Chapter 4 Everyone will be relieved

“Where the fuck is he?” Pete Thompson , the alpha of the Blood Moon Pack and Sarah’s father, asked looking at his watch. “He is doing this on purpose, I'm sure !”

“Calm down , father,” Mark said, seeing him so agitated and thinking that he's going to explode a blood vein soon. “He said that he will come. Let him be! If he is a fucking royal ass it doesn’t mean that I should stay straight waiting for him.”

“Are you sick on your head, Mark?” Pete Thompson asked him a little bit furious. “This is a big chance for us. Your sister will be the next queen and we will become even more powerful than anything you've ever seen. So don’t tell me to calm down.” and he would want to say a lot of things to Mark, to put his minds back in his head, but right then the door opens and Patrick comes in.

“Your Royal Highness, I am glad that you made it!” and he bows a little, shocking Mark.

“What fuck?” he said in his mind looking at his father acting.

“I had some business but I here now” Patrick said looking around for a place to sit comfortably but Pete Thompson can’t hold his mouth closed and asked directly:

"Your Royal Highness, did you go to see Sarah again?"

Patrick just turns around and looks him in the eye with an irritated face.

“What’s his problem?” Bart almost growls in Patrick's mind but he can’t react more because Patrick puts Pete Thompson at his place in no time.

“You can’t hold me accountable for what I am thinking or doing, because I think it's none of your business” and he escapes a soft growl making Pete Thompson take a step back, while Mark just clenched his fist watching the whole scene.

“You said that you want to talk with me about the marriage problem. So, Alpha Thompson, I suggest you start speaking because I don’t have the whole day to stay here!”

“Yes, Your Royal Highness. Everything goes as we already spoke. The wedding can be held as soon as Amber feels ….”But Patrick stops him.

“Look, Pete,” Patrick said. “I’ve already told you that I don’t care. Just make her look decent and not like she will die in the next second as she is now. Amber just looks creepy right now with that pale face of hers! She will die before reaching the aisle, for the goddess's sake!”

“She will look beautiful, my prince!” Pete said.

“Don’t fuck up with this. Are we clear?’ he asks. “I came here because your daughter is the legitimate heir of your pack and this will help me to get the throne. It’s a win-win situation so take care of everything as we talked." and Patrick who stands up and comes to him, brushing some imaginary dust from Pete Thompson's shoulders.

“It will be, Your Royal Highness. I assure you that nothing will go wrong.” and he is boiling in anticipation to see his daughter married with the prince of werewolves, to see her the future queen.

“Everything goes according to plan.” and laughing Pete Thompson said “You will be a king soon, my prince!”

“Prove it to me!” Patrick said “I don’t need your empty word. I need to see the facts, Alpha Thompson!” and Patrick starts to move around the conference room while Pete just looks at him.

“Look , Your Royal Highness, you told me by yourself that you came here because of that prophecy that you read about if.” but Patrick cuts him.

“Stop reminding me what I already know. That prophecy is the only thing that made me come here and look at you daughter. The heiress of the one who calls himself the Lord of the Blood Moon will rise and shine and give us peace. Isn’t it what the prophecy said? The Queen of werewolves brings salvation .”

“Yes, Your Royal Highness. And the King knows that too.” Pete said, stammering a little.

“He knows it but he is more focused on finding my fated mate. He has the strange belief that a fated mate can make any werewolf stronger. He actually insists on this, so make your daughter look good enough to change his mind. In front of this prophecy any fated mate fails.”

“I want my fated mate, man. If you ask me, I want her not that pale and sick woman.” Bart said but Patrick ignored him.

“What if you will find her?” suddenly Pete Thompson asked.

“Find who?” and Patrick knows exactly what he asks but he just likes to see Pete Thompson nervous.

“Your fated mate, Your Royal Highness. What if she will appear? What will you do with Amber if something like this happens?” and he just stayed there with his heart heavy waiting for Patrick’s answer. “You spend a lot of time with Sarah. What if time will prove that she is your fated mate? ”

“My father asked me the same thing and I am telling you what I told him to. There will not be such a situation. Never, am I clear enough? So stop thinking about this. I am able to deal with these little things by myself. “

“But what if she really is our mate, man?” Bart intervenes and stops him from talking. “If she is our fated mate and you marry her sister wouldn't it be cruel? You will make her suffer and she had enough already! She is just a sweet girl.”

“I think that you are delusional, Bart. Sarah is just a good girl, but she is not the one I need to achieve my goal.”

“But what if she is?” Bart asked “What if Sarah is our mate?”

“It’s impossible. She is the illegitimate daughter of Pete Thompson, my father will never accept someone like her as a queen.”

“But what if she is? He will , if she is our fated mate” Bart insisted.

“She is not, so stop this. It’s simply impossible. And anyway, it wouldn’t change anything. And the prophecy talks about the heiress of this pack not about the bastard daughter”

“It would if she would be our mate.” and this time Bart is not so decisive.

“It would not, I will not ruin everything now, just because you are hoping for impossible.” and looking at Pete Thompson he commands:

“How do you plan to make Amber look decent in front of my father? Time flies and I don't see any improvements in her appearance.”

“With this last blood donation everything will be perfect. Sarah ‘s blood helps Amber a lot. Being half sister I suppose it is some genetic compatibility.”

“Spare me the details, all right?” Patrick said, throwing himself in an armchair. “This is your business. I just need a smooth marriage and let my father see all this, or I will never get my hand on that fucking throne.”

And Mark just looks at him with a very complicated look hearing him speak like this. Is it all about money and power?

“ Yes, Your Royal Highness,” Pete said, signaling to Mark to say something but he is just cursing this royal ass who acts like some god almighty.

“I will give you a proper bride to impress the king!” Pete Thompson said seeing that Mark doesn’t helps him, and he is starting to fuss a little.

But thinking about this last step Patrick almost sees Sarah’s face. Maybe she is not as sick as her sister but after so many blood donations she is also tired and pale.

“Tell me what is the plan for the blood changing ceremony. What will happen with Sarah?”

“Your Royal Highness, you don't have to care about this. We have the best therapist, and they will definitely cure my daughter. “ But he is speaking about Amber, Sarah’s fate is not Pete’s Thompson problem.

“Why are you beginning to shuffle?’ Patrick looked in his eyes.

“I am not, it's just I don’t know how to explain it, this is the doctor's work and he knows better what will happen.”

“Tell me in simple words everything you know.”

“She will take a cure, before she will change the blood with Amber, something to help the blood work and then we will make the exchange, so practically it is the same thing as we did in the past.”

“Except for the fact that you will use a cure this time” and Pete’s face twisted a little hearing him.

“To end this it is a must to use the cure, or this will continue forever and Amber will never be healthy.” Pete said accentuating the benefits of using the cure.

“Is it tested? Did you use it before?” Patrick asked a little bit concerned because he doesn’t want Sarah to suffer more than she already did.

“Our therapist is the best. We need to use this cure and everyone will be relieved “ and Pete Thompson looked Patrick in the eye.

“Relieved you say?” Patrick asked, looking at him and feeling good to find out that everything will go as he wished.

“Yes, Your Royal Highness. Everyone will be relieved” Pete insisted and Patrick’s heart went still finally.

“Why don’t you go and see Amber a little? She will be so happy, she will feel better for sure knowing that her future husband cares about her” he said trying to change the subject. “

“Why should I see her?” Patrick asks reluctantly.

“She really wants to see you.” Pete said, “ After all, you are getting married, and she will be the future queen.”

“This shit cares for Amber but he doesn’t even say a word about Sarah” Bart said growling in Patrick's head.

“It doesn’t matter that he is a shit as a father. The only important thing is that my father trusts Pete Thompson.

“So?” Pete insisted. “Will you see my daughter?”

“Daughter?” Bart asks again “You have two daughters, piece of shit !”but Patrick controls Bart so he can’t come to the surface and growl at Pete.

“Shut up, Bart!” Patrick commands him.

“I can’t, Patrick. Just look at him. He has two daughters, one is used as medicine and the other as a tool of interest exchange. He doesn’t deserve to be called a father!”

“Your Royal Highness?’ Pete asks again, seeing that Patrick ignores him totally as if he is just a dead weight.

But this time Mark can't stand it and asked his father through their mindlink:

“Do you really need to tell His Royal Highness all the time? How will he blame us then when he will find about Sarah?”