Mate I never wanted

The ninth Prince’s past

Vivian

It was quiet for a moment and I got worried for a moment that maybe I had overstepped some of his boundaries... or maybe it was a sore subject, because his body stiffened up under mine.

Slowly, I rose up from his chest, so I could look into his face, to see how bad it was, but to my surprise, he just looked lost in thought.

"Lucien?"

I softly tried to pull him out of thought. His eyes shot to my face as I laid a reassuring hand over his.

"If you don't want to, you don't need to talk about it."

He shook his head as he answered.

"No, it's okay... I think you should know the full story. No one outside my family knows everything that happened... well, not even my whole family knows what happened... the only people that know everything are my mother and the emperor."

Our fingers intertwined as I scooted a bit closer to him as I waited for him to continue at his own pace.

"To the public knowledge, I was a very sickly child, that my health got really bad around age six and that was why no one had seen me for years... but the truth was that I had been kidnapped when I was six."

"What?"

"Yeah, it was not made knowledgeable to the public because it was only for a few weeks."

"But... but how? Why?"

"Yeah, you would guess that I was kidnapped because I was the emperor's son, but the reason was completely different. I presented quite young at five, everyone knew that I was going to be a fox, which was no surprise, but it took everyone a few months to realize that I was a nine-tail fox."

His tail landed in my lap and I could clearly see the nine rings on its end. There was no very obvious ring of a very contrasting color, just a shade or two lighter than his fur, so it's no surprise that it took them so long to figure it out.

Slowly, with my other hand, I started to stroke the soft fur of his tail and that drew out a little purr from him. His body relaxed and he continued talking.

"My mother wanted me to have as normal of a childhood as possible, so she used to take me to one of the upper-class daycare centers, so I could play with kids my age. Sure nobody knew who I was really, but it was a bunch of little kids and most of them did not care. Back then, I could not control the change of my form, so I used to walk around with my tail out a lot of the time. One of the daycare center workers must have noticed my tail and realized how rare I was. So they decided to snatch me up. One of them told my mother that they were taking me to the bathroom, but they never returned. My mother almost went crazy when she could not find me."

All I could think about was his mother going crazy looking for a cute little baby Lucien... and baby Lucien, who was scared of strange people that took him from his mommy. My eyes started tearing up as I stared at him.

"Lucien... I'm so sorry..."

He just shook his head.

"I don't remember much of it. All the doctors are sure that my brain is repressing the traumatic memories, but I'm pretty sure they kept me knocked out most of the time. All I remember is what happened after..."

Confused, I stared at him. What did he mean after? After he returned home?

"After?"

"Ummm, I don't know if you know, but fox hybrids' full power shows up only when they mature. Maturing is considered to be the first heat. So they had a great idea to chemically force my first heat..."

"But... but you were only six."

"Not really... I was more like five and a half."

"That... that is way too early."

"Yes it is. My body was not ready for hormones and pheromones of that level. The chemicals they used permanently messed up my hormones and my heat. I went under multiple surgeries. Those were the last attempts to fix me, but nothing worked. The emperor tried every pheromone, hormone and heat specialist in this galaxy, but no one could fix me. My heat was unstable and irregular, so that I had to be under professional supervision all the time. I spent years in hospitals, and most of it in bed. I was a complete mess and could not do anything. Furthermore, I could not go into public, because my heat was so strong that I would become a completely different person. A lot of doctors believe that it mostly has to do with trauma that I experienced during my first heat... when they found me I had been in heat alone for about a month... they messed up the dosage that they overloaded my body's system and I went into my first for the whole time."

His whole body stiffened, even his tail strained under my hand.

Seeing him in distress like this, hurt me physically, so without even thinking about it, I pulled him to my chest.

"But it got better as you grew older, didn't it? You have been serving in the military for a few years now."

He shook his head.

"Not really. They couldn't do anything to stabilize my cycles, so they put me under very strong suppressants. It worked well for years. They messed with my moods and emotions, but it helped me function."

"Oh... that sucks, but I guess it works?"

He shook his head again.

"It used to work. Over the years, my body got used to it, and it became less and less effective for me... to the point where now it doesn't do anything. That is why my heat started so soon again..."

I stared at him for a few moments.

"But... but you look a lot more coherent this time?"

"It's because it's only the first few hours... and I have you now. My doctors considered the possibility that me having a mate might make things better or a lot worse. They will monitor me, but they still have no idea how it affects me in the long run."

I nodded slowly, petting his head. At some point, he buried his face in my neck, letting my scent calm him.

His body started to relax as my mind tried to wrap around all that I heard from him. What happened to him was horrible.

My thoughts were interrupted by his warm lips on my neck. Clearly, his heat was reaching it's high. I did my best to keep myself in control, but I knew that there was no way that I could leave him like that. There is no avoiding the initial. breaking of the heat, sure, I am not going to let him have s*x with me. But there are other ways that I can help him. Sure, they are not as effective as s*x, but it is known to help someone in heat.

Carefully, I laid him on his back and pressed him to the bed. My lips found his instantly as my hands made their way to the waist band of his pants and my fingers wrapped around his hard length.

The moment my hands made contact with his heated skin, he whimpered under me. It took me only a few strokes to have him crying and cumming under me.

I brought him to the peak a few more times with my hand, but it was enough for him to pass out, but sleep did not come to me, and before I knew it, my bracelet vibrated telling me it's time to leave.

Carefully, I unwrapped myself from him and slipped out of the room after leaving him a quick note, telling him that I was going back to my room to change and that he could join me for lunch and that I would text him where we would have our first meeting.

My mind was still buzzing when I walked into my room, and I was met by confused Rebecca.