20. Mate Bond

Dante’s POV

Once a loner, I struggled with depression and felt like I didn't fit in with my family. They called me weak and too soft, and I could never seem to do anything right in their eyes—I was too soft to be from the lineage of the alpha kings. Even with my loving nature, I couldn’t find my fated mate. I should not be blamed for contributing very little to my father’s kingdom especially when I was raised by parents that never saw anything good in whatever I did. I forgot to add, I was the only heir to the throne. Dante White is my name, the soon-to-be Alpha king of the Lycans. Tragedy struck when my mother passed away. She died when I was twenty-eight. I always believed she died from a natural cause until I discovered that a werewolf killed her. Ever since that day, I hunted down werewolves. My kingdom and the werewolves became terrible enemies. I nursed this wrath all my life to the point that I didn’t have to wait for a werewolf to trespass our land, I went hunting for them in