Lahat ng Kabanata ng MATED TO THE LYCAN KING: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

RILEY“The Beta…”This startles me and I almost drop the book in my hands.I had been so engrossed in looking at that sentence in the book, I did not recognize the presence of a second party.My face is definitely red from where my thoughts had been a second ago, but I still take my attention to the intruder.Theresa.With the way she stands, saying nothing, while just assessing me, I guess my surprise surprises her too.Good.What does she want?I recover. Then turn back with a lot of poise and elegantly drop the book back into the box, where the others are.“I was engrossed in the gift my husband sent me for Winter Night. Oh, that man.” I say with an exaggerated chuckle.Why am I always like this with Theresa?Ever since I discovered that Jude must have been having something to do with her, I have been trying my best to prove that she might be the mistress or whatever, but I am the wife.I am Luna.I always feel a good kind of pride whenever her eyes, filled with envy, go to my pend

RILEY“Ma Luna, what does this stand for?” Paul points at the black rose that now has the more population of my garden.I don’t know how it happened, but Paul has somehow become my favorite kid from the bunch of them, though I don’t tell anyone this.He now clings on to my hand once he sights me on any day I am supposed to be with them.It has been a whole year since I took up the responsibility of taking care of them, so most of these pups, if not all, have grown so familiar with me that crying unnecessarily, has been totally erased from our daily agenda.Their mothers still don’t appreciate me, but I love these little beings. Them being around me, have become the highlight of my weeks.Their little has as we play with the mud, their loud giggles when I tell them a stupid funny story, their little scrunched up nose when the story begins to get sad, their tiny foot prints on the and whenever they insisted on taking off their shoes when it was racing time.Everything.I love everything

RILEY It all happens in slow motion. But I feel my breath resume its duty of coming in and out when my hands finally find it way home, wrapping around his neck and pulling him close. Into my arms. I bury my face in the crook of his neck and breathe him in. I almost forgot this smell. Jude is tall, and I am not, so I had to stand on tiptoes to acquire this mission. My toes are sticking out of my sandals and kissing the ground. That should hurt, but standing on tiptoes have never been more comfortable. There is no background noise and even if there is, my hands and mind are quite occupied, too occupied to pay any attention to it. Do you know how long I have waited for this? To be taken into his arms, his embrace. I ignore how stiff Jude has become, and stay there, clinging to him like a leech. An exaggerated clearing of throat, pierces through my bubble. From the position the sound came from, I know and I’m sure it had come from Beta Stephen. What? He had tried to fool me t

RILEY“Okay.” I say in a very quiet voice. Almost inaudible despite the storm raging in my heart.“Good. And please, hasten up. Wouldn’t want to keep the alpha waiting.” She give me a very large smile then turns, and walks out with her head so high it almost touches the sky.I smell something fishy. I smell something so fishy it makes my stomach grumble at the thought of it.Don’t overthink this riley. It’s just a friend give another friend a massage. Just like giving your pal an intimate fist bump. It’s far from a big deal.Okay, that one simple way to put this situation.But, I am Luna…right?I shake my head hard, shaking out that uncertainty. Where had that come from? I might be passing through difficult times in my marriage, but there is no compromise of what I am.I am Luna.This reassuring thought makes me calm, as I set to work.It is hours after dinner time, so the cooking fireplace has gotten cold and filled just white and black ashes. It had been difficult for Theresa to ign

RILEY“Claire is my mate.”Because of the length of our lifespan as wolves, it is very rear to hear the news of death. One only died, probably because of a natural disaster, like flood, sand falling into the gold mine, or a serious sickness. Age was never the cause of death.And I have never heard of a person that died of hearing a sad news.I might just be the first.Because as those set of words leave Jude’s mouth, it takes away my breath and my thought. Completely.I can’t breathe.I can’t think.I can’t feel.I go numb.I sense this is my body’s new way of absorbing shock. Because if I have time to process Jude’s words, I might just slump from disappointment and heartbreak.That she is his mate? What does that even mean? What on earth does that even mean?I was chosen by the Moon Goddess to be Jude’s Mate. His Luna. His wife. Yes, initially, when I stepped to open spaces that had a lot of people in it, that is before I came to the Base, I had seen mates, everywhere, I when I did