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“Not even Jabari. You’re my Luna. Conduct yourself as such.” I nodded again. “Jabari will do his best to protect you but until I’m sure you can at least hold your own to an extent, we will keep our mate bond a secret.” I didn’t have the courage to argue with him.
“Can I – I want to ask you something.” He hummed which I took as an invite to speak further. “Are you going to mark me? I mean, I’m not much so I can understand if you decide you don’t want me. I won’t hate you for it. In truth, I won’t be surprised but I want to know if – if I should have any bit of hope left. You’re my – you’re my mate and I want to know if I’m getting – maybe you will mark me?”
Truthfully, my wolf was already riding me hard to be with him. She loved his presence and I knew his wolf felt it too. I could already feel our bond which was already stronger than the bond I ever had with Lucien. It may be because Valens was a powerful man but whatever reason there was, our bond was strong.
When he was around, I became hypersensitive and aware of his movement, almost as if our heartbeats were in tune. I knew he was about to enter a room before he entered and I knew who he was speaking to in the room even with my back turned to him.
“I mean, I’m not questioning what you’re doing or how you want to -” I continued to rant but one word had me quiet in a second.
“Silence.” My mouth snapped shut like it was remote controlled to do so immediately he spoke. His words reverberated with power that washed over me and made me obey before my brain fully processed his command.
“You may speak now.” I was confused at him but I spoke anyway. His quiet voice didn’t leave me much of a choice. The Alpha’s words were law so I started to speak.
“You can discard me if you want or – or maybe you want me to be a secret. I mean, I get it if you’re ashamed of me but -“
“Silence.” Like before, my mouth snapped shut. Then again, he commanded me to keep speaking. “Speak.”
“I – I -” I realized what he was doing as I stuttered and it made me angry. It made me angry to tears.
Why would the goddess pair me with such a man? As if Lucien wasn’t bad enough, I got the prince who now wanted me to be his puppet! What did he mean by silencing me and then asking me to speak? Controlling me in such a simple way?
“I said you may speak.”
“I don’t have anything to say.” My wolf snarled at him. Quickly, before I could see the wrath in his face, I bent my head, waiting for the reprimand that would come after I used a disrespectful tone on the alpha.
He gripped my chin with force and raised my head up so I looked him in the face.
“I don’t tolerate defiance.”
“What do you want from me?” I cried out when his grip felt like it would bruise. “You won’t mate me but you don’t want me mentioning rejection around you. You don’t want me to be docile but I’m not allowed to speak. What do you want?”
“You will respect me or I swear to the moon -” His grip tightened on my chin. “Whatever I want with you, you’ll give me. You don’t know how long I searched for you. Nothing gives you the right to disrespect me. I am your prince, your alpha and your mate and you must treat me with respect.”
“You’re not my mate yet.” He had me on my back faster than I could blink. “W – what?”
He shoved my legs apart and settled between them with a menacing scowl on his l!ps. “I can have my mark on you in a second. It will take me nothing.” I swallowed at the real, unconcealed anger in his tone. “I am holding back for you. I can let go for you too.” I nodded without understanding.
“Hey, wench! Clean this up and fetch me a glass of water!” Bethel the former alpha and premium as*sh0le yelled, pushing his plate away while glaring at me. I walked over to him and filled his glass with water. Lucien followed my movement with smoldering eyes and a sharp glare at Bethel but I paid him no mind.
If these people knew that I was the prince’s mate, would they treat me differently? Or would they not care seeing as the prince himself didn’t seem to care? Or perhaps they would want to hurt me for breaking his curse?
“We need to talk.” Lucien pulled me to a corner as soon as I stepped out of the kitchen. I looked around, expecting to see one of the men from the Alpha Pack walking about but I saw nobody. I felt like a fugitive or an adulterous woman, in fact. I didn’t want Lucien to be anywhere close to me.
“What is it you want this time?” I pulled my hand from his, putting a bit of distance between us. His brows creased and he looked hurt as I stepped away from him.
“What’s your relationship with the cursed prince?” He asked, gripping my bicep till it hurt.
“I have no relationship with him. Let me go.” I tried pulling my arm from his grip but Lucien was strong. Stronger than I hoped to be.
“Stop hiding things from me. What is your relationship, d*mmit!” He growled, further tightening his grip on me. I closed my eyes to fight back the stinging tears of annoyance.
Today started off as hell. I woke up in the prince’s bed without him in the room as usual and I went late to the kitchen. Astrid now marked my face as a late comer and she chose to give me special grief. She called me names as I worked and everything I did, she found mistakes in. She even called me a little b!tch.
I didn’t like it when people called me that. I wasn’t promiscuous. I didn’t sleep around. I wasn’t in any way like a b!tch but some boys crudely told me I had the face of one. I’d heard a lot of nasty things about what my mouth could be used for because I had full bow l!ps.
“Go ask him. He was the one that said it, wasn’t he? I didn’t say anything.” The more I pulled my bicep from his grip, the harder he tightened it.
“A lot of girls are trying to seduce the prince to be his princess or his Luna or some sh!t. I hope you’re not one of them.” I glared at him with all the hatred in my heart. He might as well have called me a b!tch like his girlfriend liked to do.
“What is it to you if I chose to seduce him?” I snarled, frustrated and tired. It angered my wolf when he spoke about girls lining up to take her place in her mate’s life. The alpha prince may be cruel but he was mine. The thought of him being with someone else made my stomach tighten.
“Don’t joke with me.” Lucien let out a sharp laughter. “I already told you I want you back but you’re playing hard to get. You’re mine. I must claim you. I don’t want your eyes on anyone that isn’t me.”
“You rejected me.” I reminded him but he wasn’t listening. He never listened to me. As a matter of fact, no one ever listened to me. Even the alpha prince who was to be my mate. It was as if opening my mouth didn’t serve any purpose. It was the reason I chose to be quiet. It took energy to speak and that energy was wasted when I spoke and nobody listened.
“I told you I regret that decision. We can reverse it in an instant. In fact, we can do it here.” He stepped closer to me, his chest brushing mine. We were pressed together so tightly that anyone passing would misinterpret what was happening.
Then I realized we were at the back of the pack house where people hardly came to during the day, expect in the evening to receive cool breeze. No one would come here and his suggestion made more sense then.
Did he really think I was that cheap? That I would accept him after he humiliated me in presence of the whole school? Did he think I would be so cheap to want to have s?x at the back of the pack house during the day when anyone could walk upon us? Did he too see me as nothing more than a s?xual object for his gratification? Someone that had no dignity and sense of self respect?
“I don’t want anything to do with you. I accepted your rejection because I don’t want to be your mate. Don’t make me report you,” I warned him. My stern tone made him laugh.