"Just what are you implying?", Damien says while gritting his teeth.

"They're saying the vampires are going to use me as leverage, keep up would you?", Roses says while shaking her head at Damien.

"That's not all, she may be leverage to the vampires but she could also prove to be of use to us", an alpha spoke, and from the look in his eye I could tell it wasn't anything good.

Another growl left my lips without my consent, I knew that meant my Lycan was taking over more and more. It wouldn't be long before my Lycan fully took over, and killed one of these pompous Alpha's.

Hearing my growl one of the Luna's spoke up," Were not going to actually use her as bait, but the knowledge of her could help draw out some vampires-"

"And if they try to come for her we could destroy them, for once and for all", The Luna's mate finishes.

Unsure of where to go with this line of reasoning I quickly mindlink my brothers,

What should we do? I ask.

Kill the pompous bastards Damien responds.

I want to destroy the vampires as much as the next guy, but definitely not at the extent of our Rosy, Xavier says.

So what do we tell them I ask.

We will consider there ridiculous idea to keep them happy, Damien says.

Which the threat on Rose's life reminds me we need to improve the security for the ball in a few days, Xavier adds in.

We snap back into reality, I'm instantly greeted with Rose's curious face, adorable, and Alpha's and Luna's that seem both curious and angry. Damien clears his voice, gathering the attention of everyone in the room,

"We've decided to take what you've said into account but we'll be making no definite plans, Rose is our mate, and your soon to be Luna Queen. No harm shall befall her as long as we will live. Meeting adjourned everyone get back to your respective packs!", Damien says, ending his short rant with a huff.

The Alpha's and Luna's quickly leave the room leaving me and my brothers alone with Rose,

"Well that was fun, lets not do it again some time?" Rose says trying to get rid of the awkward atmosphere.

We chuckle at her comment, more happy to see that our mate has become a lot more comfortable with us, thank you mate bond!

We all head back to the house, we need to finish the final preparations for the ball. All these suspicions about the vampires have got me on high alert and I know I'm not the only one.

~~~~~

The ball! How could I possibly forget about it?

Is it too late to call it off?

No, that would be stupid, not to mention it would set a bad example not only for me, but for my mates. Wow, I'm not sure that will ever stop being weird on my lips. Plus all those people that have worked really hard on making everything perfect, all their effort would go to waste.

"People!", I suddenly said out loud, startling the women around me.

I'm currently getting my dress for tonight tailored, to my very petite body. At this point I think the dress is honestly way to damn big for me, it practically swallows me whole, but the seamstresses just keep saying I look like a queen.

"Oh um my apologies, I just remembered something," I excused.

The color of the dress is an absolutely stunning shade of emerald green, the seamstresses said the Kings specifically picked out the color, probably to bring out my eyes.

In all honesty I feel like a villain, with my dark hair and emerald green dress, I feel like I should be putting a curse on a baby sometime soon. And if I feel like that I wonder how the rest of the kingdom will see me?

Aghh, I really need to stop putting myself down so much, its just so hard to stop when your entire life you've been looked down upon. I'm not some piece of trash they can throw away, I'm an actual living person with feelings and emotions.

"Excuse me Miss, but are you alright?", the head seamstress asks.

I didn't realize I had been broadcasting my thoughts onto my face.

"Oh yes, I'm fine Ms.?"

"Meier, but you can just call me Beck," she says. "Miss if you don't mind me speaking out of turn, but clearly your not fine. I happen to be a very good listener if you want to tell me",

I looked at the women, she was around my age, maybe early twenties. Then something else hit me, she was human, in an actual ranking position, she must be extremely talented.

"Well okay, I'm terrified of going out there tonight, I was in a meeting with the Alpha's and Luna's and they basically said they wanted to use me as bait, and before that I had met with the former alpha king and he essentially called us humans the scum of the earth, and I'm so unsure of how to lead an empire and I've had little time to adjust and its just too much!", I shout, a sigh of relief following shortly after.

The room goes dead silent, before Beck opened her mouth.

"Well, fuck em. Who gives a shit, your the god damn Luna Queen, they don't like you because they know you'll make change, your going help improve the lives and the humans and in turn make the wolves lives even more difficult.", She dead panned.

Man where can I get the confidence of this chick, but that actually that helped put a lot of things in perspective, because they would never give this much trouble to a werewolf, just a human.

They cant stand that someone they consider to be below them will actually rule over all of their hairy asses.

"Thank you Beck that really helps," I say sincerely.

"Well I am amazing, I'm so awesome that while we've been talking, I finished your dress," she replied pridefully. "If you ever need my advice just call me to make you as dress, of course all have to add on the fee for advice", she jokes.

The joke helps brighten my mood, after another hour with people rushing around making sure my hair and makeup we're perfect, I'm finally free-ish.

I make my way to the door, and I'm immediately met with three very handsome wolves in their best suits, and it suits them very well. Pun intended.

"Woah, you look woah", Xavier says.

"You truly look like a queen Rose, no, you look like a goddess", Lucian corrects.

"Well I think you look so out of this world, I'm not ever going to try to come up with words for it", Damien replies.

With each of their comments the blush on my face only seems to grow stronger, "Thanks", I mumble back.

"But I think it's missing something, oh yeah, this." Xavier says before pulling out a black box and opening it up to reveal a satin lining, in the middle was a gorgeous crown, that matches my dress perfectly...

"Well the kingdom is waiting for us my Queen lets not keep them waiting," Lucian says before gently grabbing my hand and guiding me towards the stairs.

I slowly take my time walking down the grand staircase, Lucian on my left, Xavier on my right, and Damien one step ahead of us right in the center.

They are probably worried I might fall, so they arranged it this way in case I fall, one of them can always catch me just in time. Or maybe this is how the Luna Queen and Alpha King always enter a room, though I doubt its the second one.

I thought the private house was beautiful, but now that I've finally gotten to see the pack house I realize how it practically pales in comparison. The private house has more modern touches, but the pack house feels like it hasn't been touched since before the Wolves took over.

And I don't know why but for some reason I love it so much more.

After a few more Stairs we finally reach the bottom and my legs feel like they are ready to give up now, and we still have a night of dancing and greeting guest to get through,

"Aghh", I groan aloud.

"What's wrong?", Xavier leans to the whisper.

"My legs are already tired", I whisper back.

Xavier appears to think about my words for a moment before not so gracefully bursting into a fit of laughter, mustering up my best glare I spitefully ask,

"What? What's so funny?".

Once Xavier hears the seriousness in my tone he sobers up fairly quickly.

"I'm sorry doll, I just find it kind of funny how delicate you truly are", he says with a hint of amusement in his tone.

"I'm not dedicate!" I shout with a stomp of my foot.

"She's definitely not delicate," Damien says from in front of us, and by the tone of his voice I could tell it was taking everything in him to to burst in to a fit of laughter as well.

"Would you three cut it out we have a room full of people waiting for us", Lucian reprimands.

With that, the guys put on their public faces, and march into the ball room. Me being in the middle of their group is forced to go along with them.

We stop at a set of huge ornate doors, with two armed guards standing on either side of the big ass door. With a silent nod to the guards the open the ornate door, one of them steps into the room, and at the top of his lungs announces us.

We step into a scene out of a painting, people dancing and milling around beautiful room, accented by gold dripping chandeliers, the ceilings have been painted too long, no doubt before the wolves had taken over.

With Beck's words still fresh in my mind, I walk with my head held high, knowing now that I posses power most people in this room would kill for.

The night goes by in a blur, lots of ass kissing, thankfully not on our side though. But the entire night I couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, I didn't realize it where it was coming from until I glanced over at a group of girls, and was met with nothing but murder in their eyes.

And for some reason I felt proud that I could do that.

When we finally leave the ball, I've been more sure of my next course of action, I want to be marked.

Tonight.