Chapter 12
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I find myself sandwiched between Alaric and Oscar. Moron and his father sat opposite us. As the meeting begins I feel pain from my heat flaring. Alaric places a hand on my knee, tingles shoot up and down my leg and the pain subsides. I shift my chair making sure nobody else can see. The meeting begins with a few formalities and reminders on the correct etiquette for the meetings which from what i know of them never gets followed.
All eyes snap to me.
Panic courses through me. What if they can scent me, what if the necklace Oscar charmed isn't working, what if something like last night happens now. I feel my heart beat pick up. Alaric gives my knee a gentle reassuring squeeze and I release a breath I didn't know I had been holding. The meeting continues with a whole bunch of boring things until the mention of cross species mating is brought up.
My ears immediately perked up. I can feel everyone in the room tense over the topic. These Laws have been in place for so long nobody likes to talk about it.
"It is law, we have no right to change it" the shifter king of France begins bit is cut off.
"Who are we to say you can only love another person as long as you are the same species" a lady I haven't met yet starts. "What if your moon goddess mated you to a wizard or a vampire would you go against her will?"
"Our goddess wouldn't do that, she knows the importance of mating with your own kind"
"The Demon king is out for blood. He will slaughter all who break this law"
"You mean that Demon king who has halfling children with all species. Who is he to judge?"
"What you all fail to realise is that the moon goddess pairs select few of us to a mate as well. Who am I to deny her? If she chooses a mate for me that isn't a vampire I shall not deny her" Alaric states plainly I feel his hand grip tighter on my knee. I know it was a I'm not letting you go type of grip.
"She would never do that" the shifter king says slamming his hands onto the table.
"I would never mate with someone that wasn't my own species" someone around the table pipes up.
"I don't seem the harm in having a bit of fun with another species. Some of them are pretty hot" Oscar chimes in. I can't help but roll my eyes of course he would say something stupid like that.
"Law is law, it has stood for this long why change it now." With that the whole room brakes into a massive up roar.
With cross breads will be the end of our individual species to we have no proof to our Laws are our Laws
I stand the whole rule dies down. "may I interject here, our moon goddess pairs us to another sole that makes ours whole. She has never once told us that our mate has to be the same as us. We are her creation as are the vampires" i feel this power and confidence swell inside me and continue. She isn't discriminatory. Deep down we all have to ask ourselves are we doing what is best for our species the best for the supernatural world or are we going to hide behind old laws afraid of change. I for one am not afraid of change. I only want my species to continue to thrive and if that means we have some halflings then that's what it takes. We should not be bending over and agreeing with the one person who has broken this law a million times over" I can see some people ponduring with what I have said, some agreeing and some out rightly refusing to agree. "I suggest we take time and do some research into cross breeds. See what the research says. As this meeting won't be the final of this discussion" there are nods and murmers around the room.
"If there is nothing else to discuss we shall take our leave" Alaric stands.
"Very well meeting adjourned," someone announces. And with that we take no time in leaving the table. Oscar running to catch us up.
"Hey, that was pretty bad ass how you got everyone to stop. And how you got the meeting to end was awesome I thought I was going to die of boredom" Oscar rambles as we make our way up the stairs. "Aria, Just think when we take the thrones from our parents. You and Alaric are going to be a duo to be reckoned with"
Just his words alone have me stopping and turning to look hom directly in the eye. "And what is that supposed to mean?"
"Uh, just that you work well as a team" he takes a load auditable gulp.
"Princess Aria, King Alaric a moment if you will" i can't stop myself from rolling my eyes.
"What is it?" Alaric snaps. The violet in his eyes swirly more than I had even noticed it before. The anger radiating off him was almost terrifying but arousing at the same time.
"I was just wondering if you would care to join my family for dinner tomorrow evening" the shifter king asks.
"As I said earlier, we are busy and have plans whilst we are here, my apologies, maybe some other time. When your son learns not to insult a princess and presume she is a blood cow" Alaroc turns on his heel and gestures for me to continue.
"He did what?" I hear a growl rip from behind us. And gasps of people being pushed out of his way. No doubt to go kill his son.
"Ouch, he seriously called you a blood cow? How the hell is that i***t still breathing?" Oscar seriously can't keep his mouth shut.
"You can blame Alaric for that one" I grumble, taking the final few steps.
" I arrived and got her to stand down before she did something she would regret is all" Alaric states matter of factly.
"So what we doing tonight then anyone fancy a night on the town?" Oscar grins.
"I will pass I need a run and to clear my head. Alaric do you mind accompanying me. I don't fancy running free with that moron still breathing" I feel all gidy asking knowing I will be alone with my mate for the first time. Well not the first time obviously but the first time since I found out he is actually my mate.
"Of course princess" he quickly flashes me one of his blunt teeth grins that cause warmth to spread between my legs "we shall drop you off on our way out of the city anywhere in mind Prince Oscar"
"Anywhere I can have some fun and let loose"
We take a short ride in the car and leave Oscar at some bar that took his fancy and made our way back to the hotel to change cars.
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