The Princess and Her Lycan Pirate

Intro

Conall, King of all werewolves and lycans and his second in command Edward were still good looking men in their early fourties. Not surprisingly they still looked like end of twenty due to their werewolf/lycan blood. Both men were tall with broad shoulders and well built bodies. Here the similairities stopped. Conall had very dark hair which was very thick and kept short at the sides. His pale skin looked like he never left his castle which wasn't true at all and his green eyes were big with long eyelashes that every female of the family was envy of.

His friend was blond with softer, long hair which he kept in a pony tail as it was costum at the human king's court and he had a sunkissed skin tone (which was totally out of fashion but when he was with humans he used a lot of powder) and brown eyes to die for.

While King Conall prefered a full well trimmed beard which made him look like a lumberjack and not a noble man his friend was clean shaved. All in all from just looking at the two you could see that Conall didn't care at all about the human world, their king and the least about their fashion. Edward was his complete opposite. Loving the humans, their king's court with all their soirées, balls, the games of hazard, the operas, theatres and all the other social functions that took place in the season. He embraced it and couldn't get enough. Some envie people in the werewolf world even whispered, that he loved the human world much more than the one he was born in.

Edwards family was different to all the other werewolf families, packs and clans. His ancesters tried to be succsessfull in both worlds. That is while in the werewolf world Conall was a pureblood and king of all lycans and werewolves he was in the human world just a count. With a lot of land and forrests but no more titles.

His friend Edward on the other hand side was in the werewolf world a second in command to the king and in the human world a Duke with lots of influence to the human king.

The two men were sitting in a huge office, drinking some old whisky, talking and looking out the window. They were quiet serious. Whatever they were talking about made Conall jump out of his seat and walking towards the window.

“And what if somebody wants her hand in marriage? In the human world I'm not powerfull enough to deny it! What if a lord or a duke comes along and falls for her beauty? In our world she is still under age! No werewolf nor lycan would dare to mate her! Just look at her! She is so innocent, so pure, just not old enough for marriage and everything that comes with it!”

The other man joined him at the window and whatched the groupe of young people in the garden. He looked at his friend with sympathy:” My king, Conall, we grew up together, we have even married twin sisters! Your beautyfull Alana is to me like a second daughter. But the human king is having his annual debutant ball. Every young girl from the age of 16 HAS to attend. There is nothing we can do. If you don't bring her, the human king will see it as a provocation if not an insult.  And you know what that means: WAR!! You know why he doesn't like you very much. Yes, we are more powerfull, but the humans are just too many in numbers. And they don't know that we even excist. For them you are just a small count with a few forrests and land to call his own. We can't fight the whole human kingdom! The sacrifice was too high.” They both took a deep breath. “ Plus we have to deal with the pirates in the west that take all our cargo vessels. Rumour has it that they are headed by a beast. You know what this kind of beast likely is: another werewolf or lycan without a family, a clan, a pack, morals or honour. Basicly a rogue! We have to concentrate on them pirates and try to catch them! “ Both men took another deep mouthfull of their glasses. Thinking about the just said. Suddently Conall turned to his friend and asked his friend with couriosity in his voice. “What about Grian? Are you going to present her?”

Edward took his time to answer:”No, “ he answered firmly, “ As you know, officially she is my bastard child. I acknowledged her and as such she should anticipate, I know. But her mother doesn't want her near the human world. She grew up as a Duke's daughter. As such she should participate but as a werewolf her mother wants her to meet her mate. A bastard of mine has more chances of being ignored by the king. I spoke to the king already and explained to him that I was too ashamed of my black bastard to be paraded In public. “ He saw the shocked way Conall looked at him he held up his hads to calm his friend “ You know I don't really think like that! She is my sons' sister! And the sun of our family. Everybody loves her and not in a million years would I think of her as below me. But it is really not my decision as she is not my child as you know.”

Every werewolf knew the story.

Years ago king Conall and his best friend attended the mating ball which is held by the king of all werewolves and lycans once a year. Like the debutant ball for humans. The difference is, that all unmated werewolves and lycans from the age of 18 can attend to find their mate. Most do, nobody wants to be without a mate after all. All unmated wolves and lycans would attend year after year till they found their mate.

The debutant ball for humans was only for the young girls of the age of 16 to be presented to the noble world and find a rich and powerful match and of course for all beacholors.

At the mating ball wich these two powerfull and handsome men attended they met a set of twins. Lycans, purebloods like the king. One, Amena, was actually the kings mate and so he marked her instandly and they lived happily ever after. They had two sons and one daughter.

Edward liked the other sister, Eilidh, and even though she wasn't his mate he courted her and married her because of her pure blood. They liked each other and had together one son, Markus. But while his wife was pregnant he found his mate. A servant girl called Ginessa. He didn't care about her status which amused quiet a lot of werewolves, knowing his hunger for status and prosperity, marked her and got her pregnant as well. She gave birth to their son James.

While humans would now be fuming and shout murder it was very different with them. Normally werewolves would wait for their mates. But sometimes, when the wolf in question needed an heir they would settle for a chosen mate with the understanding that the arrangement was only held up for the human world. As soon as one of the partners found their mate they would stay friends but nothing sexuell would ever happen again.

Especially when said wolf needed an heir to be succsessfull in the human world.

Then after his wife (not mate) gave birth to their son and heir she found her mate. Edward was happy for his wife Eilidh. After all they were friends. And when she got pregnant by her mate Edward didn'd hesitate to tell the human world that this was his lovechild with another servant but she died during child birth and his wife took in the baby and treated her as her own. And all this because the stupid humans minded that Eilidh's mate was black. Just imagine the scandal if it came out that the Duke of the Southern Shores had to live with the shame that his wife was unfaithfull with another man!

They were a really well working patchwork family. Nobody was jealous. His mate knew he only loved her and respected his wife as the one who had to visit the human king's court with him. The two women even became best friends. But don't get the wrong idea. Since he met his mate he never even touched his wife. And Eilidh never looked at him in a sexuell way what so ever.

Conall growled again:”18 is the age every werewolf or lycan get their wolf. 18 is the age of consent! What if she finds her mate in two years time and he will kill her human husband because he touched her? I would understand him and I think I would think less of him if he didn't. And that is not all! We all know how men are! They go to these balls, get the young girls drunk, guide them into a dark corner, kiss them and touch them all over their body! It is just not right!” He was certainly raging now. "We weren't much different when we had our season at the human court! Do you remember?" Edward smirked thinking about the past. "We never had to get a girl drunk! They trew themselves at us!" Conall defended himself. Edward looked at Conall a bit amused: "See, no problem then, your Alana won't throw herself at anybody!" "And what if somebody wants to merry her?!"

“We will talk about that when it comes to it. We will be there at all times. I will take Markus and James with me. We will all watch over her. No man will touch her! I spoke with James already. He knows that there is a chance that somebody will try to marry his mate before he can claim her. Of course he doesn't like it, but he has no choice. I promised him that we would do everything in our power that this won't happen.”, Edward assured Conall. “And with a smirk he turned to his friend again: “ Have you forgotten how we were in that age? We were so scared of the she wolves! Do you remember what happened when you tried to kiss that barmaid? She chased you around the block!” Conall glared at his friend “That is excactly why I am so worried! Human men don't know about us! By the way, I was a 17 year old without a wolf and she was like a valkyrie!”

He took another sip from his glas and asked Edward: “How sure are you that your son James is my daughter's mate?” - “Pretty sure! He only has eyes for her. All he does is for her benefit. Of course we can be only 100 % sure once they both turn 18 but I have no doubts. They just look so perfect together!” Conall smiled and nodded in agreement.