The Alpha's Revenge

Chapter 40

King Nicholas’s POV

What the f**k is going on around here? s**t, what’s going on with me? Four years of living behind these walls, and I am losing my f*****g mind. I can’t even take a piss by myself. Life in the palace has never been like this. What am I doing wrong? Things were not like this when my parents were alive. I am walking back to my room after dinner. Of course, I have two guards with me. If I am in the palace, why do I need guards to take me from the dining room to my room? Am I the only one who thinks this is excessive? As we got close to my room, I detect a tantalizing scent. It’s faint, but I smell it and Colt is prancing around in my room. The guards check my room and allow me to go in. I locked the door and hear them walk away.

“It’s about time” I hear

I look around and see a short girl sitting on my bed. She is wearing all black and has a mask over her face so all you see is her eyes. Her body is toned and muscular. She is gorgeous with the most piercing blue eyes. And her scent of strawberries is making my mouth water. Then Fury says ‘MATE’

“MATE” I whisper

“Yes, I am your mate, but there are other things we need to discuss first”

“What could possibly be more important than us being mates? Wait, how did you get in here?”

“First, I am here with a message for you. Second, us being mates is not important right now, because you have other things to concentrate on. Third, what could be more important? I don’t know, how about you being a piss poor King”

“Excuse you? Who the f**k do you think you are talking to?” I yell

“You don’t like the term piss poor? How about slack-ass? Incompetent? Inept? s**t! pick one, I don’t care” she says

I can’t believe she is saying these things to me. I’m the King. But all I can do is stare at her. Who is she to talk to me like this.

“Listen here, little girl. I am the King of Werewolves and could have you killed for talking to me like that”

“Yes you could but here I am and you haven’t done anything. You sure you don’t need to get permission from your council to punish me? Or are you big enough to make a decision on your own? s**t, at least you would have done something”

What the f**k is going on here? I wonder, just staring at her is complete and utter shock

“I’m sorry, do you think you are doing a good job? Are you under the impression that you have been a good king? No one even knows who you are. Exactly, what have you done?” she says sarcastically

“Well, yeah. I’m doing a good job. The Kingdom is having a time of peace. According to my advisors, things are going great. And that’s because of me”

“Because of you? Because of you? Why because you have passed new laws making peoples' lives better? You have established solid relationships with pack leaders, so they respect you? You have fought along with your allies to rid the kingdom of those harming your people? How is the kingdom at peace because of you, when you don’t do s**t? You have got to be joking? This is f*****g unbelievable!” she states is an comical and exasperated manner

I continue to stare at her. I don’t even know what to say. I do notice my wolf is not growling at her insubordination or criticism of us. Could she be right?

“If you believe that the Kingdom is doing well, then you are f*****g delusional or gullible. And if you believe a Kingdom can function and prosper with an absent, substandard, pathetic King, then you are f*****g i***t”

I stand there stunned, eyes wide and mouth hanging open. This girl who is supposed to love me and be jumping in my arms screaming ‘MATE’, but she’s sitting here questioning me, degrading me, calling me names. I’m neither gullible nor delusional. A bad king. Me? What the hell?

“Alright, let me just get to the point. First, your cousin Xander is worried about you. You haven’t spoken to him in four years. Second, there’s a lot of bad s**t going in the kingdom; rogues taking over, whole packs disappearing and human trafficking. Third, the Elder Council is aware of all that is going on and covering things up. As your advisors, you are either involved and aware or you are being lied to and the fact that you think everything is okay you are, as I said, delusional or gullible. So, which is it, Nicholas?”

“Mate, what are you saying?”

“What part of my rant did you not understand? Your, Kingdom is s**t! Your Alpha’s have no faith, respect or loyalty to you. There’s a lot of bad things going on, and you’re in hiding. What is going on with you? You are supposed to be King, and no one has seen or heard from you in years?”

“When my parents died, I was not ready to take on the role as King. I was grieving. I spend most of my time in this room. I was severely depressed. The council kept coming to me with questions and issues within the kingdom and I wasn’t in the right mindset to deal with it. So, I let them handle things. Now that I am better, I can’t get them to resign the positions they have taken. They have me guarded all the time. I can’t even piss by myself. They watch me in my own home. When I ask about things going on in the kingdom, they tell me everything is fine, and they are handling things. I know, I am supposed to be doing more, but I don’t know how to change what I let happen”

“So, you just go along with whatever they have planned for you? You accept being a prisoner in your own home? Nicholas, you are the King! Why are you letting a group of old men tell you what to do?”

“Because by law if I am unfit, they can take over. I don’t think they have gone through all the proper processes, but they can take the kingdom from me”

“They have already taken the kingdom from you. No one even knows you exist”

“I don’t know how to fix this” I say sitting and putting my head in my hands

“My task was to locate you. See if you were part of the problem. If you were not, I was to give you this” I say handing him a USB

“Your cousin has a message for you. I’ll come back in a week. Hopefully, by then you have a plan or at least an idea of what you want to do about this situation”

“You’re leaving me? You’re my mate, you can’t leave me”

“We are in no position to be together right now. You need to figure s**t out and I have tasks to complete. Besides, I’m only 16”

“But you recognized me as your mate. How is that possible if you are 16?”

“I received my wolf early”

“How is that possible?”

“I was put in a bad situation in this f****d up kingdom of yours, that my wolf came to me early to save my life. If things go well, I will tell you about it one day. But right now, neither of us are ready for a mate. This is not a rejection, just a temporary hold on things. We both have other things we need to focus on”

“I agree with holding off on us accepting each other as mates temporarily. I don’t like it but I understand what you are saying. We will put it on hold, Just until we get somethings straightened out. But we will be together” I say walking to her and kissing her

“Here, we don’t want you watching what’s on that drive on any device in the palace because you are being watched. We have already hacked into the cameras in your room. They probably won’t realize it until tomorrow when you wake up but the loop is of you sleeping. I’ll see you next week”

She says handing me a phone and adapter to view the USB on. She goes out the window. When I run to the window, she is gone. I didn’t even get her name. My wolf is pissed and growling and cursing at me in my head because I let his mate go. She is right, I have a job to do and I have not been doing it well. My father would be disappointed in me if he knew I let the council take over the kingdom. I have to fix this. Wait? Did she say she fixed the cameras? Have they been watching me in my own room? f**k my life!!!

I take the USB and plug it into the phone. There is a few video files and some pdf’s on the drive. I open the video and see my cousin

“Hey, cousin. I am so glad you are okay. The girl who gave you this, you can call her Crane. She will be our point of contact while we figure things out. Sit back because I have a lot to tell and show you…..”

I watch the video and all the pdf and the other video files on the drive. It takes me hours to go through all the information and I know I will have to view it again at some point to truly process it all. Crane was right, I am delusional and gullible. My kingdom is literally destroying itself and the council who is there to protect it is raping it. I must do something. I go to bed thinking about what an i***t I have been and what I can do to fix this. Then my thoughts go to my mate. She is amazing. I still don’t even know how she got into the room

“Our mate is a warrior. She is small but mighty”

“I agree. But I need to get my s**t together to be worthy of her. She said I was delusional or gullible. That’s not what I want her to think of me. I have to do better, so the next time she sees me she can be proud of me. I want her to see me and see the King, strong and formidable, a man with pride and conviction. A man who will love her through whatever trauma she has been through”

“I’m here to help you no matter what, because I want our mate” Fury says