Filed To Story: Their Bullied and Broken Mate by Teri Petry
“Did I miss something?” Jakob asked. Maddix shook his head and said, “No, I apologize your highness. The look on my wife’s face at the sight of the fish heads struck me funny, that’s all.”
It wasn’t long before Henry and Gunner had joined in on his laughter, and I was near certain that the royals thought we were insane. I cleared my throat, and let them know that I had never seen cooked fish with the heads still attached, and that my facial expressions always reveal what I don’t speak out loud.
The queen got a little chuckle out of that, but Jakob still looked annoyed. Someone desperately needed to remove the stick from his ass.
“Alpha, I know we agreed to keep things light and casual tonight. However, I find it necessary to inquire into the situation regarding your Luna. I have come to learn that she is no longer just a mere witch. She has received a wolf, am I correct?” he asked.
“Yes, she has. When she gave birth to our son a month ago, she needed a blood transfusion. My dads were a match, and able to give her blood. My dad, Loki, was the one who donated what she needed. He passed the gene to her, and right before this past full moon, her wolf came to her. She shifted the night the moon was at it’s fullest,” Maddix explained.
“Your highness, I take my role as Luna very seriously. No matter what, I would have gone through with the ritual if I hadn’t received Ivy the way I did. No one is trying to pull one on you, and after dinner, if you require proof, I will shift to show you. I also mean no disrespect to you, but I think that it is unjust for you to require someone who wasn’t born a wolf to be turned just to hold a rank. Even if they are mated to a higher-ranked wolf. The moon goddess pairs those who compliment one another to be together forever, and who are any of us, regardless of title, to judge the choices she makes? The moon goddess doesn’t make mistakes, your highness,” I stated. I had enough of the off comments, and the snooty attitudes. I wasn’t biting my tongue anymore, and I knew my mate wouldn’t hold it against me.
Jakob’s face stiffened mid-bite, and I could see the fury in his eyes. He spit his food into a napkin, and faced my mate. “Alpha Maddix, I suggest you silence your mate. Her half-cocked comments are unwelcome and unwarranted. How dare she question my decisions? What I say and how I rule is not for her to question, just obey. Am I clear?” he bellowed. He was pissed, and I knew why. I had struck a nerve, and now it was a waiting game to see just how much.
“With respect to my wife and mate, I will not be doing that today, Jakob. She is right, even if we have royal blood coursing through our veins, it’s not our place to change what the goddess has put in place. No offense, but I fear her more than I do you,” Maddix explained as he put another bite of steak in his mouth.
I could see he found humor in the aggravation of this poor excuse for a king, but the king did not see much humor in our honesty.
“Alpha, don’t forget who you are speaking to. I could wipe this pack and that land you also own that houses witches, off the map. I would then take your land and let you experience life as a rogue, if you weren’t killed first,” Jakob sneered.
Maddix calmly placed his fork on the table, and sat back in his chair. He wiped his mouth with his napkin, and placed his hands on his knees. The fire that burned in his baby blue eyes would torch the whole house if they could. After staring at the king for a while, he leaned forward and placed his elbows on the table.
“Listen, Jakob Michaels, King Jakob, whatever the hell you are demanding people call you now, I will NOT tolerate anyone, including you, to come into my home, my pack, and dictate what my people can say or how they should act. I will not allow you or anyone else to come here and tell my people or myself that unless their mate is a wolf, they cannot be a part of our world. Yes, you may be over us all, but we here, still abide by ancient laws. The way it should be. We will honor all laws, except that one. So, if you feel the need to punish us for that one law, then do it. If not, I ask that you take your leave in the morning because we will have nothing else to discuss,” Maddix spat.
My mate then stood and left the dining room, leaving Gunner, Henry and me to handle any negative reaction from the king and his wife, and there was definitely something to handle.
It was the queen who spoke out, and the sharpness in her voice could have cut glass. “Luna, if this is how your husband conducts his affairs, then maybe he isn’t up to par to be an Alpha. I personally have heard great things about THE Alpha Maddix Young of Blood Moon and Ruby Meadows. However, his actions today leave me questioning his greatness. All I see is an unworthy bastard child of a rapist and a whore trying to play Alpha,” she taunted.
I was having a hard time holding Ivy in, and the more she spoke, the harder it became. When she called him a bastard of a rapist and a whore, I snapped. Ivy immediately took over and jumped on the table, growling in the queen’s face. Gunner and Henry were at my side, quickly apologizing for my actions. Fuck that! I didn’t need to give anyone an apology. He was my mate, and no one was going to disrespect him this way.
I heard Maddix call my name from the doorway. I knew he was pissed not only at them, but now me, so I backed away and jumped off the table. I hid behind him to shift back, and Henry handed me a blanket. I felt bad for causing more trouble, but Ivy said that it was necessary to show them who they were messing with. Maddix demanded I explain myself, so I did. I knew he would flip his shit, but I wasn’t expecting him to say what he did.
“Look here, you piece of shit! Yes, I may be the biological son of a rapist, and maybe my birth mom was a whore, I don’t know. However, you will hold your tongue about either one of them in my presence. I didn’t know my birth parents. I am not them or like them, and I would appreciate it if you remembered that. I am the son of the Great Twin Alphas, Loki and Liam Young, and the powerful Luna Melian Carter-Young, and THAT you can comment on. I was raised to show respect to ALL species, not just the ones I’m dictated to respect by some undeserving penis-looking man who wants to play like he knows how to be a ruler!”
*Gunner POV*
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