The Witch and the Three Kings

3. Weakness

Wyatt

I awake with a jolt when I feel a tightness in my chest. I press my palm over my heart, hoping to ease the pain. I hear Black, my wolf, whimper in my mind. I don't quite understand what it happening, but I know something is wrong.

The pain only lasts a few moments, a few agonising moments and it's gone. Replaced by a feeling of utter weakness. I'm shock by what I'm feeling and I can't seem to make sense of it. maybe, Black will know

"Buddy, are you ok?" I ask Black. For a moment all he can do is whimper and a feeling of unease hits me. Something is definitely wrong.

I try again to communicate with my wolf "Black, buddy, you are scaring me" I say softly " what the hell just happened? are you okay?" he slightly lifts his head " I feel like my soul is being crushed" he whispers " like the beginning of a rejection." he went on, what he was saying made no sense, "we haven't found our mate yet, how can she reject us?" I ask, confusion evident in my voice.

"Maybe she's not rejecting us, maybe she is hurt or sick and what we feeling is her weakness." he told me. This however, still didn't make any sense, we were yet to meet and sense our mate.

Wolves could typically sense their mates after shifting, most at 18, me however, at 16. The idea of this being our mate just didn't make sense. I take a long , deep breath. The now dull pain still present. I close my eyes trying to understand what Black has just said. eventually though, I ask him " are you sure Black? How can we feel her pain if we are yet to meet her?"

"Time and time again Wyatt i tell you, but you do not listen. We are no ordinary wolf and the has nothing to do with being king. We are just are more than this crown. This maybe why we can feel her." he states, now a bit calmer. " either that or, she's close to us"

I ponder on this words for a few minutes when I remember something. "Isn't this the same thing that happened to us last year? " Black just nods and remains quiet.

The year before, on the eve of my birthday I felt this exact pain. waking up, disoriented and in pain unable to make sense of what is happening. Now it was happening again, and my wolf thinks it has something to do with our mate. A mate neither or us has sensed.

"I think you losing it buddy" I say, trying to make light of the situation. "Sleep, Wyatt." Black simply says "we will be needing our strength soon." With that, he blocks me off.

I don't get it, how can I be feeling someone I have not met. And if I am feeling her, what could she possibly be going through to the point that I can feel it.

This whole conversation has me rattled. At 25 years old, as of tomorrow, I still hadn't met my mate. And if am I being honest, I'm not sure if I want to.

Don't get me wrong, having a mate seems amazing, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for that type of responsibility. To love someone so completely, so entirely, that you no longer live for yourself.

That is the gist of having a mate, as we told, the other half of your soul, now complete. I saw my father worship my mother and loose her in the most cruel way. Witches in their hatred for my kind did not discriminate in their war. My mother wasn't even a wolf, she was a beautiful human woman.

I know I don't want that. To be ripped apart by grieve that I can no longer function. To force my child to step and lead before they ready, all because of the pain in my heart.

I may not officially be King, but I might as well be. My father has been a shadow of himself since my mother died 3years ago, I was 22 years. Leaving all the responsibilities of running a Kingdom on me.

It doesn't matter how old you are, loosing a parent is traumatic. I lost my angel that day and my father lost his heart.

Now here I am, feeling my mate and I don't know what to do now. She is clearly in trouble, what kind of trouble is what I need to figure out. Do I even want to be involved in whatever trouble she's in.

In six months I'll be taking over as Alpha king, subject to me finding a mate, of course. Fated or chosen, they don't seem to care.

The council's way of trying to force me to settle down. I may be half human but my wolf is a menace. That makes everyone uneasy. The council's solution is a mate, someone to balance me out.

Now this, is she even the right mate for me. I don't know if she will be a mate fit enough to be my Queen. A she-wolf strong enough to stand by my side and rule by my side.

"Who said our mate is a she-wolf...?" comes as a soft murmur almost imperceptible, shakes me out of my thoughts. For the second time today, Black left me flabbergasted.

Not a she-wolf...? It never even crossed my mind that my mate may not be a wolf. I've never imagined anything other than a wolf. "Well, anything but a witch will do" I tease back. "If you think you will reject our mate if she is a witch, you have another thing coming" he is firm and very matter fact about it.

I won't lie, I was taken aback by his words. "Did you forget that our mother was killed by witches? " I retort, not believing what I am hearing.

"Our mother was killed by dark witches, in league with the Bear King" Black continues "you forget not all witches are evil, just as not all wolves are good" , I'm truly having a hard time understanding what he is saying, and it is making me mad.

"You seem to forget there is good and evil in all species. And I for one don't believe the Godess would give us a mate born of darkness." he says.

"I don't even know why we fighting about this, we haven't even met her yet. She could be human for all we know" I respond back to my stubborn wolf. A sarcastic chuckle fills my head "you think this is a fight...? It's barely an argument" with that, I'm blocked off, again.

I am so angry my body is shaking the bed beneath me , that's how hard I'm shaking. How did I get stuck with such a ridiculous wolf...?

I try my hardest to calm myself, to stop the growls that fill this dark room. Another chuckle comes "I ask myself the same thing about you, how did I get stuck with such a stupid human?" he adds. "Now shut your thoughts, human. I'm trying to rest and they are very loud.