The Protector

Chapter 30, Nohr

The King and I made it to the meeting site an hour early to do recon with the two other wolves he had brought along as backup.

Given the circumstances, I couldn't risk Hayden's safety and bring her with me, as much as I love having her around me and never wanting to leave me, I couldn't bring myself to be that selfish and irresponsible.

I'm a protector, I always have been and I always will be, whether it be a stranger or my beautiful mate, I live to serve, so that I can keep people safe, safe from dangerous people like the Titan that killed my family.

King Titar Tar'en was dangerous, a fool would think otherwise.

In the Kings eyes I was still the Crown Prince, and until I'm dead or otherwise, that is all he and the people of Titus will think, until I'm dealt with or publicly imprisoner as a traitor to my kind.

For the simple fact that I was born from a human's womb and not a Titan's has made me an outcast and an embarrassment to my kind.

I didn't want Hayden to be here to witness the kind of hate I will no doubly endure when the King and his entourage give me.

I can handle anything thrown at me, but the thought of Hayden thinking less of me, despite knowing how she feels, still makes me uneasy with thoughts of 'what if'.

I know it's different with Hayden Black, at first we were merely strangers, glancing at each other until we eventually came together like magnets, all without knowing about the fact the two of us were mates, it forms a special bond not many mates get the chance to feel.

"How are things, Nohr?" King Caelan Black asks, coming up to me.

I take one last look behind me, having not seen anything out of the ordinary, at the least not important enough to report to the King. "Everything looks good on my end, Sir."

The King frowns and reaches out to slap me on the back. "It's Caelan."

"We're family now Nohr, and once you marry Hayden I hope you can address me more casually then this." He said with a smile.

It takes me a few seconds to process that the King- Caelan was actually smiling at me, the same wolf that had almost ripped the spine from my body and shoved it down my throat.

I always knew Caelan Black was a great leader, it runs in his family, despite Kane Black threatening my life too, I knew they were loyal and proud, being werewolves only made their sense of family more fierce.

For the first time in a long time, I felt like I was starting to belong to an actual family, and because of that, the human side of me felt so much emotion- emotion I never felt until I finally got to see Hayden up close, and not from behind railings.

"Thank you Si- Caelan, I hope for that too." I said honestly, to which he simply patted me on the shoulder and walked away quietly.

The air around us fell silent, and I knew someone was mind-linking Caelan, which could only mean one thing, and one thing only.

"They've arrived, let's head inside first." 

I followed behind Caelan towards the meeting point, a cabin in the woods near the border of The Vale, twenty minutes ride from the portal to Titus, the Cabin wasn't just any Cabin though, that is what made this meeting spot so special.

The cabin had been enchanted years ago to dispel any and all attempts to use magic, which meant the moment you passed through the front doors of the cabin you were unable to cast, transform or even hurt anyone inside.

It was old ancient magic that had been lost for hundreds of years since the downfall of Demonia Black, Prince of the Shadowlands, Hayden and Caelan's ancestor.