18. Beneficial

Richard

"Friends?" Charles yelled in disbelief after I told him everything that happened between me and Henrietta. I was sad, very sad and so was Grey.

"I'm not supposed to pounce on her like some brute and mark her, am I?" I shouted in frustration, stretching myself in the chair in my father's room while we waited for him to return from the palace.

We both arrived about twenty minutes after he left and the servant who was assigned by King Kenneth to be at his service informed us that he had gone to have breakfast with the King and would be back in an hour.

We didn't want to take any chances because we might leave to come back later only to meet his absence. This was the first time we would be meeting him together since we arrived in Odyssey and the reason behind this meeting is very urgent.

"I know you're not supposed to but, who asks their mates to be their friend, when they are well aware she's their mate?" He queried, pacing the room.

"You talk like you pounced on Marta the s