The King's Love

Chapter 9~Charlee

A banging on my door wakes me up the next morning. It was Carissa, “good morning! Alpha wants to see you in his office right now.” She tells me. I nod and she walks back down the hall, toward the stairs. I head toward my papa’s office and see Jaren coming out of it. He looks angry, but I pay no mind to him. I ignore his presence as we pass each other. I see the door is open, so I walk in. My papa looks up from the paper he is reading and smiles at me. “Good morning papa,” I say smiling. “Good morning sweetie, please have a seat.” I do as I’m told and I sit down.

“So, why did you want to see me?” I ask.

“Well, I wanted to talk to you about the events of last night with Jaren. As you know, I will have to punish him for attempting to attack King Greyson.” He explains.

“I completely agree, it was uncalled for and for a very stupid reason.” Greyson’s scent became stronger and it made me smile. A knock comes across the open door and I see him in the doorway. He looks at me with loving eyes. “Your majesty, what brings you here, I thought you’d be eating with the rest of my pack,” Papa says to him.

“I was heading that way, but then I smelled Charlee’s scent and I thought I’d give her my thanks for last night, what she did was very brave. I wanted to tell her how proud I am to have her as my mate.” Greyson says, looking at me. Oh, goddess, his stare could make me melt. “Speaking of Charlee, what do you plan on doing now that Charlee will become queen?” Greyson asks.

“To be honest with you, I’m at a loss. I have no other eligible heirs, unless Kathrine, Charlotte’s mom turns her human mate.”

“There’s no need for her to do that, I have an offer to make you; and Charlee of course seeing as she is still in line as your heir.”

“Go on.”

“Well, since Charlee and I are mates, I thought I’d offer the solution of me becoming the alpha of Black Forest and merging with Emerald Eclipse, since the royal pack is too small to be considered a true pack. I give you my word to keep your pack’s traditions and with Charlee as my Luna and Queen, I would have help. This way your pack doesn’t get absorbed by your neighbors, this would be my way of thanking you for your loyalty, and most importantly Charlee gets to stay with her family and friends, somewhere she feels at home.” He says, looking at me in the end. My mouth drops open at the offer. I couldn’t believe he would do all this just for me. “With my wealth and resources, you’ll be able to see your pack flourish and become everything you and your predecessors dreamed of. I’ll also make sure you get on the pack council as an elder.” He adds. I immediately look to my papa and wait for his answer. He looks at me and smirks, raising an eyebrow. “Charlotte, you’ll be making this decision as your first alpha decision, so what’s your answer?” He asks. I think of this generous offer, not only for me but for my pack. I stand up and look at Greyson with confidence. “Your majesty, I accept your very generous offer,” I say, smiling proudly.

My Papa had decided this morning's training was to learn how to conduct morning training with the pack. I meet Carissa, Nadine, and Justin in the clearing early to chat before training. Carissa had her black hair in a bun and her normally tan skin has become paler this winter. Nadine’s chestnut brown was braided and swooped down her right shoulder. She had a very nice tan to her skin from her trip to visit her mom’s original pack in southern Sokireon a couple of weeks ago.

“Good morning Alpha!” Justin says jokingly. Nadine playfully hits his arm giggling. I just roll my eyes at him. “Hey Justin, shirtless as always,” I responded.

“Justin, do you even own a shirt?” Carissa asks.

“Yes, but I chose to not wear one today because I started warrior training today and I wanted to show off for Nadine.” He says, winking at Nadine and running his fingers through his sandy blonde hair. I will admit, Justin is a handsome wolf, he is well built, with broad shoulders. Though I will always prefer the godly handsome brute that is my mate. “I heard King Greyson is joining both groups for training this morning,” Nadine says. I forgot papa had mentioned that my main job today was to demonstrate the fighting style we are working on today, and being as old as my papa is he can’t fight as well as he used to. This means Greyson will most likely be my sparring partner, so I’m a little frightened about how hard he’ll go on me when we spar together after the demonstrations. “Well I need to get going to the other side of the clearing with my group, I’ll see you guys at lunch,” Justin says, He kisses Nadine and starts jogging over to his group.

A few minutes after Felix and Greyson walk up to us. Just like the night I met Greyson and last night, he was still godly handsome even in just sweats and a long sleeve shirt. His muscles strained his shirt and he walked with such grace. “Good morning ladies,” Felix said to all of us, but he was staring at Carissa. Carissa returned Felix’s gaze by eyeing him the same way. Greyson gives me a hug and deeply inhales, taking in my scent. “Did you guys find the clearing okay?” Carissa asks, causing Greyson to pull away from me, which got him a small whimper out of me.

“We remembered where it was, we’ve been to your pack before. It was about seven years ago right after I took the throne.” Greyson explains.

“If you remember us, I was the one running around in my wolf form like I was on crack constantly and Greyson over here was the one that never talked or smiled,” Felix says laughing, to which Greyson gives him a disapproving look. Carissa squeals a little, “I remember that! There was a rogue attack while you guys were here and you saved Charlee from being kidnapped!” She exclaims. I look at her confused because I don’t remember the pack getting attacked before I left. I brush it off and take into account that snow tends to block out memories she doesn’t want me to remember. Nadine clears her throat to get our attention. “Your Majesty, If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you and Beta Felix?” she asks.

“I’m twenty-one and Felix is twenty,” Greyson responds.

“I now understand why I didn’t find you sooner.” I hear Greyson say in my head faintly, almost as if he was yelling from fifty yards away. Did he just try to mind link me?

About thirty minutes later the rest of the younger pack members were in the clearing and Papa and Beta Aaron, Jaren and Carissa’s dad, came to where Felix, Greyson, and I were sitting. Papa turns to the rest of the back and orders them all to stand and pay attention. “Welcome to your first day of training everyone. Today we will be learning how to fight hand to hand in our human forms. I want you all to pair off in groups of two.” He says Nadine and Carissa end up pairing off together. As I look for a partner it seems everyone came already knowing who they wanted to spar with. I look at Papa, “Alpha, I don’t have a partner.” I say.

“You will be paired with Greyson,” He says and looks at Greyson. “I suggest going easy on her because she hasn’t had much training.” He adds. I roll my eyes, I may be small but Darren and mom have taught me how to fight. “I want to use your mistakes as examples. Honey, it’s nothing against you.” He says, noticing my glare. I just scuff, use my mistakes as examples. I’m now determined to make Greyson yield. Once everyone is with their partner my papa tells them Greyson and I will be the first to spar and to watch closely for mistakes. “One of you will be in a defensive stance and the other will be offensive,” Papa says not only to me and Greyson but to my pack members as well.

I get into a defensive stance and wait for the first sign of Greyson making his move. He goes to swipe my feet with his leg and I jump over it. Right after I land back on my feet I aim a punch to his left shoulder but dodge lower when he makes the move to block my hit. He grunts as my fist connects to his stomach, it’s harder than I expected. He laughs as I shake my hand a little to make the pain go away. “Charlee, remember he’s a male and our mate, use your body as a distraction.” Snow says to me. I smirk and throw off my jacket, revealing the low-cut sports bra underneath. As I raise my fists and bounce back and forth on my heels, my breasts bounce right along with me. Greyson’s eyes widened at the sight of my chest. “Men are so predictable.” I think to myself. Taking advantage of him being distracted, I use his first move against him and swing my leg into the back of his knees, causing him to drop to the ground. I swiftly move behind him and put him in a headlock. “Do you yield?” I whisper in his ear, loving every second of this. “Not a chance,” he says. Grabbing me by my elbows and flipping me over his head. I land on the ground with a heavy thud. “Oh, he wants to play rough now huh?” I think. Before he can grab me, I roll to the side and land a kick to his shin. Kicking my legs in the air, I jump back into a defensive stance. Greyson lunges at me, but I manage to knock him to one knee before he grabs me and pulls me down to the ground. I roll us over before he can pin my arms down and straddle his waist as I send a punch into his chest. As I straddle him, I feel him getting excited beneath me and my mouth drops open. Any kind of advantage I had just flew out the window when I felt his throbbing?

WHAM!

Within seconds, Greyson has me pinned on my back. His sweat drips on my bare skin as his eyes glow red, locked onto mine. I put up such a good fight that his wolf came to the surface. My chest heaves in and out as he holds me down on the ground, My legs begin to involuntarily wrap around his waist. “I yield,” I murmur, out of breath. I still have some fight left in me, but if I don’t yield now there’s no telling where this will go. Greyson pulls me to my feet and looks at me impressed. “Wow… Just… Wow.” He says as he catches his breath as well. I look at my pack members and they have the same look Greyson has. “Charlotte, where did you learn to fight like that?” Beta Aaron asks.

“Mom taught me a thing or two from her private sparring session with Papa,” I responded as I looked at Papa and smirked. He smiles proudly and shakes his head. I grab my jacket off the ground and shake the snow off it. As papa asks the pack what mistakes they saw, Carissa mentions how Greyson got distracted by my breasts. “That was a smart move, especially against me.” Greyson whispers and I zip up my jacket. I give him a cocky smirk and proudly walk away to stand next to my papa to watch everyone else spar.