Amani

Chapter 5

Tycen's POV

I wonder what she'll look like or how beautiful her voice will be. I haven't yet met her but I'm pretty sure she'll be the most perfect person to me.

I've waited so long to find my mate that knowing that I'm going to see her in a few days seems so crazy and surreal right about now. I bet she-

"Bro I'm starting to think this whole situation won't be much of a distraction if you keep zoning out just to think of your mate," Tristin scolds.

"I wasn't-"

"Oh save it bro. We all know how excited you are about this but try to chill for a second" James cuts me off.

"Getting a mate is like one of the most important events in a werewolf's life so we get it. You're excited but the whole point of coming here was to distract you and tell you about the complications that come with having a mate" Broody adds to the conversation.

"Complications? You guys seem fine and I'm pretty sure I would have know if there were complications. I'm literally always there when you guys are with your mates" is my reply.

Somehow the air seems tense and I get a bad feeling that maybe I missed something and I-

My thoughts gey cut off by Tristan as he sighs and begins to talk and the serious look on his face tells me I need to pay attention to this,"Remember the time Aspen and I found out that we were mates?"

All I can do is nod and aa I look around the campfire we've set up, I realise that what is about to be said I known by everyone but me. I don't get to feel bad about them keeping this from me before Tristan continues.

" Being her mate felt great, I felt on top of this world until everything started getting horrible. Aspen has beta blood and my family is from the delta line and because of this, my wolf felt like it was being dominated by hers."

I didn't not expect that.

"Things got really bad and because we didn't want this getting to the public, our parents sent us away for those two years we had been gone to try and fix this."

I remember those to years, it had been awful because I felt like i had lost my best friend. I understood the importance of mates but because I didn't have one, I hated Aspen for stealing him away. Both James and Broody had been 18 with mates that loved them and Tristan and I had been 17 and mateless and we understood each other, grieved together but when Aspen turned 16 and came into the picture, I couldn't help but feel bitter and just after 5 months I was told that they'd be going away to strengthen their mate bond but that was back then and now Aspen is like a little sister to me.

" It was really hard Tristan and in order to help my wolf feel dominant, we had to mate and Mark each other knowing that that scared practice should only be done at age 21 when both wolves have matured and the mate bond can only strengthen" I was about to ask questions because my mind couldn't catch up but it seems Tristan had a lot more to say

"I can't say much about it because I don't like talking about it and I'm sorry that you're only just knowing about this but-"

He didn't get to finish before I cut him off, "I appreciate you telling me this now even though I'm hurt that you couldn't confide in me before don't I don't understand why you're telling me about-"

"You'd know I'd you could be quite for a second and listen!" James snaps and it looks like this affected him too.

James and Broody are like the older brothers in our little group with James being the chilled and funny one that allows us to cause mischief and Broody being the strict one that keeps us level headed when we're needed to be so seeing James snap like that is a bit startling.

"Sorry," is all I manage to say.

Tristan sighs before he continues "Yeah okay so after my wolf took up the role that made him feel secure and that we could protect our mate, he went a little wild. At first I didn't understood why everything was happening but it turns out that knowing that he was in a lower position than his mate made him feel insecure that a much more powerful werewolf would swop in, make Aspen reject us due to the low position and we'd be left mateless," he sighs.

"After all that was sorted out and we both began training for the beta position when I turned 18 and her 17, I couldn't focus dude. My mind was constantly on Aspen and we, my wolf and I, wanted to always be by her side. Being a gamma, delta, beta and alpha wolves does come with more strength that the average wolf but it had it's disadvantage."

I knew this. The higher up the hierarchy, the more we got of everything being a wolf intels. We get more possessive, more paranoid when we don't see our mate for long and I was prepared for all this. I was about to voice my thoughts before Broody cut in.

"You might think you're prepared but it's really hard dude. We know how much the Kingdom means to you and screwing up isn't in your game plan but you're going to inherit the throne soon and because you have spent enough tome with your mate to strengthen your bond and the throne to get passed down to her as queen, you're bound to screw up. The kingdom doesn't need a weak queen and king especially in their first years and if that's the case, Victor will be called in" he didn't need to say it but we all agreed that it would be tragic if we called Victor.

We all sat around the fire each one of us having their own thoughts before we called it a night.

That night, I made a promise that I would try to handle this. I couldn't let the kingdom down. I had a lot of people counting on me and I made a promise. I promised him and I intended to keep that promise.