My lungs were sore and my legs were tired, the smell of the nature forest scent around me helped calm me down, even if it was just a small bit.

I'm sexually frustrated, and it's all because of him.

I woke up early after not being able to sleep, with another watchful eye close to me, it's become impossible to sneak out and feed my desire at night, but now that Nohr was here, it's become impossible.

Nohr... he kept my pace throughout my entire run.

"Princess?" He asked as he hovered over me as I lay on the forest floor.

He hasn't even broken a sweat, and yet I can't even breathe, and I'm pretty sure that's blood I taste in my mouth, dammit... I pushed myself too hard, and it was because of him.

"Don't you ever get tired?" I groan out, sitting myself up. "What even are you?"

Picking myself up from the floor, my legs felt like jelly and my head was starting to hurt, with it only being two hours since I started running, I felt weaker than usual.

My heat is soon, I should head back and deal with this before I do something incredibly stupid.

"Shall I help you back, your highness?" Nohr asked, with an emotionless face, yet caring eyes.

If he touched me now, let alone carried me back to the palace, my dad's head would spin, and he'd get what he always wanted, to keep me close and out of the league.

"No." I flatly said.

I start walking back from the way I came, with Nohr a few feet behind me, unaffected by my morning run and still high on alert, wearing light armor and carrying that giant sword on his hip, I had to wonder what the hell he was.

Wolves wouldn't carry weapons during my run, and human's found it too difficult to keep up with me, so that begs the question, what is he?

"Are you a Lycan?" I ask Nohr, noticing his eyes snap to mine.

"Are you that curious about me, your royal highness?" He asked, a hint of humor in his tone.

My jaw clenched. "If you're going to be following me around, I have the right to know something about you, do I not?"

With that, a small smile rose to his lips, making my heart beat faster for some reason as his eyes kept on mine.

"I'm half titan."

I stop in my track and freeze... Titan? I turn and look at him and take this time to check him out fully, not believing that I didn't realize it sooner, how could I have missed that?

A titan... from the realm Titus, I've heard great things about their kind, there is nothing special about them other than their weapons that are laced with old magic, not even my kind messed with, they once ruled all worlds, before the fall of their royal house, and since then...

Well, history is history.

"What is the other half?" I ask him, continuing to walk, but keeping my pace as I walk beside him.

Looking down at me, then straight ahead, he sighed. "Human."

I see, so that's why he was reluctant to share anything, humans converting with Titans was highly frowned upon, much like frolicking with a mated wolf, it was highly punishable and very unheard of.

Knowing now, my curiosity has only worsened, knowing the life he must have led... I'm sure it must've been hard on him, to grow up with everybody hating you for something simply out of your control.

"You grew up in The Vale?" I ask, and he nods his head.

"What about your parents? Do you still see them?"

I saw his jaw clench and his eyes harden as he looked straight ahead, a look of pain and anger written all over his face, making me feel guilty for bringing up something that is obviously uncomfortable for him.

"No, your highness." He spoke roughly. "It's punishable by death to associate with other species sexually."

I see... it's as I expected.

While other realms celebrate diversity and sexuality, there are few realms that still go by the old ways, and punish all who would seek out another species for breeding or even love.

"I'm sorry about your parents." I say, touching his arm without realizing it, then I move my arm away and turn my head, and clear my throat.

"I think you should be free to love whoever you want, just because some higher power says no, doesn't mean you have to follow them, if anything, you should do the opposite of everything they tell you not to do."

Nohr chuckles out, surprising me. "I don't think the King is anything like Titans, your highness."

Smiling, I shrug. "Maybe not, but he certainly would kill me if-"

I stop myself from saying any more before I make a huge mistake, forgetting for a moment that Nohr was employed by my dad, therefore... he reports to him also.

"Forget it, let's just head back." I say, walking faster to get away from him before he asks anything else of me.

The rest of the walk back to the Palace from the deep forest was punishingly uncomfortable and awkward, I could feel his eyes on my back the entire time, which didn't help the situation I was trying to avoid.

I let Nohr see something just now... and I hope he doesn't put the pieces together and tell my dad, even though I am far from being a wolf, I still feel the heat every few months, which makes it unbearable to control sometimes... and sometimes, I indulge...

I found out young that the chances of my having a mate were slim, and since then my family has been glued to me like a shield this entire time, trying to protect me, most likely not from someone else, but from myself.

Imagine the news if it got out... that the only daughter of Caelan Black, son of the great Alpha Kane, was a loose girl who liked to sneak out and indulge herself with the bodies of others.

My grandfather Kane followed the old ways and kept himself clean until he found his mate, my dad... didn't, and the way he was treated was hideous, even so, that his own wolf abandoned him for years, before trying to kill him.

My dad still has that mark on his chest from his wolf, as a reminder.

Even so... I know I'll never be like them, but that doesn't stop me from always wanting them to be proud of me, a way to prove myself to them, despite I will never be a wolf, not in their eyes, or the eyes of the people.

I'm Fae... and each day that passes, I grow stronger in other ways, ways that my family never thought possible, and that scares them.

Reaching the Palace, I see a familiar guard whom I had slept with months back standing guard by the back garden, making this the first time I had seen him in two months...

His eyes reach mine and a small smile rises to his lips, his canines showing, but then disappearing as his eyes go behind me and land on someone else, and there's only one person behind me.

Nohr was tall, and he had a threatening about him, he was built like a beast with wide muscles, not to mention his eyes glowed brightly in the shade of the trees, making him seem like someone dangerous.

With that type of guy around me, there was no way I was going to slip by him unnoticed, so that left me with the question of a lifetime...

What the fuck am I going to do now?