Chapter 1
Richard
I ran as fast as possible, passing my father and his keeper.
Although they’re called ‘Keepers,’ they’re more like warrior partners. They ride on the wolf’s back. The Keepers have the same instincts as the wolf, sharpened sight and hearing and smell the danger, mind-link with the wolf to talk through the fights, and have magical powers for the most. Combine this with a werewolf, and you have the best team. They always have each other back, becoming one fighter with magical and animalistic instincts. So, if one of them dies, they can’t go to fight; if a wolf loses his fight partner, he becomes feral in the field and could kill innocent people. If a Keeper loses his wolf, he stops fighting and leaves the town while eating himself from guilt.
Sometimes the keepers are also the wolf’s mate, which is the worst thing that could happen to a werewolf. Because if the keeper, which also his mate will die, the werewolf loses his battle and his life partner.
No one knows how they became a team. It’s the keeper who chooses the wolf. He walks around the wolf, studying everything about him. Sometimes they meet when they were just kids, and when the werewolf has his first shift, they become one fighter and start to train together.
That is why I′d rather run alone. Because my worst luck was that my keeper was just a fucking ten years old. While I will be forever in my thirties.
I should have known that redhead green-eyed shadow was my keeper. Her father is my father’s keeper and usually, the keepers have line blood; if one of the parents is a keeper, then the child, a boy or a girl, will be keepers too, and that girl was not exceptional. She was always after me; She loved to hug my legs and sit on my lap when I had a meeting with my father. She always looked at me and listened to what I had said. I hated that. I hated that she was doomed to be a fighter like her father. I was the heir to the throne; I had no choice but to become the next king after my father. But she? she was just a ten-year-old cheery girl. She needs to have a normal life and not risk herself for me. How many keepers died to a werewolf die? Thanks to the speed healing, most keepers died while the wolf survived.
“Slow down, Richard, you’re not running alone,” my father yells at me through the mind-link.
“Wait until my daughter grows. She won’t let him sprint like that,” Arthur, my father’s Keeper’s said through mind-link.
I growled at the thought of that little shadow that rides on my back. She would no longer be a little shadow by the time that would happen.
“Get the fuck out of my head, both of you,” I growl to them through the mind-link. And I ran faster until I was far away from them.
When they were far away, I stopped in the middle of the dark woods. It was close to midnight when we got an alert on Rothbart. The rogue king was close by. I hated that bastard. He and his witch bitch keeper made my father through hell; he killed many innocent wolves and humans. I sniffed the air, but I couldn’t smell him. the quiet made me worry. I was in the middle of the forest, and it was dead, and that was not good.
Suddenly I heard a branch break, and I turned around, and immediately my blood turned cold. That redhead, green-eyed shadow of mine steps slowly from behind the tree with her hands up.
“Richard, it’s just me,” she said.
I ran to her and started to sniff her to see if she was hurt, that stupid girl was following me, and I couldn’t even sense her.
She giggled when my snout brushed her. “You tickle me,” but then I showed her my canine. I was furious at her for following me. But then, I sensed the air becoming thick, and from afar, I saw a vast shadow run fast toward her. I quickly caught her nightgown and dragged her as fast as I could behind the tree. That fucker came and jumped on me and bit the back of my neck, I yelped through the pain, but I succeeded in releasing him from his canine, then we both looked at each other with our canines exposed. His witch bitch keeper was not with him, which was not good, not good at all.
“Richard!” she screamed to me, and she stood next to the tree, all shaken like a leaf. The scent of her fear was so strong that even Rothbart sent it. He looks at her and starts to run towards her.
I tried to warn her as quickly as possible, but it was too late. Rothbart’s claw was all over her back.
I woke up in bed, panting and sweating.
that fucking dream again.
Lately, I’ve been dreaming a lot about the night that changed my life forever. After Rothbart almost killed shadow, I took her and sprinted to Merlin. Luckily, we succeeded in saving her, but she and I lost our fathers. My family and I may be immortal, but if our wounds are severe, we can still die, and that is what happened to my father and his keeper, and that fucking bastard got away, and I didn’t hear from him for twenty years. No matter how many patrols and searching, I couldn’t find that fucker or his witch bitch. Not to mention that after shadow’s healed, I sent her to near pack next to Royal village. And I never saw her again. I would lie if I said I didn’t miss that redhead green - eye shadow who is not so little after twenty years away from me.
I passed my hand through my face. The room was still dark, and I knew it was very early in the morning because the sun didn’t rise yet. I look at the naked woman who is still sleeping peacefully and then get up from the bed and walk to the balcony.
As I opened the French doors to the balcony, the cool breeze touched my naked skin; it was fresh and woke me up. Even though it was the end of the spring and the beginning of the summer, the mornings were still cold a little. But I didn’t care. All I was thinking was how to distract myself from the dream.
“Your awake?” Khloe, the woman who sleeps next to me, gets up and leans on the door frames. She was the daughter of the alpha of the Blue Mountain Village; every year, one alpha sent his daughter to Royal Village and lived in the palace with me throughout the spring and the summer, hoping that his daughter would be my mate. None of them stayed through the summer because of certain someone, but not Khloe, she was strong, and I like that. That is why she helped me once in a time to lose some steams. It was mutual, we are not mates, but we share each other’s company. “Bad dream,” I said and focused on her body; I guess I knew what a distraction I needed when I felt myself getting hard. She saw it, and a big smirk spread on her face.
“Want to tell me what it was?” she asked. Slowly she walked to me and wrapped her arms around my neck. “You don’t want to know about this awful dream I have” I grinned. I wrapped my hands around her waist. I was already a hard rock, “I can handle bad dreams, you know that already” she purred, and slowly, her hand moved through my chest and abs, and eventually, she ran her hand on my dick and started to stroke it up and down. I closed my eyes and let out a small groan to the feeling of her hand on my dick, and it made me harder.
fuck, it feels so good
“I’m sure you know what you can handle, but I don’t want to talk about my father’s death right now,” I said, lifting her and wrapping her legs around my waist. While she giggled, I walked back to my bed. I completely forgot about the dream I had.
That early quickie Got back at me; I was tired as fuck. Together with Khloe, who doesn’t even show tiredness, my brothers and I eat breakfast while I try to keep my eyes open.
“Not much sleep, do you, brother?” my sister Alice asked and smirked. I glared at her, and she chuckled. Although many people knew not to mess with me, my sister didn’t get that memo.
“None of your business what I did and didn’t do last night,” I said, making everyone laugh.
Great, I gave her exactly what she wanted.
“Hey man, she just said you look like shit. None of us want to know about your sex life,” Jeremy, my brother, said to me with a wicked smile. He and Alice always love to tease me, and I always fall for that like a fool.
fuck young siblings.
“What Richard and I do in private is our business only,” Khloe said and raised her eyebrow. And Alice’s face became red. Remember I told you none of the alpha daughters ever stayed until the summer? Well, the reason for that was my sister Alice, she hated those girls and hated the alphas that sent their daughters. She thought they do this because they were seeking powers and respect. She didn’t wrong in that, because I didn’t like that either that is why I never pissed when she made any girl run away from here. But Khloe? She didn’t back out; she gave Alice a fight, which pissed her off and turned ME on.
But at the end of the day, Khloe was not my mate, and although I like Khloe, I knew I needed to let her go and fast before finding my mate.
If I ever find her.
“Honey, enjoy the perks as long as you can because the moment my brother finds his queen, you out of here,” she barked at her. Khloe gasped from her comment and looked at me. “Well, if you continue to be so bitch to every woman who comes here, he probably will never find his mate, and you may be the princess, but spoiled bitch like you never scared me,” she scuffed and with that, I slammed my hand loudly on the table. Make everyone jump. I glared quietly at Khloe, and she lowered her head. “Never, ever speak to my sister like that, she is still your princess, and I maybe fuck you and let you stay here, but it doesn’t give you a reason to speak to my sister like that,” I growl to her, Khloe maybe liked to give a fightback to my sister. Still, she never disrespects her like that. “You,” I pointed at my sister, “you need to stop treating my guest like a piece of shit,” I roared at my sister. “Come on, brother, you know I’m right,” my sister said, not even flinching from what I said.
I was quiet. I looked at my sister, and in Khloe, both of them wanted me to be on her side, and only one of them would be angry at me in the end. Too bad blood is thicker than water.
“My sister, right, the moment I find my mate, you can’t stay here,” I said. Khloe just looked at me angrily and stormed out of the room while my brother couldn’t stop laughing, and my sister shouted in victory.
I hate when she’s right.
“Your majesty?” one of the guards asked, bowing as he got into the room.
“What?” I barked at him, still pissed from not so peaceful morning.
“t... the...the...” he stutters, “have you forgotten how to talk?” I asked him. I didn’t have time for this. “The Beta of Green Village pack is here. He said it was urgent. He waits for you in your office,” the guard said and walked out of the room.
