Warrior Princess
Chapter 11

Kasens POV

Arriving at the hospital, I notice the doctor is outside waiting for us. Considering it is hard to fit fully grown werewolves through the front doors he’s set up a trauma tent outside. He takes Samantha and him and a team of medics start working on getting her stable enough to shift back. I shift as well and put on a pair of running shorts that josh hands me.

I look to her family and say. “if you have any injuries please get them assessed. I will have my staff set up some rooms for you all.” They bow and I walk into the Trauma tent watching over them work on my mate. Atlas whines in my head.

“She will be okay. She is a warrior at heart.” I tell him and that seems to calm him down. I am surprised she lasted so long on her own against a bear shifter. A royal one at that. Speaking of which, “Josh, follow me.” He falls in line with no questions asked. We walk through the Palace to the Cells.

“Time to have some fun eh?” I ask him.

“Kasen, do you know who that shifter is? What is he doing on our lands?” good questions indeed.

“I have a hunch of who it is, as to what he’s doing here I don’t know, but we’re going to replace out.” Barging though the cell doors, I walk to the room where we are holding the young prince. He looks to be around my age. The guards we have watching over the sleeping oaf bow their heads. Marcus meets us in the dungeon, and I turn to him.

“I need you to make a couple of calls for me. One to the counsel. Find out if the have any information about bear attacks, or any growing tensions between the bear kingdoms. Don’t inform them of that’s happened. I will handle that myself. But I don’t trust the counsel with all of the information as of right now. Secondly, I need you to call the Bear King as well. You know where to replace all of the contact information. Let him know we have his son in custody for attempted murder. Ask him how he would like us to proceed. Inform him we will be interrogating him and charging him if I deem Necessary, but I may allow his sentence to be carried out by their kingdom. If he asks you who was attacked just tell them the Queen of wolves.” He eyes me for a second. He didn’t know that I had found my mate. The only one who knew were the doctor and Josh.

“Congratulations your highness. Well, I guess not at the moment, but you found your mate!” I don’t say anything. I still don’t know how to process everything at the moment. Dealing with the counsel, running a kingdom of wolves, politics, that’s easy. Understanding matters of the heart, soul and mates, now that is scary and difficult. Practically Rocket Science.

“It’s the Rogue, isn’t it?” I nod my head.

“Yes, she is of Beta B***d, and no wonder the goddess paired us. She may have enough skill to take you down, Marcus.” He grunts and rolls his eyes. He leaves to make the requested calls as I turn to the Prince, I see he is still asleep. I slam my hands on the metal table and he jolts awake.

“Thank you for joining us, your highness.” I say.

He smirks at me. “I see you recognized me.”

He laughs. “Thanks for chaining me to a desk. But can I ask what the hell I’m doing here?” Does he seriously not know?

“That wolf you almost killed, is my mate. You are here in my custody. I have already sent someone to inform your father to see how he wants to proceed.” he stiffens at the mention of his father. Good.

“I didn’t know that was your mate. I was simply out hunting for the day and came back to replace her sleeping in my humble abode.” She must have taken shelter in his house…

”Wait, what are you doing living in the Royal packs lands?” asked Josh.

“Well, I was taking refuge in the cave just passing through. Keeping an eye on your pack. I’ve been here for a week and no one has noticed despite all of the patrols that have passed the cave.”

I growl at the fact that he has been under our noses all along. “I would appreciate it though, if you didn’t let my father know where I was. Not if you want to save your kingdom.”

“And what would I be saving my kingdom from? A narcissistic Killer such as yourself?” he laughed. Laughed really hard. “oh, that’s great is that what my father has been spreading?” I look to josh and eyes me while keeping his attention on this bear.

“There was a worldwide notice that you attempted to kill your father, mother, and 3 other brothers in order to take the throne by force. You’re telling me that’s not the case?” he shook his head at me.

“No, it’s not. I left the kingdom because my father and brothers forced me out I overheard their plans and I didn’t agree with them. They have been attacking smaller kingdoms left and right. They want to be the rulers of the supernatural realm. The fae, the Witches, Vampires, hell even other Bear territories that didn’t agree got attacked. I’m surprised you didn’t know about it. A lot of people have died. Other rulers have either been killed or forced into hiding.”

I immediately link Marcus, “Don’t call anyone yet. If you have, hang up immediately.” He linked back to inform me he disconnected before he got ahold of anyone. “No, I haven’t heard anything. I have weekly meetings with the Supernatural council and none of this has been brought up to me.”

He laughs again. “Oh gee, I wonder why. It’s because they’re in on it as well, and any council member that isn’t meets their untimely demise. I was here to warn you. I had overheard that your kingdom is next. I’ve been staking out the place making sure none of our soldiers come through. I don’t know when this attack will be, but I know it is coming. I got disowned and being labeled as a traitor just to save your asses. I didn’t have to do that, but what he’s doing isn’t right. What the council is doing isn’t right. The kingdoms need to live in harmony and one ruler over every supernatural isn’t right.”

Well, this just got a lot more complicated than I thought.

“How do I know you’re telling the truth? Especially with no evidence. The council is supposedly dirty, and your royal family is supposedly lying sacks of s**t. So how do you supposed I believe you over the word of them?” He ponders for a bit.

“I see where you’re coming from, I really do. I will do whatever test you can think of and pass with flying colors. Lie Detector, ill do it, replace a witch to cast a spell to force the truth, I will do it. I never meant to hurt your queen or mate. But when you have the world against you, you keep your guard up and attack first, ask questions later. I could be asking you why your queen was sleeping in a cave.” I growled loudly at him. He just smiled. “Trouble in paradise?” I’ve heard enough and leave the room.

Josh follows me to my office, and we replace Marcus there waiting for us. I explain everything he said, and he paled. “If what he says is true, we have the biggest fight we’ve ever faced on our hands. We’d have to call in all of the packs under our reigns militia and even then, that may not be enough.” He’s right.

“Get started on that, in the meantime, I will send some warriors and either josh or yourself to go to the other kingdoms and recruit. If they were attacked by the bear king, they may be cautious but they’ll want to help to prevent this from happening again.” They nod.

I got a link saying Samantha is stable, shifted back, and in a hospital room. I head down to see her so we can have a few minutes alone before her family gets to her.

I stop by the nurse’s station and see the same nurse I had slept with before I found out Samantha was my mate. She seemed excited to meet me. Before she could approach me, I turned on my heel. I don’t want to deal with this, but I just want to talk to the doctor or a nurse for an update before I see her. I replace the Doctor and he gives me the update.

“She has a broken arm, we put a cast on it. She had a few deep wounds on her shoulder and on her h*p, those have been sutured. We gave her a b***d transfusion and have her on an IV Her wolf is healing her nicely. It is amazing how in sync she and her wolf are. Every time I’ve treated her, I expected longer healing times, but as we were working you could see the healing tissues at work. She is a strong shewolf. I see no problems for her healing at this moment. She is resting now, but she was asking for you and her family. You can visit just don’t overstimulate her and don’t let her get up. She needs to rest.”

I nod and head to her room and knock. When I don’t hear a response, I go in. She is sleeping in the bed. Looking at her body I see all the bandages and bruises. I pull up a chair and sit beside her. I don’t want to leave but I don’t want to wake her up.

“You’re her mate, aren’t you?” I hear her mother say. I just nod. “I saw the way your wolves were with each other. If I may be so bold, your grace, why are you sending her home with us If she is your mate? Are you rejecting her?”

I immediately shake my head. “No, I can’t do that. I just. It’s complicated. I need to talk with her when she wakes up. I am confused. I’ve been hurt before but that’s all I’m willing to say right now. I don’t want to hurt her either. That’s why I was going to send her home. She doesn’t deserve to be anymore hurt than she already has.” She places her hand on my shoulder. Normally anyone who touches me unwarranted loses the hand they touched me with. But this is my mates’ mother, and I replace myself thinking I don’t mind it at all.

“Just talk to her. My Samantha is a good girl. A smart girl she will understand you just have to give her time. If in the end you still want to send her back, we would be glad to have her home. Just know that I have a special love for mates. I know leaving her mate would break her. Probably worse than anything you or I could imagine. Just remember the goddess paired you for a reason. I’ll come back and visit her later with my husband and her brother.” With that, she turns and leaves the room.

“We need to stop meeting like this mate.” I turn at the sound of her voice. It is sweet and melodic.

“You’re right. It seems every time I see you, you’ve added a new injury to the list. This hospital room should have your name on it. You think?” She laughs. I don’t think I’ve ever loved a laugh so much.

“I want to talk to our mate.” Atlas chirps.

“Not now. I need to talk with her first then you’ll get your turn mutt.” I take in her features. She is beautiful. I replace myself running my fingers through her hair. It feels as soft as silk. She grabs my hand and I place my other one on her cheek.

“I was a fool.” I tell her she doesn’t say anything. Relishing in the sparks she and I feel she just closes her eyes.

“Cinnamon and spice and everything nice.” that’s um, odd. “It’s your smell. You smell like a big pack of Big Red Gum.”

I chuckle I never thought of it that way. “And do you like Big red gum?” she just nods. “we need to talk, little mate. I don’t want to throw too much onto you at one time, so once you are discharged, we will talk. Your family is in the waiting room they would like to see you. If you’re feeling up to it.”

She sighs. “do I have to?”

“I won’t force you to do anything, but they would love to see you. They told me what had happened. I think you should hear them out. Especially your brother. He is hurting. I’m not saying you’re not, but you may be surprised.” Her eyes darken a bit indicating that she’s mad, but she nods anyways.

“Just don’t leave me alone with them just yet. I don’t want to be alone with them.” She grips my hand tight, and I just nod.

“I’m not going anywhere, little mate.”