Lucians POV

How many other lycans could say they had met the princess of the vampires? The head honchos daughter. Lady Sonja.

She was the prettiest vampire he had ever laid his eyes on. No she was the prettiest woman he had ever laid his eyes upon.

She was not only pretty, she was smart and elegant in everything she did. Weather it was walking or debating she did it with grace.

After their first encounter he had to meet her again. He was fortunate enough to get assigned to guard inside the castle. He had waited and looked for her all day when she came strolling through the halls looking for her father. He was glad when she walked up to him. He let out a silent breath he didn't know he was holding. He had been briefly afraid she would forget all about him. He was mad at Enkidu when he pulled him away from his station since the meeting was about to start. At least he had secured meeting with Sonja again. They would meet in the west side of the castle. Inside the library. It would be easy enough for him to get stationed inside the castle. The only problem he had was the other guards.

He went with Enkidu into the forest behind the castle where most of the lycans usually stayed guarded by their vampire captors while they slept. Most lycans tonight would go into the crudely built huts and pretend to sleep and then silently sneak out one by one right under the vampires' nose. They would all silently creep deeper into the forest until they came to the ancient fallen tree in a clearing they used for all their meetings.

Tonight's meeting would call attention to the lack of vampire guards that were at the castle this month due to most of them sent to the north to try and stop a lycan riot. Lucian made his way into the clearing to see most of his fellow lycans already there. He saw Claire and her mate Ramos, Ark, and Isabella and her little boy Jillian already filling up the front row along with other lycan associates he had come to know throughout the year. He took a seat on the ground behind Ark and next to his friend Enkidu.

He idly looked up at the moon and realized it would still be awhile before the others joined them in the clearing. Enkidu was shifting around and fidgeting which only meant that Enkidu wanted to ask him about Sonja.

Enkidu was his best friend. Lucian could read him like an open book and was amazed at how silent he had kept. It was shattered when Enkidu finally turned around and asked "So what were you and the blood sucker talking about?"

Lucan shifted away and shrugged his shoulders. "Nothing really."

"It didn't look like nothing." Enkidu said flicking his dark brown hair behind his ear.

"Well it was." Lucan looked away and spotted Vince and jumped at the chance to get away from Enkidu and struck up a conversation with the older lycan until the meeting started.

Like always the meeting started with Asher clearing his throat while all the lycans settled down onto the floor. Then Asher would introduce the oldest of all the lycans ever entrapped in the castle Oden.

Oden was a large lycan and the fastest despite his age. He stepped onto the dead tree and raised himself above the crowd.

"Tonight of all nights we have reason to believe that one of our fellow lycans is a betrayer."Oden voice vibrated through the night, his brown eyes piercing turned on each one of them. "One of our own has chosen to go to a vampire and turn on his own kin!"

There were murmurs of disapproval and accusations among the lycan crowd. Lucian swallowed while Enkidu looked shocked. The murmuring got louder while Asher tried to get the crowd to settle down. Lucian turned to Enkidu and whispered "What did you tell him?" he glanced up at Oden to see him staring at Asher.

"Nothing. I swear it." Enkidu whispered looking around at the settling crowd.

"Now we must show the traitor that we do not tolerate this kind of behavior!" Oden shouted at the crowd. "We cannot submit even one of our kind to the vampires! Because if one of us falls we all fall!"

The crowd was roaring with its approval. Lycans were standing up and clapping and howling their agreement. Oden continued. "Now what to do with the traitor?" He asked the crowd throwing his arms out.

The crowd was shouting together "In the cell! Throw him in the cell!" Lucian looked around at the mob he was now in. All his friends were shouting for a man's death. The only one who had not been screaming with the crowd was Enkidu and Vince who was looking rather nervous in the back row.

"The people have spoken in the cell with him he goes!" Oden motioned for Asher to bring something up. Asher went down and to the crowd and went in the back row and grabbed Vince, who was now struggling but was grabbed by two other lycans and hauled on the log for everyone to see. Asher quickly dressed him in old chains with rust on them. The other lycans from the crowd pulled on the chains and were forcing their way back into the castle to put him in the cell.

The cell was a place no lycan wanted to end up. The cell was a small crammed place which vampires used to torture lycans who misbehaved with their whips and fangs. They would drink a lycan almost to death then beat him for several days if he survived. There was no chance of escape with the bars made of burning steel.

It was code amongst the lycans to never turn in a fellow lycan. All lycans knew the punishment that surely awaited them if they did. The lycan would then be an outcast among his own kind. The only way a lycan would deserve that punishment would surely be only if he betrayed his own kind.

Most of the crowd had left to take the traitor Vince to the cell the rest all stared blankly at the path in the forest the mob had made toward the castle.

Oden addressed the rest of them that were left. "Let that be a lesson to all who would think to ever betray your fellow kin."

The crowd slowly dissipated and Lucian walked slowly back to the camp grounds and sat down thinking about Sonja and how much trouble he had gotten himself into. His mind drifted to how he could possibly see Sonja again without anyone finding out. They couldn't possible meet in the library like they planned. He drifted off to sleep thinking only about Sonja.

It couldn't be helped. He was asked to take border patrol by Oden. He couldn't possibly refuse. Which meant he couldn't meet Sonja even if he tried. He would be so far away from the castle even if he ran all the way back he wouldn't make it in time. She wouldn't want anything to do with him after this. Which was just fine with him. He wouldn't have to lie to his best friend Enkidu anymore either. Yes everything would go back to the way it should. He might be able to fool his mind with those thought but his stomach felt sick and his chest hurt. He sighed and ran to catch up with Enkidu.