Selene~

“The Lycan Kings are absolutely obsessed with you. Trust me,” Sophia said, and I rolled my eyes.

“They are not,” I murmured at the ceiling. ‘They won’t even acknowledge our mate bond.’

Sophia sat down on the bed beside me, twirling the end of her hair. She was growing into a friend rather than an attendant.

“Lycan king Remus smiles at you. You need to see how shocked we were when we first saw his lips stretch into a smile… and he was staring at you… dreamily. He was so pissed with one of his men before he saw you.”

“Babe, everyone in the mansion worships you now. And Lycan King Raymond has not torn your throat, even when you touch him. Girl, he is married to you already.”

I sighed and looked at her. “That’s not my problem right now.” There was no way I was letting her words get to me. She obviously did not know what she was saying.

“I need to see my mum,” I told her.

Yesterday, I received another already opened envelope from my mum. “I’ll visit you once your dad allows me to get discharged. Soon, baby.” The letter read.

I was worried and confused. ‘He is letting her letters get to me, but was holding her in the hospital?’

‘Does he think I’m dead already?’

I badly wanted to see my mum, but I did not know what to do. And ever since the corridor incident three days ago, I had not seen any of the Lycan Kings. There were a few more guards and warriors on the floor, and I just hated walking the corridor.

It was humiliating…

But I miss the Lycan Kings.

“Talk to them,” Sophia drew closer to me. “Ask for a day off. Just a day. I’m sure they will.”

“Are you setting me up to finally die?” I chuckled dryly.

“Of course not!”

“Okay, how about you slip Lycan King Remus a note? After a passionate lovemaking session. I can swear Lycan King Remus likes you…”

I exhaled.

The door clicked open, and his scent hit— grape woody wine!

My face unknowingly lit up as he stepped in. I curled my toes, internally squealing like a kid, and Sophia gave me a look before leaving.

“How is she doing?” he asked, walking up to me.

I grinned hard and curled into his arms as he sat in my bed. He chuckled, and my heart raced.

I was too thrilled.

“I missed you...” I exhaled before I could stop myself… then I froze.

‘Oh no!’ Fear gripped me; I did not dare look at him.

He was silent… for a while, but then he said. “I missed you, too, baby.” Then drew me in and kissed my lips.

Something exploded in my head. Sophia was right. Lycan King Remus likes me!

Sitting in his lap, I shyly slid my arms around his neck as we continued to kiss. Remus wrapped his arm around my waist.

I took my hands to my clothes and started to undress, not breaking the kiss. And his cock completely hardened through his pants as I got stark naked.

I reached for it, freed it, and began stroking it. He groaned softly. I held his cock to my already wet pussy, my other hand going to my cunt. I slowly rubbed it.

“Lycan King Remus…” I moaned softly and slid my finger.

I thrusted softly, a few times, looking into his dark, lust-filled orbs. Then pulled out my fingers and made to sit on his hard cock.

“What do you want, Selene?” he suddenly asked in a sharp tone.

I paused, kneeling in front of him, my boobs in his face. His eyes dropped to them, and I saw the urge to touch them as usual, but he didn’t.

“I can read through you,” he added. My heart hammered.

“I… I erm… I”

I did not want to piss him off, so I rushed my words. “I need to see my mum, Lycan king Remus. Please, just a day and I will be back before it’s late into the night. Please…”

I trailed off, watching his expression grow cold. I let go of his cock and drew a little backward, trembling.

“I’m so sorry, Lycan King…” I whispered.

But his hand went and grabbed my ass cheeks, and he squeezed them. “Grab a pen and a sheet.”

I blinked, stunned. And instantly scrambled naked out of bed and to my drawer. His eyes were glued to me, following me.

When I returned, I clutched to the pen… nervous.

“I’m good, mum. I will come and see you with my mate soon.”

I froze. ‘Mate?’

I scrambled his words and looked back at him, my heart racing. I knew they saw my mum’s letters. They always got to me already opened. But was he saying that just to calm my mum for the time being, or was he… ‘Are they planning to accept me??’

I reread the words, short, simple, and emotionless. I really wanted to adjust it. But I was scared of writing more than what he ordered me to. He snatched the paper from me, shoved it in his pocket, and slapped the pen out of my hand.

“This will get to your mum. But first, you’re bringing those boobs and ass to the pool with me,” he smirked, pulling me to him.

“The pool?” My eyes widened. ‘Outside the mansion?’

‘They are finally letting me step out of this floor???’

At least he let me write back to my mum. I climbed back onto him, this time, spreading out my legs over his fully erect cock.

“Hmmmm…” I moaned as I sat deeply into it.

I grabbed his face and kissed him. Remus, holding me, rolled my hips on him with his cock inside me.

But suddenly, he stopped and scoffed. “Who had you before us, Selene?”

I froze. Confused. ‘Out of the blue?’

‘Wait. No way he looks jealous right now…’

…

I had just jolted awake from another scary nightmare. I was wearing a torn white dress, my claws out, with my hands covered in blood. But my mum’s lifeless body was on the floor before me, bleeding out from her neck into a pool. And the moment I jumped out of that insane nightmare, nausea slammed hard against me, sending me kneeling and vomiting my guts in the toilet bowl.

‘Why will I ever kill my mum? What sort of dream is that?’ I did not understand. I finished puking and weakly rose to my feet.

“That’s right. You will kill your mother if you go to her,” a voice suddenly said, crisp and clear in my head, and my eyes widened.

“What?!” My head snapped up, only to catch the mirror over the sink, glowing blue eyes staring back at me. “Oh my goodness!” I jolted.

Just like the first time with the Lycan Kings!

“My wolf?” I whispered. “Is that you?”

‘I do have a wolf?’

“The voice just now, was that you?” I whispered, tears gathering in my eyes. “Please tell me. Do you have something about my mum? If I have you somewhere in me, please, I really need you now…”

I had claws in my dream when I’ve never even shifted, but this has to be real. Unfortunately, my blue eyes slowly and gradually began to varnish again, returning to my ordinary black eyes.

I blinked, my brows furrowing deeply. “What? Again??”

‘Is my head playing tricks with me again?’ I shook my head. “I’m going insane…”

I felt another wave of nausea, and I rushed back to the toilet to puke. ‘Am I falling sick?’

But suddenly, I realized something and froze in my kneeling position. “Wait…” I hurried up to my feet. “My period is two weeks late,” I gasped.

Instantly, I rinsed my mouth and ran back to my room to grab a pregnancy test tube from the contraceptive pills Sophia had gotten for me. I rushed back to the bathroom.

“It better not be…” My heart started racing hard.

I’ve been religiously using control pills. The Lycan kings have not even touched me in a week now. I knew something was wrong, especially after Beta Arthur warned me to remain in my room unless I was called, and I had given up longing for them. I just wanted to leave. Eventually, I would get over them.

There was no way I wanted to get pregnant.

Hands shaking, I peed on the tube and waited. Two minutes later, it was staring back at me with two lines.

My heart dropped.

“No… come on!”

I stared hard for so long as if the result could change under my gaze, and burst into tears. Sophia was not with me in the room, and I was at a loss for what to do.

‘Should I tell the Lycan Kings?’

This was driving me insane. But the pregnancy was theirs, and they deserved to know.

I cried and paced in my room for over thirty minutes… almost having a panic attack. Eventually, I ran out, tube clutch tight, and turned to the corridor I had been forbidden to ever set foot in unless I was sent for.

The closer I got, the more I panicked.

‘I have to tell them about this. I have to…’ I kept reminding myself so I won’t turn back halfway.

‘Will they be mad?’

‘What will their reaction be?’

‘They were never bothered about spilling inside me, should they even be mad?’

I stopped at Lycan King Remus’ chamber. The door was slightly open, and I glued myself to the door, my heart thundering. I raised my hand to knock, but their merged form appeared in my view. I froze.

I watched them unmerge, splitting into the Lycan kings, and they stood sculpted, hot and naked, before pulling on pants.

I swallowed.

But then my eyes caught a woman in a long blue dress, sitting in front of the window, completely familiar with them. Their giant form had initially blocked her completely from my view.

She was elegant, and I instantly remembered she was the woman who bumped into me weeks back.

My feet grew cold.

“When are you going to tell her?” she started.

‘Tell her? Who what?’

Raymond was looming over her. The way he looked down at her, I swallowed in jealousy. Heartbreak crawled at the tip of my chest.

His fingers grabbed her chin. But her body language… she was not scared. “What are you doing here?”

“My father sent me to help,” she casually answered, her voice dripping with concern.

“We don’t need your help!” Raymond scoffed.

“There were witches among the attackers. Stop being so stubborn, Raymond!”

‘Raymond? She even called him Raymond? Not Lycan King Raymond?’

A knot tightened in my chest and stomach… I kept my positive test tube away, tightly hidden in my palm.

“None of you will answer? I saw her; her wolf is so weak I could hardly perceive it. She’s a nobody…”

She was talking about me, and I gulped hard, holding back the tears that welled up in my eyes.

“You don’t plan on telling her about your curse?”

Something in me paused. ‘Curse? What curse???’

She turned to Raymond. “We are supposed to be married by now, Raymond!”

‘She is Raymond’s fiancée?’ I dropped my teary eyes. Well… what was I thinking?

“That little girl is completely in love with you both,” she laughed mockingly.

My mouth slightly parted. ‘Yes, I am and I thought th…’

“We never asked her to do that…” Lycan king Remus ruthlessly paused my train of thought, sounding cold, completely emotionless, and nonchalant.

My mind went blank.

A tear slid down, my heart pounding so loud I feared they would hear. ‘I thought he… he at least liked me. I thought…’

‘I thought he had a soft spot for me.’ I closed my eyes to hold back my remaining tears. ‘Yeah, I was totally wrong.’

“Tomorrow is her second full moon here,” Lycan King Remus continued. “She will die tomorrow…”

My eyes widened, and I staggered backward.

“What?” I whispered.

To think I thought I was special, cause I had not died mysteriously. But I had never tried to find out how long it usually took before their mates died.

‘They are cursed? How are there no rumors that they are actually cursed?’

I don’t know what sort of curse it was, but I was pregnant, only to learn that these men I was head over heels in love with and thought at least liked me, were actually counting down on my death day.

I slowly retreated, clutching my test tube that my fingers dug into my palm. I could not keep holding back my tears. They fell. All the way as I ran back.

Thankfully, no one saw me. At least I knew for sure that I had a wolf. The lady perceived something.

“She is only very weak,” I cried as I ran.

I ran into my room, slammed the door shut, and leaned back against it. Trembling, I slid down to the floor and hugged my belly, my body filled with goosebumps from all I had just heard.

Tears continued pouring down my face.

“I won’t wait here and die. I’m running away. I promise to live for you, baby…” I whispered tearfully.