Jamal Kunis
I stood on the balcony of my castle looking into the vast plane. Boring my eyes into the deep horizon, testing to see if I could see right through it.It was nearing the time.As the bad time approached, I kept on thinking about her. The Dark Witch, the one who had made my whole life this miserable. It happened very long ago when I was a young 18-year-old wolf who had just risen into the rank of Lycan King. I had met a woman. Fair in her appearance. The most beautiful specimen of a living creature I had ever set my eyes upon and in that instance, I fell in love with her and she with me. But later I realized it was not love; it was an obsession fuelled by black magic.I had always thought she had my best interest at heart. However, it all came crashing down that day she backstabbed me and sent the world of werewolves into utter chaos. She had started a mutiny and capitalized on it to seize control.The Dark Witch had murdered my parents and a few of the werewolves who were loyal to the pack. I knew I had to do something. War against the one I loved was the only option. The battle that day was great. I still remember it as if it was a mere hour ago.I had killed some of my own because they had been persuaded into destruction by her false message. She had enchanted them to dance to the tune of her rueful music. As epic as the tale might sound, it was half of that for me. It was unheard of that the world of werewolves should fall and it was very close to that.I overcame at last, but overcoming came at a price. It was difficult to rise against the Dark Witch. Perhaps because of an enchantment I knew nothing about, or perhaps because of my lingering feelings for which I constantly denied. But at the end of it all, a curse was placed on me by the defeated Dark Witch. She took away my ability to sense my true mate - no surprise considering how long she had had my feelings tied to her - and gave me a condition that if I was unable to get an offspring by age 35, the whole werewolf world will fall to pieces.
Some days I relive the memories wishing they had not all been a deceit. An elaborate plan for conquest.I was currently 33, and the doom day was two years away. I had already begun to see signs of the curse coming to pass. Mini mutinies and grumbles even within the very castles I rule from. I knew the curse was real even though I had struggled all my life not to believe it.I have had three wives. All three of them turned out not to be my true mates and as a result, died on the night of our wedding. This had an impact on the attitude of the females towards me. I don't think I'll ever remain the same.Howbeit, every cause has a counter curse or in my case, a solution, a ritual that possessed the ability to dispel the effect of the curse. I was ready to do it until I heard it. After consulting with the White Witch, I was asked to take an 18-year-old female human as a mate in order to break the curse. It was said that it was only by giving her child could I was able to break the curse.Humans were weak, feeble things. Having to cross with one would be an injury to my name and offspring. They'll never be as strong as their other kinds because their pure breed would be mixed with the fault of humans. Half-breeds were never the best. But some choices are not hard to make when you are left with a harder alternative.I kept the solution secret from the rest of the pack as I sent out Conrad, my beta since the day I was anointed as Lycan King, to go in search of a suitable girl for my surrogate. I never warmed up to the idea of marrying human so the best I could settle for was an arranged marriage. Just something where she gets me a child and she is on her way back to her land. Nothing more. I was not ready or even slightly interested in meddling in the affairs of men nor was I interested in letting men meddle in my own affairs or the affairs of any member of the pack. I had never thought good about them nor have I held them in a position of respect before."Human, after giving birth to my child, you must return to the human world immediately." I will say.
Methis Delis POVBefore I knew about the arranged marriage and was sent off, something unexpected happened. My stepmother had taken me to the hospital for what she claimed was a regular check weeks before the revelation of my sales. I was tested for all manner of things, all the STDs you could ever think of I was tested for it. It was a bit queer because never in my life had I been taken through this intense amount of test; not even by my late mother. But she was doing it. She said she cared about my health and she had just finished reading a health article and watching a documentary about how regular checkups were important.If only I knew what I intent was. She was trying to get my health details to see just how much she proposed for my sale.I became very suspicious when I was led into a white room with one bed and was asked to disrobe. It was an awkward moment but eventually I did and was given a white clothe to cover with. A few minutes later a doctor came in and requested I place but my legs on an extended platform. So there I was in front of this man with my legs spread wide apart. It was the very first time this had ever happened to me and I became very anxious. I was uncertain and sweat began to trickle down my face. My thoughts began to stray into unholiness and I think it he could sense my arousal as he looked up at me, a little judgemental. I apologized and he continued with his work. Eventually he was done and before he left, I asked him what he had just checked for and he simply nodded and said: "virginity."Methis Delis POVThat afternoon after I saw my contract to be sold, I spent a huge chunk of the afternoon crying my eyes out in my room. Muttering curses for my stepmother for throwing me away. It might have been temporary, but it was going to hurt nonetheless. She was not going to be able to see her father for the entirety of her stay, neither was she going to be able to speak with her friends or do all the fun stuffs she used to do. Now she was stuck in a contract. She had to honour the clauses stipulated in the contract. After weeping my eyes out, I heard my stepmother scream my name from downstairs. There was no time to start up a fight with her. She had already won and had made a sizeable amount of money doing so.Once I was downstairs, my stepmother comprehended me with repulsive stares. "Why is your eyes red?" She asked."Nothing." I replied."You are going to chase away these people looking like this. Go up and brush up.""Don't worry. I'm his wife am I not? After he takes me e
Methis Delis POVStanding before the Lycan King as Conrad had called his title to me was no easy feat. Sure all it took was just to stand, but there was more to just the standing. There were the stares from his entire entourage. I was originally scared that the welcome would be more loud and full of drinks and laughs and that my husband would try to have me at once in his room, but there was nothing in this world that could have prepared him for what I experienced next. The welcome was quiet and next to nonexistence. The king stood on the steps that led to the castle, towering over me even from the distance we had kept apart from each other. He was huge and intimidating in nature.I could hardly believe my eyes that I had to be the one who would bear a child for this regal wolf. As much as I thought it weird, it looked as if it was supposed to be an honour. On my way to the castle on foot beside Conrad, I noticed a few women Conrad had whispered to me were also werewolves. They were bi
Methis Delis POVMy body froze instinctively as his lips locked with mine. I did not kiss him back neither did I pull away, I just let him do what he was doing. He eventually broke off and looked deep into my eyes but it was difficult to hold a gaze with him. It was very frightening to do so. My eyes bulged open and my mouth hand hung open as well. I did not know whether I should smile or frown or blush but all I knew is I was having this feeling of shock. I never believed that I was going to kiss a guy I had just met a few hours ago, in fact, we have not even properly met, all we did was a mere introduction were we barely spoke words and now we were kissing. Deep down I wondered where all of this was going to lead to seeing that we still had a lot of time to spend together in this castle.King Jamal pushed himself further, trapping me tighter between himself and the door behind me. He leaned in again and kissed me, still, I did not reciprocate the action, I just let him do as he wishe
Jamal Kunis POVI felt the burning urge to ignore her pleading and force myself on her but there was this tender innocence that her pleading radiated that made it intensely difficult to ignore the pleading.“Why are you pleading?” I asked. It vexed me that I had paid a large amount of money I had paid only to have this girl refuse me. things were not done that way. “Why then did you agree to the contract if you were going to plead? Did you not read the contract?”“It wasn’t me,” the Methis said.“What?” I was genuinely confused.“It was my stepmother who sold me I swear. She just did it out of nowhere.” She sat up on the bed but still did not dare to look me in the eyes as we talked. “I had no idea we were going to do this on my first night. I had not prepared for such thing, my lord. If only you could just give me a little time to adapt, I promise I would not be this way.”I held her face and stared into her eyes, adjusting her head so she stared back. Tiny traces of tears had begun t
Jamal Kunis POVMy anger flared in me and I called one of my many servants. “Get me the Beta. We have combat training to talk about.”A few minutes later, the Beta entered. “You know if I hadn’t known you long enough, I would have guessed you were drunk,” Conrad joked. “What sort of combat training do you want to engage in in the middle of the night?”“Where did you get the girl?” I asked.“What girl?”“Don’t play dumb, Conrad.” There were quite a lot of things I needed to get off my chest and the tension I was feeling because of this human girl was one of them.“Oh. Methis, they call her.” Conrad moved around my room as he spoke. “From the land of the human. That’s where I found her. Just as you and the White Witch commanded. Is there a problem?”“Something tells me you chose her as a tease.” I stared deep into Conrad’s eye. Unlike Methis, Conrad stared back, unmoving.“I don’t get your meaning,” said Conrad to me.“Why does she look so much like the Black Witch?”“I did not create he
Methis Delis POV It must have been the reason I refused him last night but I was not very sure. Perhaps I was just trying to escape the greater pain of child birth in the future. Thoughts of last night made me look weak, even to myself so I stopped thinking about it. All I just wondered now was how much angrier I had made the Lycan King. He was an angry person on a normal day, he sent me off angry just when he was about to get into a good mood. I was at fault to be blamed here.I did my mouth and took my bath but was now concerned that not even a single servant had entered my room to inquire of my health or my need for food as they usually did. If I was to die right here right now, I do not think any of them would notice. I had begun to get hungry and not being brought up in a royal family, I knew just how to setup my own breakfast without the need of servants so I got up from bed and headed to the kitchen. Except now there was one problem: where the hell was the kitchen?I had forgo
Methis Delis POV A month later I felt a surge of nervousness as I entered the clinic. It was my first time undergoing the surrogate checkup process, and I had no idea what to expect. The wolf people had a different way of monitoring their pregnancies, and I was the first human to carry their child. Getting pregnant with a werewolf baby happened much sooner than I expected, which made me feel uneasy inside. “Relax, Methis. It’s not that bad.” Beta said, sensing my anxiety. He was the one who brought me here, since Jamal had some urgent business to attend to. He took my hand and led me to a room where a female wolf doctor was waiting. He smiled warmly and gestured for me to lie down on a bed. She then attached some wires and electrodes to my belly and chest, and turned on a monitor. “This will show us the heartbeat and growth of your baby.” She explained. “Don’t worry, it won’t hurt.” I nodded, trying to calm myself. I looked at Beta, who was standing next to me. He smiled reassur
Methis Delis POV As the doctor finished speaking, I couldn't help but almost laugh at the absurdity of the situation. I had expected my role as the Female Lead to be anything but conventional, but I never imagined playing the part of a surrogate mother. It was a strange predicament, one that left me puzzled and curious about the lycan king's motives.Sensing my gaze upon him, Jamal's voice cut through the air, stern and commanding. "Methis, there's no need to overthink things. Focus on what you need to do and carry out your role as we've agreed."I bit my lip, suppressing the questions that threatened to spill from my tongue. After the checkup, Jamal disappeared once again, leaving me alone with Beta, his trusted companion. Beta, a towering figure with a demeanor that commanded respect, led me through the halls of the palace. Silence enveloped us for a moment before Beta broke it with a nod of apology."On behalf of the wolf servants, I want to apologize for their earlier rudeness to