Bitten by a Goddess

Two Mates...?

***Seraphina***

There is no way in hell that I have two mates. Like this is some cruel joke because I've never heard of this happening. This is messing me up in the head. I'm definitely going to need some therapy after tonight. Letting a strange man get close to me by the fountain who claims to be my mate, and then the king being my mate too? Seriously, I'm starting to think something is wrong with me. I probably hallucinated the other man. Hudson, I think, is what he said his name was.

"Well, Little Mate, are you going to introduce yourself?"

The King says smugly and with a tinge of annoyance.

What does he want from me? To grovel at him? To hell with that, even if he smells divine, and Amelia arguing in my head to throw ourselves at him.

"I don't know your Majesty. Am I allowed to get off the ground before it ruins my dress more?"

I said, glaring at him.

His face after what I said is damn near hilarious. I have to hold in a laugh. I doubt he has ever experienced someone talking back to him the way I just have.

Schooling his expression quickly, he walked towards me offering his hand to help me up.

"I'm sorry about that, it's just I scented you, and you took off, so my wolf took matters into his own hands."

"Yeah, I see that."

Pushing his hand away, I got up on my own. I wouldn't be down here in the dirt if it wasn't for him and Hudson removing my scent blocker. Reaching to grab my pendant for comfort, and its gone!

"What the... My necklace it's..."

I looked at Destiny as I started to panic. Did it get caught with my mask at the fountain?

I kicked off my heels and took off towards the fountain. Barely containing myself from shifting. As I took off, I heard his growl again. Probably because I snubbed him, and just ran. Again. My necklace is more important. I don't care. That's the only thing of my parents that I have left. I can't lose it. I heard feet coming up fast behind me. I don't really give a damn as I am almost back to the fountain, and I can see my mask still there. As I make it to the fountain, I see my pendant on the ground. It probably fell when I took off the first time. Right when I pick it up, I get tackled again, but this time by a person, and not a wolf. Out of reflex, my training comes out, and we tumble to the ground with my forearm pressed into their throat. It's the King.

Just my luck, let's add treason for putting my hands on the King.

"Hmm, Little Mate. Fast, and Agile I see. Barely caught up to you, and you still insist you have no wolf. These tingles say otherwise."

He again has the smug look on his face that I want to smack off. I only hesitated because I saw some pain in his face. The mask that was on his face inside was gone. He is extremely handsome. Not more handsome than Hudson, but equal to him in a way. While I'm looking at him, his eyes soften, showing part of his wolf. His eyes mixed into this blue, red... kind of like the ending of a sunset. The red still freaked me out, so I continued to study his face, and saw a scar that ran along his jaw, and I reached to touch it, barely grazing my fingers across it when he flinched, and grabbed my wrist harshly.

His eyes darkened as he spoke.

"Watch it, Little Mate. I still have no idea who you are, and why I couldn't scent you earlier."

Just as I had the upper hand, he just as quickly changed the scenario, and I was quickly being flipped. Where I was doing it by reflex, he did it more gently, holding the back of my head, but still pinning me nonetheless.

Clearing my throat.

"You can get off me now. I promised I wasn't going to run away from you. I just lost something. That's why I ran over here. Like I told you earlier, I don't have a wolf. Even if I did, I still couldn't be your mate. I found my mate earlier."

Praying to the Goddess that saying that would be enough. That he would get off me because I'm losing focus with the damn tingling I'm getting from the mate bond. I haven't fully accepted him, so I can't feel the sparks as strongly as I should. At least I think that's how it works. That's what they taught in school, but damn, the tingling is still distracting.

"You can play whatever dirty tricks you want, dear mate of mine. I will figure out the truth. Fun fact, by the way. It's rare, but some females can have two mates. So whether you scented someone else tonight, or not. I know you scented me as well."

"I don't believe you, and like you said, you don't know me, and originally couldn't scent me, so get off!"

He growled and opened his mouth to say something.

"Ahem, Your Majesty. We are needed for an important matter involving the Rogues."

His Beta said, keeping his eyes trained on the King. That's when I realized that my dress skirt had risen quite high. Pushing hard on the King to get off so I could fix my dress. I noticed his Beta wasn't alone, and Uncle Max, and Phil were with him.

"Right. On my way."

He got off me, and pulled me up with him. Looking at me expectantly.

"Come, I don't trust you not to run off again."

"Your Majesty if I may, She's from my pack, and I was just informed by my Gamma that rogues were spotted around our border, and she's one of my strongest warriors. She and I are needed at home. You are welcome to come formally talk with her tomorrow, but the matter is urgent."

Uncle Max said. Looking at me with his "Shut up, and do as I say look"

I looked down as the King, looked between Uncle Max and I.

"Very well. I will formally come meet with you to discuss her transition to the Palace. That will also give my Beta's mate the time to pack. She's your daughter from what he told me. I will see you both tomorrow, Alpha Carter."

The King said, as he turned to leave, he looked at me with a blank, unreadable expression.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

My Uncle said as he bowed to him. He quickly walked to me, and started dragging me back to the truck.

"Phil, Destiny, you guys will ride with the rest of the warriors back home, Seraphina and I will be riding back in the car."

Phil and Destiny both went to argue, but he just stuck his hand up. "Don't argue with me, just do as I say right now." pushing me towards the car gently, and waiting for me to get inside.

"Please explain to me why your scent blocker came off, and I swear Seraphina, don't lie to me, or I won't be able to protect you, but I may have a way to get you out of this."

I couldn't say anything, I just sat quietly as we started to pull away from the palace. My mind reeling. The king said it was possible to have two mates. If that is so. Who was the other guy from earlier, and why was he using a scent blocker as well? Could he be a bad man?

"I am going to make a call when we get back to the pack, and then I will call you to come meet me in my office, understand?

He said, looking at me. Not with anger, but worry.

"Yes, Uncle."

I looked down at my hands holding my pendant, before I looked out the window for the drive home.