The Lycan King and His Mysterious Luna Chapter 42

Freya’s POV

After the night of my birthday, I felt so sore, but I didn’t mind. Who knew that sex could feel so good? The next morning, he ran me a bath and told me to soak but of course that was after making love to me two more times. I didn’t think my body could take anymore after the night before since we practically made love the entire night. It has been three months since that day and in two weeks I’m going to have my coronation which will also include the second part of our mating ceremony. We’ve mated as humans, but now we must mate in our wolf form and then in our Lycan form to completely lock the bond in place.

Alex has been so stressed with the rogue situation that I told him we could just hold off on the ceremony, but he won’t hear any of it. He said we aren’t disrupting our lives due to this and he walked away. I wouldn’t say that was a fight but it was definitely the first disagreement we’ve had. My days are filled with learning what a Queen has to do since the role is more than just being a Luna. Between learning that with his mother, who is absolutely lovely, and training with the elite guard, I am usually asleep by the time Alex comes to our bedroom. Today is a free day though, and I am sitting here in my room with one of my favorite books and eating flamin’ hot cheetos, when there is a knock at my door. “Come in” I call and continue to munch on my chips.

The door swings open and in walks Savannah. We haven’t had much interaction since the day of the ball. She seemed kind of sulky, but I figured it wasn’t my place to ask her what was wrong. I mean she will be my sister-in-law but still I felt like her brother or parents are who she should talk to about her problems.

“Hi Freya. Do you mind if I hang out with you today? My brother has banned me from leaving, so I figured this would be a great time to get to know my brother’s mate.”

“Uh, sure. We can hang out and what would you like to know?” She walks over with a grin on her face and flops down next to me on my bed.

“Tell me everything. I want to know how you and my brother met and how your pack life was like.”

I couldn’t help but smile at her as I sat and told her everything. For some reason I felt comfortable with her, almost as comfortable as I am with Renee. Renee and I have been working on our friendship since she and Ethan moved back to the palace. Ethan has been working with Alex and David, so that left us plenty of time to talk things out, well in-between all of my own work and training. She’s been helping me plan the coronation party and I’ve gotten her to join training. I’m glad that she is taking it seriously now. She isn’t in the elite class with me of course, but the class she is in is also pretty tough. Training here on any level is higher than at our old pack, and our old pack has some of the best warriors.

“Hey! Why don’t we go for a swim? If I have to be cooped up in this place, then we can at least have some fun. You can invite that friend of yours too. What is her name?” I giggle and shake my head.

“Her name is Renee. I think having a little girls day is exactly what I need. We can get some snacks brought out to us by the pool and play some music too.”

She bounces up and down like I just made her day and then hugs me and I hug her back laughing.

“I knew I was going to like you girl. I’ll meet you down there. I’m just going to head to my room to change and then I’ll be right with you.”

“I’ll change and get Renee since it is on my way down anyway. First, I need to let Alex know where I’m going in case he comes to the room and doesn’t find me. I told him I was just going to curl up with a book and relax today. Don’t need him panicking. He’s already stressed enough.”

“Any progress on the rogue attacks?”

“Not really, though they did catch some rogues roaming around and they are in the cells, but they aren’t talking.”

“I’ve never seen my brother like this and quite frankly it scares me. The last thing we need is for his blood rage to happen again. The last time that happened we almost had to...” She stops talking and when I look at her, she has her hand over her mouth as if she said something that she shouldn’t have to me.

“Wait a minute. Savannah, what do you mean by again? When did he have blood rage? I was told something about blood rage and what causes it, so how did he get it? His family is alive that I know of and I’m his mate, so how in the hell did he get blood rage?”

At this point I am shouting because I feel like secrets are being kept from me, and not only by Savannah but my mate as well. We said no secrets and lies and here is another secret. I refuse to have a relationship like this, and he and I will have to talk about all this secrecy. She hurries out of the room while I’m lost in thought and yells that she’ll meet me by the pool. Now I don’t know if I want to go anymore, but I am tired of being in my room and Renee will be there, so I get changed into short jean shorts and a black tank top then pack a bag with my yellow bikini and a black sarong to drape around my waist and some sun tan lotion and of course my phone. After I put on my sandals, I make my way to Renee’s room and knock on the door. She opens it and steps out into the hall with her own bag of stuff.

“What’s wrong Freya?”

“Its nothing to worry about. I’m just going to have to have a little chat with my mate later tonight. Lets go have fun!”

“Okay, if you say so, but I’m here to listen if you want to talk.” She hugs me and I hug her back.

“Yeah, I know. I’m so glad you’re here with me and we’re friends again. So, how has that cute Gamma been treating you?” We start to walk down the stairs and head to the pool area.

“He has been absolutely amazing. I introduced him to my parents and they loved him, especially my dad. He thinks for some reason that my being mated to the royal gamma means they have some sort of status now.” She shakes her head. “Sometimes I don’t get them. I’m starting to think that my whole personality was their fault.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well I never cared about ranks and status, but I was always told to pray to the Goddess to bless me with a mate that was an Alpha or a Beta or someone with prestigious status. I was never like that and I always prayed to just be sent someone that would love me unconditionally and hopefully take me away from our pack. The pack wasn’t an awful place, I loved it there, but if I had to live around my parents if I had been mated to anyone without what they deemed worthy of me, then it would turn into hell. That’s why it made me so angry when I heard you say that if Zach was your mate you’d reject him. I couldn’t help but think, here’s this girl who is blessed to be an Alpha and she has a cute Beta running after her and she is talking about rejecting him like it’s nothing, while my parents are pushing me to be with a Beta or Alpha. I never even liked your brother truth be told.”

“Wow. Honey why didn’t you tell me what was going on instead of keeping all of that to yourself? I was and still am your best friend. You can talk to me about anything.”

“I was too embarassed to tell anyone. My parents are good people, don’t get me wrong, but they just have all these dreams of grander living for some reason. It makes no sense because our pack is one of the wealthiest in America.”

“Some people just want more I guess and never just appreciate what they have and cherish that they are more fortunate than others.”

We continued to walk to the pool in silence. Upon arriving, I see Savannah in a red and blue bikini stretched out on one of the loungers. In a way, I wasn’t looking forward to talking to her and on the other hand I couldn’t be mad at her since technically Alex should have been the one to tell me. Savannah waves at us and we wave and walk over to her setting our stuff down beside our own loungers. I take the one in the middle, which puts Savannah to my left and Renee on my right.

“Are you mad at me for running out? I knew that you would ask me questions and I don’t think that I am the one to answer them. I mean I could answer, but I never should have said anything to begin with since it is Alex’s story to tell. I just thought that you being his mate and all that he had already told you, but when I saw the look on your face, I figured that he hadn’t and that I’d messed up.” It seemed like she said all of that in one breath and I couldn’t help the laugh that came out of me.

“No, I’m not mad at you. You’re right, he should be the one to tell me. I’m just wondering now why he hadn’t told me. We’ve talked about almost everything about ourselves, so why would he keep that from me?”

“Uh, excuse me, but I have no idea what either one of you are talking about. What is being kept from you Freya?”

“Do you know what blood rage is, Renee?”

“Yeah. I heard my parents speak of it, but I figured it was just a story like the humans have the boogeyman to keep kids in line. You mean it’s real?”

"Yes it is very real, and apparently my mate has experienced it before. The part that is upsetting me is that I think it is still somewhere within him."

"Why do you say that?" They are both looking at me and I take a deep breath before speaking what I fear I've known for some time now.

"Because when he gets angry, there is always red tinging the sides of his eyes, but I can usually get to him and calm him before it goes too far."

"That's what happened the last time. The red starts at the corners of the eyes and slowly takes over the angrier he gets and his hands shake uncontrollably. Thankfully we were able to contain him and command those that did see him to forget what happened. That's why nobody knows about it and why he doesn't like to use his powers. To use them means relinquishing some control so that the power can flow freely. He is afraid that losing any amount of control will make the curse worse."

"Well Savannah things are already worse. If he is cursed then so am I."

"Renee, you aren't cursed just because you're mated to him. You'll help him get through it and find out if he is really cursed or if there is another reason. Talk to him tonight."

"No, you don't get it. When I get angry, I've noticed that my eyes have a bit of red in the corners as well, and it has been getting worse."

They both gasp and look at me with shocked faces.