Warrior Princess
Chapter 45

Kasens POV

‘I think we may have overreacted.’ Atlas mumbles to me.

I know we did. There’s no thinking to it. It’s just when she said it I and atlas took it as a challenge. As a threat to our title. Which is ridiculous because she is my Luna. My mate. We are equals. I am so stressed because of this damn war that im snapping and reacting badly to things I normally wouldn’t. I’m normally calm and collected. This is the first time I have ever really snapped from stress. And worst of all I did it to my mate. Our first dispute and it’s over a misunderstanding.

She left about 20 minutes ago and I feel her settle through the bond. I know she had a panic attack. I know she was overthinking everything. I know she is every bit as stressed as I am, if not more. She is new to all of this. I’ve had years of training. Partially why this is the first time I’ve let the stress get to me. I feel like a total dickwad. I didn’t comfort her I didn’t help calm her down. I didn’t help her through her struggles. All because my pride was wounded. All because I was mad. I know I need to make it up to her.

“Alright. Let’s call it a night. We’ve been at this for a couple of hours now. We have a good start here. We will implement the new training first think tomorrow morning. Everyone is dismissed for now.” I say and everyone gathers their things up.

“Everything okay with sam?” My dad asks. I nod. I don’t want to say no. Because if she wasn’t, I would feel it right now. Was she okay earlier? No. No, she was not. Right now, she feels love and content.

“The stress is getting to us all.” His face relaxes as understanding flashes through his eyes.

“I can attest to that. I can’t tell you how many times stress caused an argument when I was king. Your mother and I butted heads frequently over it. Most of the time over something so silly and or small that I can’t even remember it to this day. If it’s something small, then it’s not worth the fight. You both will fix it. I know you will. Just apologize.” He tells me.

“How do you know it was me?” he levels me with a look.

“Alright, Alright.” I gave everyone the rest of the night off. I wanted Josh to be able to spend time with his new mate and give everyone else a break. If I’m reacting to the stress right now, I know everyone else is. Everyone else is weathering their own storms right now too.

“Hey, dad. Question.” He hums and I wait until the last person has left the room.

“How would it look if I asked Doc or one of his Colleagues to be readily available for someone to talk to. Say if they feel overwhelmed or anything.”

He smiles. “I think that’s great. We can make that happen.”

Everyone needs to have someone that they can confide in. Normalizing that is important. I walk to my apartment and take off my shoes, tie, and coat. The lights are off and I don’t hear anything. I see a flicker of light under the door to our room. I open it slowly and peek my head in. The sight makes my chest clench. My mate and Shawn are snuggled on the bed asleep.

‘Ours.’ Atlas says. He offers nothing more, nothing less. Just that one word and all my anger is forgotten. I know I want to fix this when she wakes up.

I look at the clock and see it’s 830 at night. I’m betting they haven’t eaten yet. With that I shut the door and go into the kitchen and start making them something for when they wake up.

I’m mid flip on the chicken dish I’m making when I feel hands snake around my waist and sparks fly all over my body.

“I’m sorry if I woke you, love.” I grab her hand and intertwin my fingers with hers and she rests her head on my back between my shoulders.

“You didn’t wake me. I just have a hard time sleeping without you.” She mumbles. I turn and look at her. Cupping her cheeks with both hands, I look right into her eyes. I bow my head at her. Something so unnatural for me.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being a d**k. I overreacted.” I tell her and k**s her forehead.

“I am sorry too. I shouldn’t have said what I said. But baby, please don’t bow to me. You’re my mate. My partner. You are my king. I want to always see your head held high.” She tells me and I smile.

“I will always bow before my queen. I will ALWAYS put my queen and our family first. God woman, What are you doing to me?” I say and k**s her lips softly. I feel her smile against mine and I hug her tight. Her tiny arms wrap around me and I know all is forgiven. I know we will be okay.

“Did we just survive our first fight since being mated?” I chuckle into her hair.

“We will always survive our fights. Always.”

I turned the oven off and Picked her up and sat her on the counter. My tee-shirt casually rising up her thighs. I tilt her chin up and k**s her lips gently. I replace that it isn’t enough. I want more. I need more. I place my lips on my mark on her neck. What looks to be a tattoo with my initials and a crescent moon in the background on her skin. She shivers and I nip at the skin. Small m***s exit her lips.

“Quiet now, love. We don’t want to wake him do we?” she nods and covers her mouth with her hand.

“Good girl.” I smirk and continue my assault on her skin. It still isn’t enough. I need to make sure this woman knows how much I love her. How much I crave her. How much I absolutely need her in my life. How sorry I am for overreacting. How much of an asshat that I am.

I grip the edges of the shirt and tug it up. Slowly exposing each inch of her skin. Trails of sparks shooting up my fingertips. The shirt is over her head and pooling on the floor. I grab her breasts with both of my hands. The weight of them completely satisfying. Massaging and kneading them. I lean down and take one puckered bud into my mouth. Biting it gently between my teeth and soothing it with a lick of my tongue.

Her fingers replace their way into my hair and scratch my scalp. I g***n. I love the feeling of her touching me. It sends a jolt down all the way to my c**k. Tonight is all about her. All about earning her forgiveness. All about showing how much I value her. I k**s my way down her stomach, and she giggles when I get too close to her h**s.

“What do you want, love?” I ask her. Her eyes dilate and I can see the love and l**t that she has for me.

“You.” It’s one word, but it means so much to me. One word that drives me forward and makes me spread her knees impossible further apart. Flexibility. So very nice. I k**s one knee and slowly leave feather light k****s up the inside of her thigh. I get to that sweet spot between her legs and lick her clit. Earning a gasp from her. I pull back and eye her in warning.

“Can you be quiet, or do I need to replace a way to make you silent?” I ask with a raised brow. She bites her lower l*p and nods. I take that as my sign to continue. I repeat the process of k****s on her other leg. When I get back to her center I drag my finger through her lower lips.

“You’re so wet for my love.” I don’t give her a chance to respond before I plunge one finger into her. She g****s quietly with one hand over her mouth and the other gripping my shoulders. Finding a steady pace, I add a second finger. She is grinding against my hand begging for more through the link. I curl my fingers hitting that sweet spot every time. I lean down and switch between licking, sucking and biting.

“Kasen, please!” she begs through the link.

‘Please what love?’ I ask, and she begs me again. Begs me to make her c*m.

I drape her legs over my arms and angle her h**s up just right. Reaching up and pinching her n*s and licking her like she is the water that I need to survive. Her taste and her scent driving me wild. It isn’t long until I feel her inner walls spasming and tightening on my fingers. She rides out her o****m with my name on her lips. I pull up and k**s her, thrusting my tongue into her mouth so she can taste herself on my lips. She attempts to hop off the counter and starts pulling down my sweat pants.

“No, love.” I stop her and pull her up and wrap her in my arms.

“But what about you?” I smile and k**s her forehead.

“Tonight was all about you. I needed to show you how sorry I was. I needed you to know how loved you are. I needed you to feel what I feel for you.” She smiles and k****s my cheek.

“I already know. And just so you know. All is forgiven. You have to do more than that to drive me away. You’re stuck with me for the rest of your days, my king.” She tells me. I squeeze her in my arms and we eat the food I cooked and then go climb in bed. The three of us huddled close.

I woke up the next morning to Shawn snuggled up to me watching cartoons on the TV. I turned my head to replace my mate not in the bed. Shawn had a black wolf plushie wrapped in his arms. Sam had taken him to one of the local shops that we have on the territory and he was instantly drawn to it.

‘He’s drawn to it because we are his family. He is mine.’ Atlas takes every chance he can to tell me and everyone that.

“Where is mommy at?” He asked, my heart clenching at him calling her mommy. That’s a right little man. Almost as if reading his thoughts, she walked through the door carrying a tray of pancakes, fruit, coffee, and juice.

“For my handsome men.” she said. We dug into the food, and Sam asked. “What’s on the docket for today?” I took her hand and kissed her knuckles.

“Well, first of all we have morning training. Then we do need to catch up on some paperwork. Shawn has school, so we drop him off.” He g****s at the mention of school.

“Hey bud, we all have to learn new things. I promise after school, we can spend one on one time just me and you, okay?” I say, and he smiles and nods. Giving me a fist bump.

“After the paperwork, we need to do rounds again. Check on the warriors, check the borders, check on the farm lands, check on the local markets and then we need to have a meeting with the omegas to make sure that they are all doing okay and make sure there are no requests. The schools we checked up on. We also need to finalize Shawn’s adoption. I have the pack’s lawyer coming to meet with us and the orphanage.” I say. She nods making a mental note of everything we have to do today.

“Well, let’s get a move on then shall we?”

After we dropped Shawn off at school, we decided to stop by the orphanage since it was so close. They were so happy to hear that we were adopting him. We had gathered all of his belongings which consisted of a photo of his parents, a blanket with his name stitched into it, a bunch of books, and a couple of toys, and some clothes.

We were walking hand in hand to the warrior’s quarters to do our inspection and meeting with them to check for requests, grievances, and or ideas for updates. Everyone bows when we walked in. Those that weren’t training that is. That makes me think of training this morning. The way Sam had taken me down with a quick wrap of her thighs. She of course distracted me with a k**s to my neck. Little f*g cheater that she is.

I’m drawn back to my thoughts by hearing a request.

“So we were wondering Luna Queen, and My king if we could potentially start more rotations for the border guards. With the war so close we don’t want to risk any spies sneaking into our borders” We had already talked about it privately, but now that it was brought up we knew that our response would be appreciated.

“We were actually going to add more warriors to the roster to do perimeter checks. I know this would mean more hours working, but it is necessary.” I say and they bow with smiles.

“We understand. As much as some of us have mates and families we want to get home to we know that war is a dangerous time. We’d rather give it our all to protect our borders and our packs.” I nod.

“Consider it done. I will get with Gamma Marcus about updating everything and he will get the new schedules out to you all.”

After talking some more about how things are going we move on to the next task. Checking on the farmland. We try to limit contact with the human world as much as possible. We grow most of our vegetables and fruits here and all of our meets are the free range that we have here on our grounds. We do trade with other packs to acquire what we aren’t able to get here.

Everyone has an important role. No one is less important than the next. As I told everyone in the meeting. We are only as strong as our weakest link. And everyone here is an important link in that chain. I will do everything in my power to protect that chain. Protect my pack.