Chapter 9: Want More

-Anastasia-

It surprised me when the king asked me if I had ever been kissed before. I shouldn’t even allow him to get so close. He was a lycan! I kept repeating it to myself, but it seemed to carry no power with the king. Like it didn’t matter if he was a lycan, a wolf, heck he could even be a human, and it wouldn’t matter. Something about him made me… made me feel… No, he just made me feel. It was strange, though. It was a strange feeling after being so numb for years. I wasn’t used to it and it scared me a little. Like when he told me to reject him. I knew he was right. We couldn’t just go back to our lives if we did not. If I rejected him, I would be free of him, but I had been taught since I was a small kid never to reject your mate. It had really terrible consequences if you did, and it was a shameful thing to do. Only if you had an abusive mate was it different, but the king hadn’t hurt me like I said. I had enjoyed it. I found myself almost asking him for more, though I would