MATED TO THE PRINCE

Chapter 5

RAY

I'm happy.

My wolf is happy.

We're both happy.

We've found our mate... “Oh yes, we've found her! We've found her!” my wolf is screaming.

“Calm down boy..calm down!” I urge my wolf and he purrs in excitement.

“She's cute, isn't she? She'll make a great Luna for us when we finally take over from our father the Alpha!”

“I know right?” I say, rolling my eyes at him. “Calm down, will you?”

“Okay.. okay... Suit yourself!”

“Better!”

My wolf is something else. He gets excited over everything, whether small or big. Well, he's part of me and I've already learnt to live with him.

After kissing my princess Clara goodnight, I went straight to my bedroom to rest since we have a long journey to my kingdom tomorrow morning.

As I lie on my bed, I can't help but fantasize about my mate.

Clara is a beautiful damsel. I'm glad I finally met her and I'll always be grateful to the hunger that sent me to that simple restaurant yesterday when I met her. I know we're destined to be together that's why we met in the most unusual of places!

However, after asking her questions and getting to know about her, I'm still shocked why the moon goddess had to give me a mate who ain't Royalty.

Is it possible? Has it ever happened before? Or are things changing?

Can royalty be mated to an Omega?

“There's a possibility that she's royalty!” my ever curious wolf interrupts my line of thoughts.

“Really? How?” I ask curiously. I'm not going to shut him up this time round. He might be making some sense.

“Look at it this way...she knows her mother but not her father. If her father wasn't mated to her mother and he left, maybe he was royalty and be was looking for his mate in the weirdest of places, just like us.”

“That somehow makes sense. But she barely knows her father's full names!”

“Her birth certificate. We need to get hold of it and get to know her roots!”

“Won't we be breaching her privacy?” I ask curiously. “That will be unethical.”

“I know right? When we go back to the palace, we will ask Dad to help us. He has great power and he can see everything, hidden and put in open!”

“Alright. Leave alone now, will you?”

“Whatever!”

Ahh! That's my wolf for you. He's so nagging...for lack of a better word!

I think and think, sometimes getting the urge to go to Clara's bedroom and lie on her bed but I'm strong enough to curb that urge.

I can't wait for day break to set my eyes on her again and kiss her... Mmmh! Her soft lips felt heavenly on mine!

****

It's already morning and the makeup artist has already arrived and she's busy dolling up Clara in her room. Before she arrived, we had already taken breakfast from the restaurant so immediately they're done, we will get into my car with the driver and head to the airport.

Well, I have a driver based here and he's always left with my car whenever I leave by air and he always drops it at my kingdom a day or two later.

“Clara, are you through?” I call at her bedroom door. She won't allow me to get in and see her before they're done and I just found myself obeying her. After all, she's my Mate...my princess...my soon to be Luna!

“Not yet Ray.” she replies from the other side. “We'll be through within no time.” she assures me.

Without saying a word, I walk back to the living room and get myself busy on my laptop.

Our kingdom is a peace loving kingdom.

My father the King and Alpha of Plains View Pack is a peace loving man and most of other Alphas from different Packs come to him for advise. He is well known for his reconciliatory tactics and every Pack has regard for him since he was able to stop other greedy Alphas, omegas and rogues from hunting and killing the rare white wolves.

When his father my grandfather was the King and Alpha, a lot of killings happened and he couldn't do anything to stop that since he was also as greedy as the others. All this happened when my dad took over, bringing change allover and everybody else adapted to the new development! Nobody hunts down the rare white wolves any longer.

“We are through!” Clara's outburst jolts back to my senses. I sit up from my laptop where I was initially doing nothing.

I look up and I'm met with the sight of the most beautiful green eyed girl I've ever seen in my entire life.

My wolf jumps up in my joy, threatening to come out and run to his mate.

“Wow!” I finally manage to say. “You're breathtakingly beautiful!”

I hiss as I stand up, walking to meet her. I hold her hand and place a kiss at the back of her palm them I get into my pocket and fish out some dollars to pay the makeup artiste. She has really done a great job...moreover, I just want her to leave so that I may be left admiring and ogling at my soon to be Luna.

“She's mine! She's mine!” my heart says, leaving me with a lot of temptations. I have this urge to mark her here and now but sadly, I just can't...not before my parents meet her!

“Thank you my love.” she says. “Can we leave now? We can't keep the Alpha and Luna waiting, can we?”

“Sure, we can't.” I say as I turn to put my laptop in my bag and then instruct the room attendant to carry our luggage to the waiting car.

Walking back to her, I take her hand into mine and lead her out towards the elevator. We need to be at the airport before 9am and it's already 8am, though it's just a few minutes drive to the airport and since word has gone round that the Plains View Pack Alpha's son, the Prince will be driving to the airport with his newly found Mate, all the roads heading to the airport have been cleared immediately.

Oh yeah... That's how much respect my father has earned even in neighbouring Packs and Kingdoms!

The driver is already waiting for us, leaning on the car but something else catches my eyes... The press is also here, waiting to capture our images and throw random infuriating questions towards us. Well, I'm ready for them.

I tightly grip Clara's hand and she tenses in mine, and I advise her to bow down as we walk since I don't want to give the press the satisfaction of seeing my beautiful bride before my father and mother does!

Microphones and recording devices are in front of us and every journalist is throwing questions at us but I don't even make an effort to answer them.

Clara obediently bends her face down as we walk and as we enter the car, one question catches me off guard.. Well, a lot of other silly questions have been asked and statements have been made but this one is just out of the ordinary.

“Did the moon goddess have to pair the Prince with an Omega? Or maybe, who knows, she might be a rogue!” I don't know if the question or statement is directed to me but that really dogs deep into my heart, making my wolf to howl and grunt. I know most of these reporters are human and they mostly know nothing about werewolves unless they read in historical books or wherever but that still doesn't give her the mandate to be rude to the Prince!

Turning around, my wolf catches the scent of the one who has just made that absurd statement and I'm convinced that she's just ignorant since she's not human but a werewolf.

I'm shooting daggers at her and my wolf is threatening to shift here and then so as to teach her a lesson of her life.

I'm tempted to shift but one look at her makes her turn and she runs for her dear life. Well, luck is on her side...besides, I don't want to shift in public! I blink rapidly so as to strikingly bright shun the light from the cameras and walk to my side without saying even a word and I instruct the driver to move the car.

If I stay one minute longer, I might be tempted to do something worse, which might end up tainting my father's image and great reputation!

***

We're already alighted for the plane and this place ain't different from when we were leaving the hotel. Members of press are everywhere. Reporters, journalists who has all forms of cameras flashing at us.

Just like at Hills Valley Pack, I decide to give them a deaf ear and I hold tightly onto Clara's had as my bodyguard who was waiting for us at the airport carries our luggage towards the car, at the same time clearing the way for us.

Well, I'm glad no one makes a snide comment and after boarding the car, I wave at them and then my bodyguard drives off towards the palace.