Page 42 of Rogue Alpha Prince
Chapter 14 – Committed
“Iam your Alpha,” Rogue Prince says sternly and crosses his arms over his naked chest. My mind darts to his sword on the floor. Not a toy anymore. Definitely not a toy. I wonder how quickly he can get to it, but then realize there are at least a few knives hidden around the bed we are on, so I am screwed anyway.
“I am your Luna,” I try to reason with him.
“Are you, though? Are you?” he squints his eyes like Thor questioning Banner in… never mind, they don’t watch movies in this Goddess-forsaken land.
“What do you mean by that? You recognized me as such when you had a wedding with me in front of your pack. And I can…” I trail off, thinking about my alpha commands to his pack that did work on everyone but alpha-blooded officers—but that was the strength of my wolf blood and not my place in the pack, I realize. Would a true Luna be able to command Officers too? I don’t know.
“You are an alpha-blooded royal wolf and my wife, but technically speaking, you are not a Luna-ranked wolf yet.”
“Why?” I ask, wondering if that was the reason my new pack could hurt me.
I don’t have any physical wounds anymore, but mentally? I realize now I’m scared of everyone here, and the crowd can be worse than one, even the most brutal man.
“Technically, your Luna bond to the pack is not completed until we are marked and mated.”
I didn’t think about that being a rule because true mates were usually already marked before the wedding, or just after. Even if it was normal witharranged marriages to wait, I haven’t heard about one with any Alpha since I was a little kid—so I didn’t know how it actually works.
Marked and mated…
“Yeah, like that would ever happen,” I sigh and roll on my side, ignoring how wet I am.
“Why do you think it won’t?” he furrows his brows and moves his arms under his head.
“Because then I could always find you and feel everything. I would be hurt and know whenever you had sex with other people…”
I could probably find him with our true mate bond if I concentrated enough, but he doesn’t need to know that.
“Why would I have sex with other people?”
I look at his emotionless expression and sigh loudly, a little bit irritated by him playing dumb. I hate it when people do that.
“Yeah, right, because you don’t have a castle full of your personal whores.”
Or an entire kingdom dreaming about his gorgeous body, for that matter.
“You would smell other women and sex on me.” He chuckles at me. “Come on, you know I haven’t had any other women since we met.”
He gives me a half smile, looking amused.
“All I know is, you always smell fresh and clean and that the bathing takes off the smell after sex, so…”
“Excuse me, what are you suggesting? Do I look like a guy who would do asecretromance? I would flaunt it before you in the open just to mess with you. You can be sure.”
True.
“Okay, that is weirdly reassuring and disturbing at the same time.”
“Exactly what I was going for.”
I laugh, and he smiles at me again but rolls hiseyes.
“Okay, but seriously,” I try to return to the topic that I couldn’t leave alone. I have to understand it so I can convince him it’s not such a good idea. “You want to mark each other at some point. Why?”
“I wanted to do it from the start, to strengthen our alliance, but… don’t you have to love each other for it to actually work?”
I stare at him dumbfounded. Another thing I didn’t know—being raised in a perfect world where people fall with their true mates.
