Rendall sat on his bed and watched Helia with rapt attention as she tidied up his room."I hate you for making our mate do such hard work," Conri said spitefully in his head but he tried to ignore him."Your head is a mess. I don't want to imagine how much messier your room is," his wolf said and Rendall shook his head. He was doing this because he loved Helia. Staying in Khron would have done her no good. The werelions there did too many laborious jobs. In the Alpha's court, on Rendall's watch, she only had to do the cleaning and without her knowledge, Rendall made sure she ate well."You missed a spot," Rendall called out to her hearing, feigning anger. He pointed to the spot under his feet. He raised his feet and placed them on the bed. "Clean it again.""But I've cleaned that place numerous times," Helia pouted."Do you want me to punish you?" Rendall snapped."You can't punish me," Helia smirked."And why can't I?" Rendall frowned."Because you love me too much," Helia beamed. Re
"Your Highness, someone is here to see you," the guard announced as soon as he got into Rendall's room."Tell whoever it is that I'm not interested in seeing anyone," Rendall said and the guard."I told that foolish, old lioness," the guard hissed and Rendall's interest in knowing who wanted to see him peaked."Wait!" Rendall ordered before the guard could leave. "A werelioness wants to see me?""Yes," the guard replied."Who is it?""Ariela." The guard mentioned the name like it belonged to a good-for-nothing personality."Is that not the former Luna of Khron? She is older than you and you deem it fit to just call her name without respect.""She is a slave," the guard said in his defense and Rendall scrutinized him."You were the guard that had beaten Helia till she passed out the other time, weren't you?" He asked, squinting his eyes."I did that on your command. She was being disrespectful to you so you ordered that she should be flogged to death. I flogged her hard and she passed
Alpha Janus watched his son, Rendall who held Ariela by her hair. He did not need a soothsayer to tell him what was happening"What's the meaning of this?" He asked, feigning ignorance."You promised me the protection of Alpha Leander and Helia if I keep a distance from my mate after you found out Helia was my mate.""Weren't you the one who killed Leander? I thought you went about announcing that you did," Alpha Janus said."I didn't do it." Rendall looked at Ariela. He gripped her hair tightly and she winced in pain. "She did it. She killed her mate.""Then why did you make an announcement of you killing Leander? Are you trying to play tricks on me?" Alpha Janus said while maintaining his poker face. "I have personal reasons for doing that. I just want the true murderer of Helia's father to be punished.""Oh! I see," Alpha Janus gasped as if he had just realized what was going on. "You're trying to protect that mate of yours. Part of the agreement was for you to reject her. You hav
Rendall's eyes were on the window as he sat on his bed. He had been in the position — the same position for three days, without eating food, or even drinking water.He turned to his right, raised his arms, and took his face to his armpit. He moved away from it in a jolt immediately, wrinkling his nose.Rendall heaved a sigh. His smell meant nothing to him now. Helia had rejected him as her mate. He had expected to feel nothing for her but he still did. He had expected to feel the pains felt when the mate bond is broken but the only pains he felt were pains of rejection.He had not expected it to happen after her rejection but he wanted Helia to be closer to him than ever."Did it not work?" Rendall muttered to him. If Helia's rejection did not work, was he supposed to be happy or sad? He had no idea. Rendall just stared into space reminiscing on every moment of Helia's rejection."I don't think it worked," Rendall muttered to himself. He furrowed his eyebrows when he realized that the
"My Lord," a guard cried out as he barged into Rendall's room."How dare you come into my room without knocking?" Rendall snarled."I'm sorry your highness, but something really tragic has happened.""Get out!" Rendall snapped."Leander's daughter is nowhere to be found," the guard pressed on."I asked you to get out!" Rendall growled, surprising the guard. The guard had expected a different reaction from Rendall. He expected Rendall to get pissed at his enemy for escaping, but here he was, acting like the news meant nothing to him. "Are you still standing?" Rendall asked coldly as he noticed that the guard was still in his room."No. I'm not," he replied and ran out of the room.Rendall sighed in relief. He was relieved to hear that she had escaped from the dungeon and had gone with Montague. Montague was the only person, aside from himself, that he could trust Helia with. Hopefully, Montague would take her out of the wereworld before his father has been notified."Hey," Rendall cal
Montague swallowed hard as he opened Rendall's room door to see Rendall pacing up and down the room."R— Rendall."Rendall turned to him sharply and Rendall gulped."What took you so long? Have you escorted her out of the wereworld safely? Where is she now? Do you know if she is in a safe place?""Well—" Montague's voice trailed off. He wondered how he would tell Rendall that she had made him sleep off and when he woke up, he could not find her. He had searched for her for hours but she was nowhere to be found."Well, what?" Rendall asked at the top of his voice. He took a deep breath. "I just want my Helia to be safe," Rendall added with a mellowed voice."I know and that is why it's hard to tell you this.""Tell me what? Did anything bad happen to Helia?" Rendall asked with concern. He wondered why he still acted lovesick when it came to Helia. She had broken their mate bond by rejecting him. Why did her safety still matter to him?"I don't really know?" Montague looked at his feet
"Your Highness."Alpha Janus frowned at the guard that had dashed into his room. He needed to rest but the guard had stopped him."Why are you in my room?" Alpha Janus snapped and the guard shuddered in fear."Y—your h—highness—""Do you want to die?""No, your Highness. I just have something important to tell you.""Then talk.""It was my shift to guard Leander's daughter and—""Go straight to the point," Alpha Janus snarled, interrupting the guard."I got to the dungeon to see that Leander's daughter is missing.""What are you saying?" The guard gulped. Alpha Janus' voice was cold and intimidating. His Alpha aura got stronger."I—I had no idea how it happened. I just knew that I was to guard her dungeon, but when I got there, I saw it open with no guard in sight."Darn it." Alpha Janus clenched his fists. "That goddamn daughter of a feline. How in the wereworld did she escape? The goddamn dungeon was witch-proof. There's no way she'd escape without the help of—" Alpha Janus' eyes w
"You're joking, right?" Rendall frowned as he heard Alecto's words."Joking? Should your father killing Alpha Leander surprise you? You of all people know the kind of person your father is.""But he promised me that he would not kill Leander and Ariela told me she did. Why would Ariela tell me she killed Alpha Leander when she did not.""He he. All I know is that your father has a hand in Helia's father's death.""How do you know the things you know? Who are you?""He he! You'd be the first were-creature to ask who I am. The rest assume they know but I can assure you that I'm not what they think I am.""Then, who are you?""You would know how with time," Alecto smirked. "All you have to know now is to go to the human world to Nyx's house.""Nyx's house? But we—""Helia is on her way there," Alecto chipped in and Rendall did not bother to argue again."Did my father really kill hers?" Rendall looked down at his feet and Alecto heaved a sigh."I warned you not to ask me that it'll hurt.