The Alpha Prince's Forbidden Mate

Say a prayer

DYLAN’S POV

It had been a few days since the human girl had been brought to me, and thankfully, she hadn’t done anything that attracted attention to herself. Theo had made it a point that I couldn’t even smell her from where I was because he thought that her scent may be too tempting for me. I was certain that if je could, he would have even gone as far as guarding my door to make sure that I didn’t leave my room and sneak into hers in the middle of the night. Even if he were to stand by my door, he would never be able to stop me if I decided to have her.

I followed Theo’s advice and kept my distance from her. I knew that he didn’t believe that I would keep my word but I was going to and planning to because I didn’t want to end up in a situation that was hard to get out of. Things could easily get out of hand when humans were involved.

I knew that it was best if I kept my distance because I didn’t want to end up getting myself and the pack in trouble. Any decisions that I made concerning this human could easily affect everyone who was here with me and the entire kingdom back home. It was our pack that had royal wolves and produced kings and this was something that I didn’t want to be changed because of something I did. All I had to do was keep my distance from me and focus on the mating ball that was upcoming.

The preparations for the mating ball, which was being hosted by the alpha Nicolas, were underway. Every year, an alpha would be chosen to host the mating ritual and this year it was James. Since I was staying in the city with Theo, I had to travel back home to attend and then go back to the city.

This event was meant for young unmated wolves and so I wasn’t stressed about meeting my parents there. I had to attend not only because I didn’t have a mate but also because I was the prince, my father was the alpha king and so it was my duty to represent him in such events. When he asked me to go and live in the human territory, I thought that maybe that meant I would be released from the rest of my duties as prince only to find out that they had doubled.

I didn’t dare to complain though, my mother would have gone to great lengths to make me feel guilty for the decision that I had made. She would have reminded me that I was the prince and that refusing to perform my dirtiest was the same as handing the throne to someone else, my mother was loving but very dramatic.

The only thing I could do now was hope that Theo was right and that my mate was a late bloomer. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to handle any more disappointments tonight. Even though this wasn’t my fault, I was running out of excuses to tell my mum every time she called me to ask about my mate. I knew that she knew that tonight was the mating ball and I knew that she would call me tomorrow morning to find out if I found my mate.

“Are you ready for the party?” Theo asked me, he looked more excited about this event than I was. He was probably also secretly hoping that he would also find his mate.

“As ready as I can ever be, I meant to ask you earlier, Has that girl settled in?” I asked him, and he nodded

“she is all good, you don’t have to worry about her” he said dismissively. He didn’t want to discuss her with me even though she was in my house and here because of me. Theo was my right hand man but sometimes it felt like he overplayed his hand.

“I am not really worried about her, just curious” I said and he looked at me suspiciously.

“Where is she staying?” I asked him and he frowned, I kind of already knew what he was thinking but I didn’t want to entertain him. I had every right to ask about the girl because she was staying in my mansion.

“Why are you asking me that? Do you maybe plan to visit her one night?” he asked

“No, I just want to know which part of the mansion I have to avoid so that I don’t run into her,” I said and he gave me a skeptical look

“I don’t really know where she is, Evan is the one who handled that,” he said and I rubbed the bridge of my nose. I wasn’t sure if he was lying to me so that I wouldn’t know where she was or he was telling the truth.

“Why would he handle that when you were the one who was supposed to be handing it?” I asked him

”Anyway please mind link him and ask him where she is” I instructed and he did so and then judging by the look on his face I knew that he was about to tell me something that was going to make me angry.

“So where is she?” I asked

“She is in the west wing,” he said

“Where in the west wing? I was getting impatient because I could see that he was avoiding revealing the mistake that they had made but I could guess what they had done

“Don’t tell me you dumb-asses took her to the guest rooms”

“Okay, I won’t tell you but I will say that is what happened,” he said

“Will you just take this seriously? This means that I will run into her when I am going to see them, do I have to do everything myself?” I asked as I started losing my temper.

“you were the one who told me that it would be best if I kept her far from pack matters and you also wouldn’t stop telling me and reminding me of all that was at risk if I let her stay close to me. Yet you were not smart enough to keep her separate from Evelyn’s crew” I snapped

“I will fix it,” he said getting up and running out of my office, we were already getting late and dealing with this now was going to make it worse. However I didn’t feel comfortable with leaving her there because disaster would ensue if the others saw her.

I didn’t want to run into the human girl because I was afraid that I would like her. I was afraid that I would want to keep her because women were kind of my weakness, I wasn’t only avoiding seeing her because I was afraid that she would end up discovering our secrets but because I was afraid that I would end up forgetting that I had secrets to protect, to begin with.

This was a bad start to what was supposed to be a great evening, I was now even starting to rethink attending this damn party. I always felt like the parties were a waste of time and this one was no different. However, I knew that Theo wouldn’t let it go if I cancelled and I knew that I would live with regret if I didn’t attend because I would always wonder what wouldn’t have happened if only I attended the party. I was afraid that if I didn’t attend the party it would later turn out that my mate had been at the party and that was a risk that I couldn’t effort to take.

After I got dressed I ran to the car where Theo was already waiting for me.

“so did you fix it?” I asked him and he nodded avoiding eye contact with me.

“Don’t you ever do that again. You were on my neck about how I should be careful how I handle this and yet at the same time you are the one who carelessly let Evan, who knows nothing absolutely nothing about what is going on here. You didn’t even stop to think that he could do something or say something that was going to blow this for me” I snapped realizing that I was still upset with him

“I am really sorry, I know that this is all my fault” he apologized and I sighed.

“its fine, I just hope this party goes smoothly. I don’t want anyone asking me if I found her by the end of the night” I said

“I think we should be open minded because I still believe that your mate is probably in a place that we don’t expect her to be” he said and he was probably right but I didn’t have the energy to overthink this right now.

“The only thing I am looking forward to is coming back home tonight” I said

“I feel like you have already told yourself that your mate is not out there. You have already convinced yourself that you won’t be able to find her” he said and he was right. I was feeling like attending this stupid event was a waste of my time but it wasn’t something that I could just skip out on. As the prince I was forced to take and the fact that I was unmated made things even harder for me.

We were running a little late because Theo had taken some time while sorting out the human’s room and there was nothing I hated more than being late and being the center of attention because I was late. All the other alpha already wished none of their pack members were mated to me because they considered me to be an embarrassment to the wolf nation but that didn’t really bother me. I only hated the fact that being late was going to make them complain even more about me.

“did you manage to get her in a proper room?” I asked him as we were on the road and he sighed

“I tightened the security in her room” he said and I frowned.

“that is not an answer to my question

“ I thought you said you took care of it” I said

“that is how I took care of it, there wasn’t much that I could do because of the construction that is being done in some parts of the mansion. She will have to stay where she is for now” he said and I wished I could just punch something right now, like his face.

“f**k…I forgot about that. Well you better pray that I find my mate tonight” I said and he nervously clenched the steering wheel tight, probably praying that I would find my mate tonight.

If I didn’t find my mate tonight I was definitely going to be spending the night with the human girl. I suddenly had a hunger fir her and I knew that this was a thirst or hunger that couldn’t be quenched by any other female but my mate or the human girl that was said to be some kind of forbidden fruit for me.