Chapter 9
Four years later
"This is like watching a sad version of Animal planet" Genove stated.
"Shove it Genove!" She snapped at him "You don't have to be here" she told him.
"And miss you making puppy eyes at the wolf?" He added.
Both of them looked at the wolf below in the forest, it has been months since he had shifted.
Michael had kept his word, since the time she left he handed over all his responsibilities to his Beta and he started his hunt. He tracked down every single clue, every single rumor about elves and was moving heaven and earth to find them....find her. He would not succeed, she knew that but the tenacious wolf was not giving up and she remembered what he said.
"I will die trying"
And apparently that is what exactly he planned to do. Sometimes when she came back to check upon him in the night she heard his heartbreaking howl and the bond twisted and turned her gut to go to him. So far she resisted...for four agonizing years she resisted, but her walls were crumbling and she was not sure how long could she keep this...this torture. The wolf simply did not know how to give up.
She sneaked out to watch her wolf from time to time like some dirty secret...she kept an eye on him as he spent the years looking for her, she was looking out for him but never too near, once or twice she came close to him and he immediately felt it. Since then she kept her distance but never lost track of her wolf.
Right now he was scouting the thick forests in the mountains where a rumor of elf presence was heard.
Genove sighed next to her and added "This is sad."
"If you miss him that much you should go to him dove" he told her softly, this was not the first conversation they had on this topic and was surprised at Genove's vocal support of the wolf.
"Why do you support him?" she asked.
"Because...you are miserable since you came back...all you do is mope around and act like a bitch...more than usual that is" he said wryly.
Yes, since she had come back she realized the magic the wolf bond had weaved on her...she should have listened to the damn healer and stayed back in the elf realm and never gone to taunt that damn alpha.
For the first few months the bond had pulled and prodded her but then it eventually set in to a feeling of dull longing at the back of her mind. However it flared from time to time and that was when Glaneth unable to control, escaped in to the human realm to spy on him...just looking at him soothed the bond for a few days.
She tried to keep herself busy and as promised focused all her energy on wreaking anarchy in the fey court. She successfully destroyed two houses of fey court who were her arch enemies, establishing herself as an undeniable strong force in the court. That however did not stop the fey snicker behind her back or pass since comments regarding her fondness of 'dogs'
She had tried to get in to the game, get some action but she could not even digest the thought of it...for the last four years she did not have sex and if it continued her vagina would wither away...she had been a girl with needs and she enjoyed those needs very much but now only one face came in to her mind...
Apparently the mate bond fucked up her sex life as well. She cursed the damn wolf for the thousandth time.
And just when she thought she would go mad, distraction came in the form of shake up in the fey structure...
The fey court was and extremely volatile place because of lack of monarch...the monarch line had been lost and none of the fey could take the place without the bloodline....that lead to all types of power wrangling, each family trying to dominate the other but then suddenly the lost line was found.
A girl...the fey queen was found and of all places she was found in the human world, unaware of her lineage, living a simple human life until her fey genes kicked in on her eighteenth birthday, when she first suspected that she was more than a simple human. She had hidden her ability and continued her existence as normal when a few years later she literally...walked in to the Lancer family business for a job. The Lancer family...loyalists of the fey court recognized her for what she was and immediately took her in to train her to take the mantle. For two years she had been trained to take the throne of the fey court and bring peace to their kind.
So imagine the surprise of the court when a twenty four year old girl was unleased on to the court as their monarch. It didn't sit well with a lot of fey families who were used to having their ways unchecked. Infighting ensured and in the last one year the queen had cleaned up her court of unwanted fey and fill it with her loyalists. Glaneth wisely sided with the queen and now was one of her trusted lieutenant.
In the last few months things had quitened down all dissent driven away, the queen had consolidated her power. There was peace and unity in the court...which had been an unusual phenomenon to witness and with the quite the bond came roaring back the last few months the bond had been occupying more and more of her thoughts that some days she simply could not function and had to see him...today was one of those days.
Genove sighed next to her again and she gritted her teeth, but before she could bite back at him she felt a strong pull...a summoning pull....wide eyed she looked at Genove who also sported a shocking expression on his face apparently he was being pulled too.
And only one person could summon an elf this way...the queen.
And before they knew it they were in the queen's quarters with an amused queen looking at the pair.
"Your Grace" Genove quickly went on his knees. Where are Glaneth simply bowed her head "Your Grace" she acknowledged her queen.
"I hope I did not disturb you" the fey queen said softly, she had been placidly lounging in her sofa.
"of course not" Glaneth responed.
The queen's eyes fell on a still kneeling Genove. "You may rise" She told him and added to both of them "Please take a seat" she indicated to both of them.
Both of them sat down anxiously as to what they did that incurred the queen to summon them.
"I heard something interesting a couple of weeks ago" The queen stated "About you being mated to a werewolf?" She looked pointedly at Glaneth. "Is this true?" she softly asked her.
Glaenth took a deep breath, she would find out who the culprit was and make them pay "Yes, it is true" She responded to her queen.
"I see" the queen said, looking at her carefully, studying her "I heard that the werewolf mate bond is one of the strongest bonds there is and even the elf are not immune to it, it is true?" she asked.
"Yes, it is" Glaneth said clipped.
"I also heard some elements in the fey court conspired to keep you with the werewolf when your powers were down so that the bond will influence you and you will succumb to the bond and therefore get undermined in the court, is this true as well?" The queen asked.
"Yes, that is true as well?" Glaneth confirmed.
"Are these...elements still in the fey court?" The queen asked.
"No, I took care of them" Glaneth offered.
The queen gave a small smile "I am sure of it" she said.
"So, now you are stuck with a bond and the way I see it you have two choices, you succumb to it as the greybeards tell me is a matter of time of you get rid of it"
"Shall I have it gotten rid of?" the queen offered "Its just a matter of having to decapitate the wolf...Evan there would be glad to help" She said looking at her personal body guard who was standing across the room near the door.
"Evan? Would you be a dear and get us the wolves head?" the queen asked sweetly....
"NO!" Glaneth shouted and got up, she was about to pounce on the queen when she realized what she was doing and froze.
The lounging bodyguard had materialized next to his queen and was glaring at her...assessing her as a threat...his hand on the hilt of his sword...a demonstration that he did not appreciate her action.
"My apologies, your Grace I was clearly not thinking" Glaneth offered weekly.
The queen waved it off and told her bodyguard "Evan, can you go back...She didn't mean anything"
He was not clearly convinced.
"Evan" the queen said a little loudly and touched his bare hand. He relaxed at her touch and looked at her.
"Go back, Glaneth is not an enemy" She told him softly but firmly.
He gave her a curt nod of acknowledgement and returned to his place but was observing them keenly to make a move at any given moment...if he felt his queen threatened.
The queen sighed and focused back on Glaneth "So, you clearly care for the wolf...now, my question to you is, why are you not with him?"
Glaneth kept quiet, grinding her teeth...clearly not happy with the line of questioning...the silence became almost insulting when Genove answered "She is afraid"
"Afraid?" The queen asked looking at Genove "Afraid of what?"
"Her immortality" He answered "One day the wolf will die and leave her all alone and she is afraid of that...she had a mortal family before and lost them....she almost did not make it through the pain, she is afraid of that pain."
All this while Glaneth was looking away, staring in to the air...her heart pounding at the truth being revealed.
"What is this to you...your Grace?" She asked her queen.
"Why, such interest in my life?" She questioned, she was being borderline rude to her monarch.
"You have been a great support of mine and helped me establish my rule...I think of you as a friend and I wanted you to be happy" the queen said.
"I thought of summoning you the moment I heard about your werewolf, but instead I wanted to gather some facts first...I know about your previous family and it was sad that the fey court refused to offer their protection to your family then" The queen said "Something that I am going to change, going forward any fey that bonds out of their race, that family will be provided protection as well"
Both looked at their queen in surprise, that was a radical thought...The fey court in the past never approved interbreeding of fey with other species and would never offer protection to any potential offspring and family of the said fey.
"Why so surprised...I am a 'crossbreed' myself you know?" The queen said quoting with her fingers in the air at the term crossbreed.
"How do you think I ended up with humans? I was born to a human...as you know...so it should not come as a surprise that I would offer protection to people like me out there" The queen explained.
"So let me ask you again, what's stopping you from being with the wolf?" The queen asked.
"He is an Alpha of reputable standing in his world...and he clearly loves you madly if he has been tearing the planet apart to find you for the last four years"
The queen heaved a girly sigh "If someone was dedicated to get me...I would want to be caught, I would totally do him"
Glaneth stiffened at the queens statement and the guard near the door was grinding his teeth so hard that it could be heard all the way here.
The queen put up her hands in the air in surrender and said "I am just saying...You are lucky, your guy is doing everything in his power to be with you...its romantic." She sighed romantically and added "Some people I know don't know love when it comes up to them and bites them on their ass" She commented her eyes unconsciously drifting to Evan the guard, who upon hearing her comments stood stiff like a roman statue.
Interesting, Glaneth thought...the Queen and the guard...very interesting, she filed this titbit of information to be explored later.
"So me being romantic and all" the queen said "Wanted to help you and I had a few greybeards working on this case."
Greybeards were the wise ones of the elves the library owners who knew all the knowledge since the beginning of their species.
"And they found something interesting...that I thought to bring to your attention...If a werewolf is mated to an immortal he on his death will be reborn again and again as long as the immortal is alive and be mated to the immortal time and again. Ergo...your wolf will have rebirth after every few millennia and will come back for you...I think you can use some time apart every couple of millennia? Don't you think...it's like time out between couples and 20-50 years is a blink of an eye don't you think? It's like that movie fifty first dates only instead of every day it's going to be every few millennia, I could live with that." The queen concluded.
Glaneth's heart was hammering away...she certainly could live with that as well...if he would be reborn and have her as her mate ever few thousand years she certainly fucking could live with it....She had shut down the possibility so firmly that her emotions were exploding with her queen knocking down every single reason of hers to not be with him in the first place."
"Did you know this?" The queen asked her about the rebirth stuff.
"No" Glaneth whispered.
"I gathered" the queen said "So, Your family if you have any will be protected by the fey and you will not have to be alone for eternity...and you have a wolf that is moving the heaven and earth to find you...What say you?" the queen asked.
What could she say....she was overwhelmed but suddenly dread seeped in to her...she looked around to find the cause but could not find any threat?
The queen looked alarmed and concerned. Glaenth started heaving, what the fuck was happening to her?
"Are you ok?" the queen asked.
The bond...it was the bond...something was wrong, it was twisting violently.... "Michael" she whispered in despair...something was wrong with him....
"Go" the queen just said, understanding what she was saying and waved her hand.
And Glaneth was transported back to the forest where she had been observing Michael before she got summoned. Using the bond she zeroed on to him and was shocked to find him lying down naked near the edge of a lake with two bears feasting on his back...
No. She rushed and gave one of the bears a kick that made it fly across the lake and land on the other side. And a punch form her hand knocked the other one dead.
Those fuckers must have caught him unaware...she rolled him over and put his head on her lap...
"Michael...Michael!!!" she slapped him across trying to knock some sense in to him. He was seriously injured and would need help.
"Stop hitting me woman!" he groaned regaining consciousness...last he remembered he had been hit on his head so hard that he lost consciousness and now he felt like his shoulder was missing.
"What happened?" he moaned in pain "You tell me...when I see you there were two bears having an all-out buffet over your body."
He suddenly stilled...his entire body becoming frigid.
"You are here" he stated.
"Glad you can state the obvious" She deadpanned.
"You really are here" he said again.
"Yes, I am really here"
"Why?" He asked her bluntly.
"So I can save your ass..."She stated.
"Stay still so I can heal you" she said.
"No!" he said, gritting his teeth in shooting pain in his back.
"What?! Don't be an idiot..." She said "Stay still damn it" she said at his fidgeting.
"NO!" he said.
"Why the fuck not?" She screamed at the mad wolf.
"Because, me being hurt brought you here...and you will leave as soon as I am fixed." He stated.
"Don't be stupid!" She shouted back.
"Vow to me that you will not leave me!" He demanded.
"Don't be ridiculous Michael" She snapped.
"Very well...let me be!" he snapped back, trying to roll away from her lap.
"You are mad!" she declared. "You are hurt and it will take you time to heal with even your wolfy ability...you will be vulnerable, something might attack you finish you off" she screamed at him.
"Well then let it!" he spat back "atleast that will stop the hole in my goddam chest where my heart was...I do not call it living for what I was doing for the last four years...you know when was the first time I found peace in the last four years?" he demanded "When the fucking bear knocked me unconscious!!!"
"Let them kill me...it solves both our purposes...I will finally find peace and you will finally be rid of me!" he said "Let me be...elf..." he said broken looking away from her.
All anger drained out of her body, now guilt was piling up on her...looking at him she knew every single word he spoke was truth.
"I vow to you" she said softly.
"What?" he said looking at her with utter disbelief?
"I vow to you, you crazy wolf!" She said.
"What are you vowing exactly?" he asked her suspicious.
"What?!!!!" she asked taken aback.
"What does your vow entail...explain" he said.
"Are you serious right now?" she asked...was he serious?
"Yes...I need to know elf...I need to know what you are saying" He demanded.
"Or what?" screw him, she thought angrily.
"Or no, healing" He threw back.
"Are you blackmailing me?" she demanded.
"Yes...is it working?" he retorted.
"I am inclined to dump your sorry naked ass here and leave you" She said.
"Naked...so you noticed" He said grinning though the pain and winced.
She rolled her eyes "men!" she muttered.
"So...the details of the vow are yet to be established..."he stated.
"Oh! For the love of god" she said and bent down firmly kissing him...he was helpless at the onslaught of his mate kissing him and he did what any hot blooded wolf would do...promptly kissed her back.
She sent some healing power through her kiss effectively healing him and pulled back.
He slowly got up and cautiously moved his arm...all healed...no pain.
He looked at his mate sitting across him, he could still feel her soft lips on him.
"So" he said breaking the silence.
"So "she responded back.
"Now that I found you...you know I am not letting you go right?" he told her.
She raised an eyebrow "is that right?"
"I found you didn't I, I found you as I promised you" he said.
"You only found me because I wanted to be found" she stated.
"So, now what..."He asked her "I vow to you elf if you..."
"You and your vow's" She interrupted him.
" I am here aren't I?" she added "What does that tell you wolf? For an Alpha you sure are dense!"
"You mean..." he couldn't formulate his words, this was too good to be true...after four years of torture, she just showed up ready and willing...
She saw the doubt and hesitation in his eyes. She knew what she had to do.
"I vow to you...I will never leave you...I vow to you that I accept your mate bond. Is that clear enough?" She told him.
Utter disbelief...the very words he dreamt of her saying, had no hope of hearing...
"Why?" he asked bewildered.
"Long story" she told him "but I am here and I am willing, so you want to play twenty questions or you want to come here and kiss me?" she demanded.
At that he pounced...and she pounced...and they kissed...
...and kissed
...and quickly shed her clothes.
...and kissed.
...and he jumped on her and entered her in single stroke.
...and kissed.
....they made wild love in nature, each other fighting for dominance.
...and kissed.
And after bouts of lovemaking both of them butt naked were lying on the edge of the lake thoroughly sated.
"Michael" She whispered at him.
"hmmm" he said content in life.
"The fucking bear is looking at me!" she said.
"What? He said and looked at where she was pointing.
The bear that she had knocked dead earlier, its empty eyes were staring at them.
He laughed...a throaty...deep laugh.
This elf was crazy and he looked down at her naked form in love and desire..
And his.
The End
There will be a short epilogue updated shortly
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