The Princess and Her Lycan Pirate

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Conall stood there, staring where his mate just dissapeared. Slowly he realized that he couldn't win. His past would always come up. Normally his mate never talked about it but now, with his oldest son becoming a man w***e like he was and his daughter kissing James it all boiled over.

He walked slowly out of James' room towards his Edward's library where he found a glass of excellent whisky. That was exactly what he needed now!

He went deep into his mind and thought about his past. The sun went down, he didn't see it. Staring out the window with an empty bottle next to his armchair he waited for something to happen. In his childish thinking he waited probably for Amena to pick him up and take him to bed.

The door opened and Edward walked in with a new bottle of whisky. He sat quietly in the armchair opposite his friend and poured himself and Conall a glass. The atmoshpere was soothing, homey for men. No word was needed, they just sat there and got drunk together.

Conall had a few questions for Edward since he hardly had spent any time with humans. His first and last season was 20 years ago and Edward was there every year. It took him another whisky to pluck his courage and asked: “What has happened to that girl back then?” Edward was deep in his own thoughts, still thinking about his mate-situation. “Pardon? Which girl?” - “Lydia, have you seen her recently?” Edward was surprised “I thought you couldn't even remember her name?” he smirked. Conall grunted drunk “Don't be such a smart ass and tell me whether you have seen her recently!” - “No, I haven't. She hasn't been to court since the year she met you.” Conall seemed deep in his thoughts again. It was so weird! Why would Conall ask about a girl he had f****d 20 odd years ago when he was happy with his mate? Mate bonds don't disappear with the years. They only get stronger. Something was off! “Why do you want to know about her? Is everything all right between you and Amena? Do you regret anything?”

Conall turned to his friend with a drunken gaze. “Regret? Yes, I regret ever have stepped into the human town!” - “Why? We had a lot of fun back then!” Edward couldn't help it but smirked of the reminder of their past. Conall stayed silent for a while. Edward thought already he had fallen asleep. But suddently he sat up straight and looked at Edward seriously “I have done something very stupid back then! So stupid that I fear it will cost me my balls!” Edward's eyes shot up and looked at his friend intensivly but before he could ask anything, Conall had another question for him: “Is there a way we could stop the whole thing and cancel the journey? Amena can't go to Charles' court! If she ever meets Lydia I am a dead man walking!”

“Why, Conall? What have you done?” Conall gave up and whispered “I married her!” Edward's glass dropped to the floor and Conall burried his head in his hands. “How could you have been so stupid, Conall! Didn't I tell you: Whatever you do, never ever marry one of them!” Conall lifted his head up again and said with a teary voice: “It seemed to me like a game! Like foreplay. She wouldn't give herself to me before I agreed to this ceremony and I just thought 'to hell in a few weeks time I will be back in my court and till then we will have a lot of fun!' She was so beautiful! So fragile!” -

“And when you came back to your court to the mating ball and found your mate she was forgotten!” Conall nodded. Edward glared at his friend: “We can't back out! Charles asked particularly for your 16 year old daughter and your 18 year old son to participate! Does he know about Lydia? Conall, tell me, who knows?” He had Conall by his collar and yanked him closer. Conall thought about Edward's words and tried to remember “Only the priest and her father. Her mother was dead and I didn't want to make a big thing out of it.”

Edward couldn't believe his ears “You didn't want to make a big thing out of it? Do you actually know what you have done?” Conall was now confused. Of couse he knew what he had done. He had done everything that he was asked to do in order to get the most beautiful girl that the human court could offer to bed! Stupid question! His drunken mind was a bit conserned with the way his friend reacted.

“And how dare you talk to me like that, I am still your king!” Edward grunted “King of stupid more like! Do you have a child with her?” Conall felt suddently sober “No! I let her live in my townhouse and never went there again.” - “And what about all the costs for the house? If I remember correctly she wasn't rich. “ - “I pay her a monthly sum. “ Something irritated Edward even more: “And she has never tried to contact you? She never came here to see you?” Conall looked sheepish. “She writes to me once a month. In the beginning it was every day. Then it was every second week and now it is once a month. She wants me to see her. She even had the guts to come to my castle once! Thank god that was when Amena was sulking about something and was here with Eilidh! Lydia doesn't want to accept that I don't love her anymore. That I did but that I have my other half and will never ever be with her again!” He paused then he continued with a low voice: “In the first year she came more than once. Actually, she came quiet often! I told every servant that she was the daughter of a friend who is travelling through my lands and just made a pit stop. They had to believe me. Lydia tried to seduce me very often! But I never gave in!” He looked straight into Edward's eyes “I have never ever touched her again! Yes, she is beautiful, but she is not mine!”

Edward's dry laughter made Conall flinch “Really! My mate called me arrogant today! But compared to you I am an angel! Do you actually realize what you have done?” Conall looked quizzical at Edward and shrugged his shoulders. Always the same question! Edward leaned forward so his friend would understand every word he said: “You, my dear friend, mated a human girl! And to make it worse, you mated her when she was 16! Under age!” Conall shot up in his seat: “She is a human, 16 for them is not under age!” Edward chuckled evily “And here you are, being mad with your 16 year old daughter for kissing a respectable man, my son, while you f****d a 16 year old senseless when you was 22! I feel for you , my King!” His sarcasm was undeniable.

“But to go back to our problem, all we can do is to make sure, that Lydia won't come to this year's deputant ball! Write to her! Invite her here! She can't be in two places and I bet she would do anything to have a chance to talk to you again, if she is still so much in love with you to write to you still!” Conall's mood was lifted immediatelly. “Goddess, Edward, you are a real genius! That's what I will do! I will promis her a night she won't forget!” - “Don't overdo it! You can't promis her what you can't keep!”

And with a slim smile he said: “Who knew, I'm not the only lycan with a wife and a mate!” A warm feeling run through Conall and he fellt suddently really good about himself.

A knock on the door made both men to turn in their chairs, realizing that it was already night and they were sitting in the dark. James opened the door with a suitcase in his hand.

“I just wanted to say goodbye. My carriage is waiting outside.” Edward got up and pulled his son into a bear hug. After letting him go again, James turned to Conall and sank on his knees

“You might hate me, believe me, I'm not my favourite person myself at the moment either! But all we have done was kissed! I would never ever take advantage of Alana! I lover her too much for that!” After a long look at James, Conall finally got out of his seat as well and walked over to James. He pulled him off the floor with one hand still holding the half empty glass in the other and said slowly like drunken people talk:

“Your father made me realize that we were young once as well! We have done some really stupid things, “ Edward cleared his throat loudly. Conall looked over to his friend “I have made really stupid things when I was even a bit older than you are. When you say, nothing else happened between you and my daughter then I believe you.” He made a waving gesture with his glass but still managed to keep the drink in the glass. “But listen to me carefully:” He pulled Edward into his arms and moved his face very close to his. When his nose was nearly touching James' nose he continued, looking into James eyes like he wanted to hypnotize him:

“Think about your future mate! Never ever think, that she doesn't matter now, just because you haven't found her yet! Whatever you do now will mark your relationship with your mate in the future! I know what I am talking about! In not carefull I will loose the love of my life! Be smart! Don't ruin your futute just because of the most beautiful girl you have ever seen now. Your mate will be to you even more beautiful!”

He stopped talking, thought about something, shook his head and continued talking more to himself now, walking around: “Who am I kidding, Alana is the most beautiful and nobody comes close! Apart of Grian, of course! But them two just belong to each other! In the end I wasn't surprised if them two were mates!” Conall started laughing. “Just imagine that: All wolves and lycans fighting over them and then them two being mates!” Edward and James stopped breathing and were locking gaze. James was frightened, what if Conall in his drunken state finds out the truth? Edward made a soothing handsign to James and walked towards Conall who had continued his monologue. “The sun and the moon together! f**k! What am I talking about! Now I can't get the image of my daughter kissing Grian out of my head! Edward! We need more alcohol! I need to forget!” While Edward poured Conall some more Whisky, James took his suitcase and looked seriously at Conall: “Goodbye, my King! And rest assured, I will never ever hurt Alana, before I do that, I will kill myself!”

Conall exed his glass with one gulp and prattled: “You do that my boy! And I will go and look were my beautifull mate is! I need her! I want her lipstick around my dipstick!!” And with that he collapsed laughing on the floor. James blushed, having never heard his King talking like that about his mate.

His only wish was to disappear right now, it was so embarrassing for him but he had to tell his King: “Your mate left with Alana and Grian straight after she had talked to you. They went back to your castle. Mother went with them.” Conall turned towards James and looked at him with glassy eyes. You could tell that he had problems to process the information given. James continued: “I wasn't even able to talk to Alana. My mother shooed me away and took then Alana inside to make sure I wouldn't talk to her while Amena came to you. After that Amena told them that she would leave now with Alana and Grian as Bran and Eilidh want to have more time on their own and my mother asked if she could joyn Amena. They have been gone 10 hours now.”

Conall grinned at Edward: “That's a new record as mated man! Ten hours drinking! Edward, now you can drink properly as well! What's the point of being without mate for a few days if we can't enjoy it! Mindlink Bran to come, too! James, boy, you should go now, drinking is men stuff!”

He didn't have to say that again, James basically run out of the room but saw out of the corner of his eye that his father smiling and pouring himself a very big glass! He wasn't as optimistic about the women leaving as the two older men. The women seemed extremely angry. As Connor and Markus called it: Blue balls for months!

On the way downstairs he met Bran who they had managed to reach over mind link obviously. Brun didn't look like he was in celebration mood. He still stopped to say good bye to James and to give him a bear hug. Then Bran was on his way to the library.

As soon as he entered he could smell the whisky and that no window had been opened in quiet a while. Edward and Conall were laughing about something. When they noticed Bran they waved him over and Edward poured him a glass, too. But Bran declined politely: “My brothers I know you feel like celebrating but I have to leave with my mate. She doesn't like you two drinking up here at all. We will go away for a few days to the little cottage I have built in the woods.” Conall and Edward tried to change his mind and when they couldn't they started calling him a weakling who was hanging on his mate's skirt and was afraid of his mate. But Bran stayed strong: “Listen, I can't afford blue balls for a while! All I have left is two weeks with my mate before I have to go travelling again, so forgive me if it is more important to me to show my mate that I have missed her and that she is my whole world!”

That sunk in and suddently nobody was laughing anymore. Bran looked at Conall directly: “You should sober up and start crawling on your knees begging for forgiveness. I don't know what you have done, but I haven't seen Amena this angry in years! This won't go away on it's own. Eilidh is waiting downstairs for me. We will leave now, too. Take care, you two, I will see you when I see you.” And with that he left them alone and rushed to his waiting mate.

Conall was on a rollercoaster of emotions, like all drunk people. At the moment he was sad. “Do you think he is right? What if Amena doesn't come around and then she goes to this debutant ball and finds out about Lydia and then she will give me blue balls for a few years! I couldn't survive that!” Now he started crying and Edward softly patted his shoulder: “Na, na, stop crying! That is why you will write that letter to Lydia to lure her away from town! Don't wallow in self-pity! We will stop drinking now, go to bed, cure our hangover tomorrow and then we will go after them! Don't worry, they are never mad at us for that long! Remember, it is not only your c**k that is longing for your mate, her p***y is longing for you, too!”

With total male presumption they looked at each other and nodded, agreeing to each other like a secret men organisation.

What they didn't know, was that their mates had a really good time in the carriage slagging them off while the two girls were asleep, still exhausted from the night before.