The Lycan King's Omega Queen

Baby Be Mine

The tension present in the grand hall was thick like a storm waiting to break out into the open. Alpha Trey stared with disbelief at King Luca, his face now having a mocking smile.

"This has to be a mistake, I assure you," Trey said, his voice filled with condescension. "Jess? Your mate? That is impossible. A few weeks ago, she was my mate and I rejected her. I don't think mate bonds just reappear so quickly."

The crowd murmured, agreeing with what Trey had said. For an omega like Jess to be fated to a Lycan King seemed like the most unrealistic thing in the world. Trey smirked, moving closer to his dad's friend. "Your Majesty, perhaps there's a misunderstanding somewhere. The girl in question is too weak and unfit to be a mate to anyone. Especially not the greatest Lycan King."

King Luca didn't move or smile back at Trey. His cold, blue eyes swept over Trey like a predator watching its prey. "I am not a man that is known to make mistakes, boy alpha," Luca said dismissively. "She is mine and I will be taking her with me."

The room erupted once again with gasps and loud murmurs. Jess, who had been in a corner, frozen but still at the center of everything, wished that her legs would move so she could run away.

Alpha Mykel, Trey's father who was still the current pack alpha quickly cut in. "Perhaps we can move this conversation to a more private place?" he suggested, his tone calm as he spoke to his friend. "Your Majesty, if you would..."

Luca nodded in agreement but his eyes didn't leave Trey. "The lady comes with us."

Trey opened his mouth to object, but when he saw the look on King Luca's face and the fist he was making, he decided against it. His rejection of Jess a few weeks ago had been quick but now why did he feel this way watching Jess being treated nicely by another man?

In the privacy of the Alpha's office, the mood was no less charged. Jess stood awkwardly in a corner, her hands still clenched to her sides. Luca's presence was overpowering, and the weight of his words continued to linger in her mind. His mate? How was that possible?

"Jess," Mykel began, his tone gentle. "Do you feel the mate bond with King Luca?"

Jess hesitated, glancing at Luca, whose expression was unreadable. "I think so" she admitted to everyone present. "But..but it could just be an initial attraction. This doesn't make any sense to me. He is..is the Lycan King. Someone like me could never..."

"Do not belittle yourself." Luca interrupted her, his deep voice moving through the room. "A mate bond can never lie."

"But she was Trey's mate." One of the elders present said. "And the rejection was also recent. It is too soon for another bond to be formed."

Another elder nodded in agreement. "The bond needs time to be manifested fully. Your Majesty, will you consider staying for a month so that we have enough clarity on the issue?"

Luca frowned at the thought but didn't dismiss the idea immediately. Jess, however, could feel a panic rising inside of her. This was all too much. First, the ceremony, and now, the Lycan King, the confusion about the bond that she was feeling. Without another word, she turned and fled the room.

Jess's tiny room began to feel more suffocating than normal as she shut the door from behind her. She pressed her back against it, her chest pounding as she tried to calm herself down. How could her life be changing so drastically in the space of a few hours?

"Running away won't solve any of your problems." A familiar voice called out to her.

Jess's heart sank. She knew that voice. It was Alpha Trey demanding that she open the door and because she still felt the mate bond with him, she was unable to resist.

She saw his eyes as he stood in front of her room door. They had a look that she couldn't read. Anger? Jealousy?

"You shouldn't be..be here," Jess said, her voice trembling with fear.

Trey smirked and stepped closer to her, forcing her to move until her back was against a wall. "I just wanted to let you know where your place is, Jess. Don't even think for a second that you are somehow worthy to be the mate of an alpha. You're nothing but a lowly omega—a rejected one at that."

Her heart broke at the sound of his words, but she tried her best to not let him see her crumble. "Why do you even care?" she spat back at him in fear. "You made it clear to the entire pack that you wanted nothing to do with me. Why does this bother you so much that someone is interested in me?" she spoke out, her boldness also surprising her.

Trey froze, her words hitting a nerve that he had been trying now to acknowledge. He grinded his teeth against each other and for a moment, he was silent.

"Don't talk back at me. You hear me?" he said, even though his voice didn't have the same sharpness it had when their conversation began.

"But you..you rejected me, Trey. Humiliated me in front of the pack. So what I do now should have nothing to do with you."

Her defiance seemed to begin to annoy Trey. Trey grabbed her by the wrist, a firm grip but not so painful so she wouldn't scream. "You're wrong." He said, a dangerous tone in his voice. "You don't have to be mine to belong to me. There are other ways that I can make you serve me, even if you are not my mate. No other man will have you, Jess. Only me."

Jess stared at him with disbelief in her eyes, her heart still pounding in her chest. "You don't get to decide that for me." A tear began to roll down her eye.

Trey's dark eyes burned with anger that she had never seen before he couldn't say a word to her when a loud knock on her room door came through.

"Alpha Trey!" said the guard who had followed him there. "Your father needs you now. We need to leave."

Trey hesitated, his grip loosening slowly. "You're going to be my plaything forever. No one else can have you, Jess." He said, brushing the hair on her eye before he stormed out of the room and slammed the door.

Jess sank to the cold floor, her body shaking as tears ran down from her eyes. The only words in her mind that seemed to give her hope, were that of King Luca.

"You are my mate."