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KESKA: “How are you girls doing?” I asked them. “We are good, that was a bit intense to watch, but at least Trever is calmer now.” Alisha says. I just nod my head. “How about you, how are the two of you doing?” “Honestly, I feel like I could let off a little steam myself after seeing that. What about you, Mackie?” I asked her. “I’m with you, Kes. I need to hit the range.” She says. “Range?” the girls ask in unison. “Yes, Mackie and I do archery, and Liam said that he would meet us there with our bows.” “If the guys are up for it, after they come out, let’s ask them.” Rachell says. “Can’t hurt.” Alisha adds. When the guys come out of the barracks, they come over to us. Each one wraps their arms around their mates and takes a deep breath in. “Keska was just telling us that they do archery. I, for one, would like to go watch them shoot.” Alisha states. “I remember you saying you did archery.” Trever says. “Both Mackie and I shoot.” I say. “Well, let’s go see you in action then.” Trent says. And we all headed over to the archery range. Liam is there with our bows. I go in and rent the arrows we need, I head back out and over to the targets. We have both types, the scarecrow type representing the human body and the regular bullseye type. I go to work on the body type, leaving Mackie and Liam to choose their targets. After the first few shots, the rest of them want to join in. so we let them take turns using our bows and shooting the targets. “What’s the difference between having the two different targets?” Alisha asked. “I don’t really know, I like to think it’s to let you get used to shooting at a person, like in real combat.” I say. “Makes sense.” Rachell says. I shrug. After about an hour of shooting, we head back to the pack house. Mackie, Liam, and I go put our bows away. And then we head back down to the rest of the group.

JESSIE: I see the princes walking back with their mates, Liam, Mackie, and KES?! No! I am starting to get the feeling that either she or Mackie might be the youngest prince’s mate. No. How can that happen? She is not worthy of a prince. Hell, she wasn’t worthy of Seth, how can she be worthy of a prince? I need to find out. I link James. *“Do you know who Prince Trever’s mate is?” “No, I do not, just that she is underage.” “I think it might be Kes or Mackie. That’s not fair, she can’t be worthy of him.” “Jessie, don’t start anything, that is the prince you’re talking about. If the Moon Goddess paired them, then it’s not for you to interfere or judge, plus we can’t afford to have war with the royal pack. Stay out of it and stay away from them! You already have punishment enough, don’t you? If you interfere with them, you will end up having more or worse, you could end up dead!”* I visibly blanch at my brother’s harsh words; he has never spoken to me like that before, and I felt his aura slip through the link, which has never happened before either. *“Jessie!” “Yes, I heard you. I won’t do anything.” “Swear it.” “I swear.” “I don’t want to hear that you manipulated anyone else into doing anything either. So, swear to me that you won’t do that either.” “I swear.”* I close the link. Could he really be right? I don’t want to die. 

KESKA: After rejoining the group, I turn to Alisha. “Would you like me to check on Luna Kina and see if she is up for visitor’s” I asked her. “That would be lovely, I would love for her to meet my mate.” I take out my phone and call Adrian. “Hey, Kes, is everything alright?” he answers. “Everything is just fine. I was calling to check on Kina and to see if she was up for visitors. I have a friend of hers here with me, and she wants to see her, and also to see if Nana needs to come and see her.” “What friend?” “Alisha and her mate.” “I will ask her.” I wait a few minutes, and he comes back on the line. “Yes to both.” He says to me. “Ok, I will get Nana, and we will come to see you.” “Ok, sweets, see you soon.” “See you soon.” I hang up and put my phone away. I then link Nana. *“Nana, Luna Kina would like you to come to see her. There is a group of us that are going to go see her.” “Of course, I will be happy to come see her.” “Do you want us to come to you first, or do you want to meet us at their room?” “I will come to their room.” “Ok, Nana love you.” “Love you too.”* I close the link. Nana will meet us there, let’s go. I led the way to Adrian and Kina’s room. I knock on their door, I hear footsteps inside the room, then the door opens, and we all enter.

ADRIAN: “Hello.” I say to everyone. “Kes, please make introductions. I have met Trever and Dutch already.” I say and shake hands with them. “This is Alisha, she is Kina’s old alpha’s daughter, and her mate, Prince Barett.” I shake hands with both of them. “This is Rachell, and her mate Prince Trent. Rachell is the alpha’s daughter from Nana’s old Pack.” I shake hands with them as she does the introduction. “Adrian is my cousin and the Alpha of Moon Rise pack.” She tells everyone. I show everyone into the sitting area, there is another knock on the door. I go answer it and usher in Miss Lilly. “We have a full house, so to speak.” I tell her. As we step into the sitting room. “I can see that. Barett, Trent, good to see both of you again.” “You’ll have to introduce me to your mate when I am done, Barett.” She says to the Prince. He nods in understanding. “Now, where is your Luna and my patient?” She asked, turning to look at me. “I will be back in a minute.” I tell the rest of the group and lead Lilly to the bedroom where Kina is resting. “Love, Lilly is here.” “Thank the goddess.” I open the door and usher Lilly into the room. I close the door and go to rejoin the group in the sitting room. “How is Kina?” Keska asked when I got back. “She is doing good, just sometimes the pup can be a bit overactive, and it wears on her. “I’m sure Nana will help.” She says. I smile and mess her hair. “Hey!” I just chuckle. “So, how is it that the Royal family comes to a mating ball given by my uncle?” I asked curiously. “Mostly because of Lilly.” Barett says. “How so?” “She is a Brookes’ after all, and we don’t want to disrespect her.” He says, “Not that we ever intend to disrespect any of the packs, but if we went to every place that sent invitations to us, we would never be home, and nothing would ever get done.” Barett replied again. “Well, I am glad that I got to meet you here, and please know that if I ever throw a mating ball, I promise I will not send invitations, I would rather petition to have things done in the realm than throw parties anyway.” I say with a chuckle. “What kinds of things were you thinking?” Barett asked, “Well, one thing I was thinking was a training task force, where the packs could send their elite fighters to get some more advanced training to help deal with rogues.” I say. “In that regard, some of the smaller packs would have a better chance of holding out until help could reach them.” “You know that’s not a bad idea, and that would allow us to access the strengths of the different packs and be able to help them to survive better.” He says. “Yes, and it would be a good way to network, to know what packs might have problems with other packs, what packs are closest,
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