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He Is Strange

Rhea’s P.O.V.

“Why did you go for the run alone?” Daniel asked me in an angry tone in whispers while looking at everyone around us. “Moon was a bit agitated”, I made a lie and put the blame on Moon. “Is she okay now?” he asked me with concern and I passed a weak smile to him. We were going towards the dining room to have our dinner. Some warriors from other packs were also walking either in front of us or behind us. “She is okay”, I told him and then looked in front of me. “O I forgot to tell you that I met Theo here”, he spoke once again in a chirpy tone after a while.

“Why was he here?” I asked him in a calm tone when I clearly knew the reason. He moved his shoulders up and down. “I don’t know. I asked him but he didn’t answer me. He still remembers you”, he replied to me, and then told me something that I really didn’t want to know. I didn’t say anything for a while. “The palace is really huge. I am thinking to ask Alpha Hunter if we can stroll around. I really want to see the whole palace”, Daniel spoke again while admiring the interior of the palace. I totally agreed with him on this matter but I didn’t want to roam around. I was already the center of attention because of me being the first omega warrior to win the best warrior award.

Daniel was a talkative person. He liked to talk about everything and it irked me sometimes. He was my first trainer when I started training as a warrior. He was the most patient one too. I was so clumsy and weak still he didn’t give up on me at any time and always encouraged me to do better. He was the first person in the whole pack who showed his trust in me and that I could do better. Later I was trained by gamma Albert and when Moon surfaced for the first time in front of alpha Hunter, he decided to train me by himself. He prohibited me to shift in front of others. I didn’t ask him the reason because Moon agreed with him immediately.

I listened to Daniel’s blabbering the whole way to the dining room. Other walking around us looked at us with weird gazes from time to time and it made me lower my head because it was really so embarrassing. Daniel was talking nonstop without looking at anyone else but me. I wanted to stop him but I knew that he didn’t care about anyone. I took a deep breath of relief when I saw gamma Albert coming towards us as soon as we entered the dining room. Daniel shut his mouth and it was really a big relief for me. “Rhea… you will sit with Alpha Hunter during dinner as all the nominees of the awards would sit with their alphas”, gamma Albert informed me and I bowed my head a little.

“Come with me”, he said to me and both I and Daniel followed him towards the place allotted to us. “Rhea”, I stopped in my track when Prince Henry called my name. Both Daniel and gamma Albert also stopped and we all bowed our heads in front of him. “Greetings, my prince”, I greeted him first because he called me. “Ahhhh please… I asked you to call me Henry. I guess you can do this for me”, he said in an annoying tone and I pursed my lips into a thin line. Gamma Albert cleared his throat because it was really awkward for all of us. He knew that I never would do that as I had my own principles.

“Anyways… come with me. I want you to meet my sister and my parents”, prince Henry asked me and I looked at gamma Albert first and then at him startled. This was out of the blue for me. “Go”, gamma Albert whispered to me. I sighed internally because I really didn’t have a choice here but to follow prince Henry. “His wolf is very powerful and domineering. We need to stay away from him”, Moon spoke in a very serious tone in the back of my mind. “You felt that too?” I asked her immediately and she hummed in response. “Come”, prince Henry raised his hand towards me and I now looked at his hand and then his face dumbfounded. What he was trying to do here?

“Uhhh… forgive me, my prince… but.. I.. I don’t think that.. that it will be appropriate for me to take your hand. I am your subject, not… not.. very close to you”, I refused him in a very polite manner that I could show. He still had masked his scent and his friendly behavior towards me was giving me some strange feelings. Also, the people around me were now looking at us. Prince Henry took a step closer to me and I just held my breath. He was the future king and I was refusing him. He could punish me for this and no one would be able to save me, not even alpha Hunter.

“You are the first girl, Rhea, who refused me without even blinking once”, he said in a husky tone. I still had my head lowered and I could see his shoes in front of my eyes. “I am sorry, my prince. I don’t want to sound rude…. But.. taking your hand is beyond my limit, my prince”, I apologized to him with all my sincerity still keeping my head low. I heard him chuckle and then he inhaled sharply. “Okay… I respect your decision and you really impressed me again”, he said after a while. “Now shall we?” he asked me and I nodded once. “We will be right there at the west side of the dining room”, gamma Albert informed me and I nodded to him before following Prince Albert in the other direction.

“My dad will head the dinner tonight but he is with other royals and high-rankers of this pack in the next room”, Prince Henry told me while walking beside me. I was still not looking up but listening to him carefully. “My younger sister Helena is still underage but she is also a powerful she-wolf. She hates being trained and it sometimes really irks me”, Prince Henry started talking with me casually as if we were friends forever. “Why is he telling us all these things, huh? It’s not like we are going to stay here forever”, Moon said in an annoying tone in the back of my mind.

“Your wolf”, suddenly Prince Henry said something about Moon and I immediately snapped my head towards him. I immediately averted my gaze in the other direction when I realized that I had reacted badly. “What about her, my prince?” I asked him in a calm tone but my heart was now beating furiously. “Relax, Rhea… don’t need to panic. It’s just that I heard from my father that your alpha, alpha Hunter requested my dad to allow you not to shift during the duel tomorrow. He requested to allow you to fight in your human form”, he told me the reason for mentioning Moon in a calm tone.

I took a breath of relief and then smiled a little. He opened the door of the next room and I entered behind him. I felt my chest stuffed due to the presence of all the high-rankers and so many royals in the same room. Their powerful aura was enough to bring someone as lowly as my status to her knees. I was also feeling dizzy but I stood firm on my feet. “Dad… mom”, prince Henry called his parents and then walked in their direction. I was following him but I didn’t need to follow him because the combined aura of the king and the queen was enough to tell their location in that large room.

“Henry… where were you?” I heard an authoritative female voice, I assumed the queen, asking a question to prince Henry. “O come on mom… I am not a child anymore”, prince Henry whined and then I saw his body moving in my direction. “Remember the she-warrior from the Blood Moon Pack, mom?” prince Henry asked his mother in a light tone. “Greetings my king…. My queen”, I bowed in front of them from my waist and stayed in the same position waiting for their orders. “Rise, my child”, I heard the queen’s voice once again.

I straightened my back but kept my eyes low. “So, she is the girl, huh?” I asked her asking about me to prince Henry. “Yes, mom… she is nothing like the rumors that we heard about her and you can see that”, prince Henry said something about rumors that I really didn’t have any idea. I guess I needed to talk with gamma Albert and Daniel about this. “That I can see. The seriousness on her face is not something that one can fake in front of us”, the queen commented to me. I really wanted to go away from here as soon as possible. They were talking about me as if I was not here.

“My child”, suddenly a beautiful emerald color gown came in front of my eyesight. She came closer to me and then put her finger under my chin. She lifted my face and I didn’t resist because her touch was not domineering but a touch of a mother. I slowly raised my eyes and my eyes met her sea green beautiful eyes. She smiled and then looked back at prince Henry beside me. “She will look more beautiful if she smiles a little”, she said in a light tone and I lowered my eyes again in embarrassment. “O come on, Rhea… she is our queen… smile for her”, Moon whined inside my mind.

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