The Beast Mate - Book 2

Chapter two

Lyulph POV

Lyulph was unashamedly the biggest stalker on earth.

Giving Anna the space she needed was one thing, avoiding her entirely was a whole lot of other thing, he refused to adhere.

After the incident, he stuck himself to her side, surely hidden but always there. Lyulph knew how much the incident affected her and per advice, his human mate needs space from him.

The emotions he felt that rushed through her during the incident a major motivator to follow through with that advice. The crippling fear she felt for his kind…. him especially was something he would never want her to experience again.

Meanwhile, he still couldn’t wipe off the idea that he failed to protect her… his mate, in his own territory.

How could he call himself a king when he failed to protect his queen.. even for a second.

He swore silently to never let it happen again, no matter the circumstances, he was after all not just a king, he was a beast…. and a formidable one at that.

However, the two formidable beasts inside him could definitely not handle the said ‘space’ no matter the reason, the numbing need to always feel her, successfully blinding every sensible logic his ancient mind could think of.

It felt like he finally took one pace forward with his fairy red headed human mate and then with that incident, ten pace backward. It was an unforgiving chart.

“It’s like walking blindly in a maze..” Lyulph muttered to his beta, absent minded.

“What is?

“Everything related to my human mate… it’s unnerving” he stated, confiding to his beta.

“My king, it might not look like it but every bonded mate has troubles each are facing, the journey is not always all roses even for the intra specie mating. However, that will to keep fighting for the one that makes your heart beat is where the real love story is. Alpha your mate might be different, but your fight isn’t.” He responded thoughtfully.

“I will keep that in mind, Aiden” Lyulph replied, silently thanking his beta for the much needed talk.

Taking that as a cue to be dismissed, he bowed respectfully to his king before leaving.

And just like having a mate ain’t all roses, been a beast king wasn’t either, especially when it comes to the documentation part. Which Lyulph was unfortunately stuck with after he assigned his beta the duty of protecting his mate at all time, he wasn’t after all about to take anymore chances with her safety.

“Sigh!

Lyulph couldn’t help but force back his focus on the mountain of files ahead of him, hoping to get a little bit of work done for the day, despite his running thoughts.

After about three hours or so, his focus was suddenly cut short by the incoming mind link from his beta.

Responding to the link, he asked “Any problem?

“Not urgently my king, but your mate requests to see you.”

“Then bring her to me.” Her request was undoubtedly unexpected, considering the fact she was avoiding him full time. However, the thought of been able to take in her intoxicating scent without been hidden was ecstasy.

Lyulph felt her, unlike anything before. Her pause on the doorknob. Her rising rapid heart beat. Her swirling emotions. All of it, even before she graced her well needed presence in his office.

“You wanted to see me? Lyulph asked with his back still turned to her.

This was the closest he’s been to his mate for over a week now so it’s no wonder, he felt starved of her, his beasts actively crawling at his control to take her all in, to mark her.

However, he was not about to risk it all and send his mate another twenty pace back, so he reeled on tight to his spiraling control.

Hastily commanding his beta to leave them, since his beasts was not too keen on having another male close to his mate.

With his back still turned to his little mate, he continued on with his work, hoping greatly to rein in his raging beasts….. well, that was until she made the most absurd statement.

“No!

Lyulph responded sharply, he couldn’t just fathom the thought of his mate training to defend herself against a shifter. The absurdity of it all, humans are not and cannot be built to do so. Talk less of his own mate.

Just the thought of it was tensing.

However his strings of control were finally cut off at her sigh of disbelief.

Hastily turning over to his mate, all his attention finally on her like a starved animal.

He despise anything that would hurt her, both emotionally and physically but he was not about to risk her fragile being on that case.

With exceeding effort he answered. “You are human and no matter how much you train, you can not take down a shifter on your own and I’m not going to make you think you can by letting you train.”

He felt her emotions like a raging volcano waiting to spill.

Her response like a lava burning through him, leaving no part untouched. Reminding him of his failed promise to protect her from harm way.

Yet he was not about to lose this fight, not when it concerns her safety.

“You are not just a human, you are my mate”

With every word he sputter, his feet leads him to her direction, closing in on her, forcing her to pace back.

“Mine to protect!

The distance between them slowly diminishing, yet she forces herself to keep walking back, determined to keep that space.

“My Luna”

she gasped the moment her back reached the wall behind her, enough proof she has no where to run. Exactly what he was hoping for.

With that, he pushed himself into her, striving to breath her all in, her intoxicating scent that equally calms his raging beasts and at the same time drive him all crazy. He was whipped, really hard.

She was impossible tense, but the emotions and arousing scent emitting from her was enough proof she liked his close contact, thanks to the mate pull. Although he couldn’t say the same for her mind, which explains her tense situation.

Moving his focus to her ear he muttered. “Except you want to challenge my decision, I suggest you forget about your little fixation.”

Without delay, he moved his face back to her neck, breathing her in like he has all the time in the world to do so.

But that too, was short lived.

She challenged him!

Lyulph was outrightly dumbfounded, Anna challenged him, not only was he a beast, he was a king. Notwithstanding all that, she was his mate. Challenging your own mate was unheard of.

However, his human mate just doesn’t quit to amaze him.

Strengthening himself, he moved to face her muttering gently “what did you say?

“I challenge you to a duel…. t..there is no gender when it comes to dueling, so I.. I challenge you to a duel.” She stammered.

Lyulph was livid, but she got guts… he’s going to give her that.

It’s been two centuries since anyone looked him in the eyes and challenged him to a duel. He wasn’t really expecting his human mate to be the next.

Smiling softly at her, he muttered.

“You are forgetting something little mate, I call the shots here. And I cancel out your challenge. As your mate and as your king.”