I AM ALPHA

Chapter Four-Meeting the Prince

When we arrived at the king's, well saying castle sounds cliche but there is really no other word for it, all of our things were taken from the SUV and carried up to our rooms. The King stood outside the front door. Walking up to him I smiled and bowed my head. "King Alexander." The girls followed my lead and bowed to the king. "It is a pleasure to meet you." I smiled to him. 
    'He's even hotter in person.' I heard Britney snicker through our mind link. I smiled and returned 'The Queen is even stronger.' And the rest of the girls giggled.
"The same to you Ms. McKinney." He smiled and it reached his hunter green eyes, he suspected we were talking about him. Alexander is a kind king who takes care of all the werewolves in the world. We were blessed by the moon goddess to have him. But he is known to be a flirt.
    "Alaisia, please, Your Grace. This is my second, Isabel Bennet, followed by Britney Hall, Samantha Williams, and Tasha Bowman." As I spoke the large front doors were opened and we walked into a grand foyer.
   "We are having a party tonight in honor of you girls' arrival. Please come in your best, my son and the Queen will be there. The party is in a few hours so I must be off to handle preparations. Make yourselves at home, girls, seeing you all are here a while." He smiled again and was off. Leaving the girls and I alone.
     "This place is the shit!" Britney exclaimed and we all smiled at her boldness. Britney doesn't have a dishonest bone in her body, we actually think she is physically incapable of holding in her thoughts or telling lies.
   "It is wonderful." Samantha's monotone voice chimed in as she looked around the room.
   "It is. But make no mistake, we are here to prove something, that we are the strongest warriors in the world. They have no doubt gathered many strong warriors here to test not only myself, but all of you. If you are to meet your mate tonight, wonderful, but don't let it show a weakness of what we have fought long and hard to prove wrong. We have more than blind love for---"a smell wafted across my nose and it stopped me dead in my sentence. The smell was heavenly, rich and woodsy, but a hint of cinnamon. Clean like soap but also of the mountains. Dark and sexy.  My wolf purred inside me. There he is Alaisia. That is our mate. She got out as she rubbed trying to get to our mate's wolf. "Oh no." I whispered and slowly turned to face this man.
    "Prince Dimitri.." All the girls and I said at once, they bowed behind me but I couldn't tear my eyes away from his.
  "Mine." He spoke and the word sent shivers throughout my body. He started towards me and I slowly walked backwards.
   "Alaisia, what is wrong?" Isabel asked but I didn't respond. As he came closer I backed up and suddenly I felt my back hit the wall. There was nowhere else for me to go.
    "Shit." was all I got out before his lips captured mine. He was gentle, waiting for me to kiss him back, and I did. I let my tongue slide across his lower lip and that was his invitation. But my own moan pulled me out of my trance and I shoved him away.
   "Mine. Mate." He growled and tried to pull me closer.
    "No." I shoved again and pulled out of his grasp. "Stop it. Girls.." I breathed heavily and I seen them all staring wide eyed at me. "Let's go." And we all scurried up the stairs. The girls in front of me and my heart..my wolf..begged me to look back at him. But my pride..my brain..decided not to. We made it to the hallway that had all of our rooms in it and I stopped and propped myself a gained the wall..my head against it with my eyes close.
  "Oh my god..Alaisia.." Isabel said as they all stared at me.
    "Not a word of this. To no one." I panted my eyes searching theirs for an answer to my own question "what do I do?"  But I didn't dare voice that question. Though I have no doubts they heard it in my mind. Without another word I went into the room assigned to me and through myself on the bed and screamed into my pillow. I punched the bed beneath me but stopped sudden to when my bedroom door opened and closed. "Out. Now." I lifted up from the pillow and that smell hit my nose again. Fuck. Hey. That is our mate you are cussing about. My wolf scolded me.
  "Now that is no way to speak to your prince." A cocky voice that melted my insides spoke.
    "Of course not." I stood from the bed and turned to him but I didn't look to him. I kept my eyes on the floor. "I am sorry, Prince Dimitri." He walked to me and gently grabbed my face with both hands and raised it to his.
   "But I am not only your prince, am I? I am your mate, and you, my beauty, are mine." And his lips slowly captured mine again. Just a peck, but I almost swooned. This is dangerous.
   "This can't happen. I'm here to protect you and your family, not to love you." I whispered.
     "Are you rejecting me?" He whispered back.
"No, but this is more complicated than you know." I said and stepped away.
    "How? What is your name?" He asked and his hands fell to my arms and back to his side as I walked further away. Needing distance to clear my head. I took a deep breathe, squared my shoulders, and looked him directly in the eyes.
   "I am Alaisia McKinney, future alpha of Pack Greenwood, and I was sent here to protect you from vampires and rogues. I am head of your security." His eyes widened.
   "So you are the shewolf who believes she doesn't been a man to lead her pack. The one everyone is here for and talking about. The one my father plans to put in her place tonight."
    "Excuse me? Put in my place?" I growled. Even though he is our mate, my wolf growled too. She didn't like being thought less of who she was. Especially hearing of being embarrassed.
     "An Alpha is a man's job. The woman is a Luna. A very honorable title to have, and you are taking that for granted. I bet you couldn't beat me let alone the wolves my father have gathered to show you that Luna's aren't meant to be in battle." He held his head tall.
    "Come with me." I grabbed his hand and stormed out of the room dragging him with me.
   'Girls. Grand foyer now. It seems I was right about the king gathering fighters. But he apparently is intending to teach us a lesson.' I called to my girls. Immediately they were out and in ranks behind me, snarling and growling all the way. Dimitri yanked out of my grasp but still followed us. We made it to the foyer and people were already gathered, men everywhere and the King speaking of who he brought and how he knew the wolves could defeat me.
   "So King Alexander, seems for all your smiles and hospitality, you are planning to make an example of me and my team. Well..I'm here now, give me the strongest men you have. I will beat them in human form, wolf form, hand to hand combat, or any form you wish."
    "Very well, Alaisia. Let the games begin."
  And so we danced.

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