Rejected, broken and forgotten

The plan

London's POV

I know this Mark douchebag thinks we are mates, but I am in love with another, my true mate. I need to tell Paris about my dilemma and hope my sister, whom I have never met before, is willing to help a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. I am also planning on seeing my mother and father again. We have a thing or two to discuss. I wouldn't say I like how they treated my sister, and I have to ask her about that little brat Ben. He had a lot to say when she thought I was Paris. I can see my sister is tough. She must have gone through a lot, and now I want to involve her in my life and make her give up her freedom for me, only if it is for a little while. I know she will face many things if she agrees to help Nathan and me. I wonder if it is not too much to ask, but I will go and save her before she has to marry that brat, Prince Oliver. I look at the pack of wolves that obviously has no clue what to do now.

"We will leave now, and no one will pursue us. If you dare, my men and my father's army will take care of you," I say. I can see Paris lifting her eyebrows.

"I do not know how you s**t-heads confused me with her. I do not talk like an English damsel," Paris says as she stares at Wallis and the rest of the pack.

"I thought you fell on your head and were even crazier than before," Ben, the brat, says. I feel like slapping him for being so disrespectful towards Paris. He is nothing but a little boy that should know when to keep his mouth shut.

"Yeah, Maria told us there were other wolves, and we thought you were traumatized," Mark says. He and his friends laugh at my sister, which makes me furious, but I am not a fighter. I have never been trained to fight as I am a lady of the court and need to act the part all the time. If Paris agrees, we have our work cut out for us. We will have to turn my sister into a dame.

"Ha! As if a few wolves could traumatize me! I can kick your butt, Mark Brown, any day, and you know it! I am not afraid of my reputation or dying," Paris says, and I look at her with a sinking feeling. My sister may look like me, but she does not sound like me. She does not dress like me, and I bet she can not walk in high heels. I look at Jeffrey, who looks at me with dismay on his face. It will be up to us to train her to be a princess.

"Stop! If one of you talks to my sister in that manner again, I will make sure the whole pack will be destroyed. You know I have the army of a whole Kingdom behind me. I will not tolerate you making fun of my sister. As for you, mother and father, you should stand up for your daughter, but it seems you do not care about her. You will not miss her when I take her with me," I say. I have seen enough to know Paris is not loved by our parents or the wolf pack she is forced to stay in. My grandfather gave me a few months of freedom before I needed to return to the Kingdom and marry Prince Oliver and bring an end to the war between the two kingdoms. I cried my eyes out as I could not think of a worse fate. I love my true mate, Nathan, and I could not get him out of my heart, although I tried, and we fought our love for the sake of the Kingdom. I can no longer fight my love for him as Fire, my wolf cries for Nathan every night. Jeffrey is the head of my security. He told me about Paris and how she could help me. At first, I was hesitant, as I did not want to force my sister to marry Prince Oliver. He is a coward, like this Mark, fellow, who must be my sister's mate, which is why he thinks he is my mate. Not all twins have the same mate.

Some werewolf twins do not have the same mate, as it is up to the Moon Goddess to decide who your mate is and not you. Prince Oliver hides behind his army as they fight us in the south and the rebel prince in the north. No one knows who the rebel prince is, but stories are going around that he is the bastard child of King John of Mercia and that his mother is the Princess of Sussex. Only three werewolf kingdoms are left in England: Sussex, Essex and Mercia. I know that I am to bring peace between Mercia and Essex, but some of our citizens believe Mercia is about to fall into the hands of the rebel prince. Once it does, I do not have to marry Prince Oliver, and all I need is someone to stall the wedding until Alpha Walker Brooks (yes, his mother gave him his father's surname, according to the ones that know everything about him), takes over the Kingdom of Mercia and becomes King. I am hoping that my sister will help me. If she does, she will not have to marry Prince Oliver as she is not really me, and she can announce it on the wedding day if push comes to shove. They will have to go and look for me. You see, I have a birthmark on my right shoulder in the form of a crescent moon. My sister has the same birthmark but on her left shoulder. According to those who know Walker Brooks, he is the Alpha of a pack of rebel wolves from the Kingdom of Mercia and is not keen on taking the throne, but he will as the people want him to. They know he will bring peace to Mercia and that King John is a weakling and a sore loser who was mad at my mother for leaving him for a Beta wolf and becoming pregnant with the wolf's child. It was a slap in the face of the then-future King, and he and his father declared war on the Kingdom of Essex for their own selfish reasons. Sussex had decided to stay out of the war and did not take sides. Princess Alicia of Sussex had a relationship with King John, according to the stories doing the rounds, and Walker is the result of King John's infidelity. Queen Alexandria of Mercia, King John's mate, is not happy about the rumours, but everyone says she knew as she felt the pain of her husband's infidelity the night of the act. She was furious, and they say she went off her head.

"What she said! I am going with her, and you can not stop me," Paris says. I smile. She is indeed a little rebel, and I bet she is a fighter. I can see that she has fire in her soul and her wolf is as fiery as she is. My wolf may be named Fire, but she is like me. We are calm ladies, so we love the gentle Nathan so much. Nathan is the Kingdom's doctor, but he came to America to study further, and I followed him here. Here we can have the freedom to love each other. Nathan is a gentle soul. Like me, he does not have the soul of a fighter. Sometimes I wish I could be more like Paris. She grew up in a different world than I did, and maybe if I grew up like her, I would be a rebel like her and strong like her. I have seen how she handles the situation. It is like she does not even care. Maybe it is because she had no love growing up that makes her reckless and brave, as she has nothing to lose.

"Well, we will be leaving now. Goodbye, ladies and gentlemen, until we meet again," I say. My men, sister and I leave the packhouse. The Alpha and his son do nothing, and I know Mark is indeed, as I summed him up. A coward! He does not even want to fight for his mate. Maybe it is because he knows his mate will kick his butt, as Paris would say. I will have to learn to talk like her and act like her. Maybe she can even teach me to fight like her. I know she has been accepted to Stanford University. I am sure she will be back before university starts, as it is just a matter of time before Alpha Walker Brooks takes over the Kingdom of Mercia. We walk to the road where our limo is waiting. We get in, and Paris points at me as soon as we are in the car.

"What is going on, and what do you want from me? How long have you known about me? What the hell is going on? Jeffrey, you are a good actor, I must say, but you are also a good liar. I do not trust any of you," Paris goes off on us. I can't say I blame her.

"Sister, I only found out about you recently. I need your help, but even if I did not, I would have come after you when I found out about you," I say.

"Okay, out with it. I am listening, and what is in it for me?" Paris asks. I can not blame her for asking that, but I will tell her my story and how she reacts.

"Well, you see. I am supposed to return to England and marry Prince Oliver, but my heart belongs to someone else. You will meet him soon. His name is Nathan. He is my true mate, and my heart is breaking as I can not marry Prince Oliver and leave my Nathan," I say.

"So you want me to go and marry an English Prince and pretend to be you? Is he wealthy? I am not going to find a mate. As you may know by now, my mate rejected me. Mark, the Alpha's son. Not that I want him as a mate, he is a coward and a scumbag," Paris says.

"I guess Prince Oliver is wealthy and good-looking, but I love Nathan," I say.

"So we do not have the same mate? I thought you and Mark were hitting it off," Paris says.

"Oh, no, please! He is not my type, and I figured he was a coward if he did not even want to fight for you, his mate," I say.

"Please, I would rather die alone than have that d**k head as a mate," Paris says. How am I going to learn to talk like that? I am sure I can if I have to, but not in front of Nathan.

"Anyway, you do not have to marry the Prince. All I want you to do is stall the marriage until his half-brother, the rebel prince, takes over Mercia and becomes King, then you can return, and I will go home with Nathan as the rebel prince will make peace and not continue the war his father and half-brother are fighting. I want to ask about Ben. He looks a lot like the Alpha. He is not our father's child, is he?" I ask.

"Finally, someone with a brain! I know he is the Alpha's son and our half-brother, but our father only has two brain cells. One is on leave, and the other is busy running his muscles," Paris says, and we laugh. She is clever and hides it behind her tough exterior. Someone that gets into Stanford with a scholarship is intelligent, and no one should underestimate her sister.

"I will pay you, and you do not have to work while at university. I also want us to become sisters after this. That is if you are willing to help Nathan and me," I say after we have had a good laugh. I ask her about her life, and she is honest and tells me everything. The more she talks, the angrier I get. How dare those people treat my sister like that! We talk for hours, and Paris agrees to help me. We decided she would leave for England in two weeks so we could train her to be more like me. I know Jeffrey and I will have a hard time teaching her, but I can not go in case the marriage goes ahead. Only my sister can help me and pretend to be me. If the marriage goes ahead, she can tell them she is not me and stop the wedding as she is not the actual princess of the Kingdom. We will have to find a way to mind-link her to the Kingdom, and as the heir to the throne, I can invite her to become a citizen, which will link her to the Kingdom pack. Jeffrey explains this to us, and soon, we have that figured out. Finally, we go to bed knowing our plan will work. It is the first time that Paris sleeps in a decent bed as we stay at my apartment. I feel sorry for my poor sister as I look at her sad face while she sleeps. She may pretend to be tough, but inside she is just a young girl looking for someone that will love her unconditionally. I will be that person, and I promise my sister that she will never be alone in this cruel world again. I will always be there for her.