The Lycan King and His Mysterious Luna Chapter 26

Alex’s POV

My mate and I lay down by the water in comfortable silence. I can tell that she is thinking about something, but I leave her to her thoughts. Truth be told, I have some thoughts of my own bothering me. For example, everything in me is telling me to take her with me when I leave, but I cannot do that right now. We need to figure out what is going on with her, and I know that she will be safer within my castle once the news gets out that she is my mate, but for now she is safe within her own pack. Too many enemies are lurking around my borders and maybe even within my walls at this time to have her there. After her birthday I will have no choice but for now I want her to enjoy her freedom, because she will lose what little she has when running a kingdom. From our talks in the dream walks, I know that she has been trained as a warrior and as a Luna, though she prefers warrior training, that training was for a normal pack. She will be running all the packs now. Yes, there are Alphas and Lunas, but when decisions need to be made such as treason, then those are brought before the royal court for judgement. There is no elder council, though there used to be, but my great-great-grandfather abolished that when he found out that most of them were just as crooked and evil as the criminals that were to be prosecuted. Once he started investigating, it was found that some that were imprisoned were not even guilty. Mostly in the cases of the women, they were found guilty only because the old, perverted farts wanted to use the women as sex slaves. The whole ordeal was a mess, but once the truth came out more investigations were done and sentences were pardoned for the innocents, but damage had already been done. The people wanted to rebel and that would cause a war between the Lycans and wolves. My great-great-grandfather told them that he greatly apologized for letting these matters go on so long, and that in the future the people will no longer be going before a council for trials, but instead directly in front of the King since all the royals are born with the ability to tell if someone is lying.

We are silent, but our wolves and Lycans have been talking to one another the entire time getting to know one another. We can’t hear their conversations, but I can tell they are communicating with one another because the bond is growing. I feel a nudge on my right side and turn my big wolf head to look at my mate. Goddess she is the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen in any form. The mind-link between us opens and I wait for her to start talking. “My Lycan wants to get out on the run back to my pack. I don’t know how to change from this form to my Lycan one.” I nod in understanding and stand up next to her and she does the same.

“Just talk to your Lycan. Call her name and tell her what you want.”

“It can’t be that simple.” I chuckle softly at her comment.

“It really is just that simple. They are a part of us and if you respect them, then they will respect you and vice versa. Never mistreat them and they won’t mistreat you. Nothing is worse than needing to shift to protect yourself and you can’t because you’ve pissed off your wolf or Lycan.”

She looks at me and nods her head in understanding before taking a step away from me and sits on her haunches again. I can tell that she is communicating with her Lycan because mine suddenly pushes forward a little, but not enough to fully take over. He was bouncing around in my head and it was starting to give me a headache honestly. “Will you please calm down. You will see her in a minute.”

“I want to mark mate.”

“You will do no such thing. We will mark her when she gives consent AFTER her birthday. It is too dangerous to do that right now.”

My Lycan and wolf both whimper in my head but they also know that what I’m saying is the truth. Until we find out why she even has a Lycan to begin with she can’t be linked to me in any way. If my enemies find out they could try to harm her to get to me and I won’t let that happen. As my mind wanders to try to figure out what to do about my mate and her situation, I hear a yip and turn my head toward my mate. She is standing again with her head cocked to the side as if she is trying to figure something out. I mind-link her to ask her what is wrong.

“Nothing is wrong with me, but you look as though you’re deep in thought about something. What is it?”

“It is nothing to worry about right now. We can discuss it back at your pack house.”

“Okay. Well, I think I am ready to transform now.” I sit on my haunches and wait for her to shift into her Lycan. Nothing happens for a few minutes and then suddenly I see most of her fur receding and her spine straightens a bit more as she starts to stand on two legs. Her face has more human than wolf features but is still covered with fur. Her hands are unlike human hands that have fingers with nails. Our Lycans have arms that lead to claw-like hands with razor sharp claws. She is still snow white with the ice blue tips and now with the sun coming out, she looks like there is a light blue hue surrounding her. She is absolutely breathtaking.

Stryker is at the surface and ready to transform and run with his mate. I move to the back of my mind as Stryker moves to the forefront and let him take over. Quickly I shift into my Lycan form and walk over to my mate. Stryker grabs her and holds her close to our body breathing in her scent. He growls in appreciation, and she leans in and sniffs our neck taking in our scent. Celestia yells “MINE!” before licking our neck sending shivers down our body. In our Lycan forms we can talk without mind-linking, but our voices are deeper than normal, they sound more animalistic.

Suddenly she takes off running into the trees and Stryker takes off after her. We chase our mate through the trees for miles until she stops and sniffs the air. I have no idea what she is looking for until a scent hits my nose. Stryker growls and is instantly on alert. We can tell that the scent is a male wolf, and we don’t want him anywhere near our mate. We get closer to her and push her behind us letting out a low growl. I feel her grab my arm and tells me to calm down and that it is just a pack member patrolling. When she touches me, I instantly calm down and relax. She takes off running again in another direction and I chase her.

We run for a while longer letting our Lycans get to know one another like we did with our wolves. After a while we start heading back to her pack house. When we reach the tree line, I realize that we are going to need clothes. If this was my own pack, I would just walk in naked and head to my chambers, but this isn’t my home, and I don’t want any other females seeing me naked other than my mate. Being naked really isn’t a big deal among our kind, but being mated seems to change things. I don’t want any males around my mate let alone see her naked, so I mind-link my Beta and tell him to bring out some clothes for us to put on and he says that he is on his way.