The Beast didn’t seem to care for the difference.
“Hannes, I don’t know how this works with you and him, but please get it together. I’m not going to hurt you again, I swear it. Vampiress honor.”
André laughed at that, receiving my fiercest glare.
That shut him up really quickly.
When my attention returned to Hannes’s beast, I sighed, rubbing the frustration off my temples.
“Fine, the Beast protects you from me, I get it. Can we please go train now?”
“Definitely, but first, breakfast,” Dante interrupted. “I’m starving.”
Surprisingly, Star fell quiet as we walked the corridors of this impressive palace. I went along, only because I, too, was starving, and I was still ticked off with Hannes’s grumpy beast.
So what? Was he going to block Hannes from me every time I touched him? Was I even going to be able to get close to our third mate without the Beast coming out and running the mood?
I needed to find a way to show him that I wasn’t a threat to Hannes, maybe that way he wouldn’t feel the need to become a shield between us. Especially because it felt like with me being Natasha’s warrior right now, I was going to be out here at least until I got her mother back and that meant I needed to do double duty.
Natasha would need Hannes’s love when she returned, which might also mean I needed to build that foundation for her…
Challenge accepted.
Vampiress seduction skills activated.
My thoughts waned when a large tapestry came into view before we reached the stairs. It hung over one of the luxurious, jeweled-toned walls with its eccentric and ornately woven style.
The tapestry depicted vines curling throughout from which rare flowers bloomed among a soft forest, but at its center, a family crest was featured. The head of a wolf in the middle of a royal shield, and below it read…ReinheitWölfe.
The Beast stopped next to me, standing tall before it while pride exuded from him unabashedly.
Even though he wasn’t exactly Hannes right now, I liked witnessing the love and pride he had for his heritage. It was special.
After making it down to the great hall, a multitude of steps resounded behind us, and I looked back to see a mini army moving towards the stairs.
Twelve, fully armed guards with authentic medieval swords flanked what appeared to be two people, but it was difficult to see them through the wall of fierce muscle. With their bodies clad in elegant blue fight suits, they moved in unison, theReinheitWölfecrest proudly stitched in gold thread onto their chests.
Hannes’s adorable and sexy smile returned when he transformed back into a man, his clothes magically reappearing. The guys faced the approaching mini army, so I did too. Once the twelve men began to descend the staircase, they revealed their charges, making Star gasped.
“It’s the King and Queen! Bow, Bitch. Bow!”
The hell… Did I have to bow? I didn’t exactly know how.
“They are the highest of the Alphas. Can’t you feel their power rolling over us in waves?”
No. Actually, I couldn’t. Weird.
Honesty, I wanted not to care, I was a Vampiress, and they were Wolf Shifter Royalty, that didn’t exactly apply to me. Only, when my gaze fell over the woman, a certain nervousness spread through me.
I had to give it to her; the outfit was elegant, sexy, and modern all at the same time. The dress she wore accentuated her eyes, but it was fun and short, bringing attention to her curves and toned legs. She looked young but not as young as my VampirMother. Was she in her thirties? Maybe she was a different kind of immortal?
I really needed to finish that book about theReinheitWölferace. Shame it stayed back in Heart Island. Maybe I could borrow one here.
“Our race is not exactly immortal. We can live for as long as we choose to keep shifting, regardless of how long that is, but we still grow old. We develop fast, but once we reach maturity, we age far, far slower than humans.”
Huh. I liked that.
The feeling the queen gave me seemed contradictory. A sweet and loving air exuded from her when her gaze reached her son, but as it turned to me, the fierce queen came to the surface.
