The Lycan’s Contract Mate

Kendrix

I had a rough night after what happened between me and Arielyn, I handled everything wrongly, I messed up and had wanted to go tell her I was sorry and that we could talk it out but then Raul refused to let me pass, even though I explained to him that it was grown up stuff and he shouldn’t interfere, he told me to my face that he would fight me before he would let me into his room because whatever grown-up stuff we talked about made her sad to the point of crying, he sounded so mature and protective of Arielyn that I had walked back to my room in shame. I couldn’t believe a teenager was more mature than me.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

While alone in bed, I went over our conversation from where she asked me what was going on with me. I knew she must have noticed how I was acting recently, when she asked, I wanted to come clean to her but the thought of her leaving me had made me not say a word. I should have just told her. then when I went upstairs, thinking of fixing things, I didn’t find her in our room, yes, it was our room now because we slept in it and did things together there but then I didn’t find her in the room and went to look for her only for her to talk about the mate bond thing which I also manage to handle horribly. She was clearly mistaken as I still didn’t feel any of those pulls that I felt when I met Veronica. I care about Arielyn a lot but I know we are not real mates and honestly, we don’t have to be, I still wanted to be with her. but then, I messed up by making it sound as if I didn’t want her and made her out to be a liar when I could have done better and made sure she understood whatever she felt wasn’t the real thing.

Admittedly it was all my fault everything went wrong and I made up my mind to correct everything that happened, I couldn’t do it when I woke up the next morning because she was still in bed when I left and I couldn’t stay back at home because I had works I had to do and I also had to see my father today to hear what he has to say since I already transferred ownership of the Orient to him, I didn’t want to wait for long to hear his confirmation that I passed the test. After I got to work, I did some work and drove the forty-minute distance to my father’s palace. When I arrived, he was in a meeting with some of the elders of the kingdom. I expected him to tell me to wait until he was done but he called me in and I sat with them for the remaining part of the meeting. He even asked me to contribute which I did without a struggle.

“That was brilliant son, you did well just now,”

He said to me after the elders left and it was just the two of us. I knew I did well but that wasn’t the most pressing issue on the ground, that wasn’t what I wanted to hear from him.

“Father, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak, but I would like us to talk about why I am here,”

I told him.

“Such a businessman, of course, let’s talk about why you are here,”

He said, his voice already changed.

“You know why I am here, Father, I have transferred ownership of the Orient to you but I haven’t gotten any confirmation from you that I passed so I came so that I can hear you directly,”

I told him and watched his expression change.

“Yes, that, you passed, isn’t that obvious, in case it wasn’t obvious to you and you need me to spell it out, you passed. Congratulations, you got it sooner than I expected even though I knew you would win,”

Father said, he didn’t even sound excited, not like I minded how he felt about me winning, I just wanted him to confirm it and also keep to his own side of the deal. Which was the second reason I came to see him, the most important reason.

“I have done my part and now it is time for you to do yours,”

I told him. I wasn’t in the mood to beat about the bush.

“Yes, you are right but there is one more thing that you need to do to secure your place as the future alpha king of this great nation,”

I didn’t like how he sounded at all, I knew he would do this, he was such a corny man that it was so expected of him to pull a stunt. I was ready to tell him to his face if he asked for something unreasonable this time.

“You never told me anything else was involved, why now? Our agreement was I get the Orient for you and I will become the heir, don’t change it now because it won’t be fair and I won’t just sit back and let you do that to me,”

I warned him. I meant every word I told him, it might look like I got the Orient easy but I spent a lot of money that I won’t get back to acquire it plus, I had to make Arielyn lie and deceive everyone that she was my mate to the point that even her believes it to be true, after doing all that, I couldn’t do anything else that was unreasonable.

“Relax, it won’t be a hard task seeing as you already have a mate, an alpha king needs a queen, don’t you think?”

Okay, that wasn’t what I was expecting but he couldn’t blame me, I don’t trust him enough. Now he was saying this after Arielyn and I fought. My only hope now is that she would still want to be with me after how I acted last night. Just thinking about how I spoke to her left a bitter taste in my mouth. I damn well didn’t handle anything well.

“That’s it? If that’s it then you don’t have anything to worry about, I do have a mate and yes, I am going to marry her,”

I told him. I meant it, I already want to live with Arielyn forever, she was the only one fit enough to be my wife and queen, as long as I am able to get on her good side again.

“That’s good to know, I will begin the process and soon there will be an official announcement, once again, congratulations son, I am proud of you,”

Father said. I expected to feel pleased by his words but I wasn’t, it didn’t feel right knowing that the person who made it all easy cried herself to sleep last night because I hurt her, I needed to fix things with her and the best way to do that is to come clean to her, tell her what had happened in Dilgem and hope she would forgive me and believe me.

“Dad, I can’t believe you are still going ahead with everything, how could you do this to me? How could you try and rob me of what’s rightfully mine?”

Jordan questioned as he walked into the room, I didn’t even bother to look his way because I had no plans of even giving him any kind of reaction.

“Will you shut up your mouth? I gave you both a task and your brother here got it done, the throne has never been yours, I only gave you a chance at getting the throne but you messed it up by not even trying, you are my second son so you were never in line, Kendrix has always been the heir, I only gave you a chance because you were acting like you deserve to be king too,”

I was so shocked by what my father was saying, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, he really never saw Jordan as his heir? All these while, I stood a chance as king? It was hard to believe.

“Father, you lie, why are you lying? He is the son of the woman you fucked while mom was at home waiting for you don’t lie,”

“Shut up your mouth, I don’t want to hear a word from you, you don’t know anything, when I met his mom, I didn’t know your mom, didn’t even know we would be married, you have held onto that narrative for so long, even your mother knows the truth, ask her, you are the only one holding on to that narrative Jordan, I may not have married his mom but we were never together when I met your mom, I met your mom two months after what happened with his mom, we already told each other to forget about what happened. Then I met your mom and we got married a month after we met because we were mates and my father wanted me to be married before I took over the throne,”

This was the first time I was hearing this side of the story even though my mom had told me a couple of times in the past that my father didn’t do anything wrong, I never believed her, I always thought he had an affair with her while being married.