Mate, You Are My Enemy

Chapter 11: A paranoid man

Diana’s pov

Kai Gray is going to be my teacher.

I don’t know if I should be amused by the whole thing or scared.

There is something that didn’t cross my mind when I was negotiating with this man.

“You know that Ezra and I are mates. You also know that he is obsessed with me,” I stated the facts and then looked at Kai.

Now that I know his true identity, I am suddenly on high alert.

I knew the moment I met him, and even when I realized that he was a vampire, I knew he was something special.

His power and aura are completely different from those of his henchman, who came to get me.

In a fight, I think I could take his henchman, but I might suffer a few injuries.

However, Kai might kill me before I could raise a hand to strike back.

This ominous feeling I have is the same as when Ezra would be angry about something, and I knew someone was going to die.

I looked at Kai once again, he still had that smooth smile on his face, but now I could sense.

The anger radiating off him, but it seems to come off him so naturally, like it's been there for a long time.

“You are asking me why I didn’t just use you to blackmail the Alpha Prince? You are his mate, and from what he has done in these past 2 years. It appears he would do anything to protect you.”

That tone of certainty in his voice as he spoke bugged me.

As someone who has never really been certain about a thing myself.

People like him, people like Ezra, who are always so sure about what they want, make me uncomfortable.

“The truth is that I can’t risk it at all.” He sighed and let his emotions show.

Grief, there was so much grief on his face.

I know that look because I have seen it on my own face for the last few years.

“What if the Alpha Prince is just obsessed with you.

You lose interest in people, and I can’t be sure that he isn’t playing you.

Maybe he is using you to draw your brother out. It’s what I would do,” he added, and I smiled at this.

“I guarantee you, a friendship with me will help you in the near future as well. This world is about to undergo a massive change.”

The world is probably about to go through a massive change, huh?

By the sound of it, it seems like after centuries of hiding, the vampires are about to make their move.

Because they are thought to be extinct, no one knows how to fight them.

We do know that a stake to the heart is the best way to kill them.

But I doubt the world knows how quiet they can be.

They don't know how they can easily sneak up on you.

A friendship with him would mean that I would learn his people’s secrets.

He is taking a big risk taking me in just as he said.

And he decided that instead of using me as a bargaining chip, he is going to wield me like a weapon.

I looked outside at the peaceful world, and I knew it wouldn’t last forever.

It’s not just the vampires who are not content with the state of the world now.

It’s the witches, too, although my aunt and her coven kept me away.

I could see it and sense it, their hatred for werewolves, and it was also directed at me.

And the other witches around have made their intentions clear that, given the chance, they would start a war to reclaim glory.

As if angry witches and vampires aren’t enough, we have werewolves and lycans who are pissed off as well.

The current Alpha King doesn’t only consider himself the Alpha King of all werewolves, but also Lycans as well.

And the Lycans aren’t happy about that; they want to name their own King.

However, every time they try to do so, the candidates get killed.

To be honest, I believe that the world is always on the brink of war.

It’s just that, throughout history, you have people like my parents.

The one who mediates things and tries to keep the peace.

Maybe that is why the Alpha King killed them, because he wants war.

And maybe that is why my parents didn’t fight back, because they knew that what he wanted was war.

“There is something that we should talk about. When do you go back to the pack of the Alpha King and how?” Kai asked.

I smiled when I remembered Ezra’s words.

“When the time is right, you will know. And I won’t need to do anything.” I answered.

Ezra’s pov

”I hate this scent. Why do I have to be covered in it?” I couldn’t help but bark at Zayn.

I know that I am directing my anger and frustration to the wrong person.

“Because you reeked of her. Your father would have caught her scent before you could even walk into pack territory. And how were you going to explain that?”

I hate how he makes so much sense.

No one can know that she is still alive, not until all my plans are successful.

‘f**k your plans, I want to mate with us here and now,’ Torin, my wolf, barked in my head.

Well, his anger and frustration are directed at the right person, sadly.

According to Torin, we shouldn’t have let her escape that night her parents were killed.

This fucker has only known her for about 3 years, and yet he tries to tell me what to do.

I have known Diana all my life; this gives me more right over her than the stupid mate bond.

But at the same time, when I am at home sleeping in my bed alone, I start to think that maybe he was right.

Maybe we should have just let my father do whatever he wanted and forced us to get married.

At least she would be there, and I would be able to hold her in my arms.

Even tonight, it took everything in me not to drag her back.

I think what saved her was those words she said to me.

How she called me her mate, but in the same breath, her enemy.

She considers me all that because, after all, I am my father’s son.

Just you wait, Dee, I am coming for you no matter what.

And once I have you in my grasp, I will never let you go.

You will finally belong to me.

I got home and went straight to my father’s office.

He looked up when I walked in, those blue eyes sizing me up.

People say that my eyes make me appear evil.

But they have probably never looked into my father’s eyes.

I am not a saint; I have killed more people than I care to count.

I am selfish and, as one little hybrid would say, obsessive as well.

But the darkness I have seen in those blue eyes is scary even to me.

“It’s unlike you to up and leave like that. Was there an important matter?” he asked.

His voice was just like that of a typical father who is worried about his son. But I know better than that.

“I just wanted to unwind,” I settled down on a chair, and he smiled.

“If it’s whores you want, you have an entire pack full of them. Ready to serve you to your heart’s desire. Why go out for fun?”

That look in his eyes, and the way his voice slightly changed, told me one thing.

He isn’t happy at all about my actions, and he suspects me of something.

A paranoid old man who can’t even trust his own son.

Well, in my case, he is right not to trust me even for a second.

And from the way he is looking at me, it makes me wonder.

Can he see how badly I want to kill him?