My Princess My Luna

C & L: Chapter 2

Cole

Two days until my birthday and Lilly’s as well. After waking up this morning and I decided I am going to make her a special cake since we are both turning 18. I want her to have one last good memory before her father makes her leave. I am also going to give her my going away present which is a small journal I kept to myself that I wrote poems about her in. I had always planned on giving it to her when she turned 18 so she knows how amazing she is and will never forget that in her new home. I even dried and pressed some of her favorite flowers petals onto the pages throughout the book so she will always have a piece of home with her. I know how much she loves her mothers garden and can’t imagine how much she’ll miss it when she’s forced to leave her home. She is so special and beautiful.

I hate that her father is cruel enough to take all her choices away from her but there is nothing I can do about it. He is the self proclaimed King of North America and no one dares go against him. His great great grandfather was a ruthless killer who took control over the largest pack and they raised their son's to be equally as unjust and awful. No one defied their family or they suffered the consequences. We had to learn all about their families ascension to power and the many battles they fought and won to keep their power. Now it is about maintaining power with alliances which Lilly’s father had decided would be best to do by offering up his daughters as a bargaining chip.

Families are supposed to fight and argue but with him his decision is final and there is no leniency when it comes to disobeying him. I had never crossed paths with him but my father told me stories from when he was younger. He was a ruthless warrior and leader. He killed anyone who dared question his leadership. He never took prisoners and if he did they didn’t last very long. My father told me Lionel was a little sadistic growing up catching and torturing vampires when he was a teenager. He never had a legitimate reason he just enjoyed doing it. Once his own father found out he stopped but those kind of tendencies don’t just disappear.

As soon as school is over I go to the kitchen to do a practice run on my cake before heading to the library to try and find Lilly and ask her to meet me in the attic two nights from now. Everything is all planned out in my head and I know she is going to love it now the hard part is actually getting her where I need her to be and when. I pray to the moon goddess that this one time she will cut us some slack and not have Lilly get caught by her father or his minions. I can't find her in the library or garden so she must have been training or in a meeting. I walk around our little town in our packs territory in case I spot her there and when I can't find her I decide to just wait in the library, study some more, and hope that she comes in. When that doesn't work I opt for writing a cheesy note and sticking it under her door.

Lilly

The closer my birthday gets the more anxious I become. There are only two more days until my birthday and four days until I am forced to leave my home. I had thought about running away more than ever before over the past week and a half. I don't want this life. I don't want to be forced to be with someone who isn't my mate and pretend to be in love. To be honest I don't care about being a Luna. Yes I have Alpha blood in me which makes me strong and a great option for a mate and Luna but I want to be loved and cherished for who I am as a person not what I can offer someone. I know I wouldn’t get far before my father found out and dragged me back by my hair. If I did attempt to leave I would be punished.

My second oldest sister, Rose, tried to run and I remember seeing the scars on her back from the whipping she got for doing so. He kept her in our dungeons for five days and nights starving her to teach her a lesson as well. She didn’t even make it off the packs land before being caught and dragged back. I could hear her crying loudly from a few rooms down for several nights after she was forced back home but then a year later she left without a fight. I always thought of Rose as the strongest and bravest of the seven of us and if my terrible father was able to break her what chance did I stand against him.

I wasn’t as brave as any of my sisters really so I surely wouldn’t make it far or survive one of my fathers punishments. Just a stern lecture from him left me shaken for several days afterwards. I rarely disobeyed him or talked back to him. Having four older sisters I had seen the different ways he tested and treated them, I know better than to push his buttons. I try to stay tiny like a mouse and cause as little a disturbance to him as possible hoping to never experience his full wrath. To be honest I hoped he would just forget about me and I could disappear pretend I was someone else other than his little princess. I hate to admit that I often wish I wasn’t born into the family I was. I would have rather been an omega like Cole and worked in the kitchen or somewhere like that, a simple life.

I know my father has little spies all throughout our land who keep tabs on us girls and report everything to my father. That’s how he found out I was sneaking off to the lake. I could always feel eyes on me at all time throughout the days. Thankfully not that it was getting closer to me leaving people seemed to be less interested in me and started spying on my younger sisters since they would be around a while longer. Everyone wants to be on my fathers good side. Some gave him information to gain a higher rank in the pack while others simply want to earn a bit of respect from him. My father held no respect for anyone but himself, he was the epitome of a narcissist.

After my lessons for the day my instructor, Gladys, informs me I need to go to my fathers office. I waste no time getting there knowing how he hated to wait for anyone. Plus I want to get whatever it is over and done with so I can take a walk through the garden to ease my mind and try to enjoy it as much as possible before being shipped off. I knock on the office door and enter after hearing my father giving me the ok to come in. He is sitting in his office chair and I make my way over to stand a few feet in front of it where I usually do. His eyes move behind me and he nods his head. I turn, not even realizing someone else is in the room, to see who he is gesturing to and swallow hard as the man stands from the couch in my fathers office.

He has to be at least 6’3”. He has slick black hair and a very muscular build. The aura surrounding him is definitely that of an Alpha. Is this who I was bargained away too, Alpha Blackthorn I wonder. In two large steps he is right behind me and his aura suffocates me slightly. I have only ever felt my fathers and he manages to keep it reigned in quite well saving it for when absolutely necessary. I know what he is doing he is asking me to submit. Of course being the good daddy's girl I am I slightly bow my head and bare my neck for him letting him know he has control over me. He moves some hair from the exposed side of my neck to check that I am unmarked and the moment his fingers graze my skin my whole body tenses.

I am unbelievably nervous and scared of the large man behind me. I put my head down as he walks around me looking me up and down. I feel like a lamb headed to the s*******r with the way his eyes are fixed on me. He lifts my head by my chin and I am genuinely scared after making direct eye contact with his near black eyes.

“Has anyone ever touched you?” I shake my head no. “Have you ever touched anyone?” Again I shake my head no. “Have you touched yourself?” I dropped my head again slightly embarrassed but shake my head no. "We will have the marking and mating ceremony five days from now. I expect you to be on your best behavior and be an obedient mate and luna, do you understand?” He says lifting my chin again.

I nod in understanding and he moves back to his place on the couch. My father dismisses me and his beta escorts me back to my room to start packing my belongings. As I'm deciding what to bring an overwhelming sadness washes over me so I do what I normally do, close my eyes, and go to my happy place, the garden with my mother, and it helps ease my worries. I am sitting on the bench watching my mother tend to her garden when I feel a hand intertwine with mine.

I look next to me and it is Cole. I don't pull my hand away, it feels nice to have his hand in mine, and I feel as though it is meant to be there. He smiles at me and we both sit there staring into each others eyes. His flashes between baby blue to brown, back and forth. It is not only Cole looking at me he was allowing his wolf to come forward and take a peak as well. His face starts moving towards mine and I turn away. I know what he wants but I can't, even a fantasy I can't allow myself to touch another. I hear footsteps outside my door and then a piece of paper slips under the c***k between the door and floor. I curiously grab and open it wondering who it could be from.

Beautiful Princess,

If you would do me the honor of meeting me in the attic tonight just before midnight I have a special surprise for you. I hope that it will bring you a little joy and happiness before your departure.

A slight blush formed on my cheeks at being called a beautiful princess. It isn't as if I don't know I am a good looking young woman but no one has ever actually used that word to describe me. The fact that someone is even thinking about me makes me smile. I am a princess in this pack but anything related to me is typically obligatory, no one has ever done anything surprising or thoughtful for me.