Best Friends Mated to Royalty

Chapter 4

Alice’s POV

“BRRRRRRING, BRRRRRRING, BRRRRRRING!” I groan and roll over to turn off my alarm-

“Hello.”

I would be lying if I said I didn’t get scared sh**less and fall off my bed. A loud “oof.” escaped my lips. “Who the h*** was that?”

“Hello my gorgeous human, I am Sapphire. The other half of your soul. We are one in the same. I am so happy to be able to speak with you finally!”

At this point, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t smiling like a crazy woman right now.

“Oh my God hiiiiii! How are you? What is your fur like? Do we have the same color eyes?”

Sapphire laughed “All in due time. You’ll have to wait until your first shift to get answers to your questions, but until you do, I will be right here with you.”

“I’m so excited! I have waited so long to be able to hear and talk to you! This is the best day of my life!”

Sapphire again gave a little chuckle.

I hop out of bed and run into the bathroom to shower. Normally, I am never this chipper in the morning, but today after talking to my wolf for the first time, I am elated. Sapphire, what a beautiful name…..

“Thank you.” Sapphire laughs

“Omg you can hear my thoughts too?”

“We are one and the same babe. I hear and see everything you do. I have been resting inside you since you were born. Think of having a wolf as having your best friend inside of you. We will share all our emotions and secrets. I can see the world through your eyes, and you will be able to see the world through my eyes when we shift for the first time!”

“Have you been with me since I was born?”

“Yes, ma’am I have.”

“I didn’t know wolves were with us for that long.”

“Don’t worry, I will teach you everything there is to know about having a wolf.”

“Thank you sapphire!”

“Get ready for your birthday! Everyone is waiting to see the birthday girl!”

“Okay, Sapphire.” I smile. This is better than having Maya. Hopefully our wolves get along.

After my shower, I pick out my favorite dress to wear. It is a red dress with a plunging neckline (almost to my belly button) and spaghetti straps. It is tight until my waist, then it flares out to a short skirt that falls just above my knees. It has intricate sparkly gold patterns of flowers all over the skirt. I put on a gold chain with a matching pair of gold hoop earrings. I also throw on a pair of gold heels with gold roses on the toes.

By far this is one of my favorite dresses. I normally don’t dress up fancy. Nor do I dress in clothes that show off my body, but today is my birthday and there’s a chance I might find my mate. I want to look my best.

I apply some natural makeup, just some foundation, light neutral brown eyeshadow, mascara and pink lip gloss. I brush through my short red hair, and decide to curl it. Now, the soft curls fall in waves on each side of my face. I feel like a princess wearing a beautiful dress, makeup, and doing my hair. I hope my mate likes it.

I head upstairs to find Maya. I barge into her room again without knocking, I see Maya trying to control her wavy mess of hair. I decide to jump right on her, tackling her to the floor.

“Guess what!!!”

“Why are you jumping around like a flying squirrel?”

“I met my wolf! Her name is Sapphire!”

“That's awesome! I can't wait for both of our wolves to be able to train together!”

“I hope all four of us become great friends!”

“We will babe, we will.” Sapphire says.

I disentangle myself from Maya and we get up from the floor. Maya takes a second to put her hair in a huge messy bun. I finally look at her and she is wearing an equally as showy outfit as I am. She’s wearing a deep royal blue midi dress, it has “v” all the way down her back (leaving it entirely bare)until it reaches the very top of her butt. It is beaded with white pearls all along the seams of the front and back of the dress. The front is a sweetheart neckline with white pearls along the edges. She paired it with a set of white flats, a pearl necklace and a matching set of earrings. She has her hair in a messy bun on the top of her head. Her makeup is done simple, some foundation, eyeliner, mascara, and a red lip gloss to tie it all together.

I take in all of her. “D**n girl you are looking smoking hot!” I yell before I erupt into giggles.

“I look hot? Have you looked at yourself in the mirror today? You're the hot birthday girl in red! There isn’t going to be anyone looking hotter than you on your eighteenth birthday!” She does a fashion show runway walk to show me what every guy will see.

“We have to go! I want a birthday breakfast before school!” I make a little pouty face to try and get my point across.

“We aren’t going to school. I have a surprise for youuuuuu!!!!” Maya sings

We run giggling into the hall.

“What’s my surprise?!?!?” I ask, trying not to bounce up and down with excitement. Whenever Maya gives me a surprise it’s always a fun time.

Halfway down the hall, I freeze when I smell the intoxicating scent of orange blossom and chocolate.

“I wonder what smells so good!!” I say. My mouth is watering as I take in the scent of orange blossom and chocolate.

“I don’t know, I don’t smell anything besides today's breakfast downstairs.”

“Ooooooo I wonder what we are having!!?” I exclaim getting distracted from the scent by the idea of food. The kitchen omegas always go out of their way to make a huge delicious breakfast for whoever has a birthday.

We make our way downstairs and take our respective seats with each of our families. Once the clock hits eight the Alpha stands up from his seat along with Luna.

“Good Morning everyone! I would like to make a very important announcement today. Our very own Beta has two children turning eighteen today!” Everyone cheers. It’s always a big deal when someone has their first shift. He pauses to let the cheers die down. “Alice and Axel will be shifting tonight under the full moon. I expect everyone to be there. We will be taking a pack run afterwards. I expect everyone who is able to be there to attend and join in! That will be all. I hope the birthday girl and birthday boy have a great day!” The alpha says while looking at me and Axle with a smile.

The omegas start to serve breakfast. Today we are having mine and Axel’s absolute favorite breakfast dish! Blueberry cream cheese French toast with whipped cream, fresh blueberries, and maple syrup on top! I dig in and devour six pieces before I feel too full to eat anymore. I lay back in my chair and I see Maya do the same. We get up and walk out of the dining hall. Maya grabs my hand and drags me outside to her car.

“Where are we going?” I ask. Maya rolls her eyes.

“I told you, it’s a surprise!” She responds. I growl in return. I don’t like getting taken places without knowing the destination. But, Maya is my best friend so I begrudgingly get into the vehicle and buckle myself in. Maya starts driving and we go through the gates past border security. I really do wonder what we could be doing in the city this early in the morning….

Werewolves generally don’t venture out of our pack unless they have business in the city. That’s mostly high ranking wolves. As we keep going deeper into the city I recognize where she is taking me. We are going to the club!

“We are going to the club?!?! It isn’t even noon yet!” I say.

“It’s your birthday! Your eighteenth birthday! Live a little bit. It will be fun!” Maya says with so much excitement lacing her voice it’s hard not to get excited too.

“Fine! But you're paying!” She sees the smile on my face and gives me one in return.

“That’s the plan. You're the birthday girl!”

We park outside the club, grab our purses and walk in. This is a club that allows all kinds of supernaturals to party in it. The city is located on neutral ground. This means that no matter what you are, whether it be human, vampire, fey, werebear, witches, fox shifter, and you guessed it, werewolf, we can all come here. But, if a fight breaks out, there is no one here to protect us. Everyone has to be prepared and cautious or they could get seriously hurt or even killed.

As we walk to the front entrance of the club we have to go through security. They barely even give us a second glance. It seems they are also werewolves and part of our pack. Although it’s rare, some wolves choose to live and work outside the pack. Oftentimes it’s because they have been mated to a human, or only want to date humans until they find their mate. I don’t understand that! Who would want to have flings when they are aware they have a soulmate?

We walk inside and are immediately hit with the sound of loud music. It’s so loud that you can feel it vibrate the building around you. Your teeth and body feel like you are getting a massage because the sound waves are so strong. The lights are flashing rainbow colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and then the opposite purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. It’s a continued cycle. The only light is coming from the rainbow lights; without them it would be pitch black. There’s also a smoke machine set up in every corner of the room.

The smell of women's perfume and men's cologne mixes with the scent of sweat coming off of people's bodies. The back part of the club is where the bar is located, but between the entrance and the bar is the dance floor. So many writhing bodies are shaking to the music. Girls are slithering their bodies on guys, and they let them. There are women rubbing their butts on the bulges in men’s pants. There are couples of all sexes: men and women, women and women, men and men, making out in every corner you see.

A black winding staircase with a jewel encrusted balcony leads up to the second floor. This part of the club is for eighteen years olds and up only. It’s the main entertainment center where there are dancers spinning around on poles, private rooms, and couches filled with men and women watching the dancers, talking to each other, and drinking until they can’t walk straight.

Maya and I have always stayed on the first floor because neither of us was eighteen until today.

“Are we just gonna dance all day?” I have to scream over the music and even then Maya can barely hear me.

“No, I have one more surprise for you. I’ll be right back.” Maya screams.

Maya slithers her way onto the dance floor with ease before I could protest. We have been coming here for the past two years just to dance and experience the euphoria of freedom. Here we have never had to worry about what our titles are, who our parents are, and who's judging us. We are just free.

Not even ten minutes later Maya comes back with a man in tow. He’s barely wearing any clothes. Just a pair of denim jeans. No shirt, giving him the ability to show off his eight pack and his ripped upper arm muscles. I’m too busy gawking at this man to realize what Maya had gotten me into. He grabs my hand gently and kisses the back of it. My ears feel like they are filled with cotton and I can’t speak. I just sit there opening and closing my mouth like an i***t.

It’s not like I have never seen a man naked before. It happens all the time in the pack when guys shift and shred their clothes. But, this is the first time I will have ever shared anything with a man. I have never kissed a man let alone gone further than that.

Maya gives me a push in his direction, this makes me trip and fall smack dab into him. He catches me with ease, and picks me up bridal style.

“Have fun!” Maya shouts at me over the music. I am going to kill her tonight. My wolf is going crazy in my head seeing a man half naked before me. She is shouting at me to wait for a mate one second and then the next she is flashing tons of dirty images in my head about what I could do to him to practice for when we meet our mate.

He carries me upstairs to one of the private rooms. By that time, I was so very red and embarrassed.

“She must have paid a lot of money for this!” I think to myself

He gently places me onto a fluffy couch. And steps back. I gather my composure and look at my surroundings. I am in a bedroom sized room that is painted a dark shade, probably black, but I can’t tell. There is very little light in the room. The only place with any light is the pole that is sitting not even five feet away from me. My eyes widen when the man before me hands me a stack of one dollar bills.

“Your friend told me to give you those.” The man says in a deep husky voice. He flashes me a smile filled with pearly white teeth.

As I take the bills, the realization of what my best friend got me into sets in. Just as I am about to tell him to stop and just take the money. He grabs onto the pole and soft music starts playing in the background. My mouth drops open because his muscles ripple with every movement he makes. He spins around on the pole and does a series of movements that allow me to get a good view of him from every angle. I get a view of his toned shoulders and back along with his toned butt at one point. I get a view of his chest, abs, and stomach. The views of this man at every angle makes my body heat up and the center of my belly throb.

He gets off the pole and I breathe a sigh of relief, but also disappointment when I think the dance is over. However, he gets onto his knees and crawls slowly over to me before he begins to rub his hot chest and the rest of him on me. I can feel his hot breath on my neck before he pulls away quickly and tears off the jeans he was wearing.

“He must be strong to tear denim.” I think to myself.

He is standing before me dancing in a pair of short shorts for men. I can see the huge bulge in his shorts that is barely contained. His skin is so smooth and mouth’s watering. I really want to touch it to see if it’s as smooth as it looks. As if he read my thoughts he grabs onto my hands, and runs them all the way down his chest to the band of his shorts and past that to his legs!

He then picks up the pack of bills from beside me where I long ago forgot them.

“These for me?” He asks me

“Y-yes.” I stutter out my reply.

“Want me to show you what to do with them?” He asks me with a smile on his face.

“Y-yes.” I stutter again.

His smile widens as he takes the bills from me and unwraps them. He proceeds to take a few from the stack.

“You can either throw them when I am dancing for you over there.” He says while pointing to the pole. “ Or you can do this.” He then proceeds to stick a couple of the bills in the waistband of his shorts. I gasp. “Easy. Why don’t you give it a try?” He says with a huge grin and hands me the bills back.

Maya’s POV

Once I give my best friend her birthday present, I look for the only other friend Alice and I have here. I dance my way through the crowd searching all of the faces for one I find familiar. After probably ten minutes I spotted her raven black hair from across the dance floor. Her slim body and huge butt is wiggling against a guy I guarantee she doesn’t know. I hurry across the floor before she disappears into the crowd again.

She has been both Alice and I’s best friend since we started coming here two years ago. We met similar to how we are right now. Dancing our hearts out on the dancefloor and not caring who we are or what kind of title we have. We just wanted to have fun and we decided having fun with one another was the best way to do so.

“Hey, Clare!” I scream over the music.

I see her beautiful black hair whip around her face as she turns to see who called her name. Immediately when her blue eyes meet my green ones her face splits into a huge grin.

“Hey Girlfriend!” She shouts. She leaves the guy she was dancing with high and dry looking very disgruntled that he was left. He probably thought he was going to get more from her. “Oh well!” I laugh to myself.

Clare runs over to me and pulls me into a bone crushing hug. Although she is petite, every inch of her is pure muscle. After two years of knowing us she won’t admit what she does for a living, but Alice and I have come to a conclusion over the years. Whatever she does, it’s extremely dangerous. Alice and I have asked her multiple times on our trips to the club what she does, but the only thing she has ever let slip is that she helps people and it involves a lot of fighting. She is twenty years old and quite possibly the kindest person I have ever met.

I really like Clare and so does Alice, but the only time we ever see her is here in the club. She is human, but she is a human who knows about all the supernaturals. We don’t talk about it much, but she knows who we are and where we come from. Even though her human nature is supposed to make her run for the hills, she has always treated us like family and us her. She will protect Alice and I in the club even though we are the wolves and she is the human against a bunch of supernaturals.

I remember this one time. The three of us were dancing with each other late at night. A big burly guy came up to Alice and grabbed her roughly by the waist. He told her she was his choice w***e for the night and tried to drag her off. Alice, at the time, was only seventeen. The years of training she had in her only helped her so much against a man the size of a small house. She fought, kicking, punching, and screaming for him to let her go, but none of it worked. I followed them and fought as well, but he had two men grab me as well.

I did everything in my power to get the guys off me, but they were simply too strong. Clare however wasn’t going to stand there and take their s**t. She kicked and punched the two guys holding me. The latter staggered backward and fell on his butt and the former.. Well he was out cold. She was our savior at that moment in time. I don’t know what they had planned for Alice, but Clare was the reason she got out of it unharmed. For that, we are forever grateful to her. She is our family.

Clare grabs my arm and brings me into the middle of the floor. We begin to grind and slither our bodies together in an erotic dance. I spot multiple heads turning to look at us. Clare and I however don’t care who stares. We close our eyes and dance our hearts out.

Alice’s POV

He begins to dance again and I proceed to stick the bills in the waistband of his shorts. He dances for me until all of the bills in my hand are gone or on the floor.

“The dance is done. It was a pleasure.” He says. He picks up the pants he discarded on the ground and puts them back on. It looks like there’s sticky tape or something that he puts them back together with?

“I’ll lead you back downstairs.” He offers me his hand and I take it. He pulls me to my feet and escorts me out the door, down the stairs, and leaves before I have a chance to thank him. I look on the dance floor for Maya. I spot her over by the entrance dancing with our best friend Clare.. So, I make my way over to her and tap her on her shoulder. “Hey, can we go now?” I scream over the loud music.

“Oh my god! How did it go? Did you like it?” Maya screams.

I don’t respond, but I grab her hands and drag her out of the club to the car.

“That bad?” She asks

“I mean it was an experience, and I guess he was super hot.” I say with a little annoyance

“Least you will know a little more when you find your mate.” Maya grumbles as we make our way back to the pack house

Maya, although still a virgin, is not by far innocent. She has had tons of flings, never considering them her boyfriend, but still making out with them and letting them buy her dinner. She has sucked plenty of c*ck in her life and I’m sure her mate is gonna have a fun time the first night they meet. Being an Alpha’s daughter is very frowned upon for her. Somehow, she managed for her parents never to find out what she was up to. I, on the other hand, have stayed completely pure for my mate, until today. I mean I guess we didn’t do anything that could make me impure….

Before we can get far we hear a voice that can only belong to one person. We both turn around and see Clare stomping towards us with a glare on her face.

“Ugh don’t leave yet!” She yells.

Both Maya and I burst into giggles. She can get mad over some of the most ridiculous things.

“Sorry pretty lady, but Alice didn’t like her first dance.” Maya says with a smile. I slap her arm as my cheeks light with fire.

Clare giggles

“Well, I suppose. I have to tell you something first. It’s important.” Her smile is gone and replaced with a serious expression. I don’t think we have ever seen her this serious. She looks around to make sure no one is close enough to hear them before looks back at us with her serious expression still intact. “I have to leave for a while. I don’t know when I will be back.” She says.

Both Maya and I stare at her like she grew a second head.

“What do you mean leave?” Maya asks.

“Exactly what I said.” She replies.

“What for?” Maya asks, narrowing her eyes.

“I can’t tell you.” Clare chews on her bottom lip.

Everyone stays quiet.

“Is it dangerous?” I ask.

I see Clare look down. Immediately I know we might not come back to us. I walk to her and pull her into a hug.

“Try your best to come back to us. We love you. You're the sister we never had.” I tell her and Maya does the same. After we pull apart we all go our separate ways. I wonder if Maya is thinking the same thing as I am. Will we ever see our best friend again?