LUKA 1
"Vlad, I am fine. Stop fussing." I heard my new sister tell my oldest brother as she maneuvered her huge belly to sit down at the breakfast table.
"Patty-" He was disrupted from telling her it was his job, like every morning, to take care of her and their babies. My older twin brothers walked in, looking like they were just getting in for the night looking happy as can be and I leaned back and looked at them not interested in food anymore.
"Morning brothers, babies, and of course Patty." Ivan said giving us all a simple nod before looking to Dimitri who laughed and made his twin laugh, and I sighed knowing they must be still slightly drunk.
"I'm no longer hungry." I said standing and moving towards the other exit.
"Oh, don't leave Luka, you know you should come and hang with us one night. You'll have so much fun." Ivan called out and I sighed as I kept walking. I didn't need them to know that I hated the thought of alcohol, or f*****g anything that walks, or dancing even.
I wasn't graceful on the dance floor. Nor was I good at talking to anyone out of my family. I barely talked to the maids that worked for us.
I walked to my quarters, grabbed my coat, and then headed back towards the garages. I saw a minor ding on Ivan's dark green hummer and shook my head. I got into my own white hummer before opening the doors.
It was snowing heavily and I just drove towards my lab. It was just something that I had been working on for a couple years. I had a teacher, well, it was a tutor really. She was human, she just thought that we were rich. Anyways, she got diagnosed with ALS.
She was funny, smart, and basically took care of me whenever my brothers, well, the twins, picked on me. And she died shortly afterwards. Suicide.
She didn't want to live her life in a wheelchair.
Once I graduated from college, I started experimenting. I would take brain cells from recently deceased ALS patients. I had a storage of them in a big freezer. I was taking some of my own blood, that I had a nurse carefully take from my brain stem, and mixed them with stem cells from umbilical cords.
It was just something I was trying to do with my life. I was a prince. 4th in line, almost 6th, depending on my brothers kids. I had enough money to do whatever I wanted, but that didn't mean I was going to spend it on anything that I wanted. I wanted to create a cure. Or at least something to slow down the process.
I did all that I could today before my eyes were giving out from looking into a microscope. Things were getting close to preserving the brain cells, but nothing close to what I needed it to be.
I got back to the palace. I heard a beat and groaned before heading towards the kitchen. I saw 6 women dancing on the table with nothing but their thongs, half of them were only wearing bras, and all of them were wearing stilettos. Not to mention dancing and giving Ivan and Dimitri a real good show.
"Baby brother!" I heard Ivan as I tried to get something small to eat before going to my room.
"This is your brother?" I heard one of the she-wolves say and I turned to walk out when Ivan grabbed my shirt and made me stop. "He is very handsome." I heard her continue and I saw it was one of the women that didn't have a bra, just shoes, and a thong.
"Let me go Ivan." I demanded and tried to push his hands off of me.
"Don't you want to have fun baby?" She purred coming closer and wrapping her arms around my neck and I craned my head back as she tried to lean in to kiss me. But that just gave her access to my neck, she started to kiss my neck before sucking and Ivan pushed me into a chair.
"Get off of me." I said through gritted teeth as she tried to straddle my lap.
"Relax baby brother... just let her guide you. Stella is the best-"
"What the hell do you all think you are doing?" I heard a female squeak out and I looked past Ivan and Stella to see Patty with her robe, a tank top, and some small shorts she had obviously been sleeping in the doorway.
"Your highness." I heard one of the females say and looked around to see all of them, besides Stella, bowing down.
"Get out, all of you"€ She shouted and then saw Stella on my lap and started walking towards us. Every other female scrambled but Stella. In fact, she got more comfortable, rubbing herself on my lap. "Did you not hear me? I said get out." Patty said and Stella laughed.
"You're just a pregnant she-wolf. What can you do? Besides please your mate- wait, you probably can't do that either." She giggled aloud and I heard the growl before seeing Vlad walk in.
"She pleases your king just fine, in fact, so much so that it would be a turn on if she beat your ass, pregnant or not. So why don't you get off of my brother's lap, get out of my palace, and never set foot near any of the royal family again."
"I was paid to do a job... and I am not leaving until I am done with it."
"You're relieved of your job Stella. In fact, you can even keep the money I paid you. Never insult your queen again." Ivan said dismissing her and she gasped, look down at me and leaned in.
"You don't want me to leave do you lover?" She asked and I turned my head and looked to Ivan. But of course, he did nothing but look up and acted like everything was alright still.
"Get off of my lap, get out of here, and have some dignity. You might be a she-wolf, but that doesn't mean I want to f**k you. I have gladly saved myself for my mate. And you are not worth yours." I told her and she looked so scared of my tone that she scooted off, tripped over her own feet, and landed on the floor.
"Relax baby brother-"
"And you Ivan, you are a disgusting excuse for second in line to the throne. I don't want you to talk to me, think about me, or even talk about me to anyone again. I don't appreciate you getting some slutty woman to come onto me. Even paying her to sleep with me. Just because you have fun with these women doesn't mean that I will. In fact, I feel sorry for your future mate. She will never trust you. But I guess your expertise with women in bed might charm her for a while. Or maybe she will be so used you and her wont mind sharing." I spat before trudging past him, and the slut on the floor.
"Go back and play in your little lab Luka. I might be next in line but at least I might have a chance one day." He called to me just before I passed Vlad.
"And that is what you want isn't it? To be king. To have sluts and money to pay to keep them happy? That is what appeals to you? That is the saddest thing I have ever heard." I told him before walking past my brother and Patty and feeling my rage rise with every step.
"Luka!" I heard Patty but I kept my pace. "If I go into labor while trying to catch up to you I swear you are going to feel major pain." She sounded winded and I closed my eyes before stopping. "Thank you." She said and took a deep breath.
"What?" I asked her looking down and she put a hand to her chest.
"What your brother did was wrong. But he is your brother-"
"Now you are starting to sound like your mate. He is your brother. You love each other any other time." I mumbled and shook my head. "He is my brother, but I can't handle being in the same place anymore. He thinks he can do whatever he wants... and I can't handle-â€
"You need a vacation."
"Like I can even go out without being brought back here." I muttered knowing Vlad would want me to come back, to solve things between Ivan and me.
"I will handle your brother. But go somewhere that has happy memories. It will make you relax. Make you have an open mind. You'll come back refreshed. You said yourself you can't be in the same place as Ivan right now... so go for two weeks, maybe three."
"Two." I said and shook my head realizing I was agreeing with her. "Even if I wanted to go, Vlad would stop me."
"Not if you were to say, go right now, pack, and then leave tonight. We were going to be in the kitchen for just a bit, and the kitchen is very far away from the garage isn't it?" She asked and I gave her a small smile before nodding. "So, go and pack, then rush to your car." She told me patting my arm.
"You'll contact me at a place called Snowy Cliffs. It's a resort. We used to go there when I was a teenager. Best place to get away, and I bet they have all forgotten it. But only if something has gone wrong, or you are giving birth." I told her and she nodded.
"Have fun. Relax." She told me and I nodded again before moving quickly towards my room.
I hadn't been snowboarding in years. And I did miss it. I mean I lived in Russia, but going out isn't really a possibility with the entire pack knowing who you are.
But thankfully Snowy Cliffs was in Romania, and I had to get on a Ferry across the Black Sea with my car to get there. It was better than going through Ukraine.
I packed warm clothes, because werewolf or not, I was going to be cold in the snow going 20 miles an hour and faster up on the hills.