12. Stetson

Stetson

"You insolent! Spoilt… arrgh!."

Another slap landed across my cheek drawing blood to my lips. I wiped it off with my thumb, then licked the rest off with my tongue.

"You!. You just had to…" father shook with anger, unable to speak anymore.

I glanced up at my father, clad in dark blue suit, his black hair was disheveled roughly after running his digits through the thick strands a million times, his face was completely flushed with anger, red and pink. His pointed nose was flaring and expanding with every pained breath he took, an ugly frown was creased between his brow, his jaw tightened as he gritted his teeth together. His entire face set in stone.

"Was I supposed to just let them kill me and not fight back?" I found myself asking.

"Shut up" my father's fist bumbed against my mouth, I staggered back with another part of my lips bursted, "Do you have how much i have to pay to those men you beat up as a console?."

I scoffed, they're lucky I didn't even kill them. They barged in and disturbed my Stetson time, they only deserve death.

"You could have not payed them" I scoffed, "they came in here looking for trouble and I gave them what they wanted."

Father tried to jump on me again with a slap but this time he was quickly stopped by his Beta who got in between in just in time.

"Donovan. This won't solve anything. Beating him up won't change anything" his Beta said pulling him back.

I had beaten up all five men that showed up at my suite yesterday. They were so badly battered that they couldn't walk, all of them had to carried out on a stretcher.

"Stetson, do you know it is against principles to sleep with someone else's mate?" Beta Lee said to me.

"No" I coughed eyeing the aging Beta. He was clad in a brown button down tuxedo, his graying brown hair styled nicely on his head.

Father tried to jump on me again with punches but Beta Lee was quick to grab him. I rolled my eyes at them, if he wasn't my father and an alpha I would have beat him up bad. If there was something I've always been good at, its fighting.

"Well son, it is" Beta Lee hurdled dad back to his seat behind his large office desk while I stood still already bored..

"So, what now?" I said trying to resist yawning, "I've got training to do."

Beta Steven sighs, "You don't know how strong a mate bond is because you don't have a mate."

"Rub it in" I scoffed.

Beta Lee continued, "If you go out to that training ground wolves will attack your pale ass…"

I cut him off, "let them. I can take it" I can take it.

I could see dad's fist clenching on the desk, I knew he would love to punch me.

"You still don't understand the gravity of what you have done?" Beta Lee raised his voice at me.

"I've slept with girls before in the past and there was no problem" I said nonchalantly.

"Well, those girls were mated but those two were."

"It's not my fault they came to me" I protested.

"Those women are being banished" Beta Lee said looking into my eyes immensely.

"Is sleeping with a prince illegal" I asked referring to myself.

"If those women are already mated then yes. Sleeping with anyone other than their mate is illegal."

I rolled my eyes.

Beta Lee continued, "son. Just because women throw themselves at you doesn't mean you should sleep with them, as a men you need to have self restraint and keep yourself till you find your mate."

"What if she's dead?" I mean, I'm almost twenty two and I haven't found my mate, seriously?.

"That's another issue. Then you'll have to be mated to someone else whose mate is also dead to get the balance we need."

I dropped back into one of the visitor's seat behind me. Of course, everything has protocols. Now their stupid protocol has to decide whom I take to bed.

"Well I'm sorry I couldn't resist those ladies" I apologize, not deeply. Just so they'd get off my back.

"You need to learn self restraint alright and you will learn it the hard way" Father glared at me angrily

What's that supposed to mean.

"You will also be punished Stetson."

"How Beta Lee?. Banish the crowned prince too" I said with a smirk on my face.

"Something better" now father was smirking at me.

I glanced from him to Beta Lee suspiciously, what's with the smirk and sudden faces.

"What does that mean?" I asked. I sat up and stared at the both of them.

"It means you my son have somewhere to be. I have exchanged words with Alpha Phoenix." Dad said.

"What does that have to do with me?" I rested my back on my seat again.

"You need to learn some lesson about self restraint and what it takes to be a man, before you can know what it takes to be a king. So, my son, Alpha Phoenix will train you on it" Dad explained.

I glanced from him to Beta Lee, "You're saying you want me to travel all the way to Alpha Phoenix's pack to what?. Learn self restraint and what it takes to be a King?" I said with a scoff.

My wolf, Cullen, whimpered in disagreement inside of me. There's no way we're leaving our small heaven to train in some stupid pack.

"Who knows?. Maybe you'll find your mate on the way or in that pack. Then you'll respect the connection of the mate bond" Beta Lee said.

I snickered, holding back my laughter. I eyed dad's face, waiting for him to cut the joke. His rough black hair was tousled all over his forehead in loose strands. Some of the tips were laced with grey. He's aging and I'll soon take over as King of this pack, there's no way I'm going anywhere.

"You can drag my dead body there" I said with scorn.

But with the look of seriously on both dad and his Beta's face, I knew it wasn't a joke.