The Mated Princess

Chapter 3: Mate

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**Aaron**

I lunged into the rogue at full speed, he falls onto his side, and before he could stand on four, I snap his throat.

He growls in pain, pinning him down I rip his throat off with my free paw, blood spurts out.

After a few minutes, I return to human form and run towards her, kneeling besides, I try to stroke her hair which is covering her face.

"Don't you dare touch her" a voice rushes through my ear.

I turn to see a handsome, young, and about 6 feet tall guy little shorter than me running towards me, kneels on the other side of the girl.

Is he her mate or boyfriend? I thought to myself.

He holds her face touching his forehead to hers, I saw a light glowing at the point of intersection.

"Amyra...Amyra.," he calls holding her on his lap, tapping on her cheek.

I observe a 2 "V" shaped mark one above the other on her forehead.

"She is bleeding," I said looking at his hand which was holding the back of her head.

He ties her bleeding head with a cloth he had in the pocket.

"Don't you worry. I have my packhouse half an hour away, we can take her there and get her checked with our doctors." I offer.

“I can take her to my packhouse. I am from Pure moon pack ” he says.

“But your pack is far and our packhouse is near, she needs to see a doctor immediately” I suggest.

He sighed saying "Okay".

"I'm Alpha Aaron," I said extending my arm.

"I'm Alex, Amyra's brother," he said.

I don't know for what, but I felt relieved.

There was an awkward silence between us for a few minutes before Master Isaiah and Josh arrived.

"What happened here?" Josh asked breathlessly.

I pointed towards the dead rogue and gestured him asking why is Master Isaiah here? He replies saying "I don't know".

Josh hands me a pair of clothes.

"Can I take a look?" Master Isaiah requests Alex.

Alex stares at me, I nod at him reassuring.

Alex nods at Master Isaiah.

Master Isaiah kneels beside the girl.

He looks at her carefully and looks at the sky muttering something under his breath with a wide grin on his face.

We glance at each other in confusion.

Alex scoops her in his arms and says we need to leave.

I nod and help him to the SUV.

As we took off, I glance at the rearview mirror to have a look at Amyra, but instead, Alex catch me glancing.

"What is the scar on her forehead?" I ask him.

"You can see that?" he asks frowning.

"Yes that V-shaped, it was glowing..." I trailed off.

"It's the symbol of our family, kind of an heirloom. We belong to the oldest werewolves family which was first blessed by moon goddess" he says.

"You both are werewolves?, but she didn't shift when rogue attacked", I asked concerning.

"It's a long story, she is my twin sister," he breathes sharply and continues "I am the most unfortunate brother who couldn't take care of his only sister, the only family member," he says stroking her hair.

We reached the packhouse and I showed Alex the guest room to take Amyra and instructed the pack doctor to quickly have her checked.

While the doctor was bandaging her wounds, Alex was beside her. I went to dad to inform him about the rogue attack at the fair.

Rogues are spotted here and there occasionally at the borders, we had to increase the patrolling along the perimeters of the borders he said enquiring about Amyra.

I shook my head about the thought of Amyra, I could see Alex at the corner of my eye, I call him out and ask him to join us.

Alex and dad greeted each other.

Alex is from Pure moon pack which was near our pack and he also acknowledged that our Blue moon pack warriors are strongest.

We sat at the table Dad, Master Isaiah, and Josh also joined us as Josh arranged Coffee, tea, and juice for all of us according to their taste.

The doctor entered with an excuse and told that Amyra needs rest and he had injected her sleeping dose and asked us to inform him when she wakes up.

I thanked him before leaving and asked the female maids to look after Amyra and inform me immediately if she wants anything.

I was relieved at the thought that Amyra was at my packhouse. I wanted to see her and wanted to be with her.

Why was I attracted to her? I haven’t even seen her properly. But her scent made me feel familiar. Her presence made me feel, that I know her for years. Deep down I knew there was some connection.

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**Alex**

Aaron pressed for the information which we had left in the SUV.

"Elizabeth and Daniel Lloyd are our parents. When my mother delivered us, at that moment there was an attack by a pack of rogues. They took my sister away from us, but my mother fought with them, then they dropped my sister somewhere in the woods.”

"Later we couldn't find mom, dad, and even Amyra. But I knew Amyra was alive as we are twins there is a link between us. They all disappeared suspiciously, I still can’t accept that mom and dad are not there anymore." I glanced at Aaron who looked surprised.

I couldn’t tell him the complete truth, I don’t know how they will take it. I know he has all the right to know about Amy. I can’t even tell the complete truth to sis as of now, she would freak out and never, believe me, I am waiting for our 18th birthday. I thought to myself and shook my head.

"I know you are her mate so I am explaining all this to you. That symbol on her forehead can only be seen by her mate and the same with me." I glanced again at Aaron, he looked stunned.

Aaron’s face lit up, a small smile dancing on his lips and his eyes twinkled.

“But...” He trails off.

"If we shift together and take a run on our 18th birthday, everything will be alright ". I told him.

I was not sure what would happen then, I was praying her to shift.

"That's wonderful," he says.

"It's not easy," I say.

"I will make it happen," he promises.

For a moment I am happy that Amyra will be happy and safe in his hands.

Though not knowing what is awaiting us.