CLAIMED BY THE ALPHA PRINCE

2: Mark Her

: AXEL

“You might be the student president, but that doesn't give you the right to lord over all the students in Wolfspire Academy. Your spot is a position of leadership, not one of mindless authority and control.”

“There was nothing mindless about what I did,” Amerie replied in a loud and firm voice, even though we were standing in front of five of the most important council members who always doubled as part of the board that oversees Wolfspire Academy.

She filed that disciplinary case against the hockey team and me in general a week ago, and because of the evidence stacked against us, which included late parties on the school’s premises, smoking, and well s*x parties among the hockey boys with the girls who were willing to throw themselves at us, the board had to step in as a disciplinary committee. That was why we were currently in this meeting long after the school closed.

“The evidence I submitted proved how the Hockey Team is so mindless with breaking rules and turning the school into some sort of immoral ground. Something needs to be done to put them in order. It's unethical for students to walk around on campus only to be assaulted with moans and the sound of sex.” She said, with a straight face, and the council members, all male, shifted uncomfortably in their seats.

I rolled my eyes, done with this charade and wanting nothing but to climb into bed.

“The number of Hockey parties we've had ever since Wolfe became captain is alarming. Something needs to be done about this.”

“Alpha Prince Axel, do you have anything to say about this?” Kent, one of the members, asked me, and I shrugged nonchalantly.

“Can we just wrap this up? It's almost my bed time and I have so much on my plate than to do this with a human girl who's drunk on some childish high school power.”

“Same childish high power that you campaigned so hard to win?” she fired back, and she turned to look at me, “same childish power you tried to sabotage me from winning? Same childish power you probably broke down in your room after I won over you.”

I turned towards her too, temper flaring, “Oh please, don't be delusional, Hart. You won because I let it happen, and you're the one who needs a high school position to feel relevant. I don't need anything. Everybody in this school and beyond knows who I am and just how…”

“Oh please,” she mimicked, sticking out her tongue, “everybody in this school knows who you are all because of what was handed over to you. What have you actually earned?”

I opened my mouth to reply, but she held up a hand to stop me. I complied.

“And no, you can't say hockey because that game is the reason why you're being disciplined in the first place. Everybody knows who you are, but you're an alpha prince who might never become king because you're not even competent enough to find your mate.”

She air-quoted the last part, and the air in the room dropped. My palm fisted as I stepped into her space. She didn't waver at all.

“Mind your words, Hart, or I'll shut your mouth for you.”

“You have no right to…”

“Back off, kids,” another council member interrupted her, “stand apart from each other and respect the fact that you're standing in front of the disciplinary board.”

We glared at each other for what seemed like eternity before we moved away at the same time. My head hurt, and my hands shook from the intensity of the anger I was feeling. I couldn't believe I had to hear that from some stray human girl.

“I'm going to leave now.” I announced, “You can sort this out however you want it, but I'm no longer interested in this meeting.”

I turned on my heels, but a voice stopped me almost immediately, “You'll do no such thing, Axel. This is Wolfspire Academy, not Wolfspire Kingdom. We don't answer to you here; you answer to us.”

I turned back, my wolf shimmering to the surface through my irises that changed colors, and how my fangs extracted and retracted. I smirked at Ian, the man who just spoke.

“Let's just wrap this up, shall we?” Kent spoke quickly to diffuse the tension, but I still engaged in the state down with Ian.

“We'll create an independent body to look into this, the student president, and we’ll use whatever their result is to make a judgment.”

“What? Why do you need an independent body to look into what the student president said? Are you calling me a liar?”

“You're not a liar, but clearly, you seem to have some personal vendetta against the alpha prince. We have to take that into…”

Their words blur out around me as my ears latch onto a silent noise coming from the outside. I blocked them out completely as I focused on the noise that I could hear more clearly now. It was the sound of running footsteps, but the steps were so quiet that they seemed not to attract any attention. I looked out the window at the dark courtyard, and the second my wolf’s eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw an arrow fly directly into the room.

“Get down!” I screamed, and there was a flurry of movements that wasn't so quick enough. I wasn't quick enough either, because I instinctively tried to pull Amerie down with me, but I moved too late. I heard the arrow hit her, and when we fell to the ground, blood was already soaking her shirt, and her body was turning black.

The arrow was poisoned. Whoever was behind the attack deliberately made sure I wouldn't survive.

“Go after the attackers, Alpha Axel,” I heard Ian yell frantically while I still held Amerie’s dying body, “you're the only one who can catch up with them.”

That was the logical thing to do, right? Catch the attacker and find out the person behind them, but if I were to leave Amerie now, she wouldn't survive it. She wouldn't survive the arrow she took in my stead.

“Call the royal healers. Get the ambulance.” I tightened my hold on her to slow down the spreading of the poison. I pulled off my shirt and tightened it around the wound.

“Don't be stupid, Axel. Leave the wretched human girl and go after your attacker.”

“Shut the f**k up and get me an ambulance,” I yelled, my heart racing as she turned even darker in my arms. I felt so useless. I was an alpha prince, but I didn't possess any healing powers because I hadn't marked my mate yet. The poisoning was spreading faster because she was human and even as I heard someone speak to the emergency team, I knew she wouldn't last till they get here.

She was going to die if I didn't do anything.

Mark her. My wolf whispered out of nowhere, and almost immediately, my canines extracted out of their own volition, and a surge of alpha powers coursed through my veins. I tried to ignore it, tried to push it back, but the harder I fought, the more my wolf pushed and controlled my body.

Stop it, I whispered faintly. We can't mark a human girl just to save her. It's going to be disastrous, and it might not even work. We just can't…

But my eyes already zeroed in on her neck, and before I could fight harder, my wolf took over. I bent my head and buried my teeth in the crook of her neck.