The next day, the rumors about Brittney rejecting her mate resurfaced, and her act of disrespecting the king's mate.
The person who spread the rumor also included the reason behind her action of disrespect towards the king's mate, and the question she asked me also got popular.
I ignored everything going on and continued my day without any fuss.
Conrad didn't ask me any questions about the rumors or what happened at the tea party, I also didn't take the initiative to tell either, and we continued our day as usual.
It seems we know that this discussion might lead to an argument, and we know that we are not at the level of discussing the future of our lives together in our relationship.
We are trying to get to know each other, and there are secrets we both need to tell each other.
We can discuss our future together after dealing with Typhon.
Conrad told me about the alpha's meeting, and since I am not one, I don't attend at all, but he told me I need to be there.
And I am seated here in the conference with different Alphas and Lunas, with the Lycans.
I ignored the stares and glances from people, especially a piercing stare from my ex-mate that I had forgotten his existence.
Aiden, seated beside me in the room, noticed my dilemma and asked in a mind-link, 'Are you okay?'
'You don't have to come.' He added.
'Conrad said I should come,' I glanced at him and answered.
'Oh, you call him by his name,' He asked amusingly.
I ignored his teasing eyes, and someone announced the king's entrance.
Conrad's eyes found mine before he looked away and sat in his chair.
''I want to thank the Alphas and Lunas of the werewolves for making time to come to my kingdom. The purpose of this meeting is to tell you what your elders and I agreed to a proposal to make it safe for all of us.'' He paused to look at everyone before continuing.
''Each Werewolves pack must send ten warriors to the kingdom, hopefully in the next two weeks. According to both oracles, our enemy is cunning, and you can tell with what happened to my mate.''
'Who doesn't know that the famous SANGUINEX defeated twenty-five strays and twenty-five rogues and came back injured?' The people in the conference room thought.
The rumor says that she slaughtered every single one of them. If it were rogues, they would not be surprised as it was something that she did for years, but strays attacked with the rogues, and she slaughtered them all.
Strays are also Lycans, and Lycans are stronger and more dangerous than werewolves.
'Maybe it is because she is half-lycan,' Some thought as it isn't a lie the SANGUINEX is half-lycan and half-werewolf, since it happened before them.
I could feel people's glances and stares at me again. It was the first time he acknowledged me as his mate in front of people. In the first meeting, he called me 'commander carmen,' and now it is my mate.
''So each pack can send ten warriors, and my mate and her vice-commander would train them for anything, and also you can go to your werewolves' pack tomorrow, but I prepared a banquet this night to send you off.''
''Does everyone agree to this?'' Conrad asked.
Everyone nodded and murmured an agreement to the king's suggestion.
As Conrad was about to ask Harrison, standing beside him, to declare the meeting over, a familiar voice sounded, a voice I know too well.
''I have two disagreements,'' Derek, my ex-mate, voiced his complaints.
I sighed with my eyes covered with my hand and could feel Aiden's worried eyes on me. We know that once Derek says something, it might lead to something not good.
''What disagreement do you have, alpha?'' Conrad asked.
''My pack had been attacked by rogues recently, and we might not send up to ten warriors as we need the remaining warriors for my pack.''
''And the second one?'' Conrad asked.
''My mate, please return her to me.'' Derek stared at me as he mentioned that.
''Oh! so why are you looking at mine?'' Conrad asked.
''She is not your mate, your majesty. she is mine, my mate,'' Derek declared as he looked at the king.
Silence occupied the room at Derek's demand of his mate.
''So you are him, Alpha Williams of the rosemoon pack.'' Conrad chuckled darkly at the bastard alpha who rejected his mate for her sister, and now he dares to ask for his mate after the damage his chosen mate has done to his pack.
Conrad was about to speak when he felt something wrong. Immediately he looked at his mate and saw that she was not in her seat. He heard a choking sound and found her lifting the alpha by squeezing his neck.
''I didn't expect you bastard for not listening to your wolf's warning about going after my host.'' His mate voice, no, her beast's voice.
''How dare you to go after my host after your useless and pathetic pack and her family abused, abandoned, and rejected her," Artemis growled menacingly at this bastard ex-mate.
She squeezed his neck and lifted him higher from the ground.
''You made your decision when you rejected carmen, and I have been watching your pack for a long time, Derek.
Don't think that carmen didn't do anything to the rosemoon pack because she forgave you, but she didn't find you and your rosemoon pack worthy of her revenge, and besides, the moon goddess punished your werewolf pack on her behalf with the rogues.''
''Artemis calm down,'' Aiden came forward and tried calm Artemis down.
''Brother, shut up. I should have killed him a long time ago. I didn't touch him because carmen wanted to leave him, but he keeps disturbing her life, and the best for him to leave her is to kill him.'' She said with fangs extending more from her mouth and snarled.
Artemis squeezed the alpha's neck tighter, intending to kill him.
''Father and mother don't try to stop me,'' Artemis said, stopping her host's parents from leaving their seats.
There was a tense silence in the conference room as everyone watched the famous SANGUINEX intending to kill her former mate.
''If you kill him, you will be the alpha, and I am sure you don't want to be an alpha of his pack,'' Conrad said from his seat.
Artemis froze at that discovery.
She stared at her mate on his seat, and Conrad continued, ''Carmen wouldn't want to be an alpha of the pack who abused her and a mate who rejected her.''
Artemis stopped squeezing the throat of the alpha.
Artemis gritted her teeth and slammed the almost dead alpha to the ground.
She looked at him on the floor and growled at him, coughing hard, ''That should give a reminder of what would happen if I find you next to carmen.''
She snarled and left without looking at anyone's reaction.
Everyone looked at the disappearing back of the SANGUINEX and released their breath that they didn't know they were holding.
'Scary,' They thought as they looked at the almost dead alpha on the floor without pity.
''That should give you an answer, alpha Derek, about your ex-mate who is now my mate,'' Conrad looked at the pathetic alpha on the ground, coughing hard.
''Also, your pack doesn't need to send warriors, knowing about your history with my mate, consider this with me being lenient on you and finishing you off.'' Conrad left the conference to look for his mate.
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