The Prince’s Unwilling mate

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Finally, Ayla was here with me, because dealing with finding out one of my gamer friends was a werewolf too, Him, slipping up letting the others know I was royalty, I could still see the looks on their faces as River bowed down baring his neck to me,

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“Pardon me, Your Royal Highness I had no idea you would be here. To what do I owe this pleasure?” River for sreason had thought I was about to visit his pack.

We decided to spend this week in New York. I knew Dark Moon was the New York pack, but since I was not here on business. And since I would not be close to the pack I decided not to let them know. I was not wanting to give them a reason to invitewhich I would either have to decline or have to accept to be kind and gracious. The first would have no doubt upset Alpha Steiner. The second would mean I would either have to stay longer or take away a day from the meeting with what at that tI thought were my human friends.

“What, the hell is going on here, this is no Royal Highness this is Conan the Silver” Hank scoffed.

That could have been the end of it. But poor River who turned out to be an Omega was sh itting himself. I could smell the fear wafting off him. I tried to calm him by placing a hand on his shoulder but I didn’t even notice. As he kept mumbling to himself loud enough for all the others to hear.

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“Sh it Conan, everyone knows the Prince’s wolf is Conan of the Silver Moon pack. And the Princess was kidnapped just as he was offline for all that time. Sh it f uck s hit sh it f uck. The things I said to him. The things I said to the Crown Prince. He could have my head for this.” Before I could reassure him James figured out there was more going on.

Especially since in his mumbling had provided everyone with a nice little timeline of my absence. Combined with the fact that they all knew Ayla was still recovering from something. And with River being

adamant we could not stay book a hotel with us.

at his place and that he would rather

“I would like to know what the f uck is going on. You guys even have matching tattoos are you in some kind of cult or something?” Both River andtouching our mark smiling had not helped our case.

I honestly to the Moon Goddess hoped they would prefer us being wolves over being in a cult. I mean these guys are gamers, right? They loved things like fantasy and mythology.

In the end, we decided to go somewhere public but quiet to tell them all about who we were. About the names on our shoulders. My rank and the fact that their government knows about us. How we have been living side by side for years now. How unlike their horror stories we do not hunt nor eat humans. The first issue was to convince them that werewolves exist. I remember Ayla telling her Grandmother had to shift in front of her friends after they thought her Grandpa kidnapped her. Maybe that’s the best way to show them now, and then just hope that they won’t freak out.

“I can show you, that we are not lying but not here we would need to go to my hotel room” I offered them.

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They had accepted and River, knowing he would never lose control if his Crown Prince was there in the room with him. An Omega wouldn’t be as impressive in his wolf form as I was in it either. Seeing their friend shift in front of them made them instantly believe. It took them the rest of the day and a lot of questions to accept us for who we were. They had sissues with the mate bond and mind linking too. Especially Mike seemed interested in this, he was a sweet guy. He had told us his family cut ties with him because of his sexuality.

Maybe that was the reason why he asked about ga y mates, I was happy to tell them about Dillion and Collin. The others figured it was weird to have a mate that’s made for you. The idea of seeing your mate as yours, the possessiveness that comes with finding your mate. To most of them, it was unhealthy, toxic even. Only Mike seemed to love the idea of someone feeling that certain of him. In the end, Sonja, River’s mate popped over for a visit. Seeing River and Sonja together convinced everyone that the mate bond was real.

We had a lot of fun, showing them the mind link was a real thing. No matter what they tried, they could not get us to mess up in giving messages through the mind link. We had fun as planned for the rest of the trip. I still wanted to be the one to tell Ayla in person. It would have all worked out just a little better if River hadn’t rushed up to us too early. He was excited to meet her. It took him a few hours to get

used to the fact that we were still friends. That he didn’t have to addressby my title. None of my friends do, the fact that we didn’t know about each other that we were both wolves doesn’t change anything. We met, we becfriends, so he can just callGriffin.

I shouldn’t have expected Ayla to react poorly to the fact that River showed up so soon. Or that he was a wolf too and with that all our gamer friends knew we were wolves. I tried to joke about the fact that

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we needed to invite them all to the wedding now. But she smiled and nodded, even if it was clear she was still a little nervous. I know why, she has toldthat as much as she loved her role as future Luna and Queen. She was looking forward to being one of the girls during this weekend. I was a little nervous about it too. I just had to take the guys for their word that their partners would accept. River and I would meet the rest of the guys with their partners. They wanted to be the one to tell their partners themselves. Which made a lot of sense. It was the reason I didn’t tell Ayla all of this over the phone. It was the reason River went to pick up Sonja before she cto meet with us. So he could tell her who she was going to meet in person.

There was a lot of laughter and cheery voices as we walked into the restaurant but as soon as the guys greeted us, everyone grew quiet. Mike was staring ahead into the nothingness looking glum.

“Guys, this is my fiance, Ayla. Darling this is Mike, Hank, Robert and you already met the other two.” I smiled broadly hoping to defuse whatever the situation was.

The girls were all excited to meet us, and it seemed like I was worried for no reason. Other than the fact that Mike doesn’t seem to cheer up. Ayla noticed too and I can’t do anything but smile at her and feel proud when she gets up from the chair next to me. To sit next to Mike, hopefully, she can figure out what’s