His Hidden Queen

Accepted

Marcus

I was speechless for a second, Crystal was much more than she seemed to be. I was brought out of my stunned state seeing the worried creep onto her face. I jumped up from the bed, and pulled her up too.

“Crystal I don't care what titles you hold, you are my mate and you are perfect!” It was clear on her face she didn’t believe me, so I did the one thing I could think of to prove this to her -other than marking her-

“I Marcus Dain, future alpha of the moon blood pack hereby formally accept you Crystal Haret queen of the vampires, next in line to the fairy throne, as my mate and partner!” Her eyes lit up at this, and tears began to steam down her cheeks.

“I Crystal Haret accept your acceptance of the mate bond and also accept you as my mate and partner.” I hadn’t expected her to do that, but I was over the moon that she did. I pulled her tightly against me, breathing in her scent and enjoying the feeling I got for simply being in her presence let alone touching her. I spent the night with her in her room, we didn’t talk instead we enjoyed simply having one another, neither of us willing to let the other go. By the time morning dawned, I still felt like I hadn’t had enough of Crystal like I only spent a few moments with her and I needed more. Last night was the best night of sleep I’d ever had, no question about it. Still asleep Crystal wriggled closer to me, -if that was even possible- making me smile uncontrollably.

“Goodmorning,” I whispered in her ear, making her groan in protest. So I began to tickle her, she squealed, and tried to wriggle away from me.

“Fine! Fine! I’ll get up,” she said, between laughs, happy with her surrender I stopped my atack and moved to get out of bed. Immediately I missed her touch,

“I’ll be right back, I need to go get changed.” I got a whining groan in response, as Crystal rolled over. I chuckled at her, and pulled myself away before I could climb back into bed with her.

“Is it really happening?” Max, my gamma, said in a dreamy voice. “Are you doing the walk of shame?” My three officers looked at me with knowing looks.

“Was it that girl you made out with in class yesterday?” Jake asked,

“What girl?” Lochlan, my delta, said, sounding excited.

“We were hanging out and fell asleep,” I stated plainly, leaving out the whole me accepting the mate bond thing, which was useless.

“s**t! I know that face!” Jake exclaimed, “She’s your mate!” I stopped walking, and turned to face the three.

“Meet me in conference room C at 2 o’clock, until then not a word. Understood?” They all nodded and I walked off, continuing my path to my room. As quickly as I could I had a shower and got dressed in a dark grey t-shirt and black slacks. Once ready I made my way back to Crystal's room. She was now dressed in a black dress covered in sunflowers that stopped just above the knees, her hair was up high in a ponytail. She looked gorgeous, but the most attractive part to it all was the massive smile on her face.

“Beautiful,” I gushed, making her blush.

Crystal

I had just finished doing my hair when Marcus reentered my room. He was in a dark grey t-shirt and black slacks, his short brown hair still damp, and his light blue eyes were trained on me.

“Beautiful,” That single word made my cheeks heat up as I blushed. I had been convinced last night when he had started his sentence to accept me as his mate he was rejecting me, so I had felt an overwhelming joy when he proved me wrong, and that joy was yet to fade. I moved toward him wrapping my arms around him in a tight hug, breathing in his scent,

“My officers will be meating us in meeting room C a 2,” He said after a minute or two of us just standing there. I nodded my head and took a step back from him, I grabbed his hand and led him out of the pack house and all the way to school. People shamelessly stared when they saw me and Marcus, Kate and her group glaring daggers at me. The bell rang just as we reached my locker,

“I’ll see you at lunch,” Marcus pouted at that, “Wish me luck with the girl world drama that is sure to follow me today”

“Good luck,” He grumbled, with that I quickly hurried off to class. My first lesson was a double and AP calculus BC, for most this was a difficult class but I’d always found school easy, and having graduated more than once even though I was only seventeen I was top of the school. Though I wasn’t able to get to my second class on time since Kate stopped me.

“I don’t know who you think you are but Marcus is mine!” Her face was in mine and her breath was fanning my face.

“Really?” I decided to have fun with this, “I didn’t see your name on him and by the way he kissed me neither did he.” That earned me a low warning growl.