Saving the Queen |✓|

Chapter 7

•Alexis•

Me and Xander ran back to the pack in silence. We got home around five in the afternoon.

I ended up skipping the pack dinner and staying in my house for the rest of the night. I told everyone I was busy with Alpha duties and I was not to be disturbed.

That was a lie. I've already completed everything that needed done for today. I just wasn't in the mood for people.

I was in the middle of making ramen when a knock sounded on my front door. "Come in." I shouted from the kitchen and in came my best friend Sam.

"I switched shifts with Marco." I didn't reply. He came up to the stove to stand next to me. "I know you're in a bad mood, but at least talk to me. Im your best and only friend from Ireland."

He nudges my shoulder playfully and I try to stop the smile that is forming on my lips. It's true. He is my only friend from Ireland and my only reminder of home.

"I miss home." I think about my home often. I think about what would have happened if I never left.

I think of all the bad things that happened like how I'd never have met the man that haunts my dreams, I wouldn't have this mark on my neck, and I never would've met my mate.

Then I would think about all the good things that happened like how I saved a pack from destruction, how I ended the life of a man who ruined hundreds of lives, and how I brought peace to a pack who was always terrorised.

"I miss home too." Sam startles me out of my thoughts with his loud voice in the quiet of the room. "Remember how when we were young, we'd run around the house annoying my father while he did work?"

I smile at the memory of me and Sam playing. "I do. He used to chase us around the house trying to tire us out."

I abandon my noodles, not even hungry anymore, and make my way to the living room. "Yeah, then the attack came and my mom died. He was never the same after that."

I sit on the couch and Sam sits with me. "Do you think my mom would be proud of me?" I look at Sam while he stares at me in shock.

"Of course she would. Why wouldn't she be?" I shrug my shoulders and think. "She used to say, "A cruel ruler will lead to a strong Alpha, but a kind ruler will lead to a strong pack," she raised me to be a kind ruler, but I think I forgot that along the way."

"Alexis, you were pushed into ruling a whole species at the age of 13. You did what you were taught and yes sometimes you had to be mean, but you're always fair to the good people. Your mom would be proud at how well you've done."

I feel tears spring to my eyes as Sam pulls me in for a hug. He's the only person besides my father who's seen me cry. After a few minutes, I pull myself together and turn on the t.v. to distract my thoughts. After a few hours and a couple of movies, im drifting off to sleep while leaning on Sam.