Call of the North

Chapter 12

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The Royals had conferred with their Council but I was not invited. I was glad to shake off that somehow, people knew about me, and it wouldn't be that long until everyone knew. He was right, I had to leave, I had to get out of here so that my mate and his family wouldn't be hurt because of me.

I love them too much.

When Kai came back to our room, his face seemed to be set in stone, his jaw tightened, and his eyes hard.

"Kai..." I held my hand out in the air, wanting him to come to me so I could hold him, hold myself together.

"Tell me what it is they want from you. Why do they want my Mate so badly?"

The tone of my mate's voice scared me for a moment. I knew it was time to tell him, but even saying the words made me feel as though in the next moments, a spear would impale him to the wall. Some words were just not worth dying for, but I knew he didn't care, and that's what made it worse.

Tears fell down my face in what felt like rivers. Soon I was coughing on my own saliva, my nose was running and I felt as if I was drowning. It wasn't long before I felt arms around me and a warm embrace enveloped my entire body.

"Shhh, shhh, tell me what it is." I clutched his shirt desperately in my grasp, mumbling through my weeping face.

"I'm not a wolf."

I felt Kai incline his head towards me, clearly not having heard.

"I'm not a wolf." I spoke a little louder.

"What?" I could hear his confusion.

"I'm not a wolf!" This time, when I spoke, I looked at him with the real me. I could tell my eyes were glowing by the reflection in his gaze and he stumbled backward.

I pointed my palm at our mini fireplace and lit it with a short jerk of my wrist. And then my fingers were no longer fingers, they were claws.

Dragon claws.

"What are you...?" Kai was on the ground, staring up at me with the most intrigued expression as I shifted myself back to normal.

"Wolf...claws, magic powers..." I could almost see him putting the pieces together.

"A tribrid." Both of us spoke at the same time, me trying to clarify, him tying it all together.

"That's why your dominance radiates off you stronger than even my parents put together. It's dangerous in the wrong ears." His quick handling of the situation pushed my thoughts too fast forward. Everything was moving too fast.

"The man that asked me to dance is the same man that tried to kidnap me. Some people already know. I don't know how many but I know there are some. They probably are the same ones that killed my parents." I looked at him eagerly, needing him to understand it wasn't safe for me here. I needed him to come to that conclusion.

"Come, we must tell Father."

I shook my head, refusing to leave the room.

"Ainsling let's go-"

"I love you." I blurted, instantly feeling the heat rise in my body. I watched Kai stiffen and his instant tension left his body as he took a breath, almost sucking my words out of thin air.

I got out of bed and walked over to Kai, placing a hand on his arm and the other on his chest, listening to his heartbeat.

"I love you..." I repeated, murmuring under my breath but enough that he could hear me. I wanted him to see why I had not told him, why I felt my words were too irrelevant if they knew it would put him in danger. I felt his finger tilt my head up towards him and suddenly my mouth was caught between his.

His gentle accent reverberated through my bones and around my lips, causing me to return the kisses with gentle gentleness. "I love you too, mia anima." His voice made my heart melt, as the slight accent of what sounded like Italian reverberated through my bones.

I heard him groan and pick me up. I was wrapped around his waist, my hands taking control and unbuttoning his shirt, revealing the stone-structured abs that covered his stomach.

My kisses trailed along his throat and I felt him taking slow steps, and then I was thrown onto the bed. I watched as Kai stripped off the rest of his shirt, throwing it to the side and then leaning above me, slightly pinning me down as he practically ripped my shirt open, revealing my bra.

As the rest of our clothes soon were lost in the desire and passion between us, I couldn't help but listen to the sounds of a windy breeze outside, followed by what sounded like a nightingale.

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I woke up to the sound of peaceful breathing. Arms slinked around my waist in a tight hold, keeping me at his side to the point that it felt like I was buried in the bed.

Using what little wiggle room I had, I turned around, looking at the sleeping face of Kai, bare-chested and snoring.

I couldn't help but admire his face, amused at how peaceful he looked from this angle, like a sleeping angel.

Maybe he felt eyes on him but soon after, his eyelids fluttered open. I would have done anything in that moment to recapture his awakening, seeing how he had shifted from peaceful to up and alert.

"Good morning, my love." I caressed his face as lightly as I could, wanting to remember him like this.

He shook his head like a dog, his hair ruffled up from the previous night. The choices I had made by sleeping with him did not bother me. I knew what I wanted, and I wanted him.

But somehow, I was dangerous enough not to have it.

I was absolutely, truly, in love with him. No doubt.

I heard a knock at the door and when we both moved to cover ourselves, I heard a laugh from behind it.

It was Andrew.

"Don't worry, I don't need to come in. I can smell you both from out here."

Even though I could not see his face, I knew Andrew was smirking like an i***t behind the door. I could feel my face flush with embarrassment and buried it in Kai's chest.

"The King has requested your presence. We must meet him for breakfast in 5 minutes."

Now that I was officially part of the pack, the mind link between pack members now included me in it. I could hear murmurs of 'welcome' as other pack members introduced themselves even though I could not see them. Some of them I recognized and some I did not.

Now that I had verbally accepted my mate, my link to the pack was now guaranteed. Not only that, but I could sense the mind link between both the King and Queen, who seemed to be in a hurry.

"Quickly. Hurry quickly."

With the urgency in both of their voices, the both of us jumped out of the bed and hurried to dress, eventually making our way to the war room where we sniffed the both of them out.

"What is it?" Kai opened the doors himself, shutting them quietly so as not to alert anyone as I watched Kai move over to a 3D version of the territory of the Wolves.

Raine looked over at her son, tears seeming to build up in her eyes as she pointed at the figurine of a dragon, and behind them, multiple others.

"The dragons are coming."