***Sofia***
"I, Mateo Salvador Altamirano, challenge Prince Julian Augusto Bolivar to a dual for my mate, Princess Sofia Isabel Reyes."
A number emotions rush through me: horror that he had challenged the prince and joy that he had come for me.
Julian growls beside me and I look up to see him seething with rage, panting and on the verge of shifting
"Just a friend, huh?" he snarls at me. "I f*****g knew he was your mate!" he hisses in my ear.
"Sofia," My father calls out to me. "I-is this true? Is Mateo your mate?"
My eyes fill with tears as I look out onto the crowd of confused guests. Mateo's gaze settles on me and I feel my throat dry up.
Unable to string together a coherent sentence, I simply nod, the crowd gasping at the revelation. I was not at all s
