The Only Alpha Luna

Castle Life

Wake up call was at promptly 6a, I growled at the poor old woman who tried to touch my sleeping mate. I swiftly and quietly got out of bed. The old woman looked petrified as she was at the end of the bed now. I joined her.

"No, you will not wake him." I whisper not yet having a pack mind link with Tom's pack.

"I have no idea who you are, and neither do I care. What his majesty does in his private life is his business." I growl loudly at the fact that she just insinuated I was a one night stand. "However," she continued "he needs to wake up."

"Does not he needs his beauty sleep." I say standing my ground there is absolutely no reason for anyone to be up before 6 especially if they don't have a nightmare.

"Yes he does." She says growing more agitated.

"No he doesn't." I say keeping my voice level at the angering old lady.

"YES HE DOES!!" She shouts I was too late in muffling her scream with my hand since his whole body snapped to attention in the bed.

"I'm up what's the emergency? Time? Meeting?" He groggily asked as he quickly headed for the closest as though there was no other choice but to be up when this woman said so. I scowled at her as she smiled triumphantly. After all she did get what she wanted she handed me my bag and I quickly got changed into my black pair of skinny jeans, and a pink flowy blouse. I put on the black flats with a bow on the top, that was when Tom came out of the closest in a tux.

"This is my mate Lucy, Lucy meet Amelia, she'll be staying with us until further notice. I expect you to treat her with the same respect and authority you would me." Tom smiled walking up beside me. Amelia's smile dropped as she realized I wasn't a one night stand but her new boss. Tom just smiled as though this was the most joyous occasion of his life, before heading downstairs. I quickly followed intertwining our hands, not wanting to leave his side today since it seemed to be all we did while I was poisoned or while he was struggling with it himself.

When we got to the dining room it was already packed with wolves. Some of them were alphas, some of them were pack members, and some of them were mere council members. Everyone stopped talking though and looked at the two of us as I stood my ground next to Tom. The council members chuckled as though it was a joke. The Alphas looked pwissed at my presence in this room alone, and the pack members looked astonished.

"Who is she to you? Her scent is all over you, it's filthy and degrading. You are deserving of at least someone who can keep their temper a bit better during a challenge." The eldest council member sneered and within moments was pressed up against a wall with his wind pipe being closed in by the forearm of my mate. Everyone circled around, making me push and scramble my way through while I heard the words "She is more than any she wolf I have ever encountered she is fair, she is just, she kind, compassionate, merciful, and beautiful. She is a meant to be a Queen. She will the one to rule beside me because she is the mate that I choose, the one that I fight for, the one that I will not leave. If you have a problem with that than..." My hand was touching Tom's arm interrupting his tirade into the council members face. The face that was becoming purple from the mere lack of oxygen.

"Tom," It was a whispered plea, one that I hoped others didn't hear. I didn't want the wolves to think that there King would listen or follow the orders of a mere she-wolf especially since we lived in a male dominated society. Something that I was hoping to change, but only something that I could do with the Alpha King's support and that meant that he would have to play nice with the council members even if he didn't like them. He nodded his head as though he had heard my thoughts, even though that was impossible. Tom turned his back on the council member making it clear he didn't think him a threat, and that it was merely a protective instinct on his end. The council member gasped for air as he was on his knees begging his king for forgiveness but not once did Tom turn around. It was then I saw him looking at Alpha Darryl and that woman having a heated debate in the middle of the spectacle. Still sitting at the dining room table as though nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Was this merely a distraction? Was our food now poisoned? No it couldn't be, I trusted Tom, and he said that as long as I was with him I was safe. That the poison was a one-time thing since he had no idea what he was looking for. Yet, even know I had no idea who the enemy was. Was it really only Alpha Darryl or had I angered someone else to the point of wanting to destroy my entire world? Tom shook his head and turned.

"You're forgiven on the condition that you ask for Lucy's forgiveness as well." I was shocked. I had never heard of a mate ask for the party throwing the insult to ask for forgiveness from both of the mates. The only person's forgiveness that really mattered in this world was the person that held the most power. That person certainly wasn't me as everyone else went to sit as the table, me and the eldest council member stood there staring at each other waiting for the other to budge. Him waiting for me to say that the apology wasn't necessary, and me waiting for the old man to swallow his pride.

I thought about the situation what respect do I lose if I say that it's alright and he's forgiven even if he hasn't asked. Am I not showing alpha female, alpha luna qualities by stepping up and being the bigger person? I shake my head and sigh knowing the old man won't give in any time soon. I take a step forward and place my hand on his shoulder looking deep into his eyes wanting to see some sort of remorse, yet there is none. How, can you forgive a person with no remorse? Isn't that what I have to do with myself? Is it even possible to be sorry about something that you don't regret doing? Yes, yes, I suppose it is since I feel bad that I killed my father, I feel bad that I did it since I know that it's wrong and that's why I'm sorry. However, I'm not sorry that the evil man is off of the earth. I take a deep breath, looking into the man's eyes I say "You are forgiven," while at the same time I am forgiving myself. I am releasing all of the guilt, all of the self-hatred, all of the self-doubt. I must be the confident, the annoyingly good looking person that I am on the outside since that is who I once was on the inside. I miss her. I wonder when she left.

The pack members couldn't have been happier for their king, the Alpha's couldn't have been more upset that I was swooped up before any of them had a chance at my heart; and the council members well they were still uneasy about me being the Queen. They thought that I would betray the crown by becoming more dominant than my husband, and even if I was more dominant than my husband the whole point of the royal family is to keep the other wolves in line it shouldn't matter who does keep them in line.

All day we were in a meeting with the coronation planner. After about three hours I stopped listening and just played with Tom's hair, while I sat in his lap. I remembering my eyes slowly shutting even though I continued to protest and whine, and then waking up on top of his chest with him sound asleep. This is how it should always be.