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Even while I was with her, a part of me had still been with Aysel and she made a big deal of it so I had to promise her something. Maybe I thought I could pretend with her forever but obviously, I learnt I couldn’t.
The minute my wolf sensed something amiss, he’d started calling out for Aysel. It was unfortunate that I didn’t realize in time that the goddess was trying to warn me about a cursed prince stealing my mate.
“Are you telling me what you said to me doesn’t matter because of your age?”
“Skylar, I was young and stupid. You and I both know you don’t want me. You only dated me to hurt Aysel and I foolishly let you use me but we are past that now. I forgive you for everything but don’t hold words I threw out without thought against me.”
She said something in a low voice that I couldn’t hear then she laughed; a quick bark of laughter that sounded both disturbed and disturbing.
“You’re still foolish, Lucien. You want Aysel back but she’s mated to the conqueror. Not just that, she doesn’t want anything to do with you.” She laughed again, this time her laughter mocked me but I didn’t care.
Call me desperate or whatever but nothing could hurt me as much as Aysel leaving me could. We were best friends for the better parts of our lives. We shared our secrets with each other and loved each other. I knew she loved me more than friends. My mother speculated about her being my mate but not in a good way.
In a sense, I had known and believed that Aysel would be with me forever, whether as a mate or not. I know it sounded selfish but those were my thoughts before. I chased away any guy that had the slightest interest in her because she was mine. I rejected her but she was still mine.
I didn’t think much of it then but I realized now that it was selfish of me to want her to remain with me when I was with Skylar. I realized now and I regretted my actions. I wanted to apologize to her and get back together with her but whatever I did, she didn’t listen to me. She didn’t believe in me anymore but I knew I could convince her. I just had to get her away from the man that took her from me.
‘I’m so sorry Aysel. I’m sorry I hurt you. I’m sorry I left you. I was a stupid boy, chasing a title that means nothing compared to you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. I love you so much it hurts to breathe knowing you’re not with me.’ I wanted to tell her exactly that but she wouldn’t believe me. No, she wouldn’t listen to me.
“That’s why I’m here, isn’t it?” I snapped at her, wincing because my mouth still hurt from all the blows Beta Jabari dealt me for reasons he never mentioned but I wasn’t a fool. I knew she mated the alpha which now made the beta her protector and bodyguard. “You hate Valens. I hate Valens. We both want him dead. We could work together.”
“What makes you think I hate Valens?” She raised a cool brow but I could see right through her.
“He disgraced your father. He took what you always wanted.”
“How do you propose we kill Valens?” She didn’t drop her brow, crossing her hand and feet as she held my gaze in an unflinching, unwavering stare.
“If I had a plan, I would have executed it myself and I’d have done that already. I don’t have a plan but I know you do. I’m going to help you.”
“You’re not all stupid, Lucien.” She laughed. “I know how to frame omegas and get out of trouble but do you think I can take down the cursed prince? What plan do you think I can come up with to kill someone that has taken over forty packs?
How do you think I can stop someone whose word is the law and has the backing of thousands of hefty men to carry out his bidding!? What do you think I can do to a man that has never lost a battle in his life!?” I blinked at her as she continued to scream. It occurred to me then that she may not have a plan. For the first time since knowing Skylar, she didn’t have a plan to destroy her enemy.
“We’ll figure something out.” I stepped closer to her and put my hand around her. She was fierce to the world but she broke down easily.
She didn’t want anyone to see her as someone weak because she wanted the pack to see her as more suitable to lead than her brother. It was the only reason I still stayed with her because she needed someone whether she admitted it or not.
“Won’t your words change tomorrow?” She sneered. “How can I trust you when you easily admit to making empty promises?”
“I’m doing this for Aysel.” I reminded her. She knew what Aysel meant to me. “Let’s take down the cursed alpha prince together. I want my mate back.”
The penthouse suite of the pack house which the prince now inhabited had a full-length mirror. The only times I saw a full-length mirror were the few times I went shopping with Celeste.
I took my time to look at myself in the mirror, appraising myself from head to toe. My clothes were blander than my face. Brown eyes and dark brown hair, a small nose, pouty pink l!ps and a slim jaw.
My ch3st was a handful at most but I suppose it would be half a handful to the prince. My stomach was flat not because I worked out but because I never had a full belly. No pronounced h**s but I think they would have to do. Maybe they weren’t wide and full like Claudia’s but they were fitting.
I shook my head, wondering why I was doing a body appraisal when we had to ready lunch soon. Claudia’s words got to me when they shouldn’t have. She could never be with Valens whether her body could accommodate him or not. He couldn’t be with another woman asides from me since we mated. His body would not respond to another’s the way it responded to me.
I shuddered to think of what would happen if – if he met a woman who his body responded to like it did to me. It didn’t always happen but sometimes even wolves that were already mated met someone who wasn’t their mate but made them feel comfortable and relaxed enough to break the sacred bond of mating.
My mind flashed to Clover and my heart skipped a beat. He’d been with Clover before. There was no way a man like him would be with a woman like her without knowing her body int!mately. The way she spoke to him even showed they had a much deeper relationship than I would like. She was more informal with him than Jabari who was his best friend and asides from a tangle in the sheets, how else could they have developed such a relationship?
“What are you thinking of?” My eyes snapped up to catch tumultuous grey ones.
The legend said he had dark eyes like coal but he didn’t. When he was relaxed – which he rarely ever was – he had beautiful grey eyes. When he was disturbed, the grey turned cold but anger – anger made his eyes turn pitch black almost like a demon possessed him. It made me wonder how that legend had been formed; how many people had seen him angry to the point where they assumed his natural state was anger.
“What do you think about my body?” I asked in a quiet, soft voice.
“It is suitable.” I swallowed at his rough, emotionless words.
“Suitable?” I looked at myself in the mirror. Maybe if I ate a little more, I could put on a bit of weight and gain some curves to ‘accommodate’ my mate.
“When the time comes, you will carry my pups.” My heart fell at that.
“Is that all you care about?”
“What more should I care about?”
Me! I wanted to scream at him. ‘Care about me.’ But I said nothing because I wasn’t used to making any sound. I made myself available when people needed me and I disappeared when they didn’t need me. I didn’t speak when not spoken to even if I wanted to.
“My legacy is important to me,” he added after a few seconds of silence.