Chapter Hundred and Thirty-Six – Mates Quarrel.
Jaden’s POV
“That rejection made her stronger, powerful and more. I wonder what one would do to you.” Jonah spat out.
Oh no, he didn’t. Was he going to reject her? This princess overdid herself this time.
Princess Vanessa snapped her head at him, tears forming in her eyes. “What did you say?”
He stepped closer to her. “I said…”
I knew a rejection was coming and I didn’t want that. Chris would be highly offended and Jonah may regret it later.
“Jonah! Easy!” I called him back.
“Princess, it will benefit you to shut up and watch your words!” it left my lips.
She was stunned by me as well and took steps backwards, her head was bent down. “I’m…”
Yeah, she should apologize.
“… disappointed.”
What now? I let go of Jonah I was holding. She was disappointed in who or what?
“Is he defending Rihanna or what!’ she barked. “Are you threatening to reject me because of what I said about Rihanna!”
Why was she raising her voice when she was wrong? I remembered my little brother asleep and frowned. “You should mind your tone!”
“No, you should mind your tone!” she ranted back. “For all I care, I’m the princess!”
“When you are at Black Rose, you’re not!” Jonah barked back.
Now I was stunned by Vanessa. She really had no manners.
Should I back away and let the mates fight, it was the closest to an interaction they had, or should I stay to prevent a rejection?
“Oh then who’s the beloved lady around here? Rihanna?” Vanessa’s eyes were brimming with tears.
Why was she bringing up Rihanna? Because of a letter I didn’t even know what was in it yet.
Jonah scoffed, running his hands through his hair. “You have no right to be jealous when you’re nothing to me.”
That was harsh.
“Oh nothing? Well even if you don’t accept that I’m your mate or princess, I’m still your Alpha King’s sister!” Vanessa yelled.
That wasn’t a viable reason.
“Please, it’s not like Chris will be Alpha King for long.”
I turned to Jonah. Did he say that out loud? But he actually only said it in mind link. I exhaled.
“Well, I’m disappointed you hold the title as you embarrass it with your low strength, bad morals and shabby look. I expected more!” he huffed.
That was hard.
“Low strength. I could be the strongest female royalty you’ve ever seen! And ha, they are none other!” she chuckled, hysterically.
Was she aware she contradicted herself? Being the only royalty meant she’d be the strongest by default not by effort.
“I can bring one hunter, my girlfriend actually, who can whoop your ass in seconds. Should we try?” Jonah laughed back.
The princess was quiet. I was too for a while. The hunter Jonah had been flirting with became his girlfriend?
That was the first time he was actually dating one of them. He may be serious with her, which wasn’t good, in this scenario.
“Scared of the duel?” Jonah scoffed. “Of course, you are just a princess. What rank do you hold, huh?”
I came in between both of them, breathing in and out. They shouldn’t be like this. I wonder how much the mate pull was on them.
“Jonah, please leave. We’d talk later.” I said.
The princess plopped down on a chair. “You have a girlfriend?”
He ignored her, walking away.
Her eyes went up to him, then darkened, before she looked down again. “No wonder you ignore the mate pull, someone else has your heart.”
Was that a thing? If the other party was in love with another wolf, he wouldn’t feel the mate pull?
My mind went to Rihanna who couldn’t feel our mate pull but my wolf reminded me it was because of her twin. I exhaled.
“Princess, really, Rihanna and Jonah are just friends. And you heard he has a girlfriend. I really wish you were more….”
“Yes, I was more. He said that.” She interrupted.
“I mean. I really wish you were more polite with him. Jonah likes feisty girls but not rude ones. No one likes rude ones.” I continued.
“You call me rude?” her eye were bloodshot.
I stooped to her. “Yes, I did, because you are.”
She huffed loudly. “Your Delta doesn’t even deserve to be my mate. I deserve a right match!”
“Unless you want a live-in mate that will be a slave to your beck and call and never scold you when wrong, yeah, my Delta is that right match.”
She was calm, silently exhaling out her annoyance without meeting my gaze.
I left her side and relaxed on my throne, rubbing my temples, the letter Rihanna gave me in my hands. “Now, let’s get into this.”
My wolf came to the surface, interested in whatever made our mate write to us herself.
“How are you? Did she really ask us that?” my wolf smiled.
My eyes were stuck to her first sentence. What a way of opening. I further read the rest and my countenance slowly changed.
I turned the folded part of the letter and saw there was more of that page.
She could have written with a scroll than a paper. This was really long.
But I didn’t want anyone read it to me. It was her first to me yet very long, like it compensated for all the times she never wrote to me.
The letter was basically plan to ambush Logan, even if we don’t kill him. She had a surprise that she could use to slowly damage him.
She wanting to meet and fight this Lycan after he declared his thirst for her energy, the courage, was something I just needed.
She added something to her letter.
“I don’t also think Logan can take my energy. If not, he should have done times when I was weak and he was still standing.”
That was it. She had to be strong, or at least not weak while he’d be the weak one.
Transfer of energy was always to save a weak wolf not empower a strong wolf.
It will take time for Logan to accomplish it.
“I believe Logan was only putting fear in us to buy him time to heal, he wouldn’t see that time.”
I smiled, reading the last sentence of her letter. She sounded so powerful, like an Alpha Queen.
Really I wanted her to be, she had received a lot of demeaning from royalties. I glared at Vanessa still seated in front of me.
Looking back at Rihanna’s letter, I noticed that there was another folded page.
I opened it, expecting a sweet note again.
“Oh and Hunter’s wolf acted out again. He said you know about it.”
My facial expressions changed. The boy hadn’t be able to connect with his wolf already? It’s been up to a week since he shifted.
“It went all the way to Black Hills and bothered the warriors in charge of looking out for Logan. I don’t know what you can make of this.”
I closed the letter when I was done and frowned. Why was it always going far away, to places his human didn’t know.
And why was it always around Logan? Was he attracted to him?
There’s a saying that young wolfs were attracted to power but it shouldn’t be like this. It should be figuratively. Or wasn’t it?
“This is why the moon goddess should let wolfs shift when they’re older. We are now babysitting a boy and a wolf.” I sighed.