An unwanted surprise

"Shit, shit, shit!" I cursed. I looked to my friends. Moira was drooling over the hot guys, April in shock and Zeph seemed to be as confuse as I was. Her eyes met mine and her confusion nearly broke my soul. One of them was her mate and she didn't know why she was being pulled to him.

The king and the DJ halted at the same time, as if the scent just hit them too. The DJ began searching while the king looked around with wide eyes.

"Fuck this," I grabbed Zeph's hand and quietly pushed her under the pastry table before diving in. They could follow our scent, they could find us. I didn't know if it was right hiding Zeph, but I did on instinct.

"What's going on?"

"That DJ, the blue eyed, he is your mate," her eyes flew wide with absolute shock. "Get us out of here, teleport us, now!" She was too daze to understand my instruction. So I grabbed her hand and began crawling under the long table to the exit.

"She was here, she was just standing here," I heard Zeph's mate cry out. I knew it was his because the voice affected her, not me.

"Your Majesty, what is going on?"

"My erasthasis, she was just here, I smelt her," now, that was his voice. While the crowd broke into a murmur, it made my heart do somersaults.

‘Mate, mate…’ Majesty whimpered. And her animal instinct kicked in.

‘Majesty, we don't need a mate, remember?’

‘But he is good looking.’ She whined.

‘No, he isn't, that was the bond. We need to get out of here and have Zeph teleport us out enough to run.’

‘But I want mate.’ She whined again.

‘No, you don't!’

‘But mate wants me.’

‘You don't know that!’

"Who was here just now?" I heard DJ bark at someone. From the scent of her fear, April.

"Er…it…it…"

"Our friends," Moira replied evenly, she wasn't scared of him but she was of my mate.

"Where did they go?"

"I didn't see them, but if Xyra is involve, she's probably running away and dragging Zephyr along with her,"

‘Traitor!’ I shouted through the mind-link. She chuckled out.

‘Which one of them is yours? The king, right? And the DJ, Zeph's?’

‘Yes, now silence.’ I commanded her.

"Where are they?" My mate asked calmly.

"She just commanded me to shut up, sorry," she said chucklingly. We finally made it to where we could run off without anyone seeing us. But when we crawled out, I came face to face with dad's shoes. I looked up at him and grinned sheepishly.

"Well, hello father, great to see you,"

He had a frown on his face, "Xyra," he drawled warningly, "what do you think you are doing?"

"Looking for my earrings?" He frowned deeper, "no? Oh, okay, I'm running away?"

"You can't run away from your king, that's treachery and a slap to his face as his mate,"

"I am not his mate, Zeph is," I lied sharply.

"I am not," she replied, out of her daze. "I have a mate, and he is hot. Fucking yes!" She screamed. Practically revealing our location. I swiftly got out and hid behind dad. Maybe if I grow thin enough, he wouldn't notice me.

"Dad, distract them while I run?"

"No!" He shouted. Zeph already came out, arranged her dress as she giggled.

"You," DJ called, rushing over to her. She raised her head from her dress with an innocent smile.

"Yes?" Instead of replying, he pulled her to him and trapped her with his arms. "Mine," he growled.

"Excuse me? Who are you and why are you touching me?"

What a drama queen.

"Mine," he growled again.

"Oh no you don't," she poofed out of his arms to dad's side and clung to his bicep, making everyone confuse. "Daddy, that man was touching me," she cried.

"You're a witch," he stated. I think she rolled her eyes.

"Do I look like one? I don't think so, and no, not a vampire but a wereghost. Yes, I'm rare, deal with it and don't come close to me, you weirdo!" Dad facepalmed himself with a groan. Me, I was stealthily sneaking away.

"You know I can see you sneaking away, right?" Of course, he must have been watching me the whole time.

"Xyra, come back here," dad commanded. I pouted childishly, turned around and made my way back to them. "Your Majesty, I am so sorry, please don't take offend over my two daughters. Xyra is a little bit sensitive towards mate topics…"

"No, I'm not," I cut in, "I just don't want one," dad nudged my side, causing me to grunt.

"And Zephyr is my adopted daughter, don't know much about mates…"

"Yes, I do," Zeph said.

"Shut up," dad growled. I was avoiding looking at anyone, it was embarrassing. Now I think about it, what I did was childish and humiliating.

‘Oh, now you think so,’ Majesty said mockingly. I rolled my eyes.

‘Oh, shut up. Weren't you the one preaching the 'no mate' theory to me? You are such an animal.’

‘And you are such a child! You just made our mate and everyone here see us as nothing but a teenager.’

‘I am a teenager!’

‘Well, you shouldn't act like one!’

‘I've never acted like one!’

‘But today of all days, you just had to. Good going, Xyra, good going.’ She said sarcastically.

‘Majesty, I freaked out, so what?!’

‘So everything!’

‘No, so nothing! I saw a sexy guy, found out he was my mate, I panicked and ran. You can't blame me for this.’

‘Oh, I blame you.’

‘Fine, whatever, do what you want. But you are right, I shouldn't have done that. He'll probably see me for who I am later anyways.’

‘Yeah, that's true. If he doesn't reject us.’ She chided.

‘He can't, lycans don't do reject.’

‘Okay, let's talk about this later. Walk up to him and kiss him.’ She commanded.

‘I am not doing that! Over your dead body!’

‘Stop being stubborn, Lumina!’

‘Stop being irrational, Majesty!’ I shot back.

‘Oh, like you were few minutes ago?’ She mocked.

‘Panic! I panicked!’

"Xyra," mum called, placing her hand on my shoulder.

"Kind of busy, mum. Majesty is giving me one of her nagging lessons so I have to deal with her, so hold on for a…"

‘I do not nag, you fat ogre!’ I gasped out loud.

‘Well you do, cow.’

‘Hey! Take that back!’

I purred when dad's fingers found my ear again. "Majesty, please, leave her alone for a moment so she could concentrate, okay, my warrior?" Dad asked with the tone he always used on her. Majesty wagged her tail and sat down in obedient.

I scoffed and folded my arms, "yeah, that's what you are, an obedient dog,"

‘Why you…’

"Xyra, stop baiting Majesty and focus," dad said with frustration.

"Well, she started it with her talk of how he is so hot and blab blab. She said I'm childish. But it's not my fault. I panicked and ran away, sue me!" I threw my hands in the air dramatically. Then scrunched my face when she spoke.

‘What a baby.’

‘And what a pretty little kitty.’ I taunted. Majesty did what she always did when our fights got intense. She found a way to punish me without feeling the pain. She bit me mentally, thereby biting my brain and causing a migraine.

"Ow! She bit me! Majesty bit my brain!" I turned my angry accusing eyes to my mate who was watching me with utter amusement and a face that looked like he was deciding if he should laugh. "This is all your fault! I knew I should have stayed at home with Fina… Okay, That is a terrible idea, I take it back."

‘Stop embarrassing yourself, play dead!’

‘Agreed.’ I knew how to shut my brain down, years of practice. I gathered my energy into my mind and sealed it off, shutting down my body but leaving my mind open. The blur covered my vision. I let the weight shadow my mind before falling forward and crashing into warm arms.

‘Ah, the dramatic mate catch mate thing.’ Majesty chuckled.

"What happened to her?" I heard him ask with a little bit of worry.

"She…"

"Usually collapses after her wolf attacks her," Moira came to my rescue. Of course, my friends knew me too well.

"How is it possible for her wolf to hurt her?"

"Simple, they don't get along. Majesty and Xyra are like fire and ice, egg and paint, glue and acid, bread and… Will you stop touching me?" Zeph snapped. Then I heard a smack.

"She'll be fine, as long as she gets some rest," I didn't hear anything else as I briefly lost control of my mental conscious state. His sudden scent everywhere gave me back my control. He gently laid me on something soft, his bed because it smelt like him. Then he chuckled, a deep sexy chuckle.

"You can really go to sleep now, no one is here to watch you drool."

Huh?

"I know you are pretending, but get some real sleep, mate, we'll talk in the morning." And with that, I felt him leave me to actually sink back into my head. My mind repeatedly screaming:

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!