Mr. Grumpy pants was mad. He was mad because I had locked him in and I had endangered myself by being alone in the house. He wasn't talking to me at the moment and I had laughed when he first told me that.

He wouldn't last the remainder of the day without speaking to me. I was willing to bet my left arm for that.

When I finished reading the book l had started a few days ago, I just set it down in the table and stretched out on the couch. April had long past passed out and her slight snoring was lulling me to sleep. My eyes were halfway from shutting closed when the voice I was expecting spoke out.

"Alright, I can't be mad at you. Say something. Anything. I just want to hear your voice again." He was now kneeling in front of me and I was staring at him through heavy eyes. I smiled and stretched, quickly pulling my shirt down when it inched up.

"It hasn't even been three hours and you gave up already. Must be a record."

He picked me up so he could sit down -even though there were two other couches available- and then placed me in his lap. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah. Just bored so I'm gonna take a nap. Wake me up when there's food." I heard his deep chuckle as I passed out comfortably in his arms. He indeed did wake me up when food was prepared, and I all but bolted to the table before he could say anything else.

After lunch, he made his announcement through the mind link. Even though I could not hear what he or they were saying, I could feel it. I could feel the power emanating from Alex as he concentrated and spoke to his people. He let out a short growl at one point and his arms tightened around me, making me curious on what they were talking about. He began to slowly smile and not even five minutes later, he was full blown smiling. The silent conversation lasted no more than thirty minutes, but that was enough; every pack that had enough warriors available agreed to help and Alex couldn't be any prouder.

"You should compensate the families of those who are battling. Im not trying to curse us, but some of them may not be coming back." I looked down at my hands while I said this.

"I know. And I am. Every fallen warrior will be buried with Royal honors and fallen or not, they will be compensated. They are protecting you so they deserve something in return for protecting my treasure."

I rolled my eyes and hopped off his lap. "Have I ever told you that you are so corny?"

"Have I ever told you that I don't care and that I love you?"

"Nope. And if you have, well I don't remember it."

He tried to grab me but I jumped away and landed on the opposite side of his desk. He bared his teeth and stood up as he stalked me. "Well come here so I can repeat it over and over again so you will always remember it."

"Nah I'm good. Besides, I have to unpack." Not really. I was having a girls day inside the palace, and I needed to get there soon, knowing they would be getting impatient if I left them waiting any longer.

He stopped mid step confused. "Unpack what?" I smirked and thought of one word. Let see what he thinks of this...... His eyes blackened and he growled. "I want to see them."

"I don't even know how they look like. So you're just going to have to-" His lips crushed into mine and I forgot what I was talking about. When he pulled away, my legs were too weak to hold me up and he seemed to be enjoying doing that job for me.

"You were saying?"

"Wha-a-at-tt?" I stuttered out and he laughed. I shook my head and pushed myself off of him before I walked across the hallway and into our room. "No boys allowed." And I slammed the door. I blushed when I saw the smirking girls and then shrieked when they threw some pillows at me. Where was Ali? She was suppose to be here as well.....

"Took you long enough. We were about to start our mani-pedi spa day without you."

"Yeah right. It was my idea anyways. And we are in my room." They all rolled their eyes and April took out her nail polish collection. Or should I say store since she had every single color out there. "Do you have enough there mate? Or do you need another one?"

"I would always love some more, but I think I'm good." She winked and then threw me a bright red. I shrugged and opened it up as they chose out their colors. When the smell of the polish entered my nose, I gagged and quickly closed it.

"Dang that's strong. Do you have anything else that doesn't stink?"

She opened it slightly and sniffed it. "I don't smell anything." Well I did. Huh... Must be my human senses.

"Will someone do mine then? I can't stand the smell."

Mags half smiled. "Are you asking us to be your slaves your majesty?"

I smiled back. "Sure. If that's what you want to call it." I then clapped my hands twice and sat down on top of a pillow. "Fetch me some grapes and feed them to me my slaves. Massage my back as well since it killing me." They all started to laugh and I groaned. "No seriously my back hurts. Will someone give me a massage?"

"Ask your mate to massage it for you. I'm sure he would looooove to do it for you." April cooed and they laughed. I grabbed a pillow and hit her with it, causing her to completely miss her toe nail and paint her skin instead. "Oh h*ll no. You did not just make me paint my skin purple."

"Ask your mate to clean it. I'm sure he will loooove to do it for you." She narrowed her eyes at me and closed the small bottle. She then grabbed a pillow and flung it back so hard, it slipped out of her hands and hit Mags in the face. I busted out laughing at her expression and she glared at me.

"Oh no you did not just throw a pillow at me."

"It wasn't me! It was April!"

"PILLOW FIGHT!" Screeched Rose and we all began to hit each other with the pillows, completely forgetting about the mani-pedis. I found myself being ambushed by all of them so I was curled up in a ball, calling mercy when the someone knocked on the door.

"The door! The door!" I shrieked as I crawled away. I was still crawling when I met two short legs and I looked up to see a pouting Ali.

"I missed it!?"

"No. We actually gave up on that. Grab a pillow and let's gang up on them."

After all the pillows were completely destroyed and we were all laying on the floor, panting and with feathers stuck in random places, I heard someone drag their body closer to mine. "Can...... Can we talk?" Ali panted and stood up. She had a few feathers sticking to her hair and she even spat one out. I had no idea how, but she had ended up with a feathered up pillow. It exploded when she hit Mags in the face and we all laughed for a good solid minute before she screamed and began to chase her all around the room.

"Come on. Let's go outside." Once we were outside and inside the empty office, I sat down on Alex's chair and propped my feet up in his desk. "What's up."

"What are you all keeping from us? I know it's about the mark so I want to know."

My feet slipped from the desk and I stood up. "I don't want you to worry. That's why I haven't told you anything."

She raised up her little hands. "But it involves us!? Shouldn't I have some kind of right to know, especially if it involves my life??"

I sighed and then pulled her to the small couch. I looked into her hazel eyes as she stared directly at me and then I sighed again. "You're right. You need to know. But I'm just telling you right now, it will never happen and you are going to be safe. No matter what I have to do, you will be safe."

She narrowed her eyes slightly at me but nodded. So I took a deep breath and told her the short and nicer version of everything. It didn't take long so by the time I was done, she was shaking in fear and I squeezed her to me. "Like I told you before, nothing will happen to you. I am taking care of it."

"But you can't just go because of me!" She whispered as she buried her face in her hands.

"And I won't let you go. I'll rather go myself and let you stay here. At least I know you will be safe if something ever happens to me."

She got out of my hold and shook her head. "No. I won't let you do that. I can't lose you as well. There has to be some other way we can fix this!"

"Well Alex is preparing an army and he will attack in the two week time period he gave me. He will keep us safe. No one will go with him and I will always be here with you, okay?" She nodded and hugged me back. After we were both smiling, we went back to the room to find the traitors giving each other the pedicures we were suppose to have done hours ago. I just gasped and sarcastically cried, "You guys started without us? How rude!?"

They all shrugged. "You took too long."

"Well you all look like chickens with those feathers stuck to your hair." I gasped and started to laugh. "Now I have guardian chickens! How awesome is that!?!"

The all growled and slowly stood up. I shrieked, open the door and started to run as Mags screamed, "I'll show you a guardian chicken!?!" Before I heard multiple feet stomping behind me.

I probably shouldn't have said that.......

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