Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Ethan’s pov

I appointed a new beta as the one I had was excommunicated from the pack, I heard the news from one of the Council of Elders that Lauren was dragged out of the pack.

I was not angry at what the Council of Elders did to Lauren because she deserved it. I had a sister who was the queen of a pack, she had been ruling the pack ever since her mate died. She refused to get mated to anyone else.

Although our relationship was strained a little because we were both rulers of a pack and we had different administrative work to do.

I hold her closer to my heart because she was the one who taught me about the act of war and everything about royalty.

FLASHBACK

SEVERAL CENTURIES AGO

I was quite younger then, as the second child and the only son of my parents, I was pampered as I was given everything I asked for. My father was a disciplined Alpha right from the onset and he wanted to instill the discipline in me.

He could not do it because he was interrupted by my mother.

“Leave the young Alpha alone, he’s too young to learn anything”, she said to my father.

My father was weakened by the statement and because of this, he relented in the way he was handling me. The love that my parents had for each other was so envious and I longed for such a relationship.

I was playing with my toys when I noticed that my sister was training with a sword in the training grounds, I was curious about such swordsmanship skills and the desire to become a swordmaster was birthed in me.

I went to the training grounds with my toys as my eyes never left my sister as she was training with the sword. She stopped and I guess that she had the feeling of being watched so she stopped.

“Does this pique your interest??” She asked.

I nodded my head as a small smile was seen in those lips of hers.

“I’m exhausted today, I’ll show you tomorrow” she said as she left the training grounds.

I held the sword and a familiar feeling washed over me, it felt like I had held and trained with the sword before. It left as soon as it came, I tried everything I could in order to bring back the feeling all to no avail.

I sighed as I left the training grounds and headed to my room, the toys which I found interesting were becoming boring to me as I left the toys and brought out a novel which was about wars and I began to read.

I drifted off to sleep, the next morning, I sneaked into the training grounds, I found out that my sister had not come, I was glad because I would be able to see the moves from the scratch to the end.

She entered the training grounds and was a little bit surprised to see me, she took the sword as she began to train with the sword, I looked at how she trained with the sword and was absorbing her moves at a faster rate.

She stopped as she noticed that the atmosphere was getting thickened, she turned to look at the sword and she realized that it was coming from me.

She came to me and patted me at the back, I fell on the floor as I was exhausted. I was pondering on the phenomenon that had happened to him.

“It’s because you have an affinity with the sword” she said.

I looked at her with a confused expression on my face. She chuckled as she said

“Do not expose your emotions easily, it would make you a prey for the enemies as they would be able to tell what is going on with you”

I nodded my head as she explained further

“You would be a great warrior in the future”. She said.

At my young age I was blessed with immense wisdom as I am able to understand every speech that was made.Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“Mum and dad are saying that you’re too young to handle responsibility, but responsibility is not determined by age” she said.

I knew by her words that I needed to handle responsibilities. Every day I learn new things from my sister, my parents were not aware that I had training sessions with my sister.

Apart from the training sessions, she was the one who began the etiquette training with me as she told me the little she knew about royalty and the responsibility that came with it.

My parents came to know about the training session that I do with my sister and were annoyed with it, they were at the verge of punishing my sister, it was not right so I spoke out loud

“She did no harm in helping me out” I said

My parents looked at me and realized that I was not behaving childish, my manner of approach was a little bit matured, so they let her be.

I noticed that they had a sad and gloomy countenance, I guess they were reflecting on how reluctant they were relating to matters concerning my growth.

The bond between the two of us could not be shaken by anything. We separated when she found out that her mate was the ruling Alpha of a pack.

We were still in contact with each other.

“Let’s hold on here for a bit” she said to me on a phone call.

I realized that her mate was one who was jealous and possessive so I headed to her instructions.

BACK TO PRESENT

I came out of my reverie and noticed that my beta head was bowed. I took in a deep breath before muttering

“You may rise”

He rose his head up as he handed a letter to me, the symbol looks familiar, I remembered that this was the symbol that marked my sister territory.

I opened the letter and I was shocked at the content of the letter.