The Alpha King's Hunter Mate

Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3

Aubrey

My heart pounded heavily as I stared at the man in front of me which was molded like the man in my dreams that I had always wished for, he is like the exact mold of the man I had always wanted to have a relationship with.

I was lost in thoughts as I stared at the man who walked toward me in slow strides, and I couldn't help but feel my feet go jelly and I shudder lightly.

All my rationality has flown out of my head and all I could think of is the man in front of me. I wanted nothing other than to run into the other party's hand and hug him. This will be the first time I will be seeing such a handsome man, and although I have seen enough handsome men in the clan, none of them can be compared to this one.

I was only a step away from rushing into the man's hand when I felt a gush of pain which brought me out of my thoughts, and I turned my head to look and the person turned out to be Georgia, one of my roommates. It was not until then that I realized that I'm in no position to gawk at the man, and I was glad that she had made me snap out of my thoughts before I made a fool out of myself.

I thought that I would be able to stop myself but I still kept stealing glances at the man who was now seated at the table.

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“What is wrong with you?” Wendy, another roommate of mine, asked as soon as we returned to our room.

“What do you mean?” I asked feigning ignorance.

“We all saw what happened out there, you were busy staring when you shouldn't be” Carolyn, the last of my roommates said with a dissatisfied look on her face.

Carolyn, Wendy and Georgia stared at me with an accusing look on their faces, and a dissatisfied look could be seen etched in their eyes.

“It is nothing, it is a momentary thing. I was reminded of my late brother when I stared at him” I said with the ‘him’ referring to the handsome man.

My identity has been forged and although my name is still Aubrey but my identity is that of a human whose parents and brother died protecting me from the hands of a rogue, my ‘parents and brother’ are both werewolves and they did a good job protecting me which causes their deaths. It was this identity of mine that made me stop my roommates from asking more questions.

I was soon hurdled in my bed thinking of the handsome man as his face couldn't stop from popping up in my head. It was strange for that to keep happening and I couldn't figure out what it was that made that keep happening. I still haven't forgotten my identity as a hunter, and a werewolf that kept appearing in my head is bad news to me.

I knew that the only way for me to stop this from happening again is not to meet the other party again, and although I knew it would be hard since I now work for the person, I will do all I can to make sure that I don't see the other party again.

Surprisingly, I couldn't bring myself to think about not seeing the man again. I could remember the sparks that I felt when my eyes met with the other party's eyes, and my heart couldn't help but pound heavily. I had shed every ounce of everything restraining me from thinking about the man as the thoughts of the man once again filled my head.

I didn't know how long I was in the state that I was but I was interrupted by Carolyn, and I couldn't help but feel glad that she had interrupted me. I had thought that I should be grateful to her but hearing her words made me shudder with fear. “A guard is outside looking for you saying that the alpha king seeks for you,”

I lost my hearing momentarily as I heard her words, and I couldn't help but plop back on the bed with a chilled heart. I couldn't help but wonder if my day could have ever been worse than this, at first it was the handsome man whose thoughts filled my head, and next it was the alpha king who seeks for me.

I felt scared as I knew what my mission here is, and knowing that the alpha king is looking for me is out of the topic. It wasn't until a minute later that I stood up from the bed with a dejected and dispirited look on my face as I headed to the door. A guard came into view the moment I opened the door as he stood rigidly with a straight look. “Are you Aubrey?” The guard asked, and I nodded my head.

I couldn't find my voice and I could only respond to him with a nod as my thoughts swirled around wanting to know what was going on and why the guard was looking for me.

“Follow me” he said and with that he walked out of the dormitory and I followed him closely as different thoughts and scenarios filled my head.

It was not until a while later that the guard said again “You will be meeting the alpha king soon, you should behave yourself if you don't want to lose your head” I shuddered as I heard the guards words and I couldn't help but feel that my identity had been compromised.

Fear filled my heart as I followed the guard with my heart pounding heavily, and beads of sweat formed on my forehead as I moved like a zombie with my eyes losing its luster. I followed behind the guard, and I didn't stop until I almost hit my head on the guard’s back, and it was then that I realized that he had stopped.

“Go in and behave yourself” The guard's words jolted me out of my thoughts. I had been lost in thoughts trying to figure out what was going on that I didn't know when we got to the alpha's office.

The door of the office was pushed open by the guard after knocking softly, and the guard pushed me inside, locking the door behind me. The fear that I have been trying to conceal all this erupt the moment I was pushed into the office, and I wanted nothing other than to scream out loud and escape through the door but I managed to retain my only rationality which made me stop all my actions as I knew it will be futile if my identity has been compromised.

Although I planned on fighting to the end if my identity has been compromised but that will only be if it is compromised, I had learned from the clan's teacher that the most basic thing that a spy must always remember is not to jump into conclusions too early. One must not expose one's identity unless one is sure that the enemy knows about him or her being a spy.

A spy must always know how to keep calm even when he thinks that his identity is compromised, and that was what I did next. I calmed myself down while reciting the line like a sutra, and it was until then that I glanced around the office briefly.

I stared in shock as I realized that the handsome man that I have been thinking about is the alpha king, the man I was staring at in the dining hall is Desmond. I had never thought that Desmond's meeting with me would be like that. I had thought that I would see him as an aloof king but it turned out that I was wrong. I met Desmond at the dining hall and I had stared at him for a long time which was against the rule of the palace.

I have never investigated the alpha king mostly because my rank isn't enough for me to investigate him in the clan's system, and when I requested to see his file I was allowed because that will make things hard for me because I will have figured out that he is the alpha king the moment we met.

I still couldn't understand why I was called to his office, and although I had a hunch about why I was called by I still couldn't believe that I would be called here not because my identity as a spy was seen through but because I had stared at him while serving in the evening.

I was glad that it was likely that he had called me here because I violated a rule, and although I don't know what my punishment will be but I will gladly accept it since it means that my identity hasn't been seen through. Although I knew that my speculations were right, I didn't let my guard down as I knew that it might all be my thoughts. “Good evening, alpha king” I greeted but I was met with silence as he only glanced at me for a second before burying his face in the files in front of him.

I waited for minutes but there was no response from him, and seeing that only made me nervous, and scared about what it was that made him order the guards to bring me for. “I know what I did was wrong” I said after I couldn't hold it in any longer, the silence is killing me, I can't bear the pressure of the silence since I don't know what he planned on doing to me.

“What did you do wrong?” Desmond's words made me dumbfounded. I hadn't expected him to say a word, and I panicked subconsciously as I heard his words. Only I knew what I did wrong but there is no way he would know about it, and I decided to take a gamble. I knew that there was no way my clan would betray me and let my identity be known.

“It was wrong for me to stare at you in the eyes at the dining table” I managed to say after a while, and I immediately casted my gaze on the floor as I interlock my fingers.

My heart was filled with fear and anxiousness as sweat dripped down my forehead as I hoped that he would call me about what had happened in the dining hall, and nothing more.

“You’re wrong, I didn't call you for that” the alpha king's word's filled my ear, and I couldn't help but shudder at his words.

I knew that it was over for me, and all the psychology preparation that I had prepared earlier was gone as it was replaced by fear. I knew that my identity as a spy has been exposed without a doubt but I still couldn't understand how my identity is exposed easily.

Did the clan betray me? No, that can't be. The clan won't give up on me, but reality slapped me in the face because I knew I had only begun my spy mission today, and there is absolutely no way he would have found out about me without news beforehand.

Sound of footsteps echoed in the room, and I lifted my head up slightly to meet the alpha king walking toward me. My head dropped instinctively as his oppressive feeling pressed over me, his footsteps sounded like the countdown of death as he trotted toward me. The closer his footsteps were, the more scared I became, and I closed my eyes immediately.

“You know who you are right? You don't need me to spell it out to you right?” He asked and my heart which had been hanging on a cliff slipped off immediately.

What I dreaded the most has finally happened, my identity has been discovered. I couldn't

help but wonder what he planned on doing to me now that he knows my identity.