Sold To The Alpha
A Love spoken Chapter 27

Sitting together in the quiet of the trees, Gabriella leaning against Rowan's side having pulled his arm around her shoulders, the three peers talked among themselves, as Rowan remained mute as always. 'So Gabriella, what do you intend to do? You are eighteen now and Nate will take over the pack, so what about you, where will you go?' Vaughn asked interested.

The Princess grinned, 'I am going travelling' she announced excitedly, Olivia and Vaughn giving her a surprised look, 'I have spent my life behind these damn borders, unable to go anywhere or do anything, so I have decided that I will be leaving Silver Cross and heading out into the big wide world' 'Good luck when you decide to tell your mum that' Olivia replied laughing.

Gabriella waved her hand dismissively, 'I am an adult so if I want to leave the pack, my parents cannot stop me' she declared, grabbing a grape and popping it into her mouth with a grin.

'Ballsy' Vaughn replied chuckling, 'but I'll bet that won't be what you actually say when the time comes!

The Princess gave him an outraged look, 'are you trying to say that you think I am weak Prince Vaughn?' she demanded, arching her eyebrow.

Vaughn held up his hands in defence, 'not at all, I'm just saying you have a lot more mouth than trousers where your mum is concerned' he teased.

Rounding on Rowan, Gabriella pouted, 'what happened to defending a girl's honour? Are you just going to sit there and allow him to speak to me like that?' she whined before rolling her eyes, 'of course you are, it's all you do when you are near me' she sighed with exaggeration, 'god job you are mildly cute' she muttered before flipping her hair over her shoulder and glaring at the smirking Vampire across from her.

Interrupting the pair, Olivia leaned back on her hands, her legs stretched out in front of her, 'OK, enough with the glare fest you two, how about we actually get to know each other?' she suggested.

Vaughn gave his mate an appraising look, 'what did you have in mind?' he asked with a cheeky look.

'How about truth or dare?' Gabby offered, an evil glint in her eye.

'Uhh Rowan can't talk remember?' Olivia replied rolling her eyes.

'I can answer for Rowan and if I can't or he doesn't want me to answer he will have to do a dare instead' Vaughn offered with a shrug.

Shrugging, Olivia reluctantly agreed, 'OK who goes first' she muttered.

'Well as the Princess suggested the game so she can go first' Vaughn grinned, 'OK Gabby, truth or dare' he asked.

'Truth' Gabriella said confidently.

Tapping his chin, Vaughn thought for a moment before his smirk widened, 'what is the worst prank you have pulled on your brother Nate?' he asked.

Gabriella started to laugh, 'ugh! But there are soooo many to chose from' she moaned plaintively, 'oh there was this one time when he and Landen came back from Red Moon for a visit and decided to go to the local night club, he wouldn't take me with him because I was only sixteen and would have cramped his style, or so he said, so I took an ultraviolet pen and wrote that he had an STD on the back of his shirt, it didn't show up until he got under the lights in the club. No woman, she wolf or human, would go near him all night, it took three hours for Landen to spot it and tell him' she giggled as everyone else started to laugh.

'Gabby! That is cruel' Olivia admonished, covering her mouth with her hand as she laughed.

Gabriella shrugged, 'he should have let me go with him' she countered, 'OK Vaughny, your turn, truth or dare' she said quickly.

'Truth' Vaughn replied with an easy smile, his demeanour unworried.

'hmm, I once overhead my parents arguing after you were whisked home quickly by your dad's on the last visit to our pack, no-one would tell me what it was that you did, so spill it, what did you do?' she demanded.

Vaughn looked at his hands furtively, 'maybe I should have gone dare' he muttered.

'Nuh uh! No swapsies! Answer the question' Gabriella argued, crossing her arms.

Sighing deeply, Vaughn met the stubborn teenagers gaze, 'fine! But you cannot remind your mum about it' he said reluctantly.

'Pinkie promise' Gabriella agreed wiggling her little finger at him.

'Right, well, please remember that I was about six years old at the time' he started defensively, 'When I came to visit, there was another kid, the son of one of the pack warriors, he was maybe eight or nine and it seems he didn't like Vampires that much. Well he kept talking trash about my dad and you know I couldn't allow that, it's my dad! No-one messes with my dads!

Gabriella shuffled closer, her eyes wide as she urged him on, 'and? What did you do?' she whispered conspiratorially.

Vaughn flushed slightly, 'I'm not proud of this OK, it was not one of my finest moments, but.. I may have stolen all the honey from the kitchen and put it in a pail early one morning before the Omegas came in. I went up to his room and ripped his covers off of him, causing him to chase me, now he may have been a werewolf but I have the blood of the Vampire king, so he had no chance of catching me.

I got him to chase me out of the pack house, around the side and back toward the kitchen, I grabbed the pail that I had left outside, turned and threw it at him, covering him head to foot.' Vaughn flushed in embarrassment, shifting uncomfortably as the group stared at him.

Gabriella shook her head, 'that doesn't sound bad enough to warrant banishment from the pack by your parents' she said suspiciously, 'I've done worse than that to Nate.'

the Prince continued to avert his gaze as he muttered, 'I may have left out the part where I had spent the previous day hunting for and collecting fire ants and that the jar of those I had on me were thrown at him after the honey' he admitted. Olivia gasped as Gabriella fell back howling with laughter, rolling around on the grass as she held her sides.

'That was you?' she gasped, trying to force air into her lungs, 'I remember that, he had bite marks all over him, everyone passed it off as he had fallen over on an ant hill or something and he would never tell anyone what really happened.'

Vaughn grinned sheepishly, 'yeah, my dad was mad, said I should have risen above it not given the kid proof that his opinion of our kind was right, but that was never going to happen. I feel bad now because he was screaming blue murder, half the pack came running, Luna Riley had to get the hose and literally hose him down like a dog in the yard. After that and the whole, trying to set fire to Oak Ridge, it was decided that maybe putting me in social situations was not the best idea and I remained in the castle after that. Gabriella sat up wiping her eyes, 'you sure don't go half assed on the punishments do you' she giggled, leaning against Rowan for support. Calming down she looked between Rowan and Olivia, smiling Evilly, the princess faced her friend and asked, 'truth or dare

Liv?' Olivia sighed heavily before reluctantly replying, 'truth'.

Holding the she wolf's gaze she said, 'so tell us Liv, do you have thoughts about doing naughty things to Vaughn's body?'

Olivia's eyes widened in horror as she sprang to her feet, 'oh is that the time already? We had better head back to the pack house, you know how your mum gets when we stay in the forest' as she hastily started to throw stuff back in the picnic basket. 'Liv! You didn't answer my question' Gabriella moaned as Vaughn started to snigger.

'No time' Olivia replied, pulling at the blanket until they all moved, 'I swear I heard one of the guards calling you Gabby, so lets go everyone' she added as she rolled up the blanket into a haphazard ball and threw it into the basket, picking it up and heading back toward the pack house, the other three rushing to catch up with her as she kept her bright red face down toward the ground.

Speeding up slightly, Vaughn fell into step beside the flustered she wolf, grinning as he walked silently beside her.

'Shut it' Olivia growled in annoyance.

'I didn't say anything' Vaughn replied with an innocent shrug.

'You thought it, I can feel you thinking it, so I'm telling you to shut up or so help me I will cause you a world of pain' the she wolf hissed between gritted teeth.

The Prince gave a low sultry laugh, 'hey if that is what turns you on sweetheart, bring everything you got' he whispered leaning in toward her ear, raising the skin on her arms in goose bumps as his breath tickled against her neck.

Flushing a deep red, Olivia scowled, hurrying her footsteps to put some distance between herself and the cocky hybrid.