Mated to the Lycan Kin

Chapter 2

I feel a hand tracing down my face and I unconsciously lean into it and sigh

"You know you don't have to stay out here where everyone can behold your beauty" a thick velvet voice spoke

"I'm comfortable" I murmur into his hand

His hand. What the f**k!!! I quickly open my eyes and I'm met with the familiar stunning golden orbs that had haunted my dreams for the past three years

"No need to wake up my precious" he purrs

"What do you mean? What are you doing here?" I ask as I calm down my racing heart

"I had no idea it was a crime to come see your mate" he says with a smirk

"This is a dream isn't it" I ask already knowing the answer

"Not for long my dearest" he murmurs as he absentmindedly play with a lock of my hair

"You always say that and now it's been almost four years. Surely you don't expect me to believe your words?" I ask

He takes a deep breath and stands from his squatting position towering over me. I guess I never paid attention to his height when I lost myself in our kisses

"I understand little one" he starts "however I had to put in place certain things to prepare for your arrival. I understand if you do not believe my words but trust me when I say it would be soon that we meet" he says with so much determination

"What kind of things did you have to prepare?" I asked with a raised eyebrow at him

"Always the curious one" he muses

"Thank you" I say curtly

"I mean no harm my love" he says as he sits down on the ground with me "I can't begin to explain them to you right now as time is not really on my side, however I will show you very soon"

"Why didn't you come sooner?"

"Please don't cry my love" he cooes to me as he tries to wipe the tears I didn't know had fallen down my face "I didn't mean for it to take this long, I promise, if I did, I would have let you know. You see, I am flawed and heavily so, to bring you into my world unprepared would be the same as punishing you and you don't deserve it. Everything is not complete yet or even halfway so, however, I can't wait any longer. Maybe I am greedy or just being selfish, I have no way to know, but what I do know is I want you close to me"

I look at him and although I've never seen his face, I can see the love and determination in his eyes

"You promise " my voice barely a squeak as I look into his eyes, searching for an answer

"I promise my love" he says as he presses a kiss to my forehead "Now you have to wake up my love, your parents are worried and it's getting late already" he says as he stands up

"Please don't go. Just a little longer" I plead as he starts to dissipate

"I promise you. It won't be long" I hear his voice as he disappears before my very eyes

Soon my eyes are open and I'm all alone in the forest and I'm in big trouble. My mother would have my head, I look down at my watch and it's already past 6pm and I'm sure the king should be at the border and I, I am a mess waiting to be killed by my mother.

I quickly run up to the house as I sneak in, careful not to alert my mom and as I reach my room I hear her calling for me from downstairs.

I ignore her and rush to the bathroom and in record time I'm done washing off the grime and dirt from outside.

As I step out of the bathroom, my mom is waiting for me, sitting on the edge of my bed, holding something in her hands.

“Hi mom” I say shyly looking down. I know I'm in big trouble

“Abby what would I do with you?”

“I love you too”

“Ha ha ha funny” she gives me a pointed look “I got you something, more like your dad got you something” she stands as she lifts what's in her hands towards me “Go get dressed” she says pushing me eight back into the bathroom to get changed

I'm done dressing up, however my anxiety is through the roof. The gown hugs every curve I have and I don't know how to cover myself.

As I step out my mom looks at me with tears in her eyes “oh my baby” she sniffles “you look so beautiful”

“Thank you mom” I say to her

“Okay let's get down, we don't want your father yelling the roof down now do we?” She said pointedly

“No we don't” I chuckled

As I step into the pack feeding I'm knocked out by the most intoxicating smell I've ever perceived, it was a mixture of fresh rain and earth with a hint of wild strawberry. I darted my eyes around looking for where the smell was coming from, because it could only mean one thing.

I'VE. FOUND. MY. MATE

I'm distracted by my Father's voice as he clears his throat into the mic bringing me back to reality

“Good day everyone. It's a good thing to see we are all having a good time. I'm proud to see that we have accommodated our guests so far and I do hope it will remain so. As we all know, we have our king here with us” as he gestures with his hand towards the man I hadn't paid attention to sitting at the head of the table

Our eyes met immediately I turned towards him and I felt a pit in my stomach as it dawned on me. THE. KING. IS .MY MATE

I don't notice anything happening around me anymore, as I was sucked into his eyes. I knew they were brown, but because of the distance, it looked almost black.

I shudder as he stands up from his seat and steals towards me, I felt like I was facing a predator, which side note, he actually is, however it didn't quell the thumping of my heart and the blood rushing in my ears to realize I was what he was stalking. I was the prey.

I had long forgotten my father had been speaking and was more concentrating on not passing out due to the sheer power rolling off him and hitting me with full force.

The crowd parted ways as he walked up to where I stood rooted in spot, he never broke eye contact until I could feel his body heat so close to me.

“So it is you?” He sneered at me as he stood towering over my small frame. My father is a huge man but this man, he was on another level.

Although I knew he was disgusted by me, I mean he's Lycan and I was just a werewolf. The lesser of the two species, I couldn't help but be mesmerized by his deep raspy voice. It sounded so guttural it didn't even make sense how he made those sound

“It would be unfortunate if you were deaf” he said after I had said nothing. I mean, why was I supposed to say? “ yeah, it is I”

“I-I'm not deaf, your majesty” I managed to southwest, I could see hurt flicker in his eyes as I called him by his title. It happened so fast I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.

“Good… That is very good” he says staring down into my eyes, now up close i could see her had honey brown eyes, too bright honestly, I could say they were amber.

He looked to be 30 years old. Standing at almost 6'7ft. From his clothing that clung to his body I could tell he had a well chiseled body.Raven black hair that looked like he got out of the shower, I could imagine my finger taking through them. His bronze skin looked so shiny and rich, it was purely beautiful to say the least.

“What's going on here?” I'm quickly pulled out of my trance by the voice of my father as he pulls me behind his back facing the king. What he's doing is dangerous,but my father would do anything for his family.

I noticed a tick on the King's jaw by the action of my father.

“Abby what's wrong? Are you okay?” He turns as he holds my face in his hand searching me with his eyes

“Dad I'm fine” I say as I try to pacify

“Then why were you staring at the king? Don't you know it's rude to do that?” He said worriedly

“If you would excuse me, I was speaking to my mate” the king said and I could see my father visibly stiff at the last word he said. My father still holding my face looks me in the eye for answers, I guess he saw it as I watch his face fall in disbelief

“Your majesty, there must be a mistake” my father says as he turns to face the king,his chest puffed up in defiance as an Alpha and a father protecting his pup “My daughter is a werewolf, she can't be mates with you”

“Am I to assume you called me a liar?” He asked menacingly as he stared my father dead in the eyes

“I never said that your majesty. There has never been a case of your kind being mates with our kind” my father replied to him. His voice was strong and unshaken.

“Well there is now, your daughter must have told you that”

“I'm sorry your majesty, she can't be your mate”

“Dad, what are you doing?” I mind link him

“There's no way I would let you go with that monster. You have no idea what he's like. No way I would let my child go with him. I would rather die than let that happen” he replied to me sternly and close off the mindlink

At those words I could see the kings face darken and the bloodline was so strong I was struggling to breathe

“You would dare stand in my way, pup?” He growled at my father as he stepped closer to him with his hands clasped behind his back and I could see his eyes shifting color from brown to blazing gold.

He was shifting between his beast and himself. By this point everyone had formed a circle around us and the room was dead quiet.

“Mate what do you say? Come with me quietly now or watch your whole pack massacred and STILL come with me?” He said to never taking his eyes off my father as he issues out his threat

I could see the warriors of our pack getting ready for words from my father, their Alpha, before they charge into certain death.

I couldn't let that happen. I could feel my fathers grip on me tighten even more, he really meant his words, he would die for me if it meant me not going with this king.

My heart tightens with the love and sacrifice and my eyes welled up with tears. I walk up to my father, placing my hand on his arm and as he turns to look at me, I kiss him on his cheek.

“No, no Baby. You can't do this” his voice breaks as he looks into my eyes knowing I've made my choice

“Dad, I can't let you do this. Please, let me protect you” I plead with him

“ I am your father. I don't need you to protect me, I protect you. You're my pup. My baby” He says as he holds my face in his hands

I lean into his palm as the tears fall freely now “Dad, what about them? Do they need to die for me?” I asked, referring to the pack “You said and Alpha protects his pack, even when it hurts the most, even when it doesn't make sense, he protects his pack. Dad, you're protecting the pack. How do you expect me to live knowing you're not here?”

In all my life, I have never seen my father shed a tear. He was an immovable mountain and right now, that mountain was broken.

“Dad, I'll be fine”

“Jake, we have to let her go,” my mom says as she stands by my dad. I didn't notice her at all, and just like my dad, my mom was crying. My ever perfect mother, tears streaming down her eyes as she heartbrokenly had to let her child go, to what might be certain death.

“Your majesty, please give us time to say our farewell” my mother turns to ask the king who has been standing here all along

“2 hours and we're leaving” he says and turns to leave “I don't have patience” he adds as he walks away,The crowd parting for him to walk through.

Once he was out of sight, my legs gave way and I crumbled to the floor as I broke down in tears.

Everything is rushing down on me with the full force of the gravity of the situation I'm in. I just found my mate which I have been waiting for all these years, however he turns out to be a lycan and not just any kind,but the most ruthless one who also happens to be the king. I have less than two hours to get ready to leave my whole life behind and be thrown into a whole new world that could only spell my impending doom.

My Dad holds me in his arms as I cry into his chest, I could feel my mom's soothing hand and she rubs my back, while clinging to my dad.

He places a kiss on head as he murmurs that everything will be okay, but I know it wouldn't. There has never been a case of a werewolf mating with a lycan.

I was so scared. And it didn't occur to me while I was ogling at him that he was feared for a reason.

How could he threaten my whole pack? My family? I was just so heartbroken.

We stayed like that on the ground consoling each other until we got up and went back to our house.

Through the pack link I could feel the sadness from the pack members at the eventual loss of its Alpha's child, the pack followed us as we got to our house.

They all stood waiting till we got my bags packed up and some members of the King's entourage came and took the bags from us and walked to the direction where the King's cars were packed waiting for me.

I turned on last time as I hugged my dad and my mom with kisses all over my face as though trying to take a piece of me as a keepsake.

I got into the car and a wolf broke into a howl, soon the whole pack shifted and then broke into a howl. I could see my dad and mom both shift as they broke into a howl.

The car speeds off and as I see my whole family disappearing into the distance, I sit back into the car, closing my eyes while praying to wake up from this nightmare.