4. Alpha Verses Alpha.

Ben.

When Rori left me in the academy parking lot I wasn't sure what to do next. Kane was wound tighter then I ever remember him being. Eoin approached me with Sage and Ash in tow as he stopped and joined me leaning against the car door.

"So did you get my sister to school in one piece or did you two fight and and she is now power walking here in anger alone?" he smirked as I paused not knowing what Rori had told him and how much he knew. "My father saw you two leave together this morning." Eoin added.

"Right." I muttered. "I got her here fine." I sighed grabbing my back pack and blazer. Normally it was Eoin I spoke to about this kind of stuff but I wasn't sure he would appreciate my current feelings about his sister. We walked to our first class tactical training and the subject of Rori wasn't mentioned again until we arrived in sparring. I changed into training gear in the locker room but having forgot my phone I doubled back and as I silently entered the changing room there I heard Sir Anthony talking to his friends in the shower area.

"Tonight is the night fellas." he laughed loudly. "Finally I have got the Princess where I want her." he boasted. Whilst this was sadly common chat in the boys locker room it wasn't common that Rori be the topic of conversation. I fought to keep Kane down as he continued and i moved to hide.

"She is perfect Father will be thrilled that I have her on my arm she is the king and Queens prized daughter a true born Luna. I will seal the deal with her tonight and she will be mine." he whispered to his nearest friend.

"But she hasn't turned eighteen and you know she is not your mate." he answered.

"Which is why I have this." he smirked. "One drop of this and she will do whatever I ask her to do." his friends laughed. "May as well start our relationship as I mean it to go on." He sniggered.

"Exactly." the boys whooped.

"I just need you lot to keep that stupid Bear Ben and the over protective future King Eoin busy at this party tonight." he closed his locker door. "To be with Princess Rori Sinclair will be the crowning jewel to my families empire."

"You got it." the boys replied. I breathed in and out quietly as they left I was internally fighting to stop Kane coming out and ripping their heads off. Once the locker room was silent I stepped out of the shadows and grabbing my phone I followed Sir Asshole and his friends out.

I always thought my dislike of Anthony was primal because we both liked the same girl and he was technically a friend of ours but to hear him speak so candidly about her as if she was property and nothing more than a power move was a shock. Even I didn't calculate this was anything other then that he liked her, growing up we all knew that our connections and titles would encourage power hungery people to try befriend us but I thought we had surrounded ourselves with genuine people. I walked out to stand with Eoin and Arthur as we watched the two wolves called out by the trainer to demonstrate a pin hold. I half paid attention but as Eoin, Arthur and myself had years of private training with the Kings warriors this class was a mere formality.

"I need to talk to you two." I muttered to them.

"Okay. Private Royal Alpha stuff?" Arthur asked.

"yeah." I nodded.

"Meet you at the spot after this?" Eoin responded as I nodded before slipping away. I made my way to the clearing in the forest and it was there her scent hit me as I ducked behind a tree. I made sure I was down wind from the clearing so they wouldn't pick on my own scent. I could hear her laughing and my heart paused it was the most beautiful sound. Amira and Morgan were with her judging by the other voices and scents i could pick up on the breeze. I heard a twig snap and turned to see Eoin I motioned for him to be quiet and he sniffed the air nodding as he realised the clearing wasn't empty.

We leaned in to listen to the girls

"I know." Rori was saying "but if Ben is my mate then something tells me I do want him. How could I not want Ben he has been with me my whole life." my heart nearly lurched out of my chest as I heard my name and what she said next. I held my breath as even Kane who had pushed forward in my mind to hear stayed quiet and still.

"How does it feel when he kisses you?" Amira whispered but it was clear to my enhanced shifter hearing but I was also hyper aware it was clear to Eoin's advanced Alpha hearing too.

"Amazing. Like no one else exists but him and me." My Princess giggled as her brother stiffened slightly. I closed my eyes I now had alot of explaining to do to my best friend.

"We need details." Morgan giggled. "When and where?" She demanded loudly. Now I was nervous Eoin was going to get details depending on how much Rori told the girls. I prayed a silent prayer to the moon goddess she wouldn't give too many but I suspected there was little these girls didn't talk about or tell each other.

"Last night we got ice cream and drove to the watering hole and well we ended up swimming and we kissed." She stated as my eyes locked with Eoins who now did not appear happy as he folded his arms on his chest.

"Skinny dipping? I bet he has a huge......" Morgan began but Amira shut her off and I thanked my lucky stars.

"Morgan." she cried as I nearly collapsed at this new turn in the conversation seeing Eoins demeanor now turn slightly menacing.

"Well Princess was it huge?" Morgan pushed. Whilst I was nervous and gulped I was intrigued at what she would say. The teenage boy in me was holding alot of weight on this immature question.

"I didn't see it...." Rori said laughter in her voice "but it felt huge." She added as they broke out in laughter just as Eoin lunged for me and we crashed into a bush. I grabbed him using Kane's strenght to pin him and covered his mouth to keep him quiet. The girls assuming that Amira or Rori's royal gaurds had found them and were near to catching them took off from the clearing back towards the academy running whilst still laughing. Once the girls were well out of ear shot I relaxed my hold on Eoin as Arthur appeared from the forest looking at us both strangely. Eoin pushed me hard and I fell back.

"You are some asshole do know that?" he yelled.

"What is going on?" Arthur asked completely puzzled.

"He is sleeping with my sister." Eoin spat pulling himself upright.

I held my hands up and shook my head

"Eoin I haven't slept with your sister." I began as Arthur's eyes were wide with shock.

"But you bloody kissed her right?" he yelled angerly.

"Technically she kissed me both times." I began but Eoin was fuming now.

"More then once." he growled. "and clearly more then kissing."

I shook my head

"No I swear......" I tried again.

"Liar." Eoin spat. "We all heard her and how she felt your ....."

"Stop." I begged him not to finish that sentence

"That was more a close proximity thing and not a physical act thing." I said sheepishly trying to find the least vulger words to relate the scenario to her brother and my best friend but it was too late.

"Your dead." Eoin lunged for me again. "Come on fight back Alpha verses Alpha." he yelled as he swung at me and his fist connected with my jaw. I stood back up as he crouched in a fighting stance, I stood facing him with my arms by my sides.

"Why won't you fight me?" he yelled as he hit me again this time he landed the punch on my nose. Arthur stepped between us.

"That's it apparently there was two kisses and he has taken two well deserved punches." he said firmly.

"Agreed I deserved that." I nodded holding the bridge of my nose as the blood flowed.

"How could you?" Eoin asked.

"Oh come on Eoin." Arthur scoffed. "We all knew this was bloody coming." he added. "They have been inseparable since they met. He kicked your arse many a time for upsetting her. It was clear there was something between them." he replied and Eoin looked deflated.

"Yea they were best friends he protected her but this is different." Eoin argued.

"Eoin you could cut the sexual tension between them as long back as I remember, every guy in the academy has been warned away from her by Kane." Arthur laughed. "What did you think was going on?"

Eoin looked slightly bewildered as he thought it over.

"I don't know but I never thought this, that he would be with her. It's not something I like to think about my sister like that with anyone." he sighed the gravity of the situation hung between us. "I mean of all people I thought he would never....." he trailed off unable to finish the sentence.

"I know I am sorry." I said. "I didn't mean for it to happen this way either."

"Are you mates?" he asked after a few moments of silence whilst we all digested the recent events.

"Yes, I think we are." I admitted.

"How do you know?" he pushed.

"I think on some level I have always known Eoin. Then last year when I turned eighteen her scent changed she always to me smelt of warm pancakes and honey but last year there was a new scent of floral Peonies and together it is amazing." I sighed.

"She smells of honey to me but I never got the floral scent." Arthur muttered.

"Same." Eoin sighed.

"Meaning it is her distinctive mate scent." Arthur added we had wandered to the clearing now sitting on the logs arranged there. Her scent still hung in the air slightly.

"Most likely." I nodded "and lately it's been getting stronger and she admitted this morning she feels her wolf when she is near me and Kane."

"Great." Eoin muttered bitterly.

my temper flared slightly

"I know it's not ideal man but who would you prefer for her that idiot Sir Anthony?" I snapped.

"Is it cruel to say I was hoping she would be mateless forever." Eoin muttered.

"Yes." Arthur and I responded together.

"Oh you would be okay with Amira getting her mate?" Eoin asked Arthur wide eyed.

"Its not like I get a say Eoin. If its her mate nothing I can do about it. Would you give up your mate because it upset your sister?" he asked.

"No." Eoin mumbled

"In fact I often wondered was Amira your mate." Arthur admitted.

"What?" Eoin asked.

"Well we are down the rabbit hole now boys we may aswell speak freely. " I laughed throwing my hands in the air.

"I see how you look at her." Arthur added slightly accusingly.

Eoin looked taken a back but truth was I had see how he looked at Amira too and I knew half the reason I got away with my own looks to his sister Rori was because his attention was on Amira.

"I don't think she is my mate, she is just really pretty and smart." Eoin conceded slightly defeated. Leaving that hanging in the air between us for a few moments no one said anything. Truth was Eoin hadn't got his wolf so he wouldn't know if Amira was his mate and Sirens didn't take a mate until twenty one so he wouldn't know until then potentially what if any outcome could be as they weren't wolves or shifters he wouldn't scent her but then again the moon goddess may have someone else in mind all together.

"Well can I now tell you two what I just found out?" I sighed and they nodded.

I told them all about Sir Anthony and what I had over heard and neither boy was impressed.

"So what is the plan?" Arthur asked.

"Besides I try not to kill him?" I asked.

"You can't my sister likes him despite whatever is going on between you two now if you hurt him you hurt her. He is technically our friend after all." Eoin sighed watching me bristle at the fact Rori had a soft spot for Anthony. "Sorry facts are facts." he shrugged.

"I know." I sighed.

Arthur seemed pensive

"I think first things first is we get whatever is in his locker and swap it out for something we know is safe. That way when he is with Rori tonight she will at least have her own mind and sense." He said as I nodded.

"Okay and how do you plan on getting into his locker?" I asked.

"You two keep an eye on Sir Anthony and his minions and myself and a little witch I know will do the rest." he smiled getting up. Eoin and I nodded as Arthur disappeared.

"You know I didn't plan it you know that right?" I said to him. Eoin regarded me slowly.

"I know but you just wait until some guy defiles your sister" he replied and I shuddered.

"Can you not use the word defile." I snapped. "I did not defile your sister and besides that's different." I added.

"So I can kiss Dakota?" he asked referring to my sixteen year old sister. A growl ripped from my chest before I could stop it.

"No its different." I said annoyed as I forced Kane back down.

Eoin smirked as we began to walk through the dense bush to the academy.

"Why?"

I swallowed "Because we are mates?" I bit back.

"Okay so if Dakota is my mate I can take her skinny dipping at the watering hole and we can make out in close enough proximity for her to feel......"

"Eoin." I growled as he stopped in his tracks. "I get it okay but I am begging you not to finish that sentence. " I grumbled scrubbing the image from my mind.

Eoin laughed

"Why is it bothering you?" he asked.

"No but you are destroying the hottest encounter I have ever had. Her legs wrapped around my........" I smirked.

"Stop." he yelled as he held his hand out. "Truce?" he asked as I smirked.

"Truce." I agreed feeling we both had a fair dose of our own medicine.

"You know if this goes wrong and he goes trough with his plan you will have to kill me to stop me killing him." I said in a serious tone.

"I know but I won't tell I will say it was me." he replied as I looked at him. "As the crown Prince I will get away with it." he added. I smiled despite everything Eoin was the kind of best friend that would help you hide a dead body.