Oh No.

Creeds pov.

Today has been absolute hell. Me and my dragon, Hunter, can not agree on anything lately, not being able to find our mate has taken a toll on us, we’re twenty four years old and need our mate, especially since the dragon magic is dying without female dragons left.

Something is missing from our soul, making us feel completely miserable.

My father, that bastard, has been hassling me to take a chosen mate but I won’t, I know my fated mate is out there somewhere. I don’t think I could take a chosen mate. It would break me down…

‘I don’t want to take a chosen mate, Creed, it’ll break my soul,’ Hunter says to me in my mind.

‘I know, I know,’ I mumbled back, wanting the same thing as him. Our fated mate. Our other half to our soul.

I am the dragon king, today is my birthday and I will go out tonight to look for my mate.

The only person on my mind lately.

My beta and gamma are going to come with me considering we have been best friends since we were little fledglings.

We want to find our mates together.

None of us have found our mates in fact. All the same age… all have looked the same amount of time but nothing.

We are gonna go to the city and go around to all the clubs and restaurants and just walk around trying to find them, we know in our hearts that they are out there, somewhere. And we’ll find them, even if it takes time.

We’ll smell their scents if they’re near, it would be obvious.

We decided to eat before we went to the midnight dance club for our last stop of the night.

We've been getting less and less enthusiastic the more places we go.

We’re giving up hope that we’ll find our mates here.

Every place we’ve gone to hasn't had any luck. Their scents are nowhere to be found.

We finished up eating and paid our bill before we took our leave. We aren’t very far from the midnight dance club, I’m also the dragon king so I can just walk in without waiting like everyone else, one nice luxury.

Most people recognize me, but everyone who works there knows who I am, and what I am.

When we arrived I could swear I smelled something amazing, a mix of lavender and vanilla…

My mate!

‘Our mate ,Creed, she’s in there’ my dragon whispers to me, making my heartbeat faster at the thought of meeting her for the first time.

‘I know hunter, we’ll find her,’ I whisper back, my eyes searching the entire place for her.

We walk to the bar and sit down. I’m scanning everywhere trying to find the source of this smell… almost desperate to find it.

When I look towards the doors I lock eyes with the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

I can’t make out every feature or detail from this distance but she’s beautiful.

Brown hair… blue eyes…

I try to get up to follow her and talk to her, I don't know why but I feel it’s important, when I get to the door and open it and go outside I can’t see her anywhere.. and now that I think of it her scent is completely gone. Fuck.

That was my mate. And every trace of her is gone.

‘We need to come here now, Creed, she will come back eventually and I can’t miss the chance to be with her. Our future depends on it… I want her,’ Hunter growls, his voice sounding so far away as I let myself get into my head. Wondering what would’ve happened if I caught her in time. If I could’ve touched her skin, if I could’ve heard her voice…

Everyday for a week now I’ve been going back to the midnight dance club and I haven’t even caught the faintest whiff of her.

I keep imagining her scent drifting by again, but it hasn’t yet, and I’m starting to think it might never happen again…

I cannot stop thinking about her, she’s on my mind all day and it’s starting to make my job harder. I can’t concentrate on anything to do with my tribe. Or my work. Or even my friends and family.

She’s a constant reminder of what I let go that night, my future, my heart and soul. I should’ve searched harder, I should’ve ran faster. I should’ve called out.

We will stop at nothing to find her, I don’t care what or who she is, a human for all I care, I just need my mate, the other half of my soul. All I want for my future is a family, a wife with as many fledglings she’d give me.

Someone who truly loved me for who I am. Not a title I held.

Someone who could hold me close at night and whisper sweet nothings in my ear…

I’m here again. The midnight dance club. I know she’s here, I can feel it, someone’s been watching me all night, I can feel their eyes on me, their presence.

I tried to stay away from this place but I couldn’t. It was always calling out to me.

I’m peacefully minding my business when Rayali walks up to me, the worst person to come to me right now.

“Hey there, king time no see, Creed,” she says as she takes a seat beside me, making my entire body tense up from her presence.

“Rayali,” I mutter, sipping on my whiskey as I try to ignore her.

“So… are you here with anyone tonight, Creed? I’ve been feeling lonely lately.. I’ve also never done anything with a dragon before,” she says softly, biting her bottom lip as she looks me up and down.

I was about to say something to her when all of a sudden I could smell my mate.

She’s here, is all I could think.

The one thing I’ve been desperately seeking for is here.

My head whipped in her direction and I’m not disappointed when I see the women, THE woman i can’t get off my mind. She’s walking confidently towards us with purpose, making me swallow the lump in my throat.

“Well, well, well,” she says, she even sounds beautiful.

“L-Lily!” Rayali sputters out, eyes looking like they're gonna pop out of their socket, “H..how is this possible. I haven’t even heard from you, seen you or even heard anyone speak of you in over two years!” Rayali whispers. Lily is her name. Beautiful.

I see Lily roll her eyes. Obviously not amused.

Instead of answering her she turns to me and says, “Let’s go.”

my eyes go a little wider and I can feel my heartbeat speed up at her words.

“Okay,” is all I say before getting up to follow her. Wanting nothing more than to follow her every order.