The Prince’s Unwilling mate

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“Is Sam okay? I worry for him” To my relief Eliza, one of the middle- aged women in the pack was the one that stopped me. She was a widower like Sam.

With how she asked me if Sam was okay I wondered if there was more to it. Sometimes two wolves who both lost their mates fall in love. I don‘ t know if I could ever love someone knowing they would never love me like they loved their mate. Then again if Griffin would die young, I would never be able to love anyone as much as I loved him. Maybe it would work out, it didn’t matter anyway. Even if Eliza liked Sam as something more than a friend, it was not up to me. I wasn’t about to meddle in their lives. And I wasn’t about to tell her what it was exactly

that Sam told me either.

“I think the situation with Cynthia hurts him, and he could use a friend. I tell her because everyone knew about the situation with Cynthia and how much it hurt him.

Eliza quickly made her way over to Sam, no longer interested in speaking with me. Which was fine by me, I was looking for Griffin anyway. It was not like him to disappear out of my sight during a pack party. It was not that I was worried, I just missed him, and I wanted to get some cotton candy with him. As I was looking for him two hands covered my eyes.

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“Guess who?” This time I recognized the voice, the scent, and even the hands on my face felt familiar enough for me to know who this was.

“I would say the most perfect mate there ever was, but if that were the case you would have brought me cotton candy” I joked as I turned around to face Griffin. Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Who grabbed his chest in mock hurt, as if my words cut him deep. I knew him well enough by now. His eyes were sparkling with love and mischief. I loved how we evolved from the beginning, riddled with insecurities from both of us. To the point where we could just joke around and tease each other like this.

“Let me redeem myself and get you some cotton candy then.” I was surprised to see Griffin turning on his heels the moment he promised to get me cotton candy.

Until he hoisted me on his back giving me a piggyback ride to the cotton candy stand. I couldn’t stop giggling not even when at least half the pack- was staring at us. Most seemed amused though. Unlike at the Blood Moon pack, we as pack rulers didn’t have to keep up with a ton of stupid rules here. We didn’t have to be seen as the serious, strong. elegant ones. Here at the Silver Moon pack we were more than the future Alpha and Luna we were a young, newly mated couple too, we could be a daughter and son. A sister, a friend and it was one of the things I loved most about our pack.

Since we could not allow humans on pack grounds, especially not

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shifts, so they could all get to just enjoy the party without working too. Chris had just started his shift. He chuckled as he saw us arrive and when Griff wouldn’t let go of me he just handed me the cotton candy as I was still clinging to Griffin.

I had set it up so that everyone worked one–hour

so and they still seemed to enjoy the

members to man the

“I’m so glad, you and mom hired pack members to work the booths. It is nice we can just be ourselves” Griffin mentioned as he finally put me back on solid ground again.

It made me think about his gamer friends and their not–so–subtle hints they had not been invited to our wedding yet. And how they would love to be a part of it. Even without fully knowing what was going on even without knowing what had happened to me they had been so kind and supportive. That I felt like we could truly consider them friends. But to be absolutely certain we needed to meet all of them first.

“Baby, talking about humans now everything has settled down don’t you think it is time to meet the rest of the gamer guys?” I asked Griffin because it felt like now was the ideal time.

Griffin could just go on his own so I could keep up with my education. All partners would only come over for the last day of the weekend they had been planning. I wasn’t far along in the pregnancy so it wasn’t like I needed a lot of help yet. And if I would be further along in the pregnancy my hormones would only make me miss him more to the point where it would be almost unbearable. So all in all this seemed like

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the best time to do so.

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“I think you’re right but I can always ask them if you can come along for the entire weekend if you want to. I we can make it fit into the

m sure tour schedule” Griffin agreed with me, and I knew he didn’t like leaving me behind either.

Wolves hardly ever plan to meet up with someone without their mate for more than a day because we would miss each other so much. For most humans, this constant need to be together is weird, unhealthy even and it makes being friends who do not know what we are harder. Even the ones that know about werewolves do not fully understand. In the end, Griffin agrees with me it would be better if we stuck to the original plan. the guys made. Back when Griffin was scared he would have to be with a chosen mate. With a chosen mate it wouldn’t be that hard to be away from her for a few days.

This time we felt like we had to stay until the party started to dwindle down. It would look bad if the future King and Queen would always leave parties early to retreat to their own chambers. People could- interpret it as us not wanting to spend time with the pack. Even if that wasn’t the case I just managed to find the most introverted pack ruler in the history of werewolves. For now, this situation with Cynthia did not harm our reputation but all four of us were very aware of how bad this could turn out to be. She wasn’t a real threat in terms of her actually hurting me, she had been far too smart. Everything she did was calculated to make sure none of it was enough to be punished. She would make sure there were not a lot of witnesses if any. And it gave her the possibility to twist what happened to make me look bad. It would

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suit her plan to get rid of me, even if I wasn’t going anywhere. David, Hannah, and Jason had tried to keep me from Griffin. They had tried to break us up before we marked each other and they had been. unsuccessful. So there was nothing a silly girl like Cynthia could really do, we just didn’t want to give her the opportunity to cause more drama.

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