The Lost Warrior Princess

The Truth of Us

Luna’s POV

I lay in a rather hard bed, voices talking around me. They were muffled at first but the more my consciousness returned to me the clearer the voices became. I could instantly tell who’s loud husky voice was talking, that was Riley for sure. One of the other voices was unfamiliar to me so it had to be one of the guards, the last voice I had only heard a few times but there was no mistaking it......it was the prince.

They seemed to be arguing about something. I laid in the bed trying to hear what they were saying.

“....you’re the reason we are in this situation in the first place! If we hadn’t been assigned to escort you, she wouldn’t be in there unconscious right now!” Riley boomed.

“You should watch your tone when you address the Prince.” A guard said with venom in his voice.

“It’s alright Hunter, he clearly has something he needs to say and he will only get this once to get it off his chest.” The prince said, his tone was firm and also had a hint of anger in it.

Why were they arguing, what had happened while I was out for things to get this heated.

“I don’t like you or your kind, you’re all the same. Self centred and think that you’re entitled to take whatever or whoever you want. If I had my way, we would have never accepted the mission and let you find your own way through rogue territory.”

Yep, that was Riley for you. He would rather have an all out war then for everyone to get along in some kind of peace.

“Let’s get something clear, I didn't want you here but for some reason my parents thought the extra protection was necessary. As it is, I don’t like you all that much either. But we are stuck with each other until I am delivered safely back to the clan, so I suggest you keep what ever issues you have with MY kind to yourself. I will not stand for another blatant display of disrespect from you or anyone else in your team.” The prince sounded like if Riley said anything else that he would probably kill him right where he stood. Riley seemed to get the hint, I heard him storm off outside and slam the cabin door behind him.

“Sorry about him, he can be a bit of a d**k sometimes. He means well though.” I heard Max say.

“He is lucky the prince didn't kill him for that.” Alice said.

“I will not tolerate any further disrespect from him or him telling me who I am permitted to be near, now,” the prince began, “ if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go and check on the Captain, she should be awake soon.” I could hear footsteps walking towards the room I was in, the door opening and someone stepping in. They shut the door behind them but they didn't come any closer.

“You can’t pretend to be asleep with me, I can hear the changes in your heart rate and breathing.” Damn, I was hoping he wouldn’t have noticed or at least wouldn’t say anything. I slowly opened my eyes and turning towards where I had heard his voice come from. He stood in front of the door. His eyes fixed on me as I lay in the bed, he was silent for a few seconds before he spoke again. “How much of that did you hear?” He asked, still not looking away or moving closer.

“Enough to know Riley is pissed at you and you’re pissed at him.” Is all I say.

“I see,” he said, looking as though he was thinking something over in his head. “The boy you called Riley doesn’t like my kind very much.”

I wasn’t sure why he mentioned that and he seemed to notice that because he elaborated more on what he had just said.

“He thinks that I’m going to steal you away.” He paused for a second before he continued, “In a way he is right, but not for the reasons he thinks.”

My mind stopped working, what the hell had I missed? And what the hell did he mean by that? I tried to sit up using my elbows to slowly push myself up, I needed to get out of this bed. The prince was suddenly next to me with one hand behind my back helping me into a sitting position. He stepped back enough to be standing at the foot of the bed before he sat down. He looked at me for a long while before he spoke again. “How does it feel?” He asked as he looked at my fresh bandages.

I looked down to see that I was no longer in my jacket and top, my pants were gone as well. I felt heat rush to my cheeks as I pulled the blankets up to my chest as I sat.

“Wh...what happened to my clothes?” I asked.

The corner of his mouth turned up for just a second, “don’t worry, I didn't look and neither did anyone else.” He seemed amused at the fact I was embarrassed by the thought of him seeing me almost naked.

“Y...you....t....took my clothes off?” I could feel my face getting more and more red from my growing embarrassment. Oh my god, he saw me in just my underwear. “Why?” Is all I could manage.

“I didn’t, your little blonde friend did. As to why, your jacket and shirt were shredded up pretty bad and your pants were covered in blood. I couldn’t clean and close your wound with them still on.” He said as a matter of fact. Like it should have been obvious.

“Um....ah.... thank you I guess.” I said. “You didn't have to do that.”

“Yes I did, no one else could tend to your wound.” He said, still staring at me.

“Wait, you patched me up?” I looked at him, “ you carried me in here?”

He nodded, “yes, your big friend out there wasn’t to happy about it though.” Yeah figured Riley would’ve had an issue.

I just nodded to myself, we were silent for a while, this silence was very awkward. Mainly because it was just the two of us in here alone and secondly because he has seen me almost naked. I can only imagine how that went over with everyone. I went to speak but the prince beat me to it. “Your little blonde friend helped me, so you don’t need to worry about the possibility that I could have fed from you.” He paused thinking of his next words. “Not that you had that much blood to spare.”

Um what, was he trying to joke with me? I guess he was. “Well thank you for not feeding from me I guess.” What else did one say to that.

He smiled a little, “you’re welcome.... I should probably be going, we don’t need anyone thinking I’m draining you dry after saving your life.” He said, I couldn’t shake the memory of what happened earlier in the castle gym. I wanted to ask him but I wasn’t sure now was the right time but before I could say anything he went to get up. It was now or never, I let out a long breath before I spoke causing him to stop.

“What happened in the gym before we left? You looked like you were about to feed from me but then ran off.” I asked.

He stiffened but then relaxed before he spoke. “I got caught up in the moment.” What the? What moment?

“Caught up in the moment? As in you were hungry and your instincts almost got the better of you?” This was the only thing I could think the reason would be but he seemed to be hiding something.

“Yeah... you could say that.” Is all he said before he went to leave again.

“Why didn’t you?” I asked looking at him, I was searching his face for some kind of answer but his face was blank like he was hiding his emotions.

He let out a sigh before he spoke, “ does it really matter why?”

I was a little taken back by his question, I thought it was important.

“It does to me.” I said in a quiet voice. He just looked at me for a minute before he opened his mouth to say something but then changed his mind. He took a deep breath before he actually spoke. “ I stopped because I gained my control back. That’s all you need to know for now.” What the hell.

“Any other questions you want answered?” He asked me. I paused for a second.

“Why did you save me?” I asked.

He was quiet for a long time before he answered, “ because I couldn’t let you die.” Is all he said before opening the door and stepping out.

This was weird, he first almost feeds on me and then saves my life? The prince was very different to all the other vampires we have interacted with. He seemed to actually care what I thought of him but I couldn’t figure out why.

My thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door. I pulled the blankets up even higher. I yelled out to let who ever it was know that they could come in. The door cracked open and Alice popped her head in with a smile. She looked a little worn out, her hair was all over the place and she looked tired. I waved her to come in and she shut the door behind her.

“You gave us all quite a scare.” She said with a tired smile.

“Was anyone else hurt?” I asked.

“We are all ok, for now anyway.” She said. I gave her a confused look before she spoke again. “ The prince asked me to help him, not that he really needed it. I think it was more so that Riley didn’t cause a scene..... you were in pretty bad shape girl, I didn’t think you were going to make it with how bad it was.”

“I will be needing to have words with Riley about his behaviour, I heard some of the argument he has with the prince.” I began, “so tell me, what kind of patch job did he do?” I said trying not to dwell to much on

“You had deep cuts to your side and needed to have them stitched up and.....” she trailed off.

“And what Alice?” I asked, she was acting weird about this. I wasn’t sure what had happened while I was out of it but this was getting weirder and weirder. She was trying to avoid eye contact with me, she let out a sigh.

“Before he started to stitch you up, he checked how deep they were...... he had to.....he had to use his saliva to help heal you faster.” She avoided eye contact with me and just hung her head.

I couldn’t believe this, “ he what!? What the actual f**k!? that’s so gross”

“He was determined to save you. I really don’t understand why but he wasn’t going to let anyone get in the way of keeping you alive. He even told me that if it looked like he had lost control to stop him by any means necessary.” She told me.I knew well enough that once a vampire lost control over their thirst that the only way to stop them was to kill them. I couldn’t believe this, we are here to keep him alive not put a bullet in him.

“ can you go get him please.” I asked. She got up and opened the door and closed it on her way out. I could hear muffled voices before the door opened again and the prince walked in.

“What is your problem!? You told Alice to put you down if you lost control?!” I was full of angry at him, I wasn’t sure why the idea of him not being alive so to speak upset me so much.

He stood there and didn't say anything, he just stared at me. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?” I asked.

“You would have died.” Is all he said still just staring at me.

“I would have died if she had killed you anyway, what difference would it have made?” I could feel my anger and hurt rising.

Something crossed his face, it was a look of hurt.

“I couldn’t just let you die” He said in a quiet voice.

“Why? Why couldn’t you? I’m just a member of you protection detail, nothing more.”I tried to turn my body so I was looking at him but hissed at the pain in my side. With in the blink of an eye he was kneeling right in front of me, looking at me with concern in his eyes.

I couldn’t help but just gaze into his emerald eyes. I just watched as he looked me over looking for the cause of my pain. His eyes slowly met with mine, I just gazed at him for what felt like forever. I hadn’t noticed that our faces were slowly getting closer and closer together, we were only a couple inches away from each other now. I could feel his warm breath on my face, I glanced down to his lips.

Before I could even react his lips were on mine, I froze before I started to kiss him back. His kiss was gentle as his lips worked against mine. I felt one of his hands move to the back of my neck and tangling in my hair while the other moved to my back. I let out a small moan at the feel of his hands on my skin. I had almost forgotten I was still in just my bra and underwear. But right at this moment I didn’t really care. I moved my hands to the back of his neck and ran them through his soft black hair, pulling him closer.

He responded with a groan of his own, his grip tightened on me, pulling our bodies closer together. He was now between my legs as I sat on the edge of the bed, his chest up against mine. I couldn’t believe how good it felt to be this close to him.

His hand on my back started to rub up and down my back. I heard another moan exit my lips. Even though he was naturally colder than I was, right at this moment he felt almost as warm as I did. I started to move my hands to either side of his face and down his neck to the buttons on his shirt, I undid the first one. As I went to move to the second one his hands were suddenly around my wrists, holding them away from him. I felt like I was suddenly coming out of a daze, it didn’t feel like it was real. I was breathing heavily, never looking away from him.

He gently moved my hands down to my lap as he dropped his forehead to my shoulder. He was breathing just as heavily as I was, he just stayed there with his head on my shoulder. When he spoke his voice sounded like he was out of breath and very husky.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that.”

“I didn’t mind” I was still coming down from my high. I had never kissed anyone like that before. Well, I had actually never kissed anyone before. I was never interested before now.

“I shouldn’t have kissed you like that.”

“Why? I have never kissed anyone before and I thought it was pretty good” He shot his head up to look at me with a mix of confusion and surprise on his face.

“ wait, what do you mean you haven’t ever kissed anyone before?”

“I mean I haven’t kissed anyone before, it’s not like we really had time with training and going on missions and to be honest I wasn’t ever interested in relationships.” I felt really stupid now, maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned that I hadn’t ever been kissed before.

“I thought you and the big moody one were a couple?” He asked.

I let out a laugh, “god no, Riley isn’t my type. He is too arrogant and full of himself.”

He let out a quiet sigh of relief like that was good news or something. “Why would you think we were a thing?”

He quickly looked away before speaking, “ Because of how protective he is of you and I have seen the way he looks at you, I may not look it but I have been around a long time. I know what love and desire look like.”

“ Riley doesn’t look at me like that” surely he was just seeing things.

“He has feeling for you, it’s very easy to see.”

“There is no way he has feelings for me.” I felt sure Riley wasn’t even the slightest bit interested in me but part of me wasn’t sure if that was the case. I had never given him so much as a second look. He was just a member on my team, nothing more.

“Tomorrow just watch him and how he acts around you, I’m sure you will pick up on it.” He stood up and took a couple steps back, I realised I felt quite cold without him there. “ are you alright?” He asked.

“Yeah, I’m just a little cold. You felt warmer while you kissed me.”

“That would be because of the arousal we were both feeling and also. . . the mate bond.” He said with a grin looking me over. I must have looked absolutely mortified because he just laughed.

“W...what?” I started to panic a little at the thought that he could smell how turned on I was by him. Oh god, did that mean they all could smell it? Wait what did he say? mate bond?

“Heightened sense of smell, I can smell all kinds of things like fear, worry and yes even arousal. That one is easy.”

“Wh....what does it smell like? And what do you mean by mate bond?” I asked a little unsure of where that even came from.

He took a couple steps closer to me before he spoke, “it depends on the person, you normally smell like cherry blossoms but when you’re aroused, well that’s a different smell altogether. Then you smell sickly sweet, like just one taste would be enough to make me want to come back for more.” He said with a small smirk playing on his lips. “The mate bond is what supernaturals call the bond between soulmates. . . You’re my soulmate, it’s why I lost control in the gym before we left and why I couldn’t let you die.”

“This is just weird.” I say, it was a lot to take in. One minute he is just a prince and I’m just a human assigned to protect him and the next we are kissing and then he is telling me all about how he can smell when I’m aroused and that I’m his mate! Is that why I was having that weird feeling towards him? Was that the mate bond? We were told about the mate bond when we were in the training camps but all we knew was that supernaturals were only ever mated to other supernaturals. I guess that isn’t true. This was not how I thought this was going to go. I just covered my face with the blanket to try and hide how red my face had gotten. He just laughed a little more before coming over and moving my hands away from my face. He gave me a quick kiss that made me go even redder.

“It’s nothing to be embarrassed about, and you don’t have to hide you’re face from me.”

“It’s really weird that you can smell that and it’s just a lot to process that I’m your mate. Is that why I have been feeling this sort of pull to you? ”

“Well, I can smell a lot of things. Wait, you could feel the bond?” He asked with a grin, showing one of his fangs.

I nod my head confirming that I could feel something towards him. He cupped my cheek with his hand.

“ That’s amazing, I didn’t think you would. I hadn’t wanted to say anything about it because I didn’t want to scare you. I knew the first moment I saw you in the palace that you were the most beautiful creature I had ever seen and that I wanted to get to know you before revealing what I was to you but I guess the gods have other plans for us. We should probably keep all this to ourselves though just for now. We don’t need your Riley friend trying to kill me.” He said with a quiet chuckle. I just nodded. Riley was unpredictable and if he heard anything about the prince and I kissing or that I was his mate, he would most certainly blow his top and do something stupid. Especially if the prince was right about him having feelings towards me.

We were in silence for a little while before I broke it.

“Thank you.” I said quietly.

“What for?” He just looked at me a little confused.

“For keeping me alive and for telling me the truth... so this is me saying thank you Prince Nicolas for saving my life..... and for my first kiss.” I said with a little smile.

“ you can just call me Nick or Nicolas. You don’t have to keep calling me prince, you’re my mate. But you may still have to call me prince when we are at the werewolf pack.” He said while he smiled at me. I couldn’t understand how things had changes so quickly.

“Ok...Nicolas, you can call me Luna instead of Captain if you would like.” He nodded his head with a smile.

“I should probably head out and make sure they haven’t killed each other.” He went to walk to the door.

“Wait...where is everyone meant to be sleeping?” I asked, “ I can always sleep on the floor or something if you would like the bed.” He turned to me.

“There is a three man watch rotation, obviously you aren’t in that rotation because it will take a little while for your body to heal, even with the healing properties of my saliva you will still have to be careful of your stitches. So there will be two teams sleeping between the living areas and I would never kick you out of the bed to sleep on the floor and I will be sleeping, right there.” He said pointing at the other side of the small double bed.

I blushed a little at the thought of sharing a bed with him. “Can you please do something for me? On your way out, can you please send all of my team in and ask Alice to bring my duffle so I can get change? I have to have a few words with them and I would rather not be in my underwear when I do.”

A growl left his throat as he leaned in close to me. “No other man will see what’s mine, my little warrior princess” He says before leaning in and kissing me passionately before smiling and walking to the door and stepping out of the room.

Wow, just wow.