CHAPTER 2: ESTRANGED
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Damian’s POV
“How was your kiddie party, Melissa ?”, the Queen Mother asked with a chuckle when my mate finally came back to the palace after midnight- drunk and with two teenage wolves under each of her arm.
I was scrubbing the floors of the living area after everyone dumped their duties on me.
The royal couple had spared no expense in celebrating their only daughter’s 18th birthday in the palace with high profile, foreign dignitaries invited from far away lands.
Then why couldn’t they spare some expenses for the cleaning help too ?
“Keep working, Damian”, my wolf, Leo whispered through the mindlink. “It will help us build our stamina and resilience even more”, he tried to pacify me.
“Not when I am on the verge of passing out !”, I indignantly retorted back through the mindlink. “I have been working non stop, without food for the last 18 hours !! I hardly slept last night, or rather after midnight and then quickly took a cold water bath by the pack border to prepare everything for Her Highness on time”, I explained.
“But we worked for our mate”, my wolf coaxed. “Wasn’t she happy to see the cherry cupcake you prepared for her ? Did you not feel happy when she ate it up with gay gusto ?”, Leo reminded like a lovesick puppy that he was since the last one month.
“Yes”, I too dreamily said but the spell broke when I remembered how she ended up in the royal kitchen to get a second cupcake and almost rejected me.
On top of it, the wolves reeked of my mate and vice versa, and it was not hard to guess that the birthday girl had partied all night at the club and had “fun” with the two self volunteering “body - guards” of hers. No pun intended. Or not.
She had a mate and still she let strange men touch her !
But then she did not consider me as her mate.
I was a disgrace to her afterall and a petty omega slave.
Sigh !
“It was so fun, Mom and on top of it, Tony and Mike made my birthday extra special !!”, she drunkenly screeched followed by four sets of silly giggles.
The Queen spoilt her daughter rotten when the latter was not in princess mode or warrior mode.
“Alright Melissa, off you go to bed, dear. You need your beauty sleep before the Master forces you to train like a mad bull”, she huffed.
I had half a mind of reminding her that she was making me work the same way too.
“It is for mate”, Leo chided in my mind.
Yeah. Yeah.
“Mom”, the princess giggled before kissing the elder lady’s cheek. “You of all people know that it is for my own good”, she chuckled.
“Yes, tell me about it”, the Queen mock grumbled before kissing her daughter’s forehead and sending off the two men out. “Oh and Melissa !”, she suddenly called out to the drunk she wolf.
“Yes Mom”, the princess slurred back.
“Did you find your mate ? I know you haven’t or else these friends of yours won’t have been here but I just wanted to be sure”, the Queen explained.
“Nope Mom”, her daughter replied back without batting an eye.
To say that my wolf and I were hardly hurt, was going to be the grossest understatement of the world.
We were beyond livid and heartbroken, with our Alpha nature threatening to burst out and claim our mate possessively in front of everyone.
It took all kinds of chants and breathing exercises to calm ourselves down before we did anything stupid like pinning our intoxicated mate against the wall and ravish those pretty pink lips of hers to show her who truly was her mate.
Instead, I almost broke the cleaning brush and quickly completed the dirty patch to call it a night.
I was so done here.
“ …. and I don’t think I will ever have one”, I heard the princess continue before I found cover out of the room and into the kitchen corner.
“Don’t say that, child !”, the Queen cooed. Fvck Alpha hearing !! I could hear them from here too ! “Not everyone gets their mate on their 18th birthday. Maybe your mate is the most powerful and handsome man on the other side of the world. Just the best for my supreme daughter”, she added.
“I don’t think so, Mom”, Melissa tiredly murmured.
“Now stop being so negative about your mate, baby and go to your room. The Moon Goddess will surely give you the ablest of able mate. Don’t you give up”, were the last words of the elder royal before the princess was left alone in the living room.
However, instead of the sound of her footsteps fading away, they resounded louder and louder towards- oh no no !
I needed to hide.
She was coming straight towards me !!
“Don’t run away from mate”, Leo rolled his eyes. “She will find you anyways”, he scoffed.
“She will grill me on the barbecue outside if her temper flares up, higher than the flames of the said barbecue”, I panicked through the mindlink.
“Too late. She is here now. All the best, fvcker”, Leo chuckled before disappearing at the back of my head.
Cowarddddd !!!!!
Ughh.
I am so dead now.
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