An Assassination Attempt

RAY

I was frozen on the spot, my jaw slightly dropped as I continued staring at the man who was my mate. How could that happen? How could the prince be my mate? No, how could a man be my mate at all?

The moment he tore his gaze off me, I looked away from him too and lowered my head in a deep bow along with the girl beside me.

My heart was thumping as I heard his footsteps approaching us. What the hell was going on? He had also realised, right? He had also realized we were mates, right?

Prince Dominic Direken realising that his mate was a man and not even a respectable man but a slave. One who had been a slave from birth.

I shut my eyes and bit down hard on my lips, my heart pounding increasing until the footsteps stopped. For a few seconds, the entire room was quiet, totally quiet except for the pounding of my heart that could be heard.

And then the footsteps continued but this time not towards me but away from me. I let out a shaky breath in relief.

"Welcome your highness. I have been looking forward to your visit" I heard our master welcoming Prince Dominic.

There was no wordly response from Dominic but he plopped his burly self into a comfy sofa.

"Set the mood!" My master raised his voice and immediately the words were said, the lighting in the room changed into something that was probably meant to put excitement into the mood.

"Get started" my master stated grimly and I pulled myself together.

I had to ignore this mate bond. It was as good as useless as anyways and if I tried to lay claim onto this mate bond, I would surely be killed.

I knew a little of how things went on around. If your mate was too high up in social status than you are, then there's a huge chance that your mate is going to dump you and threaten to kill you if you reveal that you are his mate.

I have been keeping myself alive all these while, there was no way that I would let myself die because I found my mate who at the same time turned out to be a man.

As I walked towards the small stage which had most of the 'sexy' lighting, I questioned myself on my sexuality. I had never thought about it. Never. Life was too tough for me to think about sex but the few times I would jerk off was definitely to the thoughts of a woman so... How in the world could the moon goddess mate me to a man? And a powerful man at that.

Getting to the stage, I reached my hands nervously to the girl who walked closer to me.

"Please..." Her voice was shaky as she spoke to me in a whisper.

"Please do it as boldly as you can... Don't... Don't be clumsy or we... We are going to get killed." Tears filled her eyes and my heart hurt.

"I'll try" I whispered back in response, reaching back for her zip while she reached for the buttons of my shirt.

As I unzipped the dress she was wearing and slowly pulled it off her shoulders, my gaze met with that of Prince Direken who now had a glass of wine in his hand and seemed to be in a conversation with my master.

His gaze was penetrating mine directly and I felt my heart skip several beats. Why was he staring at me so intensely? Was he still thinking about how disgusting it was to be mated to a slave? His gaze didn't give away anything and I couldn't read his expression at all.

I looked away from his gaze and looked at my female counterpart. I pulled her face closer to mine and pressed my lips onto hers.

I kissed her. My first kiss. I tried to calm both of us through the kiss as the dress dropped to the floor. My shirt was now completely unbuttoned and I reached back to her bra, undoing the clasps.

I broke the kiss and looked into her eyes, giving her one soft kiss before kissing her shoulder gently and moving down to her breasts.

A soft moan filled my ears as I took one soft breast into my mouth. It felt good to suck on one and liking this was being a pervert but it did feel good. Until the moment I let go of her breasts and looked to my audience.

Prince Direken's intense gaze had turned even more tense. I looked away and reached a hand to her panties, to pull it off when a voice stopped me.

"And what the hell is this supposed to be?" Prince Direken's voice was deep and somehow... It made something happen inside of me.

I immediately stopped at his sign of displeasure.

"Are they there to fuck? Or get involved in some sweet romance?" He groaned.

"I will just get rid of the bastards and bring someone else in"

"Master!" I crashed on my knees immediately along with the slave girl.

"Please forgive us, master. Forgive us, your highness... I will... Will try harder this time" I begged as I heard soft whimpers from the slave girl beside me.

It was my fault. My fault for being so inexperienced.

"Try harder?" Prince Direken's voice filled the room with words almost softly spoken and also that made fear strike my heart.

"Yes, your majesty."

"She may leave. You stay." He ordered and I raised my head, lifting my gaze from the floor to him.

His expression was still unreadable.

"Should I have another girl brought in then?" My master asked Prince Direken.

"No. I want to see him do this on his own and if he can't impress me on his own, his head goes off."

"Definitely." My master agreed while I tried to process Prince Dominic's words.

Just me? What could I do alone? Jerk off?

"Thank you for your grace, your highness" the slave girl bowed her head, grabbing her dress and racing out of the room.

I was the only one left on stage and my heart was pounding at an absurd rate. Just me on this little stage, what could I possibly do? What was going on in the head of this royal?

Since I was on my knees, I simply straightened up on my knees and unzipped the flyer of my trousers, looking everywhere but the eyes of Prince Direken.

I pulled my shirt off my body completely since it had only been unbuttoned. My fingers trembled as I ran my fingers down my body in an attempt to impress him. After all, I had been told that I had a quite beautiful body.

As best as I could, I trailed my fingers all over my body till I got down to my trousers. I reached for my dick and gave it a small squeeze through the boxers before pulling it out with trembling fingers.

My heart was pounding so hard and my palms were starting to get sweaty. I was determined not to look at Prince Direken whose actions and expressions I could not understand anyways but my determination crumbled and I gave in to the urge to look at him.

A little bit of interest was readable as our eyes met. I groaned, feeling my dick harden more the moment our eyes met. Why was he looking at me that way? Why was he looking at me with those eyes? Those eyes that made me feel like I... Like...

"Fuck!" I cursed slightly, starting to jerk my dick off. My hand seemed to be moving on its own, spurred by something in this eye contact of ours.

What was this man thinking?

My eyes hooded as I felt a very quick orgasm building up inside of me... I looked down, from his very beautiful face down to his crotch and there... He was hard too, a big bulge in his trousers. The sight of that did something to me and I groaned, feeling my cock throb.

I was going to cum. Was it because I was simply jerking off? Was it because I had an audience? Did I like being watched? Or was it because the audience is Prince Direken? Or was it the mate bond?

My brain shut down as I got closer. I moaned loudly and tore my gaze away from him. The moment I looked away, my gaze landed on someone atop the room, standing by the railings further on the left. He had a gun in hand, clearly wanting to kill the prince.

Whatever spurred me into action, I had no idea or clue. But I shifted into my wolf side as fast as I could and jumped right in front of Prince Direken, taking the bullet.

I howled loudly in pain as the pains immediately crippled me.

"Protect his highness!! An assassination attempt!"