Koko's POVIt had already been 3 days since they started the search for Chester, but, there was still no trace of him. I spent those long three torturous days tossing, turning and pacing around the bed chamber.It felt so surreal, as if I was in a dream, a dream that I refused to wake up from and had melted into my reality.The Queen mother was there for me, as well as Laci, they tried to distract me with small talk and other things, but I was not really there with them, my mind was with my mate and so was my heart.Even though the time I spent with Chester was not that long, at least it wasn't long at all compared to how long my mate had spent with him, I could tell that he was a good man that meant a lot to my mate and losing him would be even more horrible and heart-wrenching than losing his right arm and the thought of that made sleep almost impossible for me.I was only able to blink my eyes a couple of times and before I knew it, it was already morning again, but somehow their s
Alpha Niyol's povOn the second night of the search, that my warriors and I had spent looking for my beta, we logged at a little motel for the night, when suddenly, Julianna, Chester's mate asked to see me.I knew the place was nothing like a palace, but there was no time to complain about comfort now when my Beta was missing.The door creaked open for her and she walked in after she knocked. She had a walk into the room with almost little or no steps. She actually took a few steps, but it was so quiet it was as if there was just a mouse walking past me.My heart was pounding against my rib cage with the way she was acting and I imagined the worst, but I really pushed those thoughts out of my mind."I'm sorry that I'm disturbing you this late in the night, your majesty.""It's not a disturbance, I'm sure if you want to talk to me at this time, it means you can't wait for the the morning to come. Then it must be important."I said to her as she stood in front of me and nodded."Yes, yo
Laci's POV"Honey, do you think we can talk?"My eyes were carried from my baby in his crib over to my mate that stood at the door of the room. I nodded."Of course, we can talk dear, but about what exactly? You sound like you have so much in your mind and I'm not surprised..."He came over to me, wrapping his hands around my waist, and then planting a kiss on my neck. I shivered a little bit, then managed to keep my composure as I spoke with him."So which one is it that you want to begin with?"I asked him, and for a while the only response he had to that was resting his chin on my shoulder and letting out heavy sighs."Laci, I don't want to be Beta of this Kingdom..."I absorbed his words as my eyes fell down to my baby again sleeping so peacefully in his crib that it melted my heart, as I thought about his questions, well it wasn't really a question but rather a statement.It had been over a week since my brother returned with the news that his beta was dead and so according to th
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