Chapter 51: Challenges for a Queen

*Carmela's POV*

It has been months since the passing of King Alpha Jack's parents, but still the Kingdom is in state of sadness and despair. I tried my best as a Queen and Luna to help Jack with the pack duties and all. But he had been cold ever since.

I remembered how he asked me to stay by his side and never leave, and that's exactly what I'm doing. But Jack, for some reasons that I've been trying to understand is that he rarely slept by my side since then. He had kept staying in the chambers of the former King, and I stepped back to just let him be. I thought maybe he needed to mourn on his own and he needed some space to do that.

But it's been almost two months since the last tragedy and Jack is still cold and distant towards me. Unlike Princess Jasmin, who have started to hang out with me and slowly learned how to smile again.

"Oh Carmela, one month from now is my eighteenth birthday..do you think I could maybe find my mate that day?