Chums was quiet all thru as she sat on the dinning seat waiting for the servants to serve her meal, as the servant approached their table holding the trays of food.
She felt Stephanie and Sarah's intent gaze on her and she knew they didn't believe her lie to their mother.
She was grateful Queen Melissa didn't inspect her neck to see where her son has bitten her as a proof of their mated night.
She swallowed and immediately opened her tray of food, wanting Stephanie and Sarah to also do same as they kept staring from her to their brother.
"Mark, Am so glad that you finally mated with Chums last night. You have me worried so much when I saw you staring towards the slaves, I just couldn't understand your reasons for doing that yesterday so am glad and relief now" Queen Melissa said and Chums finally raise her head to stare at her.
"Nothing to worry about mother, Am just making sure the palace is intact and all is well with our guest" King Mark replied as he opened his plate of food.
He noticed it was also raw pork meat again and his rage boiled. He has been keeping his cool after realizing his mother intentionally flogged the slave on purpose so as to provoke him and test if he was affected by her, As if she's his mate, he would do anything to protect her.
"Why raw meat today mother, I can't eat this, Where's the cook?!" he thundered.
"Mark! This is our ancient food and you have to acknowledge it with some respect" Queen Melissa rebuked him.
"I know mother, but not when the food doesn't interest me to eat. I don't want raw meat again in this palace and let this be the last time that I will be served raw food!" he thundered and stood up from the head seat.
"Mark!" Queen Melissa called after him.
"You don't walk out of me Mark!" she ordered him and he froze and growl out as he was still angered.
He turned to face his mother and walk back to the dinning table.
"Then you don't ask the cook to serve me raw food next time. I can't eat it and that's for a fact" he respond.
"Mark, we don't eat cooked meals except for the humans, it will weaken our system as the food nutrients and quality as already been boiled away with the steaming of the meat. So sit down and eat your meal Mark!" she commanded him.
"No mother!. Am the king now and you wouldn't command me on what to eat or not. Where's the cook?!" he thundered and the cook immediately ran out from the royal kitchen and bows to him.
"Your majesty, you sent for me" The cook respond with her head bent lowered. She has been his cook for years since he was younger and a teenager.
"The next time you serve me beef or raw meats, I will have your head feed to the wolf clans, now get out!" he thundered and walk out from the dinning, not feeling to eat again as he had lost his appetite.
Queen Melissa stares to him to the cook who was visibly shaking.
"You can leave!" she dismissed the elderly cook and sat down back on her seat. She took his meal and poured it into her plates as she ate it along with hers.
Chums was quiet and saw all the drama that enfolds before her. She should have rejected him, having withnessed him reject the raw meat the previous night before his coronation, but she was blinded by his handsomeness and he was indeed stubborn and refusing to follow their custom. She sighs and continue chewing on the pork meat and vegetables.
King Mark stepped out from the royal castle, he immediately summoned "Jack!."
"Yes My Lord" Jack immediately rushed up to meet him at the front of the castle.
Jack bows before him and greeted him, "Good morning your majesty."
"Rise" he commands and started walking down the stairs and Jack immediately followed rightly behind him, while Steve as usual walks a few distance away as his job was to also guard his majesty and follow him where he goes too.
"Prepare the horses, We will be going down to the human villages and wolf town today" he informed Jack.
"Okay your majesty" Jack quickly bows to him and left to the stables to arrange for the horses.
King Mark walks to the field and towards the garden, he approached the Labour-house and the memory of seeing his mate been peck and kissed by a male flashed thru his mind.
He wondered who was the haman, she was with and his hand tightened into a fist as he approached the Labour-house.
"Good morning your majesty" Jasper Brown, the head of the Labour-house quickly greeted him as he approached, Jasper falls to his knee and bow before him, with the rest of the humans standing in front of the Labour-house and the guards, also bowed before him.
"Rise!" he commanded them and stares to the humans in anger.
"Have you arrange for the coaching lesson with the human I assigned to teach some of our men, how to create the furniture?" He asked Jasper as he walked round Jasper in a circle.
"Yes your majesty, The coaching will start today. I have already sent out invitation out and a lot of the youth are pleased and wants to learn, just that the numbers of youth interested are much and I cannot bring them to the labour-house for the coaching. I was meaning to ask you if we can use some part of the field for their training and after that they will leave and we will tidy back the field, so we can keep an eye on the humans and they wouldn't escape from the palace " Jasper informed him.
"Hmm," he nods.
"Where's the human I assigned to teach the youth?" King Mark questioned and Alex immediately stepped forward.
"Am here your majesty" he respond and King Mark stares to him.
He was surprised to see how handsome the human looked as he previously saw him in the night, when he visited the store that had only the lantern burning to lighten the room.
He walked towards Alex and walked round him in circle. Inspecting Alex from his chiseled chest as his chest was bare with him wearing only skirt, and pumped muscle and for some odd reason, he felt Alex was the same man he saw touching his mate, the new white slave he wants so much.
He shook he head and stepped backward and as Alex looked up to stare at him, he saw the beast king's eyes changed from golden yellow to pure black. He shuddered a little and quickly stare away from the beast king.
"Alex right?" King Mark questioned, not wanting to loose focus on why he visited the Labour-house and misjudged the human.
"Yes your majesty" Alex responded, still staring downward as he crossed his two hands behind him and held it behind his waist.
"Have you finally agreed to my proposal of teaching our kind your craft?" King Mark questioned.
"Yes your majesty " Alex respond, not looking up to stare at him.
"Good, Jasper you prepare the field and invite the beast youth that are interested over. Ensure to keep an eye on the youths and don't allow the women slaves interfere or come closer to the trainees" he informed Jasper and quickly walked away from the Labour-house feeling his anger boiled as he was still suspecting Alex.
"Okay your majesty" Jasper replied him as he left the Labour-house with Jack and Steve following rightly behind him.
"Have you prepared the horses?" he asked Jack.
"Yes your majesty" Jack respond.
Although he can transform into his beast form and run into the human villages, but as he was crown king he decided to use the horses to pay them some visit.
Alex felt the burning gaze of the King on him. He hoped the king would keep to his word as he was surprised to see the beast king's eyes changing from yellow to black as he blinked his eyes at him.
He shook his worries away and started carrying out some wood and planks to the field as they prepare for the coaching with the beast-youth that would soon visit the palace.
He remembers seeing Angela in the early hours of the morning and he felt pitied for her seeing her sobbed.
He wondered what happened to her and hoped to see her again, especially now that he will be allowed to teach some of the younger male beasts. He sighed and continue with his work in the palace. He still loves her and want to have a family with her.
Amos and Lucas stood watching as the human males arrange the woods from the trees they had broken into peices. They were also interested in learning how Alex carved the woods as they were not allowed into the working space in the hall, as Jasper always remind them to guard outside and remain out. "It's the work of the humans to do all the works", Jasper always told them.
They assisted in arranging all the woods and soon a lot of beast men started walking into the palace and going to the open field to sit on the floor as they waited for some few others to arrive.