Love Times Four: My Stepbrothers Are All My Mates?

Chapter 262 Unfair

Jayce’s P.O.V. I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that our Princess is actually considered to be of a consenting age to marking and mating. I believe we should wait with the marking until she is able to feel the Mate-bond herself, but the mating part has Colt running circles in my head. She asked me to look in the digital library and find anything I can on underaged Mates, she already told me that it might be difficult as she had experienced trying to find anything on the trial-period. I start out with the simple search terms and soon I am getting frustrated as none of them turn up anything. Listening to Jason just talking about the subject and what the documents stated has me typing in a few more difficult search terms. At first I have as much luck as I had with the easy ones, but when I type in death penalty I get a long list of potential documents and files. I quickly start reading through the list and I find a few with rather strange titles. I write down each of them and decide to start typing in those titles. The first one I open is on forceful marking and I growl out loud as I read the first few lines, “Sorry, just reading something that makes me murderous.” As I say those words I type in the search term forceful, but it doesn’t show any listings and I curse under my breath. I make a note next to its title so I can hand it to Hunter and maybe she can figure out why this is. The second title is the one I was looking for and I start reading through it fast. It is the Law Hunter told us about and the reason why it was drawn up. It answers a few of the questions we have been asking and I mark it on my list of titles, before I type in the next title. This is on planning a forceful marking and I quickly write it behind the title, I continue down my list after that without any luck. I have three more titles to go and I am starting to lose hope that these will give us any answers. I type in the title, but I am not expecting much from it and when I open it I see that it is what I was looking for. This is a file on a twenty five year old Gamma that found his underaged Mate over seventy years ago, but his Alpha refused him the right to tell her about it and he actually kept them away from one another. The Gamma’s Mate was seventeen at the time and was of consenting age. The Alpha had send the Gamma to a neighboring Pack to help out with a rogue problem and when the Gamma had returned three weeks later his Mate had been marked and mated by the Alpha’s younger Brother. Unfortunately for the Alpha the Gamma had informed others and an Elder of his underaged Mate. When the Gamma had confronted the Alpha in front of the Pack he was attacked and killed by the Alpha’s younger Brother. The Gamma’s Mate has heard and seen everything and had contacted the Elder that had been informed by the Gamma.Three Elders had shown up the next morning and had demanded answers from the Alpha and his younger Brother. They had been reluctant to answer a question the Elders had and the female had been asked to join them. She told the Elders what she had overheard and who else was informed by the Gamma. The Elders spoke to all of them with the Alpha and his younger Brother present. When they finally asked the female why she believed him and had consented to the marking and mating, her answer had shocked all of them. She was told that the Gamma had demanded her as his chosen Mate, while he knew that the Alpha’s younger Brother was her Mate. He had chosen not to tell her because he wanted her to experience the Harvest Moon for herself and that he regretted it because of the Gamma. The Elders had broken the bond between them and the female and her parents had moved to another Pack, she had asked the Elders if it would be to soon to confirm if she was pregnant or not. When they asked her why she wanted to know she told them she didn’t want to carry or raise his Pup. Luckily she hadn’t been pregnant and she left the Pack within hours. I read through the parties involved and I recognize one of the names in the list, it is the name of an Elder who retired about a decade ago. His last name is the same as the female’s last name and I think I understand why he hid this Law. I check the last two titles on my list but none of them are connected to what we are looking for, but I know I will hand this list over to Hunter for further investigation. I ask Justin and Jax if they found anything useful and both of them are nodding their head.

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