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MICHAEL'S POV

What am I going to do? I just keep asking myself. I have hurt my mate so much. I didn't find her in time and now she is married. The mating bond is drawing on her. I could smell her arousal as she was telling me off and in truth that just turned me on but I could not act on it. That would be just wrong. I mean I know we are meant to be together but she is married and has a family. I also know that he will die young.

If I don't keep a tight reign on myself especially when I have to view her and Lewis' love making I will be in serious trouble. Liam has told me that for us to complete our mission or destiny that we must remain pure of heart. The easiest way for the evil one to get his claws in us will be through our sexual desires.

I put both of us in this situation because I literally had thousands of chances to meet her and on many of those occasions I basically refused to meet her because she was human. My sister practically told me she was my mate without breaking the rules governing her special gift. I was just too stubborn to listen. Why? Because I thought she was human. Augh!

Her smell is so ... wait a minute ... her smell is the reason I always like to go to my sister's apartment when she was in college and then when I would come home from a trip of looking for my mate. Dang I am so dumb. That smell would always give me a sense of comfort when I would visit Mary and then my wolf would get agitated the closer it was to the time she was due home. Liam could sense that she was coming and my stupid brain would think I needed to go because I knew my wolf mate was close and I needed to look for her not wait around to meet some human. I remember Mary begging me to stay and just meet her roommate, 'just meet her please', and then 'you will never regret taking the time to meet her' she would say. I don't know why I didn't see it. She did everything but say 'you stupid mutt she is your mate,' which is the one thing she couldn't say. I AM SO SORRY MARY.

I need to figure out what I can do now. Some way I have to be a part of her life and not take her. I have to ensure her safety at all times. I know I have talked with dad about this but now knowing she is a Royal Wolf but yet not I guess I will need to talk with Bill and his dad. I also need to finish my talk with them and find out whatever it is that King David brought me here for.

No time like the present to go ahead and set up the meeting or at least let Bill know I am ready.

Bill I mind link to him I need to talk with you.

Is something wrong Michael? He answers back.

No there is nothing wrong! I'M JUST LIVING IN HELL!!!!

Hahahha, is that all. He said laughing back at me. It can't be that bad, still laughing

Well I don't see you without your mate.

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Sorry.

Did you get a chance to talk any?

A little but...

But WHAT? I can tell he is pissed off and you never want to be on the pissed off end of a royal.

It's not what you think ... she fell asleep and then when she woke up a few minutes ago she let me have it for not finding her and told me she needed me to leave her so she could feed DeNice in peace.

You slept with her?

Not like that and she doesn't really know that I did ...

WHAT?

Well she fell asleep as I was taking her to bed last night. You know after catching her when she got up in the room with y'all?

I tried to leave her but every time I would get up she became so restless. So I only left her long enough to take care of DeNice. I felt she needed to get some good sleep. I basically watched her sleep all night. I left this morning when I heard DeNice waking up and changed her diaper then quickly changed cloths and went back to the nursery and was about to get DeNice's bottle when she came in fresh from sleep and let me have it. I guess that's why I need to talk with you. I really don't know what to do? I want to make things right or as right as they can be. Look watching her sleep and keeping her safe gave me some peace but this morning when she gave me a peace of her mind ... that was hot as hell. I confess to him.

Michael you know l love you. You are like one of my children. You always have been.

Why do I hear a but coming? I ask him.

And you are very intuitive. There is a but. Maria. How do I say this a way you can understand? It's more than her being blood. I am not as close to any of my siblings children as I am Maria. Maria has been under my care since the day she was born. Though she is my sister's granddaughter I was assigned her safety when we found out her mother was pregnant with her. Von was put over her sister's care and I was put over hers. Her grandmother and her mother were also under my care. Her aunts were under my other brothers and her only other female cousin of that line is under Joseph's care ...

I knew that Joseph was the brother that was next in age to him and in charge of the royal guard.

... Once Mary shifted and we realized her gifts I took Mary on a visit when I went to check with the head of the royal guard assigned to her family. His son was playing with Maria in the yard when we drove up. His son, James, was 3 months older than Maria and they lived next door. This was great because Mary hopped out of the car and started playing with them immediately. Maria and Mary became friends on sight. While we were visiting as was our usual custom I saw all 3 girls and so did Mary. Nicky is Maria's cousin and the oldest of the current generation of possible wolves. Andrea is Maria's sister that is next in age and then Maria. Your sister told us the only one with a wolf mate was Maria and that she knew her wolf mate. Of course you know your sister's gift, she couldn't tell us who it was. She just told us he would make us proud and she would do everything in her power to get them together.

Wow...my sister was working with you at a young age.

You have no idea how much your sister did for this kingdom in her short life. We will forever be in her debt.

Mary loved the time she spent at the palace with all of you. I can't help but think at times Mom and Dad were jealous of the closeness Mary and I had to the royal family.

Hahaha...you do know that your mother was practically raised in the castle don't you? Her and Von were almost inseparable until she met your dad and even then Von was like an over protective big brother to her.

Why do you think we have always called him Uncle Von?

The family noticed that and in truth we always wondered why Rae and I were asked to be your God-parents instead of Von and his mate.

I think that was Dad's doing. You were Dad's mentor and Mom loved you too. Where I think Von tried one to many times to keep Dad away from Mom when he came sniffing around for his mate. Dad believes that Von figured out that Mom was his mate about a year before he ever caught sight of Mom. It had something to do with him smelling her scent on Von's cloths. Anyway after the first time he smelled the scent on Von, Von would order him away from the History wing at different times and if his class was suppose to do something in that wing Von would come up with some way to make sure Dad was otherwise preoccupied. As Dad tells it, one day when Von was out of the castle checking on a prophecy Dad was sent a summons to see the Royal Historian (Mom's grandfather) and there set Mom crying to her grandfather because she knew her mate was close and avoiding her. Dad was called because he was the top ranking student at the time. It is truly a beautiful story of how they finally met. I think it took years for Dad to forgive your brother for keeping them apart that year and causing Mom to think he didn't want her.

I always knew there was something that happened. Just never knew what. I may have to get your mother to tell me the whole story so I can rag my baby brother. Especially now that you are going to turn out to be his ru... never mind.

When you ask for the story make sure Dad isn't around. He still gets upset every time he hears it. I tell him snickering.

Boy does Dad get upset and about the only thing that Mom can do to settle him down is get him away from everyone for awhile. Of course, hmmm now that I think about it every time it gets brought up I end up getting a new brother or sister just a little while later.

Hey when you do ask Mom you might want to have the helo ready to take them to some deserted island for a few days just in case dad shows up. I tell Bill laughing.

Why? He ask.

Well Dad becomes increasingly mad and if Mom doesn't get him away he takes it out on the rest of the pack.

It makes him that mad. He said snickering.

Not at first but then he keeps thinking about it and it gets worse. In Von's defense, Mom said she never let Von know what was hurting her. Von thought he was protecting her. But back to the reason I wanted to talk with you. I need to have a plan on what to do with the way things have turned out. I want to do right by Maria and Lewis and their children. My wolf has told me that he is the wolf father of her children and will need to be apart of their lives. So I think I need not only to talk with you but I need to find out what your father is doing and wants of me. Do you think you can make the arrangements?

Yeswe can get together this afternoon and Mom may also be there. I know this morning she is going to want to spend some time with Maria and DeNice. I don't know what they are going to tell Maria. She really doesn't know anything as far as we know but we don't know what her wolf has told her. Bill tells me.

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