"Relax, Omega."

"Quit telling me to relax! This is a big deal!"

"I don't remember you being to nervous when you found out I was the Prince of Carthe."

Louis rolled his eyes and laid down on the couch of the common area. "That's because-... whatever! It doesn't matter, the point is I'm not ready for this."

"You don't need to prepare in any way to meet my parents."

"Your parents are the rulers of the Three Kingdoms!"

"That doesn't mean much, we will be in their positions one day.

Louis would've glared at Edward if he wasn't so against sitting up from the comfortable position. "Yeah. Sure."

"Come along, Little One. My parents don't have all day; they can't wait until your little tantrum is over." Edward flicked his hair off of his shoulder, and held a hand out to the boy before him.

Louis glanced at Edward's hand before sitting up and walking towards the door. "I don't need your help for everything, Edward. I'm an omega, not a child."

"Classic Little Omega."

Louis crossed his arms at the Alpha's smirk. "Are we going or not?"

"Have you given up on convincing me to let you go home?"

"Nope, I've just realized that I'd rather speak to them than you," Louis admitted, pushing the door open and aimlessly walking down the hallway, trying his very hardest not to gawk at the beautifully constructed white walls.

"You're walking in the wrong direction, Omega."

Louis huffed and walked back to Edward.

"Would you like me to show you where it is, Louis?" Edward spoke with a smirk.

"Stop patronizing me and just take me there."

Edward chuckled and started walking. "You get offended very easily."

Louis followed after him with hesitation. "Because you're annoying."

"And what do you believe, my Omega, specifically makes me 'annoying,'" Edward asked, slowing his pace in order to get a better view of the Boy's face.

"You're entitled."

"Mhm."

"You're selfish."

"Yes."

"You're spoiled."

"Of course."

"You're misogynistic."

"That's a given."

"I'm serious!" Louis crossed his arms. "Take my insults."

"My dear Louis, I have heard all of this before, coincidentally from people that know absolutely nothing about me." Edward patted Louis' head. "Maybe if you stopped attacking my character and started putting forth the effort that I am putting forth, you might be surprised by what you learn."

Louis fixed his hair and frowned at Edward's retreating figure, annoyed that the man made sense.

"Well wait up!" Louis sped up to reach the Prince, but instead ended up bumping against the man's back and falling backwards on the floor.

Edward turned around at the sound of the boy's fall, and let out a chuckle before getting himself together and offering the Omega a hand.

Louis took Edward's hand this time. "Why'd you stop walking?"

Edward pursed his lips, adjusting Louis' shirt and fixing his hair. "I assumed you wanted to get to the throne room-" he motioned to the embellished 10-foot-tall white door behind him "-so I took you here."

Louis' breath caught in his throat at the beautiful architecture one again.

"If you think this is beautiful, then you're going to enjoy the inside very much." Edward pushed the double doors open and took Louis' hand when the boy was too in awe to remember their reason for being there in the first place.

"Wow." Louis was too overwhelmed to realize that Edward was holding his hand and guiding him into the absolutely gorgeous room. The room itself was large enough to be considered a ballroom, and lavish enough to be considered priceless. The throne room continued the theme of pure white, with an addition of golden accents framing the walls. The open floor-to-ceiling windows made the floor's mother of pearl tiles appear to be glowing. Louis' eyes trailed up the room to see the main attraction, what the whole room was sculpted around. Four platinum silver thrones embellished with diamonds and white silk, only two of them were occupied.

It was only then that Louis realized how close he was to them.

"Good to see you, Son."

To the fucking King and Queen of the Three Kingdoms.

"Lovely to see you too, Mother."

The fucking rulers of the most powerful Kingdom in the world.

"And I assume this is your Louis?"

Did she just say my name?

Louis made eye contact with the Queen.

Holy shit she's looking at me.

"Yes, Mother. Are my Brothers home yet? I wanted to show them Louis so we can bring this nonsense to an end."

"So you think he is your mate?"

Louis made eye contact with the King.

Holy shit now he's looking at me too.

Louis moved his gaze to look up at Edward, he nodded once.

"I don't think, Father. I know." Edward squeezed his hand.

Why is he holding my hand. Gross.

"Are you sure he is an Omega, Son?" the King sniffed at the air. "I don't smell it."

Edward furrowed his brows and nodded once again. "Yes, Father. He is an Omega, and he's not just some boy that I fancy, he's my mate."

The Queen grinned at that, sitting up in her throne. "Do you really believe that, Son? Oh that makes me very happy. I never thought you boys would find your mate, most never do these days."

Edward basked in his Mother's proudness. "I didn't think I was going to find him either. I was beginning to give up, but then I went to-... to, uh, I went to the bakery and found him working there."

"That is absolutely precious. Do you bake then, Louis?"

Louis looked over at the Queen at the sound of his name, his cheeks staining over a deep red. "Do I-" Edward squeezed Louis' hand. "Oh. Oh! Yes, definitely, I bake great... cakes... and such."

Queen Anne smiled at Louis' response. "I would very much enjoy it if one day you were to show me how to bake, I'm not very good at it at all."

Louis nodded, hoping the Queen would change the subject. "Yes, definitely."

The King smiled softly at the interaction before speaking up, "it has been lovely to meet you, Louis. Would you allow me to speak to Edward for just a second? I'm sure he showed you around the castle to your room, would you just wait there? He will be returned to you momentarily."

And who was Louis to deny what the gentle King wished for?

"Of course, it was nice meeting you both too," Louis admitted before making his journey out of the throne room.

Louis didn't want to tell the King that Edward had not at all given him a tour, or any way of knowing where to go at all, so he just stood in the hallway, rocking on his heels until their conversation ended.

"How is your sickness, Father? It seems you have gotten better, I haven't heard you cough once since I've returned," Edward asked.

"It was getting worse and worse after you boys left, then everything stopped and I have been perfectly fine since then. But this is not what we wanted to speak to you about," King Desmond looked over at the Queen, "We wanted to make sure that Louis was your mate."

Edward made a face. "What do you mean?"

"Don't find yourself offended, Edward. Its just odd for a Prince to find his mate in Carthe, as a baker no less," Anne explained.

"Your Mother was the daughter of an army lieutenant-"

"My Mother was, Louis is not. Louis is my mate, not my Mother. This will be the final conversation we will have on this subject. He will be the Queen of the Three Kingdoms, I will except no one else. The second my brothers arrive we will mate him. End of discussion," Edward seethed, turning around and storming out of the room.

Edward slammed the door behind himself with all the strength we could muster, grumbling at his parents' insinuations.

"Are you okay?"

Edward whipped his head to the side to face whoever dared to speak to him, before relaxing very slightly at the sight of Louis. "What are you doing out here? You were to go straight to your room and await me there, Omega. Do you not listen when others speak to you?" Edward growled out, stalking towards the boy.

Louis shivered at the Prince's tone, but despite his body's wishes did not submit and apologize. "Hold on right there, Sir. First of all, I asked if you were okay, that was me being nice. Yeah, that's right, I was being nice, but now I'm not nice anymore because you've pissed me off. Let me tell you something- Hey! Put me down, right now Edward!"

Edward growled at the Omega's command, and instead tightened his grip on Louis' thighs. "You will not scold me, Omega."

"I'll scold you all I want" Louis smacked Edward's back and kicked his feet. "Put me down right now, Kid. My fucking foot is gonna be so far up your ass, that you're fucking going to fucking cough it out!"

Edward sped up his walking and tore open the door to his room when he finally made it, setting Louis down on his bed.

"What the fuck is your problem, Edward?" Louis frowned at the Alpha as he locked the door.

"You continue to question my authority over you." Edward shrugged off his coat.

"You ignore my commands." He undid his first two shirt buttons.

"You ignore my attempts to win your favor." He walked to the bed.

"I don't know what to do with you, Omega." He laid over Louis.

"I don't know what I should do." He pinned him down.

"You are a challenge like no other."

Louis had no idea what Edward was trying to do.

"If I discipline you, you will revolt."

Louis only stared into Edward's honey sweet eyes in shock.

"If I don't, you will continue to despise me." Edward's lips twitched into a frown at the thought.

"If I continue trying to please you, it will make you annoyed."

A golden lock of hair fell from Edward's shoulder to graze Louis' cheek.

"If I cease my attempts, you will continue to be annoyed with me. I don't know what you would suggest that I do, Omega, because really-"

Louis wriggled a single hand out of Edward's grasp and tucked the blonde strand behind Edward's ear. "Continue."

Edward furrowed his brows and clenched his jaw. "I am confused, Omega. You are strange. I feel deep in my soul that you are my mate, yet you cannot spend more than five minutes not being upset with me. Then I get upset with you, and now you don't appear to be upset with me."

Louis could only nod slightly, he absolutely hated it -despised it- but Edward was so hypnotizingly beautiful from that angle. He so desperately wanted to smack Edward's face, but his instincts of adoring Alphas was on the high. So instead of being mad at Edward like he wanted to, the unwanted Omega side of him forgot all about that and decided to praise Edward's masculinity.

His golden hair was illuminated from the rays allowed by the open window. His tan skin was on display as a result of the half done shirt. His angry hazel eyes shone brighter than the sun itself with passionate emotion.

Edward was pretty fucking hot.

"Do not simply nod, Omega. I want a verbal answer from you." Edward's jaw ticked as he stared down at Louis.

Edward was pretty fucking mad too.

Louis shut his eyes in order to shake himself out of the trance that Edward's beauty put him into. "What do you want me to say exactly?"

"That you accept that you are mine." Edward spoke with such conviction that Louis wanted to say yes.

"Why is this so important to you?"

"Because despite your unchanging emotions, everything in my body tells me that you are my mate."

"You're not going to stop if I say no, right?"

"No. Never. I will never stop until it is only you and I in this world that are alive, so only I can be your choice."

Louis sighed. "Fine."

"Say it."

"Fine! I accept that you're my mate or whatever."

"You know what I want you to say."

Louis groaned. "I accept that I'm yours. Even though I'm not an objec-"

Louis would have finished his sentence.

But Edward pressed his lips against Louis', and that didn't really allow the boy to finish it.