Koko's POVI tossed and turned on the bed and stretch my hand to touch my mate, but the bed felt empty, as usual and I forced my eyes open to see my mate standing by the window."Niyol, are you still not sleeping?"I rolled up from the bed, sitting up against my pillow, he turned to me, when I looked up at the clock, it was two o'clock, am."Don't worry about me, just go back to sleep." He said waving his hand.I pulled off the duvet from my body, tossing it to the other side of the bed, then I walked over to him.When he saw that I was coming towards him, he stretched out his arms then I walked into them and he wrapped around my waist. It had been a month now since he came back with the news that Chester was gone.Since then it had been like everything had been on a standstill, a funeral had not been held and any thought of replacing Chester as the Beta had not even been remotely mentioned.I understood why he was yet to recover from the shock. Losing a loved one was not something th
Koko's POV"Have you heard any news from Juliana since then?" I asked my mate this morning when we were having breakfast.His fingers froze, the chicken he was eating dropped on his cutlery, as he leaned on his chair carefully. He sighed."I've been sending her some messages, but she hasn't been replying to any of them. Maybe they haven't gotten to her."Something told me that was not the problem, "why didn't she just come with you back to the palace so that we can take care of her here?"I asked him and he responded with a shrug "I think I've already mentioned this before, she said this place has too many memories of Chester for her to be able to recover and I can't argue with that at all, everyday I feel emptiness in the palace walls... I wish there was a way I could bring him back..."I immediately reached out for him again before he sunk into the darkness once again, he snapped his head as if he had just woken up and was just realizing his surroundings.He held my fingers with his
Koko's POVOur jaws just almost fell to the floor when we realized that the person that we have been mourning for over a month was alive and well, standing at the doorstep with the same wide eyed expression that we were giving him.I had to rub my eyes with the back of my hand several times to make sure that what was in front of me was nothing more than an illusion, but then he just stood there staring at me as if he was trying to figure out he's fight or flight response."Chester, is this really you?" My mate asked, almost breathlessly.Then, suddenly he rushed over to him and held him tight."Man I thought you were dead, I thought I lost my best friend, I thought..."The next words he was going to say froze in his throat when he realized what he had been saying before, then he pulled away from Chester."How are you still alive?! I thought you were dead!"His head turned between Juliana and Chester and then he repeated the same action.Even though I was still shaken by shock, I knew
Koko's POVI had never really seen my mate this furious, so taken with wrath that he looked like he was boiling from the insides of his body and was ready to explode.That kind of anger was rare to find in him and I never thought that that anger would be directed at his best friend and his beta."Chester, do you know how much you have made everybody worry all this time? some of us had to sleep in the cold on some days just so that we could keep going on the journey and not distract ourselves by lodging immediately..."Chester's head fell as he was not able to say a single word in response to everything that he was being battered with, he looked like he needed a hole to crawl into and never come out of."Don't you have anything to say for yourself?" My mate fumed as he slammed his clenched fist on the table in front of him almost with enough force to send all its contents knocking down on the floor."Chester, I believe I asked you a question. Am I not going to get an answer?"If it had
Koko's POVThe night breeze slipped through the open window and came to embrace me on my bed.I sluggishly took off the duvet before taking subconscious steps to the window, and by the time my fingers were holding the window frame, the rays of the moon poured on me.This would be the last moon I would see before becoming the Luna Queen, and that thought alone made my heart race.The preparation I had been seeing for the past few days had left my jaw on the floor, only yesterday I was looking for my mate when I saw two maids carrying golden plates and other golden cutleries and taking them to the kitchen.When I asked them what such expensive cutleries were for, they said it was for my mating ceremony and I was totally speechless, those were only some of the few things and at some point, Niyol began to hide some so that I wouldn't get anxious."My queen deserves nothing less than the world, I wish there was even more I could do for you..."That was what he said to me and any form of re
Niyol's POVI could feel my heart pounding like a drum, tonight had finally come. I would finally mark my mate.My hand came to her shoulder and I felt her shiver under my touch, but then suddenly the magical moment was broken by a loud crashing sound. She panicked looking up at me and both of us rushed out of the Royal meeting chamber to see what was the cause of the rukus.We came back to the throne room to see two of the royal guards struggling to hold back an obviously drunk male who kept screaming."She Is mine! She is mine!"This scene was so stupefying that I was frozen with absolute shock. Who was this fool that had a death wish?Before I could tell the guards to throw him out, his eyes suddenly came over to me and my mates and locked on us, well, in particular Koko. He suddenly burst from the hold of the guards, then he began to run towards her."Just what do you think you are doing? Are you out of your freaking mind?"The man in front of me was either quite brave or quite st
Gad's POV"Where is my mate?" I demanded for the umpteenth time, banging my hand against the metal bars that were holding me.That bastard had a lot of audacity! How dare he lock me in his filthy, disgusting cell? Even the foolish guards that would often patrol along the hallway would look at me with disdain. I, Gad! An Alpha heir being treated like trash! It was totally unacceptable!My feet fell to the concrete floor. It was extremely cold and uncomfortable in this rotten place, but the thing that really gave me a pit in my stomach was when I thought about last night.My fingers came up to my cheek that was still holding the bruise caused by the slap that my mate had given me."My poor Koko, that crazy bastard has really brainwashed you, hasn't he?"I knew that there was no way Koko would slap me in her right senses, she still loved me. Even when I was fooling around with her sister and treating her badly, because she was the mate that the Moon goddess had given me and there was nob
Niyol's PovThis morning, Koko was still looking down, but she was trying to fake it with a plastic smile that was definitely not fooling me at all.Even when we were having breakfast, She was just poking at her plate with her spoon occasionally, taking a few mouthfuls after I nagged her to.Seeing her like this because of a worthless piece of trash made my blood boil so much.Last night we were supposed to celebrate our love… I was suppose to finally mark her, to show her just how much I adored her as my Queen.But he had ruined it."Koko, we are going to have another mating ceremony, it's going to be even more grand than last nig-"I said moving my hands over to scoop over her fingers in mine, she looked at me, giving me the most genuine smile that I had seen on her all morning."You don't have to worry about making it grand, lets just make it more quiet… more intimate… that is what the mating ceremony is truly about right? Sharing just how we feel about each other…"I leaned over an