ELIJAH'S P.O.V.
In hindsight grabbing my mate and running out of the prison while destroying walls and doors was a very bad idea. Not even five minutes after we left the council leaders called me non stop about the incident but I was too furious to speak to the old geezers that just like to b***h and whine about everything. When we made it one of my homes I got my sleeping mate situated in the room I had prepared for her. then went to my office to call the council back. They weren't the least bit happy with what happened but there's really nothing they can do about it, I'm the leader of lycans so technically it's my call what happens to Crystal and also I have more authority than the council, being the most powerful being and leader of a rare race makes everyone bow to me and my mere presence is enough to make beings tremble in fear. Even if Crystal wasn't my mate I still would've ended up taking her out of that prison just to keep that asshole king from getting his hands on a female lycan. Female lycans are rare and luckily all of them are mated except for the one who was locked away for fifty years, so my crazed mate was the only chance that arrogant king had of ever getting a female lycan to mate with him and most likely it would've been a forced mating.
A smirk crosses my face thinking of just how furious that stupid king is right now, I bet as soon as the council called to notify him that Crystal is with me instead of accepting his offer he destroyed everything in his castle looking house. Probably won't be long til he calls me to question why I have her and what I plan on doing with her, more than likely he will try his best to get me to hand her over to him. No way in hell will I ever willing hand a lycan over to anyone especially him. Due to our low numbers I've put a lot of laws in place for the protection of my kind, most revolve around mating. Lycans can only mate with their true mate unless they reach a certain age and haven't found their mate then they can choose a mate which most do since not all of us have actual mates, if a forced mating happens then the being responsible gets a life time jail sentence, lycans can't reject their mate if they are another lycan. It sounds bad but with a mated lycan couple then they will have only lycan children unlike if they were to mate with a werewolf and there being a chance of having werewolf children, so they can't reject their mates no matter what, but if they've already had children then if they want to reject then they can. If a lycan has a mate of a different species and has lycan children then once the children reach a certain age they have to live with a lycan pack, this is to keep track of where everyone is and for safety purposes. It's a lot of complicated laws that may seem unfair to some but they are in the best interest of our race.
Knock knock
I'm pulled out of my thoughts by the annoying knocking on my office door that can only belong to one person. "Come in." I casually lean back in my desk chair placing both hands behind my head and plop my feet on top of the desk as my right hand man, Kyle, enters. Clearly annoyed at my relaxed demenor he stomps into the room making sure to slam the door and drops down into the seat across from me, I smirk at his irritated face.
"What the hell are you going to do with her?" He huffs out crossing his arms over his chest.
A sigh leaves me. "Not entirely sure, I didn't exactly have a plan on what to do when I just randomly kidnapped her from prison."
Kyle scoffs. "Why did you take her anyway?! You had no interest in her the past fifty years she's been in that prison, you only showed interest during the ten years we hunted her down for murdering who knows how many rogues. Then all of a sudden you go visit her then a week later you go back and kidnap her." He throws his arms up in exasperation.
I chuckle at how much my little stunt is bothering him. "I would've left her there for all eternity or at least til the council decided to let her out when they deemed her as sane but I discovered something very interesting..." I trail off earning me a harsh glare. "The werewolf king went to visit her, so originally I went to ask her what he could of possibly had to offer to a crazy lycan. The first day I went there I didn't exactly have a chance to talk cause some guards were trying to beat her up." My lycan howls in rage at the reminder it makes me mad as well but for now I just push my feelings aside to finish talking. "I don't think the fighting would've kept her from talking but then something unexpected happened..." I take a deep breath. "We're mates."
Kyle's mouth hits the ground at the revelation. "Is that why you've been such a d**k lately and not been able to sleep?" I growl at the insult but it doesn't affect him cause he knows I won't do s**t to him.
"Is that seriously what you want to f*****g ask? No questions about the fact I finally have a mate, who has already had a mate, she's mentally unstable due to the death of her first mate or the fact the new werewolf king come to visit her?" I grit out through clenched teeth, there's tons of questions that should come to mind but that i***t automatically has to think of the dumbest question.
"Oh..I guess a better question would be how do you plan to mate with a female that would probably rather rip your throat out?" I'm completely stunned cause his face is completely serious not a single trace that he's just messing around, is he this dumb and I never noticed before or is he just f*****g with me? "Forced mating is against the law but you're exempt from that law since you created it." Kyle simply states, a vicious snarl comes from me making Kyle sink down into the chair as my eyes flicker gold and I stand up slamming both hands onto the desk cracking it.
"Are you suggesting I should mark her against her will then.. r**e her?!" My lycan is at the surface just as mad and disgusted as I am about the idea of doing that.
"N-no!" Kyle stutters visibly shaking in fear, he's never scared when it comes to just me but when my lycan threatens to come out it's a whole nother story. "I-it's j-just ho-how do y-you p-plan on m-mating?"
"It won't be easy but I'll eventually bring her sanity back and make her fall in love with me, I don't care if it takes a thousand years! I literally have all the time in the world!" Fur starts to sprout as I fight for control, not waiting to be excused Kyle bolts out of the room in fear of my lycan ripping him to shreds. Growling I punch my desk completely braking it in half. It's in our nature to shower our mates with nothing but love and as much as my lycan and I hate it, we can't shower her with the affection and love we want to, right now we'll have to fight back on her tricks and stay one step ahead of her by coming up with different plans and schemes to keep her under control. Hopefully I can bring her true self back, make her and her wild lycan slowly accept me.