Page 99 of Rogue Alpha Prince
“So, is he as horrible as everyone thinks?” she asks innocently, completely unaware she is hitting a nerve with this question.
I get a big breath in and then let it out with a deep sigh.
“Honestly, it would be easier if he was. I could have hated him then.”
I used to hate him. I vividly remember hating him so much the day I met him that I could barely contain myself. That hate started everything…
“Oh, are you in love already?” Mom asks, and this time, Dad is giving her a scolding look.
I chuckle at them. “We’ve known each other for a week.”
“So, are you?” she grins at me, and I half expect her to raise her brows up and down a couple of times knowingly.
“Mom—”
She gazes at me so intensely that I shoot my hands to the sides and cry, “I don’t know!”.
“But he’s your mate,” she acknowledges by some miracle—I’ve never told anyone.
She sends a weird look to my dad, who stands by the bed with his arms crossed and a sour face. He’s displeased with me.
As if being a Rogue Prince’s mate wasn’t on Moon Goddess’s list of screw-ups, but on mine.
Well, screwing up the alliance is on mine, and that’s probably why he’s angry with me.
“How did you know?” I ask my mom, curious about what exactly betrayed the existence of our mate bond. Maybe I could fix that in the future.
“You just told me with your question. But I had my suspicions after that story about you fighting his wolf in human form. I mean, I know you, and I heard about him enough to—” She stops mid-sentence as if she’s looking for the right words, then shakes her head and tries to approach the topic differently, “The way you interact with each other… you have to be well-paired to pull off this whole arranged marriage thing so well, so quickly. And who is better at matching two werewolves together than the Moon Goddess?”
I cross my arms just like my dad does, regretting letting her trick me into admitting the truth when she didn’t have solid proof. Such a beginner’s mistake.
“You know I adapt easily if I want to,” I answer finally.
“That’s true, but it’s not what’s happening here, is it?” she doesn’t let it go.
I sigh again and start pacing the room.
“No, it’s not,” I admit, ready to seek some guidance. I was always smart enough to know when to ask for help and that is now. “It’s a mess. I’m so scared of everything, I can’t even properly do my job with the alliance. I’m constantly second-guessing myself. I mean, I don’t want to get killed, and that’s what he’ll do the second he discovers who I am to him. Right?”
Dad gives a quick nod.
It's also time to admit to myself, that I was not mentally prepared to meet my mate in these fucked up circumstances, under all that pressure of the Kingdom’s safety.
And I certainly was not prepared to fall for him with real attraction and real feelings so quickly.Him!
How could I fallin love with the Rogue Princeat all?
No, it’s not love; it’s just lust. It must be lust. Definitely.
My parents are silent, engrossed in thought, just like me, until my mom clears her throat. “I mean… you are his mate, and he clearly likes you, so maybe you shouldn’t cross out anything yet.”
My blood boils at this unhelpful school-crush level of counsel.
“He is the fucking Rogue Prince. He is ruthless, scary, inhuman, and I have zero control over anything there—”
“Don’t think I didn’t see how you stopped him from harming Ella,” my dad interrupts me with piercing eyes.
I scoff. Of course I did, it’s Ella, and it was not a problem to simply put a hand over his.
