Chapter 4

TYSON

I always wondered what it would be like to just turn all emotions off. Like turning off a switch inside your head.

One flick.

All emotions gone.

That’s what I decided I would do if I ever came across Amelia Kingsley again in my life.

I would prefer to feel fucking nothing.

But that was not what I felt when I met her.

One look at her, and I felt everything there was to feel. A wave of burning anger. A cold desire to harm her. My blood became poison in my veins. With each breath, I thought about the worst ways to hurt her.

Then, it all went crashing on the floor when her jasmine and vanilla scent invaded my senses.

The world came to a halt. Everything seemed meaningless as I stood frozen on my spot, watching her about to get hit by a man I carefully recognized as a troublesome Alpha’s spawn.

Silence reigned in my mind and in my soul. And just as his hand lifted in the air, chaos erupted inside me.

‘ Mate. ’ The snappy voice roared inside my head.

Annoying. As. Fucking. Hell.

I had to stop the bastard and make him run away before he was lying dead in a ditch somewhere. Fortunately for him, he was smart enough to get the message without violence and disappeared without a trace when I asked nicely.

Then, I was left with the devil hiding behind an innocent baby face and sexy as fuck body.

She was not the same fifteen-year-old girl I saw five years ago for the last time. She had nice tits now, and an ass I could squeeze in my hands.

But I wouldn’t do any of that. My dick could go rest somewhere else. I was not ever touching the vermin she was. Absolutely disgusting. Utterly dirty.

Good for me, my scent was masked by a potion I had taken in the morning, or else, she would have known I was her mate. I didn’t want that right now. I just discovered that the woman I hate the most in this world was tied to me in a bond I desperately needed and didn’t know what to make of it.

If I accepted her as my mate, I would be able to use my Lycan powers to the true extent. I would become powerful like never before.

And that’s something I wanted. Power. To protect myself, my people, and my reign.

But, how was I supposed to do that when I couldn’t stand looking at her for even a moment? When she was a liar? When she had broken my heart years ago and had taken everything from me that I held dear? My honor, my esteem, my respect…everything?

I wanted to squeeze the life out of her. Make it hurt. Make it hurt so fucking bad.

‘ Mate. ’ The whining voice hissed once again.

Out of all the girls in the world, it had to be her. Maybe it was Moon Goddess’ way of fucking me over because I did it to her first. I betrayed her and did something she absolutely despised. It had become a secret between me and a very old vampire—a secret no one could ever come to know or else my prestige would be taken from me as well.

And, that’s not something I would allow to happen.

After losing everything to a girl I once loved five years ago, I wouldn’t let anyone take anything from me after tonight.

‘ Mate. Mate. Mate. ’ The wolf was busy repeating the same word, but I couldn’t care less about it.

My gaze was set on the pack of Alphas in the distance. She stood at a little distance from them, her body rigid and her fisted hands trembling by her side.

It was an amusing sight.

She was pretending to be angry after hearing what those Alphas were talking about me. She must have known I was watching her so she took extra measures to appear furious and scared at the same time.

But, she couldn’t fool me anymore. I knew what was hidden underneath that innocent face unlike anyone else.

“ Enough about the puppet King. ” One of the Alpha in the distance groaned. “ Tell us about Amelia, Alpha Kingsley. I heard you got her engaged to Daniel. Alpha Garrett’s son. ”

My blood heated in my veins. So that bastard was what? Her fiance now? This girl couldn’t even wait to find her mate?

I scoffed, resting my lower back against the terrace’s railing. In the whole world, she found him? That useless motherfucker who was hitting her?

“ She loves him. And he belongs to a good pack so I got her engaged to him. He is a good boy. He doesn’t care about Amelia’s past. ” Alpha Kingsely replied carefully.

“ Loves him? ” I whispered under my breath.

My gaze snapped to the girl standing in the same spot. She was still shivering like a fallen leaf.

After destroying my life, she was having fun loving another man? I felt like laughing, but the burning sensation in my chest was too strong for me to even find this funny.

‘ Mine. ’ My wolf growled inside my head and tried to claw to the surface.

I took some deep breaths, pushing him back down. I couldn’t afford his tantrums when I had plans of blood and violence for tonight.

“ That’s good. She will finally find happiness and forget what that monster did to her. ” Another Alpha told her father.

I didn’t pay him any attention. I watched her. She shook her head before turning around.

Her eyes shot to mine as if she knew I was standing here all along, listening to everything those Alphas talked about. Emotions became dull and sensations took over my body as I stiffened.

Her eyes were moist enough to fool my heart into urging me to go to her and take her in my arms, but my mind told me it was another fucking act. Like it had always been.

As if she knew she wouldn’t be able to make a fool out of me again, she blinked and looked away. I felt a tug on my heart to make her look at me again. She had to see me, had to know what damage she had inflicted, had to live in guilt instead of proudly parading around.

But, she hurriedly walked away from the hall, her red dress trailing behind her. My eyes followed her until she was out of the main door, and away from the space I occupied.

Slowly, my gaze flickered to the group of Alphas in the corner. One of them was looking at me now. Alpha Kingsley—her father. His lips were tugged into a smug smile, that told me I could do nothing and he would always reign over this Kingdom like a secret puppet master.

For the first time in five years, I smiled back. He had no idea what was coming for him and his group.

Before this night ended, all of them would be dead. They would never get the chance to think of a Lycan as their puppet again. Because wolves could never be caged. They preferred death over becoming puppets in a circus.

His smile faltered when he noticed the wild look in my eyes. He was smart and old enough to know something had changed inside me after spending two years in a foreign world with a secret he would die without knowing.

A palace warrior dressed in a black suit walked over to me. “ Is it time, Your Highness? ”

I didn’t break eye contact with Alpha Kingsley who was watching the exchange between me and the warrior.

“ Call the Alphas to the throne room. ” I commanded, my voice coming out colder than I intended. “ Tonight, they will learn what happens when they disrespect a Lycan King. ”

And tonight, that liar mate will find out what monster she had created with her lies.