Royal Wolf Box Set by Haley Weir

Chapter Thirteen

Everyone took some time to themselves to sort out what they would do and how they thought the situation would unfold. Theo went back to Marquette’s room with her. She sat down on the bed and watched as Theo stood at the window and looked out onto the forest outside the castle grounds.

“I’m sorry that I tried to push you away again,” he said after a few moments of silence. He turned to walk over to her and sat down on the bed. He reached for her hands and placed them in his lap. “I know that I broke a promise to you, and that I shouldn’t have. But Marquette, I needed to keep you alive, and I thought that was the only way to do it.”

“I understand,” she said. “But it hurt me beyond measure, and you can never do it again.”

Theo nodded. “I won’t.”

“I mean it, Theo. Do you have any idea how much it hurt not to be able to come to you? I would have much rather taken my chances at death by the teeth of any wolf then to go through the agony of losing you. Don’t ever do it again.”

“I know my word doesn’t hold much weight right now,” Theo said. “But please believe me when swear I won’t try to push you away again. I promise.”

Marquette leaned against his shoulder, and he wrapped his arm around her.

“What is going to happen now?” she asked quietly.

“Do you want the honest answer, or one that doesn’t sound quite as bad?” he said.

“I want an honest answer.”

“Well, there will likely be a battle between the packs to fight for the rule.”

“Which rule?” she asked. “The rule over the kingdom or the rule over the wolf packs?”

“They kind of go hand in hand,” Theo answered. “Although, I’m not really all that sure of the intricacies of it myself. That’s a question better suited to my father.”

Theo thought about the fact that he was going to have to deal with his father soon, and he wasn’t looking forward to that conversation.

“I would run away with you, Marquette,” Theo said unexpectedly. “I would leave everything behind and run away with you to keep you safe and stay together.”

“What are you talking about?” she said as she lifted her head off his shoulder to look at him. “You can’t do that. You can’t abandon your family, and your kingdom, and your pack.”

“They will all carry on fine without me; actually, they would probably all be much better without me.”

“That isn’t true,” she said. “And as much as I would love to run away from everything with you and start over somewhere else with just the two of us, I won’t let you do that. You have obligations here, and people that care about you and are depending on you. Even I will not run from this and leave your family to deal with the mess that we’ve caused them. Your family has always been there for me, and they’ve always been there for you too. We need to stand by them. You need to stay to help protect the rulership, and the packs, and even the humans inside of Grenvich. Your father is counting on you.”

“I don’t think my father counts on me for much of anything,” he said solemnly. “I’ve let him down by not listening to him, and he’s had to save my ass and clean up my messes more than once.”

“Then maybe it’s time for you both to start listening to each other more now.”

Theo knew that Marquette was right. As much as he wanted to run away from his problems, he couldn’t. Even if she hadn’t talked him out of it, he knew that he still wouldn’t have gone. It just felt good to entertain the idea of running away, even if it wasn’t a viable one.

“When will the battle be?” she asked.

“Soon,” he said. “And it will likely happen right under the humans’ noses without them even knowing. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if the humans knew that shifters existed. I mean, I know that there would be those who tried to hunt and kill us, but maybe there would also be those that just wanted to live in peace.”

Marquette pulled the covers on the bed back and then stood to begin taking off her dress.

“What are you doing?” he asked as he watched.

“It seems like this is the calm before the storm,” she said. “And I wanted to get into the bed and rest with you. If you’ll stay, that is.”

“Of course I’ll stay,” Theo smiled. “I won’t leave again.”

He helped her untie her dress and lift it over her head. Then he took off his shirt and shoes and got into the bed with her. Marquette snuggled up beside him and set her legs over his, entwining her ankle between his calves and resting her head against his chest. He laid there and held her in his arms, thinking about what was going to happen and wondering if he could have done anything to prevent it.

“You know,” he said after he had thought about it for a little while, “if I had to do all of it over, I would still do everything the same as long as it led me to this moment with you.”

“What if we could have done some things differently and perhaps better, and they might still lead to this same moment?” she asked.

“I would still do them all the same.”

“Why?”

“Because the chance that they might lead to this moment is not worth risking it. You are the most important thing in my world, Marquette. And I would give up rule over everything and anything just to be lying in this bed with you right now. There is one thing about this moment, though, that I do question,” he said.

“What is it?”

“Do we really need to get rest?” he asked. “Because I was thinking about something else that I wanted to do right now in bed, but it isn’t sleeping or resting.

Marquette giggled as Theo traced her collarbone with his fingertips.

“I definitely don’t feel like resting anymore,” she said as she moved her hands to the top of his pants to undo the buttons.

When there was no longer a barrier between them, Theo crawled on top of her, and this time, he didn’t hesitate at all before he pushed himself between her thighs and into her body. The swift movement was so strong and slow that it made Marquette groan with pleasure at the tightly rubbing friction that sent ripples of delicious pleasure throughout her body. She looked up at Theo’s body moving above her; his tensed muscles flexing with every push and pull of their bodies together. He bent down to kiss her and she twisted her fingers in his messy brown hair as she held his head and mouth to hers.

Neither of them had realized that they left the door open, and neither of them cared. Everyone now knew that they were together in love, and there was nothing left to hide. Although, if they had realized it, they still would have at least closed the door.

“See?” Holly’s voice called from the doorway. “This is why you both will owe me a thank you after we win this stupid pack battle.”

Theo looked over at his sister and struggled to stop himself from moving inside of Marquette.

“Sorry,” Holly laughed as she put her hand over her mouth. “I actually wasn’t trying to interrupt, it’s just that you left the door open. But I’ll close it and give you two some privacy.”

She smiled at Theo, which was fairly awkward considering he still had his throbbing cock inside of Marquette and was waiting for the chance to move against her again. His sister wanted him to be happy, and he finally was. Now, if only he could get rid of the matter that was facing them tomorrow.

When they finished making love, and Theo laid down beside her, they were both tired enough to finally rest and sleep. In the morning, Theo would have to go and talk to his father about what they were going to do. But for right now, he would rest in contentment with the woman that he loved in his arms.

“Whatever the day brings,” he whispered to Marquette right as she drifted off to sleep, “we will be together when we greet it.”

“Then how could it possibly not work out okay?” she said with a tired smile as she fell asleep against him.