Council of Fae - The Alpha King's Sister

Chapter 8

Delphine

I laid on my bed struggling to sleep although shifting helps with my overheating and irritation it just has not changed my sleeping patterns. I thought as I had spent the last few days wide awake contemplating mundane scenarios that have no relevance of my life, I would bore myself to sleep but that was not the case. I thought about Cillian and the unexpected day we shared, he was truly captivating from our discussions on books and interest to the kiss on my cheek and how I craved feeling his lips against mine in such a pathetic way. I shake myself out of those thoughts, I battled myself with the desire of him fighting myself that pursuing him would be wrong knowing that we shared no mate bonds like scent or touch and that once mated I would feel awful having been with another wolf. That was my destiny I had no purpose other than being the sister of a king, although I was one of the most skilled fighters of our kingdom our laws prevented me from ever taking on the position of head of defense as being part of the royal family prevented us from holding those positions. I pondered my purpose of even being at Ivenloch where even once graduated what purpose would I have that I could be proud of or even separate to my family? My restlessness was prevailing, sleep was done for the night, so I messaged Charlie and Kayla hoping that they could rescue me from my boredom, within ten minutes both were at my door Kayla still in pjs with a satin robe draped over her shoulders and Charlie who looked like he has just gotten home from a night out his face covered in glitter waring silver pants with suspenders.

“Where were you?” I asked Charlie as he slumbered into my room collapsing onto my bed face down, Kayla followed shaking her head as she diverted to Lounge chair in the corner whose purpose mostly was for me to dump clothes on however tonight the chair was empty and exposed.

“I went to party with some pixies, they talk way too much chic chic chic chat chat chat all night” Kayla laughed as she slouched into the chair Masking a slight yarn with a smile.

“So, what’s the emergency?” Kayla asked

“No emergency, I just could not sleep” I explained as I started to undo my braid letting my hair fall to my waist, no matter if I brushed my hair or if i didn't it always was wavy, and some would say unruly it was exactly like my father’s my mother would say every time she tried to comb it.

“Babe, you’re still not sleeping?” Charlie asked still lying face down on my bed, his voice muffled by pillows

“Yeah, can’t sleep, my body always feels hot, I am still shifting every night to run and the overpowering s****l attraction thing I am over it all” I ranted, both Kayla and Charlie snapped their heads towards me. Damn I thought I shouldn’t have said that! I could feel my face glow red.

“What s****l attraction!” Kayla asks moving to the bed to sit next to Charlie and me, Charlie who now seem to have retrieved some energy sat up.

“Who are you having this s****l attraction to?” He asked

“Urg, I shouldn’t have mention it” I said feeling embarrass and instant regret of my slip up

“No, no, no babe, now you have said it tell us more!" Charlie said nodding while he was talking to which Kayla started to nod as well.

“It is not a big deal, so today or I guess yesterday actually” I say looking at the clock displaying 4:15am

“That guy I spoke to at the ball, well I saw him at Elphaba, so we just sat and talked like the entire day, and he walked me back here we flirted, and he kissed my cheek, and it was great but …kind of awful! Because I don’t go near wolves, so it is on my mind.” Oh gosh that felt good getting it all off my chest, Charlie was smiling he was about to speak when Kayla cut in

“What guy from the ball? I don’t recall a guy” she muttered

“Oh, because it was like a few words and it was nothing” I said Bowing my head, not wanting to make eye contact I feared that Kayla would be upset that I didn’t mention it to her, I slowly looked up and Kayla was smiling.

“So now he makes your skin heat and is making you not sleep?” Charlie said, I rolled my eyes at him am.

“No” I retorted

“Is he your mate?” Kayla asked

“No, he has no scent and when he touched me, I felt no sparks or anything so he just could not be my mate” I replied

“Well, this all did start after you met him” Charlie said, he wasn’t wrong it did start after I met him, We spent the next hour talking about Cillian, the way he looked, the things we spoke about and how torn I was about this desire to spend time with him and knowing that we do not share any of the mate characteristics. Kayla for years has said that there is nothing wrong with dating or sleeping with wolves as she herself and said whoever my mate is they too have probably been with other wolves so there is no use in me dating only other Fae but staying clear of wolves. The sun started to creep in through the curtains and I had started to feel a lot better about this conundrum.

“Umm what’s his name" Kayla asked, that’s Right I thought I had not told her.

“His name is Cillian” I said,

“Cillian? And he is what 6’6, chestnut hair hazel eyes and cute smile” Kayla asked, I swallowed, how did she know. Then it hit me she is from the same kingdom they may be from the pack.

“Yeah, that’s him” i muttered

“Cillian is the first prince of the Alceid Mountain kingdom.” My mouth fell open, I just didn’t get the impression he was royalty he seemed so laid back.

“Oh my god babes!! This is brilliant, looks at her face Kayla she is in shock! She is speechless! I’ve never seen her speechless” Charlie exclaimed jumping on the bed in excitement, Kayla whacking him to sit down.

“I mean, he never said he was” I replied,

“I am guessing you didn’t tell him you were a Princess, did you?” Kayla remarked, a smug grin across her face. She was right I didn’t introduce myself as a princess, I hate telling people, I made friends with Kayla months before she found out.

“Maybe he is like you babe, maybe he doesn’t want girls to be only interested in him for his title” Charlie exclaimed exposing a softer more romantic side of him that he often keeps buried. His phone buzzed, he looked it at and stood up.

“Sorry babes! My mother needs to seem me it is an apparent emergency” Charlie skipped out the room leaving Kayla and I there.

“Could you maybe not tell him” I whispered

“I won’t tell him; I’ve never spoken to him before” she remarked placing her hand on top of mine. Well, this now makes things a little more complicated I thought.