His beloved Luna

The agreement

-Justin-

I'll take her hand and pull her up. I feel the warmth and I feel tingling.

"I'm sorry, it was Flora, wasn't it? I hope you didn't fall too hard. It's also stupid of me to stand in front of a door. Excuse me!"

"No, Prince Justin. It wasn't so bad. I'm standing again, I'm okay.”

"Hey! I said twice yesterday, not a prince. My name is Justin to you." I grab her chin with two fingers and force her to look at me. She nods "I'm okay, Justin, thanks."

Man, I'm going crazy. My wolf's going crazy. She must feel something!? The tingling, butterflies, warmth? She seems shy. Say something else quickly before I lose myself.

"What are you ladies going to do today?" I ask.

"Flora and I are now going to the sauna and watch the fight demonstration this afternoon." Answers Amy. F**k the sauna. I want to go with her.

"Then I wish you lots of fun ladies and who knows, I’ll see you this afternoon!" I'm going to wave and walk away, fast. It's five to 10, so I'll be in time for the meeting.

My dad's already here. I salute him.

"I wonder what you've gotten yourself into, son. Normally it's not all that exciting," he says.

"I know, but I can't tell her she's my mate. She's only 17. She has to feel it first,” I say.

Knock Knock knock

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in" says my father.

The four men in my mate's life step inside.

Does her father know? I can feel the tension.

The gentlemen greet us and bow.

"Sit down and let's discuss this issue while enjoying our breakfast." My father started.

The Alpha of the TreeMoon Pack began. "Prince Justin, do I understand correctly that you designate Flora as your fated mate?" he asks.

"Yes, that's right" I say.

I see Flora's father looking up. He seems shocked, like he didn't know this yet.

"Beta Aaron was it?" I say to him.

"Yes prince Justin"

"I am hopelessly in love with your daughter. My heart skips, my body feels warm and since I've seen her I don't think about anything else. I need her."

'She's only 17 Prince Justin. She doesn't know this and it's not up to us to tell her." Answers her father.

“That's right, I wouldn't want that either. I'd also like her to feel it because it is and not because me or anyone else says it to her. I also hope you understand that I can't just let her go back to TreeMoon tomorrow. But there's also no excuse for keeping her here." I explain.

"I understand our shared challenge" says her father kindly.

Brain clears his throat "another thing that complicates this process is that we agreed on how we would deal with mates in the future." He looks nervously at his father and at Flora's father and brother. I'll wait and see what comes next. My father has less patience "cause? I think it's pretty simple. When your daughter is 18, my son picks her up and she comes to live here and everyone settles down.” He says sternly.

"Unfortunately, King Alpha George.." begins Brian. He dares to speak to the king.

"Shh you! Enough! Done!." His father shuts him up. I see Brian getting uncomfortable, but Emlin is also uncomfortable. Her father, Beta Aaron, looks out the window. We eat, we're quiet.

"Emlin." I look at him "What do you think of this?"

"What exactly Prince Justin? That my sister is your mate or that I feel that we are not all just sitting here as easily?" he asks.

"Both and I want your honest opinion, not an opinion that's neat because I'm prince or because my father is here."

"We have another sister, Emma, actually. She ran into her mate, she convinced everyone that he was her fated mate. We hesitated, it didn't feel right." He dropped a silence. "We are a small pack compared to the other packs here. We are the largest in our area, but acquired in particular through friendship and exchanges and peace. Never through violence. Our warriors can't do what yours can do," he says.

"Emma didn't get permission from me to go" continued Beta Aaron. "So she ran away with him. She called us after a week to tell us that he was indeed not her fated mate, but her chosen one. Two months later, she was mad and we cannot ever try to call her again. Her mate is horrible. After three years, he called us, to tell us that Emma had died in an attack."

"Flora has said from that moment on that she wants to learn to fight, she wants to stand on her own two feet, she just wants someone she trusts and feels safe." Brian's getting involved in the conversation. I perk my ears, my father looks up from his plate.

"Flora also feels like my little sister. She is a great asset in our pack and, because of our size and the status we have acquired in the area, we are very lucky with all the beautiful and good that we have." Brain continues.

"We've created a new pack rule, if anyone comes and claims to be someone's mate for any reason, fated or not" Alpha Max said.

Brian added "Prince or not" it only earned him an angry look from his father. To which Alpha Max continued. ",Mandatory a week must live with us, in our pack, in our packhouse, doing activities with both me and my Beta but also with Justin and Emlin. After that week, we'll decide if we're going to let one of our women go with the man." He says.

"For all your female pack members?" I ask, surprised.

"No, just for the special ones" Answers Brian. And I nod.

"When's she going to be 18?" Asks my dad.

"In four months, on August 21st," Beta Aaron said.

I was looking at my dad. Exactly one month later is my ceremony. I'll be King Alpha Justin. There's still so much work to be done and I want to be able to take over.

"Every month for 7 days he can be with you. Talk to Justin about what you need from him. He can then be with his mate, without noticing that he is coming for her. Can we make that work, men?" My dad watches Beta Aaron, he nods, Emlin's nods, too. Alpha Max also agrees. Brian looks hard, but he nods, too.

"We will warmly welcome you, Prince Justin. You can come to us and possibly later to the house of Beta Aaron."

"That's very kind of you. Well, that's settled. I'll let you know when I get there. I still have to find out a schedule."

"But Brian, Flora wants to fight?" I asked him. He nodded. "She asked me if.. if I'm Alpha, I would change the rules so she can fight."

Her father and Alpha Max look shocked. "Are you going to do that, son? Alpha Max looked at his son.

"For Flora, I would do it, but we have made other adjustments so that it is not necessary. That's what I explained to her last night. Women don't fight, especially not to stay alive. That's not how it's supposed to be." We all agreed on this.

"Lizz, you can't join us later". I link my sister, she is going to be mad.

"What! I have already changed. I'm all set!”

" It can't be. I'll explain later."

"no, you're explaining now!" I can feel my sister's anger sending along with her link.

" Stop, both of you! Lizz, you're not in and you're done with that!" My father interfered in our link and Lizz stayed quiet.

We ate our breakfast and for me it was time to start preparing for the fight demonstration. Flora was supposed to come and check it out. I want to see her again. My dad was first to say, "Justin, you need to get ready. The demonstration's about to begin. Beta Aaron, I'd like your direct number. As it looks, we are going to be family and it can be useful to be able to call each other."

Beta Aaron stared at my father. He took a deep bow and gave him a card with a number. I gave her father my card. If necessary, he could reach me.

"Alpha Max, before you leave with your family and the Beta. I'll give you 10 warriors. I assume you'll give them a welcome home for the next four months.

"10 warriors?" Asked the Alpha.

"Yes, I don’t know if you realize it, but your pack has just become in possession of the most precious thing the Moon Goddes can give us wolves." The Alpha fell silent.

"The fated mate of my son, the future Luna of our pack, the future Queen of us wolves. As your beta's son said, you have grown up with kindness. That's worth something, but kindness isn't going to protect the future Queen. Besides, there's so much love for Flora from you all. Who takes responsibility for protection when things go wrong?" My father asks.

My father had spoken. The warriors came along and that gave me peace of mind. Even if I'm not there, she's safe. Even though Flora has all these men around her. Love is a big pitfall when it comes to safety.

We all walked out of the room at the same time. I quickly gave Brian a green polo. "Will you put it on and sit next to her!? Then I can see her!"

Brian put on the polo "done, Prince Justin". I went to prepare and take my men to the field.

I was still on the sidelines looking for the green polo. That's where the polo ran. Clearly, Brian. He had my build, so he did stand out in that polo. The polo sat down. Next to the polo she sat, her beautiful dark brown hair in a braid. What was she wearing? A dress? Pants? I couldn't see it. Whatever it was, it would look great on her. My wolf was immediately awake and alert again. "Shhh castor, in time." Castor was excited. Do you think she's feeling it yet? Do you think she'd feel me looking at her?

I addressed my men "warriors, the future Luna sits in the stands. She doesn't know this herself. She won't know about this for another four months. The top 10 go to her pack to protect her. So show me what you got. And make me proud and show yourself so that our future Luna can also be proud!”

The men got excited and got into position.

Everything ran smoothly. It was a beautiful show.

"Wave for a minute" Lizz linked

I looked around Flora and saw Lizz sitting obliquely behind it.

"Wave to her and not to me."

I did what Lizz asked. I waved to her, to Flora. She waved back very carefully.

"I think Amy knows. Is she going to stay quiet?" Lizz linked.

"I don't know Lizz, her brothers and father know now. Thank you Lizz for doing this for me.”

" You'll have some explaining to do later!" I looked up and saw Lizz looking at me angrily. I knew I had to explain to her why she wasn't allowed in. But my future Luna wants to fight and her whole pack is against. Actually, so am I. Not my Luna. She would definitely make a point to her family that we can do it. While if she comes to live here, I won't let her either. That was going to be an unfair fight, and it would only hurt my Luna more. Lizz will get over it. She'll be back in next year.