Warrior Princess
Chapter 24

Kasens POV

She came in dressed in a crop top that looked to be about 2 sizes too small and cut off jean shorts. Did I mention that was in the middle of winter? When she started using pet names it took all of my self-control not to react. I am keeping my link open with Sam so she can hear everything going on.

“This b***h really wants to die love.” She growls out through our link.

“Calm down. You know I haven’t even looked at another shewolf since we accepted each other. You’re my mate. My one and only. But I am going to have to play her game right now so just relax love.” She sighs in agreement. I don’t like it either, but we need solid proof that she did this.

“What are you doing here Marcy?” I asked her baiting her into a conversation. She comes over to me and sits on the edge of my desk and crosses her legs at the knee.

“I heard what happened to your mate. I wanted to check on you. I know things haven’t been the best between us, but I still have so much love for you. I wanted to see how you were holding up.” oh she’s good.

“How did you hear about what happened with my mate? I haven’t told anyone other than the people present.”

She pales a bit and gulps. “Oh, I heard it from a few nurses. News travels fast you know.” That is complete and utter bullshit.

“Oh. Well yes. Things definitely didn’t happen the way I thought they would. I just got my mate and I feel like I lost her. I feel so broken, Marcy.” The words taste like vinegar coming out of my mouth.

“So, the queen is dead I take it?” she says the word queen with such venom. Without giving me a chance to respond she states “I knew she wouldn’t last long Kasen. I’m sorry to say this but she was honestly just a weak rogue. The goddess really messed up in the mate decisions.”

I can feel Atlas growling and I want to as well, but I can’t give myself away. She just snorts and takes her foot and rubs it on my thigh. It feels so foreign and makes my skin crawl. How did this woman ever attract me before?

“Well, now that we’re both matless, maybe we could help each other out?”

I sigh. “What happened to your mate Marcy? I didn’t even know you had found your mate?”

She narrows her eyes at me. “It’s just too painful to talk about my love. But now that I have you, I can finally heal. We were so good together. We can be good together again. I love you so much Kasen.” she leans forward and slides off the desk. She jumps into my lap and attempts to k**s me. I immediately link Samantha and ask her to come into the room.

“Make sure you don’t knock, just come in, Atlas is ready to kill her, so if you want your chance at her you better hurry up. Have Josh, and Marcus ready to escort her to the Cells.”

She definitely didn’t take long. I can hear her footsteps and sigh in relief. Marcy takes that as her turning me on. If she didn’t notice, she repulses me.

“What do you say we mark each other tonight love, we can…” She is interrupted by the door flying open and Samantha standing there in all her glory. God, she looks beautiful and she’s only dressed in my white button-down shirt and leggings. Her hair is draped over her shoulder and she finally has color back in her skin.

“Oh, Sweetheart didn’t you know you can’t mark an already marked wolf? Are you that stupid?” there’s her smart mouth that I adore. Marcy tenses and opens and closes her mouth a few times trying to replace the words to say.

“What’s wrong? You’re acting like you’ve seen a Ghost.” I smirk at her.

“You said she was dead… you’re supposed to be dead!”

I laugh. “No, I didn’t say she was dead. I just said I feel alone and that I feel like I lost my mate. I didn’t once say she was dead. You just assumed.”

She is trembling she is so mad. “This wasn’t supposed to happen like this. You’re supposed to be dead. They said it would work! You’re supposed to die!” she rambles on.

“Who said I was supposed to die? What did you do Marcy?” Samantha commands.

“You’re not my queen and Luna yet. I will not answer you.” She spits out. Sam just takes her hand and points to the Mark on my neck and hers.

“Oh, but that’s where you’re wrong. I am his Marked Mate. Even without the Ceremony, I am just as much your queen as you are a piece of s**t. Now I will ask again. What did you do.” She asks again letting her full aura out. You can see Marcy struggling with her wolf.

“Alright you want to know so bad, fine I’ll tell you. I went over the border after our little family dinner. You just waltz in thinking you will take the throne from me. No, it’s mine! Well, my family has a lot of contacts, so I paid my dear old daddy a visit. You know Kasen my daddy is in the Council, so he has a lot of connections with other supernaturals. Well, I told him I was having some trouble with someone taking what is mine and I needed a dark magic potion that would help me. He led me to his witch he keeps on staff and well I got the items I needed. I waited and waited for the right moment. I was going to inject you with it and make you go crazy so you would have to be executed. But your brother just had to get in the f*g way. It worked out to my advantage though. You put up a good fight but your brother really is a hunk of a wolf. You just had to slap him. You pissed him off which caused the potion to kick in fully. You brought it on yourself. With you out of the way the throne and Kasen would be mine. He will still be mine. I am going to kill you with my bare hands!” She shouts. She’s really lost her marbles. I linked Marcus and Josh to come in and place her in cuffs.

“What are you doing!? Don’t touch me? Kasen baby where are they taking me?” she cries out. I just take Sam into my arms and inhale her scent to calm both of me and her down.

“You’ll pay for this. You’ll ALL PAY FOR THIS!” she screams as she’s dragged away. At least we got that all on recording. The torturing process should be fun.

“Kasen, she said her dad is on the Supernatural Council. That means her dad knows of the attack on the Werewolf Kingdoms. There is a chance she’s been feeding him information and that’s why she wanted the throne and to get close to you.” Sam states. She’s right.

“I never knew her dad was on the council. I never met her family. But it makes sense. We need to let the others know before we interrogate her. Just be prepared after we kill her that will alert the Council to things that are going on here since she is an immediate family member of a Councilman.” She nods.

Once My Beta, Gamma, Sam’s family, my parents, and Duke and his mate are in the room I play the recording for everyone.

“That is certainly enough evidence but Kasen, her dad. This could pose a problem.” Duke states.

“I know, you’re right. But She is still to be executed. If anything, it severs the Council’s leak of information. We can use it to our advantage. This changes nothing. I plan to interrogate her first to see if she has handed over information and if she knows anything about the upcoming war. How are we looking on our allies?” I ask into the room.

“We have all of the packs swearing loyalty to the crown. We have the royal witches and their followers pledging, the vampires were tricky, but we have them as well. Well some of them, half of the royal family would like to remain neutral. The Fae were completely wiped out and those that weren’t are deep in hiding. We cannot locate anyone. But the packs that are pledging will be sending 10 of their top warriors each along with their alphas and Gammas coming along. Their betas are going to stay and run their packs. That is about 30 Alphas not including yourself and 300 Extra warriors not including our own. Samantha and Jake your Alpha Carson is joining us along with his dad. So make that 31 Alphas.” I nod.

“Good work. Theo what do you have for me.” I ask.

“Well, I have good and bad news. Based on what my spies that I still have back home are telling me they are speeding things up. They said they’re upping training and they have a few witches and Vamps on their side. Apparently, they are also siding with Human Hunters. That means being prepared for multiple different types of attacks. Bear shifters aren’t easy to take down. Granted a normal warrior shouldn’t be an issue for a well trained wolf but if you’re battling a royal such as myself or my brothers or father you can bet it will take as many as it took to take me down if not more. You need to up your training and It needs to happen fast. I suggest gathering all of your allies here and EVERYONE train as a unit. Everyone prepares together like a well-oiled machine. I do have an upside. I have been recruiting. Not everyone in the bear kingdom wants this war. I have other Bear shifters that have been trained by yours truly that are in favor of pledging themselves to your cause.” I nod at him and smile.

“You have been a tremendous help. I would also like your thoughts later on about what to do about the Council. That is going to be a separate issue on its own.” I hear my lovely mate pipe up.

“I have an idea about that actually.” I nod at her to go on.

“Well, the humans have a system in place for their government. They call it an Election. What if we set up something similar that way each member of each kingdom can elect their own representative to the council and have their Term last between 2-5 years. After their terms are up host another election to nominate a new council member. That way it’s new people generating new laws and ideas and it’s people that the kingdoms want representing them.”

Seriously, did the goddess pick me an amazing mate or what?

“That is actually a great idea. It would definitely outdo the current system some of the blokes we have there now have been serving the council for longer than you’ve been alive.” Theo says. Her parents are looking at her in awe. My dad and mom just smile and look at me.

“She is an amazing mate, son. Always cherish her and listen to her ideas. They’re good.” My dad links me. I nod back at him and smile at my mate. I intertwine my fingers with hers.

“Alright well we will gather everyone here, we will set up lodging for everyone. We need to discuss how to go about feeding that many people and keeping that many alphas in one area out of fights. Marcus, as my Gamma and head trainer I need you to up the training for our warriors. I will handle Samantha’s training.” I say.

“Yes, your Highness. Josh and Marcus bow and leave to get started on gathering everyone here.

“I would like to train with Samantha too. We fight better together.” Jake asks looking timidly at sam and me. He still blames himself for everything.

“You don’t even have to ask bubba. I will always train with you.” Gemma hugs Jake to comfort him. He had decided to renounce his beta title and stay here in this pack.

“Speaking of you jake I have a proposition I would like to propose while everyone is here. Josh is already aware. Most large packs have implemented this, as well as previous Royals. I would like to offer you the title of Beta. Josh will still be my beta but I would have 2 betas to run the pack with me. I was going to offer you the Delta title but You are a beta by b***d and by right. Josh would be honored to share the beta title and Sam would love to have you as her Beta.”

You can see the light shine in his eyes. He looks from me to sam to my parents, my brother, and finally his parents.

“This is your choice son. But I think you know the right answer.” He nods.

“Even if It means my sister gets to boss me around, I will accept the offer of being the Queens Beta.” Sam smiles and jumps into his arms. After she’s done hugging him she hugs Gemma.

“Hello new Beta Female!” they giggle like schoolgirls.

“Perfect, we will hold your ceremony the same night as Samantha’s Luna Ceremony and Coronation. That will be around the time all of our allies get here. There will be a feast in yall honor as well. Theo you are invited to attend as well.” I say eyeing the mark on his neck. Duke just smirks at me.

“Wait for a second Sam what is that…Wait you and Kasen have marked each other!? I officially have a sister!” Gemma squeals and my mom takes Sam into her arms. Sam’s mom hugs and they all walk off to talk about the ceremony and planning. Sam’s dad pats me on the shoulder.

“You have proved yourself well. I am glad to call you my daughter mate. Just know I will kill you if you ever break her heart, king or not!” Atlas and I both bow in respect to our mate’s father and my dad pats him on the back. They seem to be getting along well Especially after replaceing out both our families are of Royal b***d.

“I am proud of you son. The way everything was handled, you both will be great rulers for this kingdom.” I hug my dad.