Saving the Queen |✓|

Chapter 11

•Alexis•

"What?" Xander looks at me with wide eye's, his hold on my hands tightening. "I was to be married, Xander. To the King of the Rouges."

"Why? Why would you do that?" He questions me with an accusing tone. I take my hands away from his and stand up from my chair.

"It wasn't my idea Xander. I wanted to find my mate, to find you, but I needed his help in the war three years ago. He only agreed to help if I married him. Lives were at stake, innocent lives."

"Still, you were going to marry another man? What about his mate?" He stands up from the ground, towering over me. "He told me she died. I only agreed because I went to see a witch and she told me I didn't have a mate, that is was another defect of the curse."

"So you are mated then? That's why you have that mark on your neck?" He spits out in disgust. "Im not some filthy thing who just gave herself away to a random man. Don't talk to me like that when you don't even know what happened." I yell back, my fist clenched together and my knuckles turning white.

"Then what happened Alexis? Please, enlighten me so I can be angry without you judging me." I grit my teeth together and bite my tongue to keep from yelling.

"I will tell you what happened, but you will sit and shut up so I can. You will not interrupt and you won't assume things that didn't happen." I glare at the man in front of me and watch as he makes his way to the chair across from my desk. For once my command actually worked on him.

He sits and so do I. "Look, if I knew I had a mate, I would never have made the deal. The witch lied to me. She was probably bribed by Blake to lie to me."

He just crosses his arm's and I watch as the muscles in his jaw tighten in anger. "We were going to marry only if the war was won, but there was an unexpected bump in our plan."

"One of the soldier's fighting with the other pack was a young girl, same age as me. I found out she was Blake's mate so I spared her life. When everything was all over, I took her to Blake."

"I thought he would be happy and call off the deal, but he just laughed in her face. He killed her, snapped her neck in the blink of an eye."

"He wanted to marry me for the title as King, to rule over rogues and all packs. I told him I wouldn't do it, but I was only 17 and I wasn't as strong as I am now."

"I wasn't even supposed to be Queen yet so my wolf wasn't fully matured and I couldn't defend myself against an Alpha male, especially an Alpha King, rogue or not."

His eye's soften a bit at the slight tremor in my voice. I clear my throat and swipe my hair from my face so I can continue.

"He was weakened in the war, well that's what he told me." I laugh bitterly while I think of how stupid I was. "So I allowed him to stay in pack territory for a few days to rest up. Big mistake. One night he snuck into my room, he held his hand to my mouth so I couldn't scream, and drugged me with wolfsbane."

"I couldn't move and couldn't mind link Sam for help. I was helpless, weak, and pathetic. He forced his mark on me and then tried to complete the mating ritual. I guess he thought if we were mated, it would crown him King."

"Some guards saw my front door open and stopped Blake before he could do anything else. He was banned from Royal territory and isn't aloud in any pack territory, but before he left, he said,"

"You can kick me out and make me flee, but forever you will bare the mark of me. Your mate will hate you and you will spend forever alone the same as me, and if your mate shall look past your mark, I'll be back ready to strike, to take down your kingdom and take away everyone you love."

"Sam's made me have guards posted in and outside my house every night since."

"So yes Xander, I made a mistake, but I'd make that mistake again and again because it saved lives and that is my job as Queen."

"If we're together, everyone and everything I worked so hard to protect, will fall. This pack will die, you, my father, everyone I love will die and I would rather be alone then watch that happen."

I feel the tear slide down my cheek as he stands up and makes his way to me, guilt showing on his usually stone like face.

"Alexis, I'm so sorry." He engulfs me in a hug while he kneels on the floor in front of me. "I'm sorry Xander. I want a mate, someone to spend my life with, my other half, but I can't."

I cry into his shoulder, soaking his shirt while he rubs my back. "You have no idea how happy I was when I found you were my mate. You were my best friend and now we can't even be together."

"Alexis, of course we can be together. I'm not losing my mate because of some crazy wack-a-doodle who wants to be King. We can protect each other and your kingdom, our kingdom. Please, just give us a shot?"

"Okay, can we just keep it secret? I don't want anyone finding out until after we go to war. Everyone needs to focus on protecting this pack, not the Queen and her King."

After he agrees to stay silent, I kick him out of my office to think about my pack. Time to call Alpha Sutten.