The Forgotten Princess & her Beta Mates novel Chapter 16

Their Captain

Dallas‘ p.o.v.

I try to understand why their Mother would only push one of her Sons into choosing a Mate, but Charna keeps coming back to their age.

Yeah, they are quite a bit older than I am. They are forty eight to my nineteen years of age, but it doesn’t matter to me and I doubt they have a problem with it.

We age a lot slower than Humans did, we also live a lot longer than Humans did and an age gap between Mates is rather normal for Shifters. Especially with the way we find our true Mate–bond these days, finding one’s connection is more difficult.

It can take up to a week before a connection turns into a Mate–bond. If the bond forms from a connection then we call it a true Mate–bond and if there isn’t a connection, then we call it a

Mate–bond.

I will explain as much of our Mate–bonds, laws and everything else you might need to understand as we get to them, because if I were to start right now, you would get bored.

Daxton and Darius are my second connection and you already know who my first connection was. Whether anyone can have a third or fourth connection is unknown, because most end up

with their first or second connection and some take a chosen Mate after the first connection

doesn’t work out.

“Where did you go, Little One?” I hear Darius ask and when I look up I can tell that we have been driving for a long time.

“Sorry, just trying to make sense of everything.” I answer. “I do need to explain something, I was asked to deliver the cancellation order for a reason. Nico was my first connection and on the morning that our bond had completely formed, he slept with Lucy. The one they

introduced as the future Luna.”

I can feel all eyes on me and that includes the driver, who is looking at me through the rearview mirror.

“Did she brag about it?” Pearl asks.

“No, Luna Pearl. Charna forced me to go to the Alpha floor and that is how we found out. I won’t bore you with the details, just know that the entire Pack is aware of what happened.” I

answer her.

As a Squad Captain, I have to know the name and face of every Shifter in a Pack’s leadership and I know the Pack–laws of every Pack. Something I have specialized in over the past six months, an even more rigorous study than just our main Laws.

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“Why would anyone choose her over you?” I hear Luna Pearl ask, but I am not sure if I am ready to answer those questions just yet.

“Alpha Preston, what do you know about the trial that I offered to Alpha Leon?” I ask, hoping to make them forget about that particular question for a little while.

I listen to Alpha Preston as he describes how the trial works, “But I never agreed with it, no one else gets to have a say and there is no evidence presented to prove or disproof the Alpha’s words.”

Smiling I grab my phone to send out a message to Elder Jensen and it takes only seconds for him to respond. He informs me that Silver Eclipse Pack is one of the five Packs that will be asked to sit in on the trial and the King just made a minor change in who gets to attend.

It won’t just be the Alpha and Luna of a Pack that get invited, also their Beta and their Mate will be invited.

The invitations for the trial will be sent to the five Alphas the following day, it will give them enough time to prepare for the trial and to read through the new rules for a trial in front of the King.

“Is something funny, Little One?” Daxton asks and I look at him with a stern look.

“Who are you calling little, Old Man?” I ask teasingly and I hear Luna Pearl snort as she tries to stop herself from laughing out loud.

Daxton is staring at me, as if he can’t believe that I just called him an old man and I can hear Darius chuckle behind me.

“You do realize that if she calls Daxton an Old Man, that it also implies to you?” Alpha Preston says and this time Luna Pearl doesn’t hide her laughter.

They might be forty eight, but it doesn’t show. Humans would think they were in their early thirties, if Humans would still be alive. For us as Shifters, this is normal, I happen to know how old Elder Jensen is and I doubt anyone could guess it correctly, by just looking at him.

“What is in those files you mentioned earlier?” Daxton asks, once he has gotten over the shock of me calling him an old man.

“Files I need to prepare for the trial. It contains everything we found out over the past year and I need to make sure that all the footage is in the correct order. Tomorrow you will find out why I need to prepare for the trial and if you have any questions after that, I will try to answer them to the best of my abilities.” I answer him.

“We’re almost home.” Darius says, as he points to the forest ahead of us and I watch as the SUVS get closer to the forest.

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