It's the morning after my coronation, also being my first day or duties as queen, let's just say I'm so nervous. Last night Mason went over what we'll be doing today, I have to go to an orphanage to see all the children and speak to the people that run it. When he told me I had to speak to people, the little nervous voice started to talk into my ear. But I soon remembered that I'm now queen and just have to suck it up, this is what I was born to do so I have to do it.

I was just getting ready for the day, I managed to find a few outfits that would cover my neck. It's a bit of an inconvenience but until I'm marked it's what I have to do, I don't know when I'm going to be ready to get marked but I hope it's soon. I was slipping my shoes on when the door knocks and in walks Grayson, he smiles at me closing the door behind him.

"Good morning my love" he smiles walking over placing a kiss on my head "I wish I could accompany you on your duties today, but an important meeting with some important people has come up" he explains as I stand up from the bed, I just smile shaking my head saying it was fine.

Don't get me wrong it would make me feel so much better if he could come, but it's kind of unrealistic and unfair for me to just expect him to always be by my side. I'm a big girl I can handle myself.

"You are going to do so well my love, you have Mason accompanying you as he always will be, you will have your four guards with you and Daisy" he smiles I didn't know I would have guards, but then that would make sense as I am queen so.

"Daisy's coming?" I ask quite surprised but happy, I've only had one proper encounter with Mason, but me and Daisy are becoming close friends I won't feel as nervous with her there.

"Yes, we thought having someone you are comfortable with be a part of your team would benefit you, Daisy was the obvious choice" he smiles shrugging his shoulders as though it was nothing, I thank him wrapping my arms around him.

He stood there shocked for a second but immediately his arms were around me holding me tightly.

"Finally! How long has it took you to have a little more contact with mate?!" My wolf asks annoyed in my head, this is the first time she's really spoke since we came here "that's because the first couple of days after you find your mate, I try start to make a few connections with mates wolf, which side-note would be so much easier if we were marked!" She exclaims in my head, whoa someone got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.

"You and I both know that's not possible" she says pretty annoyed, I just block her out snapping back to reality still engulfed in a hug by Gray.

"How I wish I could stay in this position forever" he says tightening his arms around me, it was as though we were fit for each other.

"Don't tell me I have to explain all that to you"my wolf sighs in my head, I once again block her out ignoring her just as the door begins to knock.

Grayson sighs slowly pulling away sending me a sad smile, before we could speak the door knocks again. He holds his arm up with a smile that I take, he begins to lead me out the room where who looked like a butler stood. He bows his head at us before leading us down the hall, we soon reach the stairs where at the bottom stood a bunch of people. Mason, Daisy and a few other men stood on one side, while Josh and a few other people stood on the other.

Once we make it to the bottom Grayson turns to me smiling , he places his hands on my shoulders with a sigh.

"This is where we must part ways for a few hours, your guards will be by your side the entire day protecting you" he smiles but I could tell he didn't want to move away from me, I didn't want him to move either, he leans closer to me "I'll see you just before dinner, but you will me playing on my mind all day" he whispers with a smile, I smile back where he places a kiss on my lips.

I walk backwards over to my team, Daisy immediately sending me a wave and a smile. Mason bows his head lifting his arm up towards the door, I nod making my way out the door where my team followed behind. There were two black cars outside, a man stood near the door bows his head at me pointing to one of the cars. I send him a smile walking over to the car which doors are opened, I walk over to the door turning where I see Grayson walking to the other car but stops. He sent me a smile and a wave, I send him a wave back before climbing in the car. Daisy sits beside me smiling as always, Mason sat in the front while my guards went in two cars.

We slowly begin to pull off heading out the gates, one of my guards cars were in front of us while the other behind.

"I was so happy when Josh told me what Grayson asked me to do, normally I'm just waiting in the castle for Josh to come back but now I'm doing something, with my best friend" Daisy smiles beside me, I look over smiling too.

"It made me feel happy too when Grayson told me, having someone I'm close to be by my side when working will be great" I reply with a smile, let's hope I can pull it together and do my job, for Grayson.

After a little drive, we soon arrive in a little town. As we make it past the sign, people just lined the streets, as we drove by they all cheered and waved. Did all these people really come here to see me? In no time we pull up at a building, outside stood a man in a smart looking suit, either side were railings where people with cameras stood. My guards stand either side of the railings as my door is opened, I put a smile on my face climbing out the car. Immediately, the cheering got louder as I take a look around, I send a few people little waves before walking over to the guy in a suit.

"Welcome your majesty" he smiles bowing his head, we shake hands where I say hello " I'm Mike Falcon, these two are Maria and Jackson" he smiles walking backwards a little where two children stood.

"These are for you" Maria smiles handing me a bunch of flowers, I thank her which she replies with a little curtsy. Jackson bows his head at me with a smile.

"Come this way your majesty" Mr Falcon smiles leading me into the building, I thank him following him in where more children stood.

Let the show begin.

The whole day went so quickly, I went to four other places after the orphanage. The only time I sat down was in the car, I don't think I've spoken to that many people in one day ever. Daisy's been great though, throughout the whole day she was standing on the sidelines sending me encouraging looks.

We soon were pulling up at the castle, where I see Grayson walking into the building but soon turns clocking the car. He smiles waiting at the top of the stairs for me, it was great to see him again I didn't actually realise how much I missed him until now, I haven't had much time to think about anything else really.

"Same time tomorrow, your majesty" Mason smiles from the front, I send him a little smile but nod, I guess I'm gonna have to start getting used to having no free time.

As the car stops Grayson opens my door, he holds his hand out to me smiling. I take his hand getting out the car, as usual he holds his arm out which I take. We begin to make our way into the castle, I'm taken into a room I've never been in before but looked like an office. As soon as the door closes I'm wrapped in a tight hug, I immediately wrap my arms around him just loving being this close.

"You do not know how great it is to have you back in my arms again, you were all I thought about today" he says placing his face in my neck "how was your day?" He asks moving slightly so he could see my face.

"Honestly, I've never felt this exhausted in all my life" I smile looking down at him "it's lucky makeup was invented" I joke but he looks up at my face, it was as though he was studying it.

"You are beautiful with or without makeup" he says looking me in the eyes "I will tell Mason he must cut some of the workload down" he suggests but I immediately shake my head.

"No it's okay it's my job now, I'm used to having to work a lot and run on basically zero sleep, I'll be alright" I shrug but he tenses letting out a quiet growl.

Before I could question him the door begins to knock, the person on the other end tells us dinner was ready. Grayson sighs pulling me to walk out the door, I just follow behind until we arrive in the dining hall. He leads me over to a chair pulling it out for me, I smile thanking him taking my seat. He sits beside me as a bunch of people walk in, food is placed in front of me which once again I hadn't a clue what it was.

"It may look strange but it's actually very nice" Grayson smiles knowing exactly what I was thinking "here" he says taking a piece of my food into his fork holding it up.

I open my mouth taking it off the fork and he was right, this food tasted incredible! How do people cook things like this? I mean I probably could cook like a semi okay pizza, not homemade but frozen. These people just work wonders, I wonder who teaches them to cook or maybe they taught themselves, I have so many questions!

"I thought you were going to think aloud" Grayson says snapping me out my thoughts, I smile looking over at him then down at the food.

"Where do you find these amazing cooks?" I ask still looking amazed at the food in front of me, it tasted like chicken but it wasn't chicken!

His reply was just a laugh also eating, we spoke about our days and made other small talk. After dinner we went up to my room and spoke even more, I loved talking with him I could actually only speak to him for a day. I got changed into comfy clothes where he sat on the bed, I send him a smile sitting next to him.

"Again, I don't think I've never been this tired before" I sigh leaning my head on his shoulder, he moves so my head was on his chest with his arm around me.

"Your days will be like this for the first few weeks, it slows down after that" he says while I feel my eyes begin to close "what did you mean back in my office? You said you are used to working a lot on no sleep" he asks me as I feel myself going into a sleep daze.

"The Alpha would force the people who weren't born in his pack to do most of the work, while the people who's families were there for years did nothing" I say not having a filter as I was that tired "he really didn't like me so I got the hardest jobs, there were times I'd have to go days with virtually no sleep" I say my eyes fully closed, it wouldn't be long until I was fully asleep.

Gray let's out a low growl, which causes my eyes to open for a second but soon drop close snuggling into this chest.

"You should have told him that you needed a break" he tells me which was something Grace would tell me to do.

"I would never do that, especially after what he did to me the first time I...I tried" I say, once the sentence was finished I drift to sleep.

~~~

Melissa remained in her room after shouting at Cyrus, she knew what kind of reception she would get if she were to walk out now. She didn't know how she got the courage to talk back to him like that, but as soon as she saw her daughter on that tv, her mother instincts kicked in and the need to protect her daughter at all costs were just at the forefront of her mind.

Wes walks into the bedroom locking the door behind him, he even went as far to put the chest of draws in front of the door, he knew what would happen to his mate if Cyrus was to enter the room. Melissa doesn't look up from the bed as he did this, she knew how badly she had messed up.

"He's mad, I don't think I've saw him this mad since we actually had Clara" Wes says staring at the door but turns to look at Melissa "now I'm not saying you went around the situation the right way but, I one hundred percent agree with what you said back there" he tells her which immediately makes Melissa well up again.

"That's our daughter Wes, I'm not gonna let him worm is way back into her life after forcing her and Kyle away from us" she cries still sat on the bed, Wes walks over holding her hands in his.

"That's why you're gonna write her a letter, if someone writes to the royals they have to read it and reply" he tells her, she looks up shaking her head at him.

"She won't want anything to do with us Wes, your brother made damn sure of that" she cries as painful as it was to think like that, she knew it was true.

"You will word it in a way that makes her see it different, it's Clara, she was always so forgiving and gave everyone a fair chance, just write her a letter" he says placing his head on hers.

Melissa eventually nods causing Wes to get up and rummage through a draw, he pulls out a bunch of paper and pens passing them to his mate.

"You write the letter and I will send it when Cyrus goes to sleep" he smiles moving the chest of draws and leaving the room.

Melissa spends a few minutes staring at the paper in front of her, with a sigh she begins to write to her long lost daughter, the queen.

This week has had to be the most hectic in my life, now I know I've said that a lot since I arrive her but this one, well it hit a peak. Mason has been sending me here, there and everywhere. He keeps telling me it's to get me out there and seen, the people need to know I'm the type of person who will go into the community.

Thankfully, it was Sunday a day I can get off, in no way did that mean I was getting a lay in. Today Kyle and Emma were visiting, I haven't saw them in nearly three weeks. It feels like a lifetime since I got to give Kyle a hug, a hug I've definitely needed.

I was fully ready and waiting outside the castle, I asked them to come early so we had more time to spend together, with my schedule you never know when my next day offs gonna be. A car pulling into the gates makes a huge smile fill my lips, I begin to slowly walk down the stairs as it pulls up. One of the butlers open the door, where Kyle climbs out. In less than a second we've got each other wrapped in a tight hug, I didn't want to let go if I'm honest. When we finally do pull away I see Emma beside him, I smile also wrapping her in a hug smiling.

"Welcome to my humble abode" I smile pointing up at the castle behind us, Emma laughs saying humble "it's hard to be humble when you live here" I joke looking at both of them.

Emma was smiling while Kyle, he was just staring at me. I take both of their hands pulling them up the stairs, they needed an official house tour, or maybe castle.

We were taking a walk through the amazing ballroom, when Emma says she needs the bathroom. I look around and clock a butler polishing some expensive looking artefact.

"Excuse me, would you mind showing my friend where the bathroom is?" I ask nicely, through all the work I've done I've got so much better at talking to people! Not everyone through.

"Of course ma'am, right this way" he says with a bow of the head towards me, Emma smiles following the man out leaving me and Kyle alone.

"Alright spill the beans" I say crossing my arms, he just sends me a confused look "Kyle, you're my older brother I know you better than you know yourself, I know somethings off that you didn't want to say in front of Emma"

"I've missed you so much Clara, it's the longest we've been apart and I wasn't even able to communicate with you" he says with a sigh, the longest we've been apart were a few days before this "I've been so worried of how you'll be doing here, but then I saw you standing on top of the stairs outside and you looked so happy and at ease, I felt like you didn't" he says but pauses, I knew where he was going with this though.

"Like I didn't need you anymore?" I ask, he nods looking down "Kyle, I'm always gonna need you, I'm gonna be honest with you and say this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, I don't get a break at all this is my first day off. There are days where I don't even have time to eat breakfast, I wake up and it's go time until dinner and straight after it's time for bed, I've barley saw Grayson at all this whole time, even through Daisy's been there being great I've felt so alone in all this" I confess looking down as I spoke "everyone here is used to it but I'm not, Mason keeps telling me it'll get easier and it's my role as queen to do all this stuff, but that doesn't make it any less difficult. That's why I need you Kyle, you're my big brother I'm always gonna need you" I say tearing up, he immediately wraps me in a huge hug holding me so tightly.

The doors open and in Emma walks, she wraps her arms around us both causing us to laugh. She laughed as she pulled away but gasps bowing her head, Kyle also does the same as I turn to see Grayson walking over.

"Hello sir" Kyle says bowing his head, Grayson comes to a stop beside me smiling at the two.

"You are Clara's older brother which makes you her family, she is my family which makes her family also my family, my family do not have to bow or call me sir" he smiles holding his hand out, whoa he said family a lot in that sentence, Kyle smiles shaking his hand "now I don't know about you but I'm growing rather hungry, will you be joining us for dinner?" Grayson asks the two, they grow even more shocked looking at each other.

"We would love to, but it's a such short notice we don't want to be an inconvenience" Emma smiles at him, I could tell how badly she actually wanted to say yes.

"Trust me the cooks here are amazing, they probably already know you're staying for dinner and have made you some" I laugh but it was probably true, I don't have a clue how they do it.

They both smile accepting the offer, before Grayson leads us all to the dinning hall. Dinner was going amazing and the cooks somehow knew Kyle and Emma were here, honestly how?!

"So what is the dynamic of the pack you reside at?" Grayson asks Kyle, okay that's a kind of odd question and one even I wouldn't know how to answer.

"It's um- different I guess, the alpha likes order and you know things to be done right" Kyle answers but kept looking at me and Emma for help, I didn't know how to help him answer the question.

"The pack is just the pack, now anyway um- what crazy weather we've been having" I say quickly having to change the subject, Emma begins to ramble about the weather successfully derailing the conversation.

I felt Grayson's eyes burning holes in the side of my head, for the rest of the dinner I never turned to talk to him.

I was sat awake staring at the ceiling, I managed a few nights to go sleep but I've gone back to not being about to. It was great seeing Kyle and Emma today, I felt like the old me was starting to come back. My thoughts are cut short by Grayson opening the door, he peeps his head in shocked to see me awake.

"I didn't know you would be awake now" he says closing the door behind him, I sigh putting my heed against the head board.

"Neither did I" I smile looking out the window, I feel the bed dip beside me an arm pulling me closer to him, I look down at his hand to see it all bruised and beaten up "what happened to your hand?" I ask taking a hold of it to look it over, when he doesn't answer I look up at his face where he had a few cuts on his face.

"I got into an altercation with a man who thought he could disrespected my family" he says looking straight ahead his eyes going a shade darker, I place my hand on his face where the cuts were.

"I know you're king and you have to do stuff like that, but please be careful" I say looking at him, he smiles placing a kiss on my head "earlier at dinner you asked Kyle about the pack, why?" I ask still looking up at him, he shakes his head.

"I was just making conversation" he replies but I really didn't believe him "it was our first time meeting, I was trying to get more information about him" he shrugs, I smile placing my head on his chest feeling my eyes begin to close.

"I know why I've been able to go sleep easily these last few nights, it's because you're here" I sigh my eyes still closing, he slides down further so we were both laying down, in seconds I was asleep.

*few hours prior*

Grayson was sat in his office filling some paperwork out, he wanted to get all the paperwork done so he'd have more time to spend with Clara. He finishes the last of his paperwork when the door begins to knock, he places his pen down telling the person they can come in.

"You wanted to see me sir" Mason said bowing his head, Grayson wanted a word with him about Clara.

He heard her telling her brother how she feels about this place, he never knew she didn't have time to have breakfast or even get a break. That was all down to Mason.

"It's about Clara and how much work you are arranging for her each day, she isn't able to have many breaks or days off" Grayson says sitting up in his chair, Mason nods not seeing anything wrong with that.

"She's queen sir, she has responsibilities that she must keep too, it may be hard but it comes with the job title" he shrugs still not getting it, Grayson sighs looking at his desk trying to remain calm.

"She never asked to have this title it has been forced upon her, I have looked at the schedule she has been keeping to and it is utterly ridiculous, you have her doing nearly twenty appearances a day on opposite sides of town" Grayson says looking at the piece of paper with all her tasks on "no one that I know of has ever done that many a day, why would you force my mate to do all those?" He asks Mason who still didn't seem to get it.

"She has a lot of prove sir" he says straight faced, Grayson gives the man a look saying to elaborate "I've read the documents on her she was a rouge! She was a part of the lowest group of wolfs in the world! She needs to prove that she is up to the task of being queen! And if not she'll break and you'll have to get rid of her and find someone better" Mason exclaims finally loosing his cool, Grayson sighs placing the paper on the desk walking over to Mason.

"You have just signed your own death warrant, no one disrespects my mate" he growls looking in Mason eyes before lunging at him.

Grayson begins ripping Mason to shreds, literally.