Ceallaigh POV:
I despise Balls.
All the elite rulers come into the castle, trying to get close to me so they can figure out how I did it, or they look for weak points in my castle. Some may even try to assassinate me, which always leads to their head on a pike. I also did not care for the woman who try to throw themselves at me any chance they get. I keep at least 3 warriors on me at anytime to divert the unwanted attention, unless I explicitly tell them.
My mom has been without her mate, my father for nearly 4 years now and each year she looks more and more empty. My mom trys to hide her pain through smiles, but they never make it to her eyes. She has been holding on I know because she wants me to settle down and find my mate. I am 28 years old and I have yet to find the person the moon goddess blessed me with. Does it get lonely? I mean yeah all my friends are settled and some even have pups on the way, which I do long for. I feel the pressures especially being a royal to produce heirs.
I also get tired of these long meetings and the mountain of paperwork. If the packs has a dispute with the other one over territory or there's the orders of what to do with the ones who commit crimes and I also have to delegate what the funds for each town should focus on. That is just the tip of the iceberg of the plethora of things I have to get done on a daily basis.
I long to have a strong luna to help me navigate everything and to fill the empty feeling I have deep inside my soul.
I want to give my mom something to live for too. If she saw me happy it might help her feel less hollow.
I have a little sister too. She's 16 and she is the apple of my eye. We look very similar, except she takes after our dad more where most of my traits come from my mom. I have silver hair like my mom and I am covered in tattoos. Dana has our fathers brown hair, and we both have brown eyes. While I'm tall and have fathers build, she has mother's grace and stature.
Honestly though I am just not ready for her to grow up. I can tell that boys have taken a liking to her and it's infuriating. Once shes 18 she will get her lycan and only then will she be able to sense her mate. Though that didnt help me. Its has been nearly 10 years and still not a whiff. At first I was glad, I didnt want a mate, I didnt want someone to make me weak but now I just cant keep having different she-wolves warming my bed. After a while their faces blend into one, not a single one of them made me surface any feelings. Some talked less than others and those one I might let in my bed a couple of times but for the most part they were useless and my lycan wasn't happy with me sleeping with anyone other than my mate. What am I supposed to do? Its been 10 years and life is stressful. Sometimes I just need a release, thats all they were.
I sat at my thrown over looking the guests coming in and watching the servers and wait staff walking around offering champagne in flutes and passing around appetizers. Most guest seemed in aw with the castle. I grew up here so I've never saw it as grand as others did. I did love the castle when there were people filling the halls and there was laughter. When it is just you, your mom, your sister and the wait staff it can feel stuffy. I normally buried myself in work.
Watching everyone coming in was what I always did. I could tell when someone is peeping my security and if they are here for nefarious reasons or to have a good time. Anytime I suspected someone I would whisper to My Beta Tatum to get someone to watch them.
"Watch Lord Rylas, he likes to get handsy with some of the younger female guest." I tell Tatum. He nods and repeats what I say into his head set.
"Sir Frendrick, doesnt know how to hold his liquor and may act foolish, make sure the wait staff servers him juice with only a splash of champagne. Liquor is off limits." He nods again.
" Serena, is the daughter of Alpha Jack of the Hollowing pack, keep her away from me." As if she heard me she looks up at me and I immediately look else where, there's no reason to encourage her further.
I never slept with her but her father has been trying to get a treaty going with me and him. He believes because the goddess hasn't given either one of us a mate that meant for us to get married. I explained to him that it was a silly notion. "Your daughter is lovely and any man would be lucky to have her as his chosen mate, but I must politely decline."
I was unaware that his daughter was listening and was delusional. From that day forward she has been not stop hot on my trail and I tried to politely decline her advances. Short from breaking the treaty and putting her into an institution, I've tried everything.
"Also have the team in security to watch for any vampires and any suspicious behavior. The king of the north has been after my title since I was a little boy. Keep this place locked down, do not show any weak points in the security that can be breached."
"Yes, of course." He says respectfully
I rose from my thrown to get down to the party and mingle with some of the alphas. I make it down the stairs and I grab a glass of champagne. Immediately I am approached by Alpha Ryan, who's been trying to get more land and power for years.
"You're highness, I was hoping I could catch you this evening, I wanted to discuss..."
I drifted off because my Lycan was making me uneasy.
My Lycan started pacing back and forth and roaring in my head. He was being unusually anxious.
"What is going on with you? Is there a threat"
"My instincts are telling me to take control and go find something" he replied while pacing back and forth, he seemed angry and even worried almost.
"Well what could cause this reacti-" I stop mid sentence.
"The smell of honeysuckles, do you smell it?" Onix replied to me.
I was so transfixed on the smell, I left the alpha who approached me standing by himself mid sentence. I had to find that smell, it was just so mouth watering. Could this be my mate I am smelling?
I was so excited every nerve in my body vibrated. I was walking without any direction and told my warriors to wait for me that I would be right back. If I was going to meet her I wasn't going to speak with her with a bunch of warriors accompanying me, I wanted to speak with her privately first. As I walked past the dance floor and made it toward the appetizers, I looked around and all I saw was little danishishes. Then I picked up on the smell again and it looks like it was coming from near the gardens on the far end away from the party. The smell of honeysuckles was so intoxicating I had tunnel vision. Here I come little mate.