One.

It was the hardest decision I had ever made when deciding to reject Max but I couldn’t leave without doing so and staying there was to much, especially now Alexander was dead.

I knew the distance between us would be to hard on both of us and would probably drive us insane. I love him and it was for the best that I let him go.

As the car starts and pulls away, I cannot help but watch him out the back window, his body drops to the floor and Kiwi rushes to his side. With the car continuing to move down the driveway, Max’s figure becomes smaller and smaller until he is completely out of sight and I turn around, trying to relax into the seat.

“He will be okay” Alpha Zach keeps his eyes in front of him

“Did I make the right decision?”

Alpha Zach continues to look forward “That is your decision and yours alone my Queen”

I frown “Why do you call me that, why do say I am your Queen?”

“Kayden, stop the car”

The driver pulls over immediately and Alpha Zach turns to face me, his dark eyes tracing over my face

“Because you are the Lycan Queen”

“No, I am not, I am just an eighteen year old with this stupid power” I summon a small ball of mist and juggle it, but this power was how I had killed my father

“My Queen, that is exactly why you are Queen”

I frown at him, still not understanding

“Only females that are first born lead the Lycans”

“You’re being serious?”

A smirk appears on his face, “Oh my dear Queen, you know very little about your heritage”

“I can’t carry children” I blurt the information out and he looks at me stunned, his dark eyes trying to read me

“Of course you can, your maternal grandmother was our Queen and now you and in the future, your grandchild”

I shake my head and show him the scar from my operation, when it healed it had left a permanent reminder and Max had said it was because my wolf was not present at the time.

Alpha Zach traces over the red scar with a single finger, the warmth of his skin sending a strange feeling through me, the same sensation I felt with Max and Alexander. Trying to keep my face unreadable, I drop my sweatshirt but he keeps his hand against my stomach and a small smile spreads across his face.

“You will have a pup, one day”

I fall quiet, I honestly had no idea how to respond and I didn’t have anything to say to the Alpha sat next to me.

Alpha Zach summons Kayden and we start moving again, the car quiet as we continue to travel and I sit, looking out the window, trying to block out everything i was leaving behind.

Eventually we pull up to a small airport and as soon as the car stops, I climb out leaving Kayden with an expression of horror whilst a grin spreads across Alpha Zach’s face.

“What is it?” I stare at both of them and then frantically start checking myself, was something on me?

“The Queen normally waits until her door is opened for her”

“I have already told you, stop calling me Queen, my name is Charlie”

“If that is what you want then I will call you Queen Charlie”

“No Queen, just Charlie. Please”

He nods his head, but I couldn’t understand what the problem was with calling me Charlie, everyone else had done so. There was also no way I was going to be Queen as far as I was concerned I was just going with Alpha Zach so that I could meet my mother after all this time and then, well I didn't exactly have a plan.

The plane was a private one, I’m not sure what I was expecting but I had never been on an aeroplane let alone a private one. Kayden hops up the steps with my small suitcase and the large suitcase of Alpha Zach, but I couldn’t move and stay at the bottom of the steps.

“Is there something wrong Charlie?” he finally speaks my name as I requested and I shake my head, yet my feet still don’t move

“It really is okay, we travel all the time” he holds a hand out for me “Come” but I stay rooted to the spot

“Did I do the right thing?” I needed him to confirm my decision, I needed to know if leaving Max behind was the right thing to do

Alpha Zach steps back down “Only you can decide if it’s the right thing, do you feel any pain?”

I shake my head

“Do you want to go back to him?”

I shake my head again “I want to see Sophia”

He holds his hand out again and this time I take it, the touch comes with the same warm tingles and I know he can feel it too as he leads me up the steps and into the cabin. He guides me to a seat and tells me to sit down, pulling the belt around me as he explains that the flight would last for a few hours and how he had made sure there was plenty of films for me to watch. Nodding, I watch as he sits in another seat at the other end of the cabin talking quietly with Kayden.

Playing around with the seat I find a tv screen that comes out of the arm of the chair with some headphones, the men don’t say anything so I carry on and find something to watch as the plane takes off.

At some point he walks pass me and comes back with a glass of water but before he gives it to me, he leans down and kisses me on the cheek, not the thing I was expecting, taking the glass from his hands, he stands and heads back over to Kayden.

As he sits, his dark eyes are on me, an odd twinkle in his eye and a small curve to his lips, he knew exactly what he was doing whilst I can’t help run my fingers over my cheek.