Her Secret His Love

His Majesty High Prince Ash Tumoon

I walk into my grandmother's room and see she's asleep so I turn to go do some work in my office. She cracks one eye and says " I'm just resting son " I tack back and give her a kiss on the cheek " hey granny " she chuckles and pats the seat next to her, swinging her feet to the ground to make space for me. " How did it go, did you see her, was she open to conversation with you ?" I pat her hands and say " one question at a time gran, I did see her and she will become my wife " whether she likes it or not, she will be mine. The thought makes me a bit giddy, granny expects me to woo and court Phadra. I haven't the time for that I want to be crowned immediately, so as soon as I can I'll get Phadra and bring her back here to be married and have our coronation ceremony.

The flame council says if I'm not mated or married to the rightful heir to the throne I cannot ascend it, only female heirs can rule the Phoenix kingdom. I mean to be fair they're the ones who can be reborn of ashes and only their tears can heal and transform. That being said I'm sure they'll understand my plans to abduct young Miss Tumoon and force her to marry me. A wolf cannot rule at her side, I simply won't allow it

Never has a hybrid queen ascended the throne and never has a wolf ruled beside her as our king. She will be the first hybrid but I'll be damned if I bow down to a werewolf. I huffed in disgust and granny asks what's the matter, " nothing gran just considering a pest control problem " I say deep in thought. I kiss her withering wrinkled cheek again and tell her I have to go work some plans out on my office. I am one half of a twin, my brother 2nd High Prince Armand Tumoon has no aspirations to ascend the throne. sure if he's handed the kingdom he'll do his best to run peacefully and fairly but he won't seek it out as I am. Now to buckle down and figure out how to get my hands on the rightful queen Phadra Tumoon, my aunt's hybrid bastard. She spirited her away 7 years ago in the dead of night to spare her what she called the heartache of not being able to fall in love and experience true love with a mate of her choosing. I scoff " a mate of her choosing " we don't do that here, our ruler is supposed to be of pure blood, mated and married to one of pure blood. Yes we're related but that's how we keep the blood pure. It's tradition how dare she try to hide my bride away, we've been betrothed from birth since she was my aunt's only child and only female royal born in our time. Every other royal birth in the past 20 years have been male. Granny says that means she's meant to rule the Phoenix kingdom and as such I her betrothed 1st High Prince Ash Tumoon is meant to rule by her side as king.

She has made a name for herself and is quite beautiful, mating with her should be enjoyable. She seems to have accepted her wolf side more than her fire side and she has found what the wolves refer to as her fated mate. I could care less, afterall I plan to be a widower about 6 months after the wedding and mourn my queen until I fall in love again and have a daughter to carry on the family reign.

The traitors were found and tortured daily but they never would break and tell us where they left her, I honestly stumbled upon her riding a bike across country a couple week or so ago. Flaming red hair and amber eyes I almost chased her down and captured her thinking her mother had escaped the dungeon. She was the spitting image of my rebel aunty, I caught up to her at a gas station a few miles away and got a closer look. The genes in this family are strong, my d**k jumped thinking about her in the black leather biker outfit and thigh high heels she had on then. Hot was an understatement, I'd have to find a witch to concoct something to stop her rebirth when I have her murdered but that was a small issue. I sit back and put my feet on my desk, everything was coming together, soon cousin very soon you'll be mine.

" Well don't you look like the cat that had the most cream " my brother says as he breezed into my office. " Have you lost the ability to knock brother " I grimace and ask, " how can I help you " I ask him sharply " don't really want anything just checking in, have you found your bride?" he asked me while somehow touching everything on my desk " I have if you must know and for God's sake stop touching everything!! How do you manage to touch everything everywhere it's insufferable " it annoys me to no end and he knows it, why can't he stay one place and keep his hands to himself. I'm truly sorry for the woman that has him for a husband, hands everywhere, it's exasperating. Well to me it is maybe his wife will enjoy that s**t. I jump up and tell him if that's all I have to go give her parents the happy news, he grimaces and walks out. He doesn't understand why our aunt and her werewolf mate have to be imprisoned and I caught him more than once trying to free them so he's now banned from the dungeon.

I skip yes I said skipped down to the dungeon and upon seeing my aunt and her mate I clap my hands loudly and say " fear aunty, I've found her...you shall be reunited with her soon" Lionel Black gasps " no " and Talon Tumoon just puts her hands in her hands and cries. " Aunty Talon I'm hurt deeply, it seems you're not happy at the news of my impending nuptials " I'm fake pouting at them " aren't you at least happy to soin be reunited with your long lost only daughter?" I know I'm teasing them and I really dont care. My aunt Talon should have been queen but she was sneaking around with the wolf and got pregnant knowing full well hybrids are illegal in this land. She ran away with the wolf and had her baby, she was to marry her 2nd uncle and their first daughter was to marry me her sister's first born. Thank God I came out 17 minutes before Armand, then she had the gall to run and hide the child after her uncle found them and demanded she marry him or she turn the girl over to be trained and guided to take the throne. Phoenixes are hot tempered, pun intended. should we lose control in anger we burn acres to the ground. We are creatures of fire and sunlight after all, fire and heat rule our every emotion. " Aunty Talon this could have been avoided if you had behaved when she was 15 and just let us have her " the wolf starts to growl and I snicker, if he wasn't weak and hungry he probably could kill me, but I keep him slightly starved and his water always has wolfsbane in it. I'm not stupid I have no combat training and he'll heal from any burn I inflict on him in minutes. My aunt hasn't spoken a single word to me while she's been locked up here. She speaks to Armand so I know she can speak but she won't utter a word to me. I plan to make plenty of sounds come from her daughter so I don't need her speech, as soon as I can I'm going to drag Phadra back here and wed her. I hope you're ready for me cousin cause here I come.

I had followed her to some werewolf pack she had been visiting, that's where she met the wolf she was calling her mate and then back to her pack, now I knew where to find her I can send someone to collect her for me. I had sent some rogue wolves who swore they could do the job after seeing her picture but they seem to have taken my money and ran off. Now I have to get a new set of people to capture her and bring her to me. I had hoped she would still be a virgin when I got to her but with her mate now living in her pack with her I doubt it. Oh well at least now I won't have to be gentle with her when she's finally in my bed. I'm smiling to myself when I finally contact the group of hunters that assure me they can bring her to me, I tell them she's an Alpha and they say that won't be a problem for them. We'll see...we'll see.