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Reece's POV

We walked back to the castle hand in hand. Flora was humming a tune I didn't recognize, but she seemed content for the first time since the coronation. We shouldn't have kept her locked up in the room like a princess. She was a warrior and she deserved her freedom.

The Alpha council meeting had gone well. We mourned the men we lost, and the men we caught. Jeff was dead, and his father, the two-faced royal was scheduled for execution in two moons. It seems like we had cut off the head of this operation already, and it was just a matter of tying up a few loose ends.

Killing those involved after they gave us another name, and just not stop till we got them all.

I turned my head to see my mate gazing far off, her attention not on the path ahead of her. No wonder she tripped all the time. In eight days would be a full moon, and she would transition. I had to prepare her for that, but she was a strong woman, both mentally and physically.

Suddenly, she straightened up and stopped humming, looking at me with glee. I raised an eyebrow, not entirely trusting. "So, does this mean I can finally train with April?" She asked me and I let out a dark laugh. Of course, she was thinking about this. She'd been asking April to train her secretly since a while, but my people were loyal to me.

"That depends, she's still reeling from the fact that you sacrificed your life to save hers. Bodyguards take that kind of stuff hard."

"Well, now she can pay me back with a few killer moves." I whistled.

"I suppose so. After the transition." I told her sternly but that didn't stop the slight spring in her step at my words. I was glad she wanted to learn to be a good fighter. It was stupid to assume that only men had to do the fighting.

"I'm surprised you've not lectured me yet on the whole, value your own life and save yourself thing." I spoke as an afterthought and I shrugged.

"You've made your decision, there is no swaying you. So, I'm just going to do my very best." I told her, my tone resigned and conclusive. Flora looked like she was going to say something but then decided to let it go.

"I wonder if I could go swimming right now." She mused, and my hold on her hand tightened. She looked at our entwined fingers and then at me with a frown. "It's not like I'd run off to swim, Reece." She told me, but there was a hint of a smile in her voice. She was right, I was too protective.

I ran a hand through my hair in frustration. There was another difficult discussion I had to have with her, but the moment was so good, and she was so content, I didn't want to ruin it.

"Flo?" I asked her anyway and she turned to look at me, sensing something off in my voice. "I was looking for you in the room and your phone rang – your mom called like six times." Her face contorted in horror and I immediately assured her, "No, no. She's fine - we're still watching her apartment. I think Jeff just decided that she was inconsequential to this whole operation." She relaxed again and suddenly I felt stupid for bringing this up anyway.

"Alright I'll call her back when we get home." She told me, ignorant of my inner turmoil. I decided to just go ahead and blurt it out.

"Also, some guy called Collins from AVA called. He left a voicemail." She looked so lost that I knew I had spoken too fast.

"Collins from AVA? We – Oh my God! What's the day today?" She asked, her hand subconsciously holding mine tighter. She'd stopped walking now

"It's Thursday. The party was on Monday." I told her and watched her eyes calculating. They widened in alarm and suddenly she was dragging me behind her as we ran back to the castle.

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