Chapter 176
The next morning prince Bleidd was waiting outside for prince Juno when the footman walked out with a few suitcases.
“Where is the prince?” Prince Bleidd asked, irritated.
“He has already left and said he will meet you at the castle,” the footman said.
“If he is not at the castle by the time I get there I will come back for you and punish you,” Prince Bleidd threatened, not believing himself.
Prince Bleidd arrived back at the castle, but prince Juno was not there.
“The bloody footman said he already left and send his luggage with me,” Prince Bleidd said furiously after his parents accused him of being incompetent.
***
Princess Jovita went for an early stroll in her wolf form and while out she came across another wolf.
‘Crap! Is it a rogue?!’ she thought to herself being cautious. ‘I should run back to the castle.’
‘She smells really good,’ the wolf thought as he run towards her. He saw she has spotted him and looked around.
‘Is she scared of me?’ he wondered, coming to a halt, not wanting to scare her off.
Princess Jovita noticed that he stopped and was not chasing after her.
***
Princess Jovita does not tell anyone about the wolf she saw a few days ago. One morning after breakfast she slipped away and found the wolf again and crept up closer to him, closer than she has been every other day.
The wolf knew she was stalking him and waited for her to be so close to him that there will be only a few meters between them. Unexpectantly, he jumped around to catch her off guard. Princess Jovita got such a big fright that she stumbled and when their eyes met, the both of them felt the fated mate bond rip through them.
Princess Jovita got such a fright and was confused by the feelings flowing through her that she blocked her mind and ran back to the castle.
‘Wait,’ the wolf mind linked her, but he was too late. The wolf saw she was running towards the castle and ran after her, ‘Who is she and why is she blocking me out?’ The wolf only shifted into his human form once inside the castle in the first room he ran into.
Princess Jovita went straight to her uncle and aunt’s room, “I cannot marry this prince Juno!”
“Why on earth not? You have not even met him. I was told he is a good-looking fellow,” her aunt informed her.
“I think I just found my fated mate! I felt it!” Princess Jovita explained.
“The only prince here for you to have a fated mate connection with that is single is Prince Manor,” her uncle says.
“We have to go tell the king and queen immediately,” her uncle said, storming out of the room, grabbing princess Jovita by her arm, her aunt running after them.
“Please forgive us but we believe princess Jovita accidentally mated with one of your sons,” her aunt started to explain, disturbing queen Lana’s morning coffee.
“That is not possible as all of them have their mates unless she mated with prince Mano, and well he is damaged goods,” Queen Lana said, looking at princess Jovita waiting for her to speak up.
“I only saw him in wolf form,” Princess Jovita explained.
“Then it must be so, as he has been spending all his time in his wolf form since his last wife died,” Queen Lana sighed.
“What will happen now?” Princess Jovita wondered.
“For starters, we can stop the search for prince Juno,” Queen Lana said, walking to exit the lycan lounge to go see prince Mano.
Inside prince Mano’s room, they find only the wet nurse and baby Phoebe.
“Where is prince Mano,” Queen Lana demanded to know.
“Your majesty I have not seen him all week. It appears he is spending all his time in wolf form these days,” the wetnurse said.
‘I am too young to play mother,’ Princess Jovita said, looking at the baby.
“I am feeling rather tired and will retire to my room. Please don’t disturb me for lunch, I will see you all at dinner,” Princess Jovita said.
Princess Jovita made sure her aunt and uncle are not around before she shifted into her wolf form and ran away, ‘I have to find him and un mate,’ she thought as she ran towards where she saw the wolf who she now believed to be prince Mano.
‘Where is he?’ she wondered searching for him. ‘I have no time, I have to leave now before they force me to claim him and be claimed and give him more children,’ she cried within in at her misfortune.
Princess Jovita decided to go rogue and cut herself off from her pack, ‘They have Jenny to be their luna and her husband is powerful enough to stand in as an alpha.’
***
Prince Juno put some of the clothes on that he found in the closet, drowning in it. He stepped out of the room and stopped the first person he saw, “I am prince Juno and a few days ago my luggage was sent over. Can you point me to the royal lycans?”
“This way, but I am afraid you are too late, the princess you were supposed to get married to mated with one of the king and queen’s sons; Prince Mano,” Princess Jovita's aunt said, her head hanging as the prince in front of her looked dashing, ‘Even though he is drowning in his clothes,’ she thought as she walked one step in front of him, towards the lycan royal throne room.
“It doesn’t matter as I can't marry her either as I am merely here to find my fated mate. I saw her running towards the castle a short while ago,” Prince Juno said full of confidence.
Prince Juno walked past a room and recognized the luggage inside, “I will be right out,” he said as he went into the room and shut the door. After putting on his own clothes he walked out.
As they continue their walk to the lycan throne all the ladies could not help but smile at his good looks.
“It appears that you have caught the eye of several ladies,” Princess Jovita’s aunt said as they walk into the throne room.
“Prince Juno, thank you for honoring us with your presence,” Prince Bleidd said sarcastically.
“Prince Juno, it appears we have wasted your time. You are more than welcome to stay at the castle while we find you a match,” Queen Lana said.
“I will stay for a few days,” Prince Juno said, not wanting to share with them the fact that he has found his fated mate, thinking she was a princess in hiding or something.
Princess Jovita’s aunt was about to say something when prince Juno gave her a warning eye to not tell them that he has found his fated mate.
“You wanted to say something?” King Makens asked.
“I will go and look for princess Jovita,” she said about to leave.
“My dear she said she does not want to be disturbed,” her husband reminded her.
“That is right,” she said, before taking her place next to her husband, standing around.
Prince Juno gave a notch with his head before leaving the throne room to go look for his fated mate, ‘The princess sounds like a snob; thank goodness she won’t be my wife or forced mate.’
“Find prince Mano!” Queen Lana demanded all her sons.
That evening around the dinner table queen Lana wanted to know where the princess was, “I was hoping that princess Jovita will be joining us for dinner.”
“I am sure her family is also hoping that prince Mano will join us,” King Makens said looking at his sons.
“I will go remind the princess that it is dinner time,” her aunt apologized and stood up from the dinner table.
“Why don’t you mind link prince Mano as none of us seems to be able to get through to him,” Prince Deacon asked, knowing that no one from the pack can block out the alpha and luna, especially the king and queen.
“I am not getting through,” King Makens said after trying.
A look of fear and dismay fell on queen Lana’s face, “He has gone rogue.”
“It appears the princess went for a walk,” her aunt said on return.
“Are you linked to her?” King Makens asked.
“Of course,” her uncle said, trying to mind link her. He looked at his wife, ‘Something is not right, she never blocks me out,’ he mind linked his wife.
“Let me guess, rogue?” Prince Deacon asked.
“I am afraid to agree,” her aunt said, tears filling her eyes at a rapid rate.
“Don’t worry, prince Mano won’t let any harm come to her. Surely, they decided to go off on their own,” King Makens said, trying to calm them down.
“Can’t blame them at least they have found each other. Let’s give them a year or so. We should focus on finding prince Juno a suitable princess so that our grandchildren will have fated mates one day or at least by shaman spell,” King Makens suggested, feeling that prince Mano has gone through enough.
