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Micah slapped his hand against his forehead.
“What?”
“She is very independent. Telling her that I would give my permission for her to live out her plans and dreams wouldn’t have set well with her. I imagine that she was furious.”
“I was trying to make her see the bright side of the situation,” the alpha replied.
“That is not how she would take it,” Micah said.
“You should go talk to her and make her see reason. You guys are good friends. I’m sure that you can make her understand that this is an honor for her, and she should embrace being the alpha queen.”
“Would Mom have felt that way?”
“No, but your mom and I were in love when we went through the mating ceremony,” his father replied.
“Exactly. Lucy isn’t the kind of person who would take kindly from being told that she had to go through the mating ceremony with someone and that her life was going to be disrupted.”
“It can’t be helped,” his father said. “Like I said, you should go talk to her.”
“I think that I’m going to wait a few days and let her simmer down. She’s likely to throat punch me if she saw me right now, especially if she thinks that I’m good with this plan.”
His father shrugged his shoulders and said, “It’s up to you how you handle this situation. Just understand that you and Lucy are expected to go through the mating ceremony a month after you are named the alpha.”
Micah wondered if she would have taken the news any better if he had gone along when they talked to her. He would have gone, but they didn’t tell him of their plans. Micah wondered if they purposely kept him out of the situation so that he and Lucy couldn’t form a united front and protest.
He went to the club and ordered a beer. The loud music drowned out his thoughts. The cozy atmosphere gave him some place where he could relax for a while. Then, he would try to figure out a solution.
Dean called and Micah told him where he was. Dean showed up a few minutes later.
“Have you talked to Lucy lately?” Dean asked.
“No, why?”
“I asked her out for lunch. We talked for a while, and I told her that I was going to be named the alpha of my clan. I told her that I had been in love with her since we were children and asked her to go through the mating ceremony with me.”
Micah raised his eyebrows, took a sip of his drink, and then asked, “How did that go?”
“She told me no. She said that she wasn’t in love with me, she wasn’t going to go through the mating ceremony with anyone for a long time, if ever. Then, she left,” Dean reported.
Licking his lips, Micah said, “You picked a bad time to ask her, anyway.”
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“Lucy and I were officially betrothed to each other when we were kids. The elders have decided that we need to go through with the mating ceremony since I’m about to become the alpha in two months. They talked to her about it last night.”
Dean’s face turned red and the vein at the side of his neck started throbbing.
He gritted his teeth and said, “Why didn’t you guys tell me about that?”
“To be honest, I never thought about it. I didn’t think that the elders would ever enforce it, since we were five or so when we went through the ceremony. I doubt if Lucy remembered it, and if she did, she probably just figured that arranged marriages were archaic and it would never happen. She was very independent and had her own life’s plans.”
“What happens now?” Dean asked, his voice hard.
“I honestly don’t know,” Micah said. “I figured that I would give her a few days to get over being angry. I’m sure she was furious when she was ordered by the elders to go through with the mating ceremony. From what my father said, it didn’t go well at all. Then, I’ll talk to her about it.”
“What if she continues to refuse to go through the ceremony with you?” he asked.
Micah chewed on his bottom lip for a minute and then said, “I’ll stand by her. I don’t want to force her do it. She would resent me for our entire lives and that would make both of our lives a living hell.”
