair mom."She smirks, like she already knows my answer, I don't really hide my displeasure, I'm very vocal about how I see things, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that reason before."Destiny does not mean you don't get to chose your own life, flower." She starts with her usual light tone."It means what will be will be…….."I frown, not quite getting the difference."What will be, will be and you'll help it to be, knowingly or unknowingly, if you like it or not." She says. Mom always has t
HENRY'S POVI don't need a mate. I always tell Cedric, but he has made it his purpose in life to ignore me. I stare out the window of the throne room as he rattles on about the eldest daughter of a Beta in the pack that just joined the alliance.I prop my hand on the chair, holding my temple as his voice echoes in the empty room, about to hurl out curses in frustration when my own Beta's voice suddenly fills my head."The border has been breached." He announce in a fear filled voice. Eli, my Beta and friend was never one to be afraid, but this is the third breach this month and even I am worried."Level of threat?." I ask and Cedric finally stops talking to notice my eyes glazed as I communicate orders through the link."A level one, single crazed rogue." He says and I close off the link. They know what to do.I stand from my throne and Cedric bows. I groan at the quiet smile on his lips as I anticipated another hour long rant as to why I need a mate."The pack is beginning to worry a